Bono has revealed that he’d like the subsequent U2 album to be a “fuck-off rock‘n’roll album” impressed by AC/DC.
The singer, who’s at present selling his new ebook, Give up: 40 Songs One Story, made the declare in a brand new interview with the New York Occasions (opens in new tab). Talking with the paper’s David Marchese, Bono revealed that his newfound want to rock comes after the singles from 2014’s Songs Of Innocence album and 2017’s follow-up Songs Of Expertise did not set the pop charts ablaze.
“Proper now I need to write essentially the most unforgiving, obnoxious, defiant, fuck-off-to-the-pop-charts rock ‘n’ roll tune that we’ve ever made,” explains Bono. “I spoke to Edge about it this week. He’s going, ‘Is it that decision once more?’ ‘What name?’ ‘The one about we’re going to put in writing the large fuck-off rock tune?’ And I say, ‘Yeah, it’s our job!’ We will make songs well-known now, however I don’t suppose U2 could make them hits.
“I don’t know who’s going to make our fuck-off rock ‘n’ roll album. You virtually need an AC/DC, you need Mutt Lange. The method. The self-discipline. The songwriting self-discipline. That’s what we wish.”
Bono goes on to say that Songs Of Ascent, an album initially slated as a sister album to 2009’s No Line On The Horizon, is sort of full, however he needs to launch “a loud, uncompromising, unreasonable guitar album” first.
As earlier reported, Bono has additionally lately addressed the thorny difficulty of 2014’s Songs Of Innocence album, which was routinely added to the accounts of greater than 500 million iTunes prospects upon its launch.
“On 9 September 2014, we didn’t simply put our bottle of milk on the door however in each fridge in each home on the town,” defined a contrite Bono. “In some circumstances we poured it on to the great individuals’s cornflakes. And a few individuals prefer to pour their very own milk. And others are lactose illiberal.”
