Bono: “My son ignored the existence of ‘The Joshua Tree'”

What do you feel to have a rock star as a father? Knows something about it Elijah Hewsonto whom Bono Vox’s son does not weigh. “He doesn’t care at all that his father may be a little famous or something like that. I want to say, he doesn’t care” said the U2 frontman on the microphones of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”.

Elijah’s brother, John, also gives little weight to the importance of his father in the history of world music, so much so that he went to the Joshua Tree National Park in California without knowing the 1987 masterpiece. “Our children are extraordinary”, the singer smiles. “He was the youngest, John – probably the wisest of all. But I said: ‘You know we have an album entitled’The Joshua Tree‘? And John replied: ‘I’ll get there, I’ll get there’ “.

In the last disc of the inhaler, of which Elijah is the frontman, there is a song entitled “All I Got is you” who immediately pushed Bono to make a reflection with his son: “You know that the U2 wrote a rather famous song entitled ‘All I want is you‘. If you worry the comparisons, because you are a high school band (like the U2) and you have this extension of three octaves … “.” No “, the twenty -five year old has dry And they did not do it, “he concludes smiling by the team of The Edge.

Bono’s appearance in Kimmel’s talk show is part of the promotion of the new film, “Stories of Surrender“, who received a standing ovation of seven minutes at the first of Cannes. He told us about an exclusive interview here.