Piano Lessons and New Songs

26 May 2006
Bono's been taking piano lessons and writing songs. After every lesson, 'I write a new song'. It's time, he says, 'to get lost in the music.' Listen in to The Guardian podcast.


Interviewed at the end of his ten-day African trip by Larry Elliott, Bono talks about balancing his life as a political activist with being a writer and musician. And he drops some nuggets about new songs and recording.

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