The U2 frontman – born Paul David Hewson – was a founding member of the Irish rock band, which formed in 1976 while they were attending Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Dublin.
As a teenager he began dating his future wife, Alison Stewart, who was also in the same year as his bandmate David Howell Evans, best known as The Edge. They also went to school with Larry Mullen Jr., the band’s drummer.
Across the past 49 years, U2 have released 15 studio albums and are one of the world’s best-selling music artists, having sold an estimated 150–170 million records worldwide. They’ve also won 22 Grammys, eight Brit Awards and two Golden Globe Awards
But decades on, Bono has joked about suggestions his wife, 63, whom he married in 1982 and shares four children with, had a fling with The Edge.
In the upcoming documentary, Bono: Stories of Surrender, he suggests his wife of 42 years and his band mate were ‘an item’.
When interviewed on The Project about his comment on Sunday, he joked it was still a ‘sore subject’.
‘They were the two cleverest in their year,’ he said of Ali and David, who were in the year below him.
‘She did seem to be taking an interest in his guitar playing and, as hard as I might practice, I just knew I couldn’t touch this guy.
‘So, I had to become, you know, the class clown.’
He then added: ‘They’re still really close – and they still talk about me behind my back.
‘They say it’s out of concern,’ he added with a laugh.
