{"id":459,"date":"2026-06-04T19:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/?p=459"},"modified":"2026-06-04T19:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:35:09","slug":"breaking-news-i-want-to-leave-u2-frontman-bono-paul-david-hewson-just-announced-his-departure-from-u2-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/?p=459","title":{"rendered":"Breaking news: I want to leave, U2 Frontman Bono (Paul David Hewson just announced his departure from U2 to&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e194fd6b4de42b4223d4d3c7945e8263\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<div class=\"hb-ad-inpage\">\r\n    <div class=\"hb-ad-inner\"> \r\n    <div class=\"hbagency_cls hbagency_space_107374\"><\/div><\/div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Speaking candidly on the band\u2019s upcoming Disney+ documentary, A Kind of Homecoming, the singer whose real name is Paul DavidWe have all thought about it,\u201d the frontman admits. \u201cIt is the right instinct to question<\/p>\n<p>But the reason why I want to go forward is something is stirring in my voice and my singing and the desire to write songs we don\u2019t have yet,\u201d he continues. \u201cWe are chasing the dragon of the song we can\u2019t get.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe real magic of U2 is that everything we needed, the people we needed, were always right there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, U2 guitarist The Edge AKA David Howell Evans shared that it was \u201cremarkable\u201d that the group stayed together, admitting that there had been a \u201clot of tension\u201d throughout the years.<\/p>\n<p>We are probably a little institutionalised by being in this thing a little too long. 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