Bono Issues Another Apology for U2’s iTunes Album Debacle in New Memoir: ‘I Take Full Responsibility’
Bono Addressed That U2 iTunes Album Controversy In His New Memoir, And Here’s What He Said
In an exclusive excerpt from his new memoir, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, humanitarian and U2 lead singer Bono finally apologized for the time everyone was forced to listen to their album on iTunes.
Bono has expressed his regret over that U2 iTunes album controversy in an exclusive excerpt from his upcoming memoir, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, shared with the Guardian.
On that fateful day of Oct. 13, 2014, everybody and their mama had an iTunes account. It was the good ol’ days of spending our money on our favorite tracks individually before we officially decided if we wanted to purchase the entire album.
But Bono was dead set on changing the world of downloadable music forever. He recalled thinking, We should give it away to everybody. It’s their choice whether they want to listen to it.
U2’s album Songs of Innocence was forcibly made available to every one of the 500 million–plus users of iTunes for free.
Granted, the Batman Forever movie wasn’t so great (wasn’t terrible, but wasn’t the best), but I bought the soundtrack on CD-Rom around 1995 (I still have it), later ripped the songs to my hard drive, have them on my iPod, and it’s a really good soundtrack.
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