Pleased to U2 meet
ROCK LEGEND BONO MAKES SURPRISE BOOKSHOP VISIT
U2 rock icon Bono stunned residents with a surprise visit to a local book store.
Staff at Chorlton Bookshop were sworn to secrecy about the visit – after getting a phonecall the day before asking if Bono could come down.
They initially thought it was a hoax but the Irish icon did indeed rock up on Saturday with his entourage and a film crew to the shock of staff and customers. And by all accounts he absolutely loved spending time inside.
He purchased no less than 30 books from the Chorlton shop after chatting with staff and fans and having a cuppa. And he was particularly partial to the homebaked parkin that book seller Bev offered him while he browsed the books.
Bono was in town as part of his ongoing book tour,
with the publication of his new autobiography Surrender: 40 Songs One Story. But before he spoke and sang to thousands of fans at Manchester Apollo on Saturday night for his one-man show, he headed for the secret book signing in Chorlton first.
Staff were sworn to secrecy about his visit, and had thought he would just sit in the back signing copies of his book. But instead a jovial Bono spent an hour chatting with staff and fans who got wind of his arrival.
Book seller Jo Legerton, 49, from Timperley, said: “One of our staff baked him some parkin and he absolutely loved it, he was calling it ‘Bev’s parkin’. We did a picture behind the counter and I offered him a job but he didn’t want one!
“He was just lovely, everyone who was with him as lovely as well, just the nicest people. It’s absolutely amazing that he chose us, this just doesn’t happen in Chorlton does it?
“We feel really special. People had been waiting at Waterstones for an hour, as fans presumed it would be there he would go.”