Bono

==Early life==
Paul David Hewson was born in the [[Rotunda Hospital]] in [[Dublin]] on 10 May 1960,<ref>{{cite book |title=Bono: In the Name of Love |last=Wall |first=Mick |year=2006 |publisher=Andre Deutsch Ltd |isbn= 978-0-233-00177-7 |page= 17 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RupSPwAACAAJ |access-date=5 September 2013}}</ref> the second child of Iris (née Rankin) and Brendan Robert "Bob" Hewson, then living in [[Stillorgan]] on Dublin's [[Southside (Dublin)|Southside]].<ref name="Unforgettable Fire by Dunphy"/>{{rp|16}} His brother, Norman, is eight years older than him. Bono's family moved to a new house on Cedarwood Road, between the [[Northside (Dublin)|Northside]] suburbs of [[Finglas]]<ref>McCormick (2006), p. 15</ref><ref name="Bono - Evening Herald">{{cite news |url=http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/around-town/its-where-i-shaped-my-future-says-bono-3324323.html |title=It's where I shaped my future, says Bono |newspaper=[[Evening Herald]] |publisher=Herald.ie |date=12 December 2012 |access-date=5 September 2013}}</ref> and [[Ballymun]]{{rp|16}}<ref name="Wall_bio_05_pp21-2">{{Cite book |last=Wall |first=Mick |title=Bono (In the Name of Love) |publisher=Andre Deutsch |year=2005 |location=London |pages=21, 22 |quote=He remembers Ballymun, the district he was brought up in... a newly built semi-detached house at 10 Cedarwood Road}}</ref> when he was six weeks old, and he grew up there.<ref name="Unforgettable Fire by Dunphy"/>{{rp|16-}}{{efn|The area in which Bono grew up is the subject of debate for decades already - as he stated himself "when we moved to Cedarwood Road everyone was saying we lived in Ballymun ...  I asked my dad, who worked in the postal service, and he said, believe it or not, one part of the road is Ballymun and one part of the road is Finglas, so you can say what you like"; there are multiple sources for each area, two - e.g. Wall and Dunphy for Ballymun - for each here is sufficient}}

The Hewson brothers grew up in an [[Interfaith marriage in Christianity|interdenominational Christian]] household; their mother was a  member of the [[Church of Ireland]], and their father was a [[Roman Catholic]].<ref>McCormick (2006), p. 17</ref><ref name="Bono on Bono" /> Both parents initially agreed that the first child would be raised [[Anglican]] and the second Catholic.<ref name="Unforgettable Fire by Dunphy">{{cite book|title=Unforgettable Fire: The Definitive Biography of U2|first=Eamon|last=Dunphy|publisher=Warner Books|isbn=978-0-446-51459-0|location=New York|year=1987|url=https://archive.org/details/unforgettablefir00eamo}}</ref>{{rp|15}} Although Bono was the second child, he also attended Church of Ireland services with his mother and brother,<ref name="Unforgettable Fire by Dunphy" /> while his father also sometimes brought him to Mass at the nearby Catholic church, St Canice's.<ref name="DesertIsland22">{{Cite episode | series = Desert Island Discs | title=Bono | first = Lauren | last = Laverne | network = BBC | station = Radio 4 | date = 26 June 2022}}</ref> In 2000, Bono learned that Scott Rankin, a relative he thought to be his cousin, was actually his half-brother; Rankin was the offspring of an affair that Bob Hewson had with his wife's sister Barbara.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.ie/style/celebrity/celebrity-news/we-felt-like-brothers-before-we-knew-bono-reveals-his-cousin-scott-rankin-is-actually-his-half-brother-42087051.html|title='We felt like brothers before we knew' – Bono reveals his cousin Scott Rankin is actually his half-brother|newspaper=[[Irish Independent]]|first=Ciara|last=O'Loughlin|date=22 October 2022|access-date=28 October 2022}}</ref>

Bono attended a Protestant primary school, Glasnevin National School,<ref>Matthews (2008), p. 8</ref> rather than the local Catholic-managed primary school in Ballymun.<ref name="Wall_bio_05_pp21-2"/> His teenage musical idols were [[Bob Dylan]], [[Leonard Cohen]], [[David Bowie]] and [[Marc Bolan]] of [[T. Rex (band)|T. Rex]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Cormac |last=McSherry|title=Bono's Teenage Kicks|newspaper=The Guardian|date=17 June 2007 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2007/jun/17/bono |access-date= 3 January 2020}}</ref> After attending St. Patrick's Cathedral Grammar School for a year, Bono moved to [[Mount Temple Comprehensive School]], a multi-denominational school in [[Clontarf, Dublin|Clontarf]].<ref>McCormick (2006), p. 18</ref>

Bono's mother died on 10 September 1974, after developing a [[cerebral aneurysm]] at her father's funeral.<ref name="Bono on Bono" /> Many U2 songs, including "[[I Will Follow]]", "[[Mofo (song)|Mofo]]", "[[Three (U2 EP)|Out of Control]]", "[[Lemon (U2 song)|Lemon]]" and "[[Tomorrow (U2 song)|Tomorrow]]", focus on the loss of his mother.<ref name="Bono on Bono" /><ref name=010197DailyTelegraph>{{cite news|title=Growing Up With U2|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|first=Neil|last=McCormick|date=1 January 1997}}</ref><ref name=Schruers>{{cite journal|title=U2: Small Victories in a Rock and Roll Struggle of Sound and Emotion Report|first=Fred|last=Schruers|date=May 1983|journal=[[Musician (magazine)|Musician]]}}</ref> He said "because of the way I grew up in Finglas -- sleeping on a couch, or because my mother died when I was a kid, I was in the house on my own a lot of the time, so I'd knock on the door of the Hanveys at teatime, or the Rowens at lunchtime."<ref>{{Cite news |title=It's where I shaped my future, says Bono |url=https://www.independent.ie/regionals/herald/entertainment/around-town/its-where-i-shaped-my-future-says-bono-28962682.html |access-date=7 November 2022 |newspaper=Irish Independent}}</ref>

During his childhood and adolescence, Bono and his friends were part of a [[surrealist]] street gang called "Lypton Village". Two of his closest childhood friends, the artist [[Guggi]] and the musician [[Gavin Friday]], lived on the same street; Guggi was also in Lypton Village. The gang had a ritual of giving nicknames. Bono had several names: first, he was known as "Steinhegvanhuysenolegbangbangbang",<ref>McCormick (2006), p. 39</ref> then just "Huyseman", followed by "Houseman", "Bon Murray", "Bono Vox of O'Connell Street", and finally just "Bono".<ref name="Bono on Bono">{{cite book|last=Assayas|first=Michka|title=Bono on Bono: Conversations with Michka Assayas|publisher=Hodder & Stoughton|isbn=978-0-340-83276-9|location=London|year=2005}}</ref> "Bono Vox" is a modified form of ''Bonavox'', which is the name of a hearing aid shop just off Dublin's principal street, O'Connell Street.<ref name="DesertIsland22"/><ref>{{Cite web |title=Bonavox Celebrate 50 Years in DublinTown |url=https://www.dublintown.ie/story/bonavox-celebrate-50-years-dublintown/ |access-date=29 June 2022 |website=DublinTown}}</ref> The name derives from the [[Latin]] phrase for "good voice". The nickname was given by Guggi; Bono initially disliked it but after learning of its translation, he accepted it. Hewson has been known as "Bono" since the age of 14 or 15.<ref name="DesertIsland22"/> In addition to it being his stage name, close family, friends and fellow band members also refer to him as Bono.<ref name="Bono on Bono" />

After Bono left school,{{when|date=November 2022}} his father told him he could live at home for one year, but if he was not able to pay his own way, he would have to leave the house.<ref>McCormick (2006), p. 59</ref>
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