1 00:00:00,920 --> 00:00:05,200 Speaker 1: This is jem Naytion with So do you want to 2 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:09,639 Speaker 1: hear Bono's family bomb show personal friend of Bonn? I say, well, 3 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:10,920 Speaker 1: you've met him. I don't know if it makes your 4 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 1: personal friend made me coffee, that's going to be something 5 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:19,599 Speaker 1: instant coffee. Well that's fair enough. Well a little bit jelly. 6 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:24,079 Speaker 1: Let me tell you what's happened. In June, he revealed 7 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:27,800 Speaker 1: he had a secret half brother who he loves and 8 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 1: adoors these are his words. I do have another brother 9 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,280 Speaker 1: whom I love, and a door that I didn't know 10 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 1: I had, or maybe I did. My father was obviously 11 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:38,880 Speaker 1: growing going through a lot, but partly his head was 12 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 1: elsewhere because his heart was elsewhere. So what's happened? He 13 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 1: found out that's this boy who he thought was his 14 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:52,360 Speaker 1: cousin was his half brother. So his dad, Bob had 15 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:56,920 Speaker 1: an affair with his mum's sister. His mum's name's Iris. 16 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:00,280 Speaker 1: Keep up's like an Arthur Murray dance chant. Bob married 17 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:04,960 Speaker 1: to Iris. Bob has an affair with Iris's sister Barbara, 18 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 1: who has this baby, so Bono said, when I said 19 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 1: to Bob said to Iris. Iris died suddenly when Bono 20 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:18,399 Speaker 1: was fourteen, unaware apparently of the relationship, and Bob, when 21 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:21,600 Speaker 1: he was diagnosed with cancer in two thousand, told Bono 22 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 1: that Scott, who he thought was his cousin bon Scott, 23 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 1: was actually his brother. Wow, and Bono said, I kind 24 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 1: of knew it. He said. The truth is that Scott 25 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 1: and I have always felt like brothers, long before we 26 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 1: knew we were. He said, I love Scott and his mother, Barbara. 27 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:38,319 Speaker 1: I must have known something was up. I must have 28 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 1: held my father responsible for kind of making my mother 29 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:44,399 Speaker 1: unhappy in the way that kids pick things up. He 30 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 1: said that he never particularly that he had a combative 31 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 1: relationship with his father. I longed for attention from my father. 32 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 1: Music was a thing that soothed his aching heart. His 33 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 1: father's aching heart. It seems like a line from a 34 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 1: country song, says Bono. But it was opera I'm talking about. 35 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 1: That's what he was attracted to. Opera. And I suppose 36 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 1: he had the voice, and that's what I got too. 37 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 1: And this is a phrase, and I'm sure he means 38 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 1: he's talking a Securitou's route to his music industry. But 39 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: he said it was never the roots you expect, which 40 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:13,919 Speaker 1: I think sums up this entire scenario. Well, Bob knew 41 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 1: what he was getting, didn't he going through stuff? Yeah, 42 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 1: So Bono discovers that his cousin is his brother. Well, 43 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 1: you know, we always think of our good friend Davey Campbell. 44 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 1: What about Dave? So he discovers his sister was his mum, 45 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 1: his mom was his grandmother. No, yes, and Jimmy Barnes 46 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 1: is his dad. All in one day. Yeap, hell of 47 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:39,239 Speaker 1: a day, as Dave said many, many times, is extraordinary. 48 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 1: That's not an unusual scenario for many families of a 49 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 1: certain generation. The baby was raised as your sibling even 50 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 1: though it was your baby. And often it's when you're 51 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 1: going through funeral notices or this kind of thing. A 52 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 1: friend of mine went to with her husband to his 53 00:02:57,120 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 1: grandfather's funeral and there's a whole other family there that 54 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 1: the father, the grandfather had a whole other family. Yeah, 55 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:05,359 Speaker 1: and it was in the next suburb. And in those 56 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:07,400 Speaker 1: days you could do that. You could do get on 57 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 1: the tram and start a new life a suburban way. Yeah, 58 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:12,920 Speaker 1: I have two lives going. How exhausting. What when you 59 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 1: look at it, just look at Star Wars come on? 60 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 1: What well, what do you mean what Darth Vader Luke Skywalker, 61 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:24,919 Speaker 1: I am your father. Yeah, well that's the biggest one 62 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 1: of all. Yeah, yeah, yes, he's conflicting. He and then 63 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 1: his dad chops his hand off. Did he I stopped 64 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:33,200 Speaker 1: watching after a while, chops his hand off and throws 65 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 1: him into an abyss. But let's talk about real life bombshell, 66 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 1: not real life bombshell family secrets. I am your father.