U2 singer Bono’s inspiration for his latest album Songs of Experiencecame from a near-death experience.

In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine for its January 2018 issue, he said he almost died but refused to divulge details about what happened, adding that the 22-time Grammy-winning band’s latest album explores the theme of mortality.

“It’s just a thing that...people have these extinction events in their lives; it could be psychological or it could be physical. And, yes, it was physical for me, but I think I have spared myself all that soap opera,” Bono said.

“Especially with this kind of celebrity obsession with the minutiae of peoples’ lives — I have got out of that. I want to speak about the issue in a way that lets people fill in the blanks of what they have been through, you know?”

He continued, “It’s one thing if you were talking about it in a place of record like Rolling Stone, but by the time it gets to your local tabloid it is just awful. It becomes the question that everyone is asking.”

source: Gulf News