:: Edge´s blog by Regina O'Numb ::

:: 1.8.2006 ::

EDGE´S QUOTES:
"'When I Look at the World' is a tune that started off like it's a really heavy, full-on rock and roll arrangement. It sounded too easy in the end, it sounded too predictable for us. So we stripped it down, we kind of rearranged it in a much more constrained way. I think it's a classic U2 song but probably done in a slightly different way." (Edge on "When I Look at the World")

"I think the version we released was the first take - one of those real magical moments in the studio. It was a very minimalist piece; the idea that a pattern is repeate d over and over for a period of time builds to its own momentum and character." - Edge on the recording of "Bad"

''For me, that term 'pop' is like a candy bar. You buy it because you like it, you eat it, and then you throw it away. It has no long-term meaning or value." (1985)

"People try to examine our beliefs to get a line on our music. But going the other way around is better. Music is a far better medium to explain something as personal and intangible as that. I have absolutely no interest in the political or doctrinal side of Christianity. In fact that aspect terrifies me." (1985)

"We started working from the rhythm backup - the guitar, then the drums, then Adam last. It got to where it was hard to justify spending so much time on it. In fact, Brian Eno wanted us to erase the multitrack at one point because he felt it was taking too much time out of the record. He didn't, thankfully." (Edge on the recording of "Where the Streets Have No Name")

"I think the vast majority of our audience, and the vast majority of people with any kind of brain, will get the idea of what we're trying to do." (Edge on the "ZooTV" tour)

"I've just realized that the facts aren't that important, and as long as there's some relation to the original, that's fine."

"When we got ready for the European tour, we realized Mirrorball Man wouldn't really have any resonance. So we thought - let's boil him down to his essence. And who is he really? He's the devil." (Edge on the development of "MacPhisto")

"They were all quite serious about music. They would come here every morning about ten and really work very hard. I used to make them lunch. I was amazed that they took it so seriously." (Gwenda Evans)

"This band is special, and it's been a real privilege to be in it."

"I don't think U2 will ever get to the stage where there's a formula. Our way of writing is always so much a part of experimenting and a feeling at the time."

"We decided on instinct almost, that it was the right image for the record, but the intellectual reasons I haven't quite sorted out in my own mind. It has a spiritual aspect which this record has, and also a great deal of mystery which I like. It's appropriate on many levels." (Edge describing the desert imagery used on "The Joshua Tree", 1987)

"Passengers was a result of that collaboration [with Brian Eno] - a soundtrack album without a movie." (Edge on the "Passengers - ..." album)

"We would have broken up years ago if there'd been any pansies in the band." (2002)
:: Regina O'Numb 1/8/2006 05:07:36 PM [+] ::
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EDGE´S QUOTES:
"Achtung Baby is definitely a reaction to the myth of U2. We never really had any control over the myth of U2. You could say we helped it along a bit... but there's very little resemblance to the actual personalities of the band."

"I was not going for purity, I was going for the opposite. I was trying to fuck up the sound as much as possible, go for something that was definitely messed with, definitely tampered with, had a character that was not just the regular guitar sound." (Edge on his sound)

"I think when it loses its humour, Rock 'n' Roll can become very boring."

"Advertising and art are gettting all mixed up. I think some of the most exciting pieces of TV are the commercials."

"I think that U2 has a lot of great records left. I think we're good for another ten years at least." (1992)

"A woman needs a man like The Edge, needs a handicam, when you're tryin' to throw your arms around the world" (Bono during a concert singing "Trying to Throw Your Arms Around the World")

"He's far funnier, takes himself far less seriously than most people think. He's wild, he's not reserved. None of the cliches that spring to mind when you think of most people's perception of him." (Edge on Bono)

"There's nobody to tell you that you're being a complete arsehole - which is maybe what's good about being in a band."

"We believe in trash, we believe in kitsch and that's what we're up to at the moment." (Edge on "Pop")

"A clone. A clone with good timing so I could send him off to do all the things that I can't do." (when he was asked what he'd like to have that he doesn't)

"I have a terrible habit of finding really unimportant, trivial, manual things to do. I'll go mow the lawn, or find some piece of furniture that needs varnishing, or ... paint the cat." (when he was asked what he does when he returns home from a tour)

"It's a very unusual thing to be in a band like this. It's like being in a street gang. And it's all very well being in a street gang when you're 16, but it's bloody weird when you're 32."

"It's funny, but even within the space of one song, you can feel the audience come and go. The only thing to do is kick into heavier gear and go for it. Some of our best gigs have been ones that start off badly and then become manic and unpredictable. Heavy but cool is the key."

"I don't feel that attached to my instruments. It's almost like I'm going to dominate them in some sort of way. I don't feel like they're part of me; they stand between me and something new."

"It's dangerous to try and answer. I don't really feel it is our job. Our job, if anything, is to connect in a way, to express something that's personal to us that other people can relate to, that they might be feeling, that crystallizes something that's out there, anyway. It's much more to do with the moment and what others are going through that it has to do with you. You can write 100 songs that never mean a thing, and then you might write a song that means everything. There's a certain humbling realization that it sort of happens to you; it's not something you really can turn on and off." (when he was asked why the songs on "Pop" didn't offer any answers)

"The reason for being in a band initially was purely satisfaction. Having started for that reason, we started writing songs, we started doing things. And our academic careers just went out of the window. Because we suddenly realized that this was important to us." (1985)

"I think that Edge is the head of the band, I'm the heart, and Adam and Larry are the feet." (Bono in 1981)

"Edge gets to dress up as an action hero, 'cause you know that thing about shy people are all really megalomaniacs trapped underneath. I think that's my theory about Edge. In fact, if you notice, he's wearing a number one t-shirt, he was planning to wear a number two t-shirt. And I saw him just, you know, he slipped on the number one. It's little things that give you away." (Bono during the making of the "Elevation" video)

"The spinning was pretty hurl-inducing, but I was OK. Not my favorite kind of experience, but sometimes you have to suffer for your art." (Edge on making the "Elevation" video)

"I'm not sure if Irish people can dance... except for The Edge, that is, who is our own funky chicken." (Bono)

"When we talk about rock'n'roll, we're not gonna suddenly turn into Bon Jovi. We never meant that."

"Were not a punk band or ska band or whatever. We're just U2."

"The Edge is a really, really intense guy, he's got this incredibly high IQ, he's great at sorting out issues of worldly importance, it's just that he forgets the everyday things, like the chords of songs, where he is and so on." (Bono in 1983)

"Edge is the good-looking boffin with great cheekbones, eyes gentle yet intense at the same time, and a mind that can find a bunch of wires and build a spaceship." (B. P. Fallon)

"Oh, I hate to see cows playing tag. Makes you think the hamburger you're eating may have been playing kiss-and-run the day before."

"His gaze drifts off into the air, mentally subdividing God-knows-what complex equation. It turns out he's wondering if right now Larry is finding the fan letter Edge left lying conspicuously in the dressing room. The letter tells Edge that he is 'the best-looking member of U2. Bono has a big nose and Larry looks like an inflatable doll.' Edge got the note in Australia and he plans to keep leaving it out until Larry notices it. 'Bass players attract the weirdest fans,' Edge says. 'I tend to get the bespectacled MIT students. Bono gets the poets. And Larry, unfortunately, gets the girls.' Edge sighs and repeats the old saw: 'We should have gotten a Ringo.' The Beautiful Boy himself enters the cafeteria, showing no signs of having yet seen himself described as inflatable. Edge gets up to collect his mash note for next time." (Bill Flannagan, U2 at the End of the World)

"Boom then in ... 'cause the Edge is on a completely different timing as usual!" (Larry backstage during a gig)

"We've been trying to work out how to get all the 'Achtung Baby' sounds live. Basically we can do it if Edge plays something different with every one of his appendages."

"My attitude is that it should be something that the music industry should welcome with open arms. I don't have any of the sort of fears or paranoias that seem to be common amongst the music business. I think they're in danger of actually falling so far behind what's going on the Internet that they might actually just miss the boat, but um, it's great. I mean there's so many ways that it can develop and I'm sure there's ways that no-one's even thought of yet." (on the "All That You Can't Leave Behind" album)

"You know, the record we were trying to make was quite a bit more joyful and about a certain kind of love of live and vitality," says the Edge. "And that's in there, but there's also this other side, which sort of crept into the record almost without me noticing. And if the record was about breaking things back down to essentials, I suppose in the end mortality is the ultimate inescapable fact of life." (on the "All That You Can't Leave Behind" album)

"I'd like to remix every U2 album"

"Amid the uncertainty there are certain ideas that are so powerful and so right that you can hold onto them no matter how screwed up everything else is."

"As usual, we're out of step with what everyone else is doing. If you ever want to find out what's going on, look at what we're doing and it's going to be the opposite of it. In the middle of the materialistic '80s, here was this ascetic bunch standing in the desert singing songs, and now, when America is in the middle of a conservative, grim phase, we're sailing on a 40-foot lemon through the middle of it all."

"The first night Edge was in a cloud of dry ice when he got out of the lemon and I couldn't see him, but I knew he wasn't playing his guitar when he should have been. And I didn't know what to do exactly. And then I just heard this giggling. He was laughing his head off. I caught him through the fog. There is just a smidgen of (Spinal Tap's) Derek Smalls about him at the moment. But listen, that's balls." (Bono on PopMart)

"Edge your problem is you are too tasteful" (Bono)

"That's one of the things that attracted me to rock & roll. Initially, there's that feehng of potential, of power, when you strap on an electric gultar. And then you leam that what it's really about is controlling that power. I mean, the guitar has been a big part of rock & roll. I just can't imagine Elvis holding a violin!"

"The edge is the border between something and nothing. I am not a particularly edgy person, so it is funny."

"I suppose I am a Christian, but I am not a religious person."

"This day has done everything it can for us. This day owes us nothing."

"They [U2's parents] are still waiting for us to get proper jobs. I mean its kinda like 'Well you were lucky this time, but when are you gonna go back to school and become a doctor?"

"They [U2's parents] weren't always supportive. Like Edge's mother, Mrs. Edge we call her, had a little Volkswagen and she was a really cool lady and she would like put all the gear and all the band in the Volkswagen she'd like pick us up at 4 am in the morning to take us home and she was out there so that worked. But my old man, when I came home at night, would be waiting at the top of the stairs with a machine gun, several knives, you know it was just target practice." (Bono)

"The last couple of records we started with shoes. This record we started with Edge's moustache. There's a lot of music you can't play when you've got a guy that looks like Edge in your band." (Bono)

"It's funny, but even within the space of one song, you can feel the audience come and go. The only thing to do is kick into heavier gear and go for it. Some of our best gigs have been ones that start off badly and then become manic and unpredictable. Heavy but cool is the key."

"When we got ready for the European tour, we realized Mirrorball Man wouldn't really have any resonance. So we thought - let's boil him down to his essence. And who is he really? He's the devil." (on the development of MacPhisto)

Edge: "I just want to be respected for who I am."
Obnoxious Woman: "And who are you, Dave Evans?"
Edge: "A big, rich, famous rockstar!"
"I didn't get into the band to become a celebrity. I got into the band because I wanted to play music and write songs and tour and do all that stuff."

"I'm still very nervous about the 'christian' label. I have no trouble with Christ, but I have trouble with a lot of christians."

"I don't particularly like myth, but to me mystery is everything."

"Don't ever try to reprogram a string section while the support band is playing above your head!"

"I think this is where U2's future lies. Choreography. Four Tops type stuff."

"The thinking was very simple - we wanted to give the people of Sarajevo an audience where they could tell people what was really going on. We knew it was a risk to put something that shocking and potent into a rock and roll show." (on the Sarajevo link-ups during Zoo TV)

"I think the vast majority of our audience, and the vast majority of people with any kind of brain, will get the idea of what we're trying to do." (on ZooTV)

"It was like being violated. People are listening to very private things, stolen things. Most of it is just mumbo-jumbo crap, but it's made significant by becoming a U2 artifact. Even U2 goofing around becomes an artifact!" (on the release of the "Salom¿" bootleg)

"The greatest threat to the career of this band, or any other band, is financial success." (1985)

Edge: "The first bunch of songs was easy come up with because it was really just the songs, the big singles from the period, you know, 'One', um... help me out here, Larry, what were the hits from that period?"
Larry: "Um, 'Still Haven't Found...'."
Edge: "No!"
(when they were asked, how they figured out the songs for the "Best of 1990-2000" album)

"Rock 'n' Roll, guitars, basses, drums, voices, a high volume... - that's me."

"In some ways, I think we've got a baddest faraway from U2 on this record as we could ever." (Edge on "Pop")

"I think the truth of it is, that whenever we go in to make a record, we always go in to make the same record. It's just everytime it comes out completly differently."

"Songs like 'Gone'... I'm just really proud of that song. I think it's one of the best pieces of work that I've come up with in the last few years." (1997)

"Music can be sooo boring, sooo conservative, sooo predictable."

"Every album is difficult. If it was easy, we'd make one a month."

"I think the songs on this new record are probably the strongest songs we've ever had, so in that sense I'm very excited about the album." (Edge on "All That You Can't Leave Behind")

"I think theres alot of people puzzled, to be honest, about what were trying to do."

"I think theres alot of people puzzled, to be honest, about what were trying to do." (Edge on self-esteem)

"I suppose ultimately I'm interested in music. I'm a musician. I'm not a gunslinger. That's the difference between what I do and what a lot of guitar heroes do."

"The chords are just the canvas. What shape canvas do you want" (Edge working on "Zooropa")

"Zoo TV was just letting our imaginations run riot and anyone else's we could get our hands on."

"I suppose in the back of your mind everyone thinks that maybe one day we're going to write together and we just won't have anything to say. Literally there will be nothing more to add. You all hope that everyone knows when that time has come and you don't go on to do some completely awful album that everyone recognizes to be a disaster."

"The only member of the band who believed we could get somewhere was Adam. He was always talking in terms of record deals, making albums and being on the road. To us that was a joke, but by 1980 we all recognized there was something happening. We didn't understand it for a while. You can call it chemistry, because there is no way to describe what it is when a particular group of musicians is playing together and you get the feeling that there is something special there. There was some kind of spark present when the four of us played together." (Edge on Adam)

"The good thing about this band is that we started out as mates and we still are. We actually see quite a lot of each other when we are on the road in more social situations. We go out to clubs or whatever. It becomes a kind of a family when you are on the road and you end up doing a lot of things with other members of the band or with members of the crew that you particulary seem to klick with. It seems to get you through it. It's like a small village that travels around."

"Phew, the roof for the house in the west of Ireland is looking good. I'll be able to change the car this year after all!" (Edge after they finished recording "One")

Larry: "It's obviously being played for a joke and I don't feel right about it."
Edge (reaches over and grabs Larry's arm): "It's true, he doesn't feel right."

"Slow down, Bono, I don't want to die!" (Edge driving with Bono)

"What ever you do, do not get into a car with Bono. He's not great at the old driving." (2001)

"England is the most fashion-concious place. Walking down the street is like walking through a zoo." (1982)

"Up to now, we've defined our own terms, and if we're branching out it's because we need to. We're not pandering to outside demands." (1983)

"Words are a very limiting medium. I don't think it's essential for us to say anything; these things come out best through the music." (1984)

"I suppose you could put in the liner notes: 'Please do not mistake Bono for God'. Perhaps you have to accept it as an inherent flaw." (1985)

"Honestly, the whole U2 phenomenon is probably going to amount to little real change. I think we're quite sanguine about that, but that's not the only reason we would be doing this. We're doing it because it's worth doing and we think it's the right thing to do." (1985)

"People seem to be copying that, The Famous Edge Guitar Style, which misses the point altogether. I never wanted to create a new standard. We wanted to do something new. (1987)

"When Bono has problems with his voice, he usually gets stronger during a show. But that night he got worse and worse. When he tried to sing the high notes in 'Bad', I could tell that it took all he had. After that, there was nothing left." (1987, discussing the opening night of "The Joshua Tree" tour)

"If you've got 5,000 people outside a venue there's no way you can go out, but if you find like 10 or 30 people then we go and talk to them. It still happens, it's just no t quite as easy as it used to be." (1987)

"When I grew up I was listening to Rock 'n' Roll. It's only been in the last three or four years that I've started to appreciate The Dubliners." (1988, when asked why there are hardly young Irish bands that tap into the local traditional music)

"I'm not telling you, hahaha! It's none of your fucking business, hahahah!" (1988, when asked how much worth U2 are)

"I don't give a shit, to be honest. I laugh, that's all you can do. I find it incredibly funny." (1988)

"People think we're incredibly careful and meticulous about putting together new movements in our music. But it's much more spontaneous than that." (1988)

"We have taken this thing as far as you can go. You can't get bigger without sponsorship, which we're not prepared to do." (1993)

"I think that criticism would be valid if we'd done a techno or drum 'n' bass record and been taken over by the form." (1997, on "Pop")

"Play as few notes as you can, but find those notes that do the most work. If I could play one note for a whole song, I would. 'I Will Follow' is almost that." (1997)

"I don't think Larry ever liked the idea of being a pop star and I think it's great that in the same band you've got Bono who's like, you know, the whole - the stage is like a platform shoe, it's like a chance for him to get out and be noticed and then there's Larry hiding behind the drum kit." (1997)

"I've no doubt in my mind that we're going to be well into the next millennium and still doing great work. The band is as hungry and committed to one another and to the id ea of U2 as we've ever been." (1998)

"The fact is not whether you're wearing sunglasses is important, it's important which kind of sunglasses you're wearing."

"Whenever I start working on a song, I immediately try to forget everything, to empty my hands and head of anything that may be hanging over from another song or album. I try to approach it like this is the first time I've ever played guitar. What am I going to do?"

"The question is, 'What are you saying with the guitar?' - Not 'Can you play this link?' or 'What's your speed like?' It's, 'What are you saying with your instrument? What is being communicated in this song?'"

"U2's not great and I don't think 'Achtung Baby' is a good name either." (2002)

"I suppose I never really want to grow up." (Edge has a Peter Pan moment)

"It's like really got that kind of energy that I think of when I think of the best rock'n'roll. It's got a certain kind of swagger and a certain kind of tongue-in-cheek quality, but it's very infectious and I think it does rock, you know, I think it actually, I think live it's gonna really connect. I think it'll be a big song, I think people are really gonna like it." (Edge on "Elevation")

"It's like a really powerful U2 song. It's got a really great guitar solo, great chorus, everyone comes up well, and II think we'll be playing that one for a long time yet." (Edge on "Walk on")

"It's probably the most immediate song. It started out as just an idea I had for a kind of a gospel direction for something and Bono kicked it in a very different direction. It's kind of U2 doing a classic thing, but in a new way. I think it'll be a single." (Edge on "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out of")
:: Regina O'Numb 1/8/2006 05:06:39 PM [+] ::
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EDGE´S BIO:
Name: David Howell Evans
Nickname: The Edge, Dave, Reg
Birthday: 08/ 08/ 1961
Birthplace: Essex, East London
Grew up in: Dublin
Residence: Dublin (Killiney Area)
Starsign: Leo
Parents: Gwenda and Garvin Evans
Siblings: Dik and Gil Evans
Marital Status: married to Morleigh Steinberg since 06/ 22/ 2002
(already dissolved with Aislinn O'Sullivan (since 1996))
Children: three daugthers with Aislinn:
Hollie (born 1984)
Arran (born 1986)
Blue Angel (born 1989)
two children with Morleigh:
daughter Sian (born 10/ 04/ 1997)
son Levi (born 2000)
Hair Color: brown
Color of Eyes: green (-grey-blue)
Height: 5'86" (178 cm)
Characteristic: Edge always wears something on his head - mostly a woolly beanie hat
Instruments: guitar, piano, keyboard, bass (, vocals)
12 Fave Albums:
- "Revolver" (The Beatles)
- "Blonde on Blonde" (Bob Dylan)
- "Legend" (Bob Marley)
- "Doolittle" (The Pixies)
- "Marquee Moon" (Television)
- "Horses" (Patti Smith)
- "Kind of Blue" (Miles Davis)
- "What's Going on" (Marvin Gaye)
- "The River" (Bruce Springsteen)
- "Road to Freedom" (The Young Disciples)
- "Blue Lines" (Massive Attack)
- "Greatest Hits" (Bee Gees)
David Howell Evans aka. "The Edge" was born on August 8th, 1961 at Barking Maternity Hospital in Essex, East London to Gwenda and Garvin Evans, who came from Llanelli in Wales. Edge has an older brother called Dik and a younger sister called Gil. The family moved to Dublin a year after his birth, where he has lived ever since. There, he grew up as a quiet child, a loner and very intelligent. He did well in school, and up until before he met who would be his future bandmates, he wanted to go to university to become a doctor.

At the age of nine he got his first guitar (now he has a collection of over 50 guitars). David took guitar and piano lessons and often played with his brother Dik.

Edge's father Garvin had a great influence on his musical career: "My father has been a great influence on me and their was always music around the house when I was growing up."

It must have been around 1976 when Dave got his now famed nickname "The Edge". It's not really known, why he was called "The Edge". The nickname was inspired in the beginning by the sharp features of his face, but it also applied to his sharp mind and the way he always observes things from the edge. Or he got the nickname perhaps because of being a loner early in high school or because of his guitar playing style.

Edge saw Larry Mullen's ad at the bulletin board at the Mount Temple Comprehensive High School and was the first one (with his brother Dik) who responsed to it. He made a polite inquiry as to what it was all about. Edge won the competition for the position as the band's lead guitarist.

In fall '76 Dave played his first show as guitarist with Larry Mullen Jr., his brother Dik, Bono Vox and Adam Clayton. They were called "Feedback". The short gig was at Dublin's Mount Temple School.

Feedback changed its name to "The Hype" and later to "U2". At the time they were known as U2, Dik had left the band to form "Virgin Prunes".

When Edge finished high school in 1978, he told his parents he'd take a year off, to see where the band and their music would take him.

After the release of "October" Edge nearly left the band. He, Bono and Larry joined a Christian-based religious group called "Shalom". They were searching spirituality and the answer to the big question, and that soon became a problem within the band. The three members attending the bible group were torn between their Christian ideals and their Rock 'n' Roll lifestyle. Bono and Larry quickly chose the band, but Dave wasn't sure. But he took Bono's advice to follow his heart and after a reasonable period of soul searching, he chose the band as well. The Edge realized he didn't have a problem with his beliefs or his music and lifestyle, it was other people who did.

Beside playing the guitar on U2's album he plays also the keyboards on the albums and sings (backing) vocals. Edge has also written/ sung some songs for U2's records (most songs are written by Bono and Edge): "Van Dieman's Land" (lyrics and leadvocals); "Numb" (lyrics and leadvocals); "Corpse (These Chains Are Way too Long)" (lyrics); "Seconds" (vocals); "Sunday Bloody Sunday" (vocals); "Sweet Caroline Karaoke" (vocals), and a few more. He (not Adam!) also played the bass on "40" (on "War"/ released 1983).

Edge's guitarplaying is part of U2's trademark, the characteristic and mesmerizing sounds he plays and the emotions he puts through them are what make him one of the most unique guitarists in the Rock 'n' Roll. Only he can capture the pain and frustration of El Salvador in "Bullet the Blue Sky", or play the melancholic, soul-grabbing, mind-blowing guitar riff from "One". His style - clean, sharp, incisive, cutting-edge - is unmistakable. His voice, proving to be able to be monotone yet interesting as in "Numb", and mellow yet lead-worthy as in "Sunday Bloody Sunday" is just one more proof that there are no limits to his talents.

In 1981 the debut album "Boy" was released. U2 hadn't forgotten the sound system worker Joe O'Herlihy, who had worked with them earlier on tours and he was again brought in for the US tour, which followed the record. The only thing that "bothered" Joe was Edge's guitar playing. Edge was an electronic wizard not a genious player, and Joe had some really hard time working out Edge's use of echoes. A few months later, live, U2 were brilliant, the critical relationship between Joe and Edge adding a stunning new sound dimension to Bono's dramatic stage persona.

During 1983 Edge appeared on Jah Wobbles "Snakecharmer" album. He played guitar and keyboard on "Snakecharmer" and "Hold on to Your Love", which Edge also wrote!

On July 12th, 1983 David married his high school sweetheart Aislinn O'Sullivan. He had seen her at some U2 shows and eventually he dared to speak to her (it's said Edge is a little bit shy). They've three daugthers together: Arran, Hollie and Blue Angel. Later, in 1990, they split up. They got divorced legaly in 1996.

Later (1993) Dave met Morleigh Steinberg (she's from California/ USA), a dancer and coreographer of the ZooTV-Tour. They also have a daugther together, who's called Sian; and a son called Levi. In June 2002 the couple finally got married.

In 1985 Edge wrote, performed and co-produced the film score to the motion picture "Captive". The main song from this film "Heroine" also includes Larry on drums, and Sinead O'Connor got her break through as she sings on this song.

On Sptember 3rd, 1993, Edge made his first ever solo appearance at the MTV Music Awards in Los Angeles (CA/ Universal Amphitheatre). Dressed in a blue military jacket with beret sunglasses, he played guitar and sang "Numb" in front of a small ZooTV-Screen.
Before the show there was a huge prblem: It's said Edge didn't memorized the lyrics properly till he was forced on the plane ride to the awards.

Inspired by the success of their theme of "Batman Forever", Bono and Edge wrote the song "Goldeneye" for the James Bond movie of the same name in 1995, which was sang by Tina Turner.

On June 22nd, 2002 Edge and Morleigh Steinberg finally got married. They had a beautiful private ceremony in the South of France. 250 guests were attended, including all of Edge's children, the members of U2 with their families, Lenny Kravitz, Dave Stewart and Helena Christensen.

In January 2003 Edge joined top super-models and other A-list celebrities on the catwalk at the Brown Thomas International Fashion Show to strut his stuff on the catwalk in Dublin's Point Theatre for charity (for Chernobyl Children's Project, ISPCC and The Christina Noble Foundation).

Meanwhile The Edge became one of the richest rockstars in the world. He owns one of the biggest houses in Dublin, which is as well one of the most expensive houses in Ireland. The house called "Fortlands" is in the Killiney area of Dublin and is right to the next door to his bandmate and best friend Bono. Edge already owned a massive house on Vico Road but moved out recently when he was refused planning permission to make the house bigger and has since been living in a city centre apartment with his wife, when they weren't in the US, where Morleigh comes from.

Let's wait and see what The Edge will do in the next time ...
:: Regina O'Numb 1/8/2006 04:58:01 PM [+] ::
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Com realização da Accioly Entretenimento e Plan Music, a passagem da turnê Vertigo pelo Brasil se dará nos dias 20 e 21 de fevereiro no Estádio do Morumbi em São Paulo. Venda de ingressos tem início no dia 14 de janeiro. Espaço Pão de Açúcar Emotion, promoções, sorteio de ingressos, entre outras novidades foram preparadas para encantar e prestigiar o fã brasileiro
São Paulo, Janeiro de 2006 - Liderado pelo carisma de Bono Vox, o grupo Irlandês U2, apresenta para o público brasileiro nos dias 20 e 21 de fevereiro no Estádio do Morumbi em São Paulo, a bem-sucedida trunê Vertigo e que já rendeu à banda cerca de US$ 300 milhões somente com a venda de ingressos. Para a turnê brasileira, são aguardadas cerca de 70 mil pessoas por dia. Os shows terão início às 21h45 com término previsto para as 0h05. Os portões serão abertos às 15 horas.
A vinda do U2 ao Brasil só foi possível graças à união de forças entre a maior rede varejista do País, o Grupo Pão de Açúcar, a Siemens, e os empresários Alexandre Accioly - Accioly Entretenimento - e Luiz Oscar Niemeyer - Plan Music. Juntos, prometem tornar a passagem do U2 pelo Brasil em um evento inesquecível para todos os fãs brasileiros da banda. O evento ainda tem co-patrocínio da Claro e da Telefônica/Speedy.
A turnê do U2 marca também a estréia do Grupo Pão de Açúcar na área de shows internacionais. Com ele a Companhia abre ainda mais o leque de opções de lazer e entretenimento para os brasileiros, a exemplo do que já faz com o celebre projeto Pão Music, que em 2006 completa 14 anos de sucesso. Desde a sua criação o Pão Music, projeto de democratização da cultura realizado gratuitamente ao ar livre, já realizou mais de 200 shows, atraindo cerca de 9,5 milhões de pessoas nas principais cidades onde o projeto acontece.
Em julho de 2005, o Pão Music tomou ares internacionais com o megaespetáculo Pão Music - Viva Brasil que aconteceu no dia 13 de julho na Praça da Bastilha, dentro das comemorações do Ano do Brasil na França. Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Jorge Ben Jor, Daniela Mercury, Lenine, Seu Jorge, e o grupo Ilê Ayiê da Bahia foram às estrelas do espetáculo atraindo cerca de 100 mil pessoas ao local. O sucesso foi tanto que o show valeu um registro especial em DVD. Em 2006, a série musical volta a brilhar com a realização de shows e encontros inusitados por todo o País.
Segundo o diretor de Marketing Corporativo do Grupo Pão de Açúcar, Eduardo Romero, "a decisão de manter a marca Pão Musictambém como assinatura dos shows internacionais demonstra, antes de tudo, o respeito que temos pelo público e a qualidade que o projeto musical conquistou ao longo de sua existência. Vamos trazer esta fórmula de sucesso para o show do U2".
Romero explica ainda que "o investimento da Companhia neste show, assim como no Pão Music, não se limita ao patrocínio, vai além dele e começando pela possibilidade única de o fã ser tratado como um convidado vip e especial, escolhendo ele mesmo como deseja assistir ao show e desfrutando totalmente do espaço oferecido".
Para tanto, será criado o Espaço Pão de Açúcar Emotion para 10 mil pessoas por dia, com todo conforto e infra-estrutura de qualidade. Além disso, o Pão de Açúcar utilizará sua vasta rede de supermercados para que o público possa adquirir os ingressos com agilidade, conforto e segurança, além da realizar promoções especiais promovidas pelas lojas da rede em todo o País. Toda a campanha de mídia está sendo desenvolvida pela África.
Espaço Pão de Açúcar Emotion - O Pão de Açúcar criará um super espaço dentro do estádio do Morumbi, localizado no anel intermediário do estádio. Chamado "Espaço Pão de Açúcar Emotion", serátotalmente decorado e abrigará por dia aproximadamente 10 mil pessoas com toda a qualidade e infra-estrutura de serviços já conhecida das turnês do Pão Music, como alimentação, bebidas, banheiros etc. Ao adquirir um ingresso para este espaço exclusivo, o fã terá direito também ao kit Emotion composto de sacola fashion, camiseta, CD - How to dismantle an atomic bomb, bebida e entrada exclusiva no estádio. Descontos especiais serão dados aos clientes que possuam o Cartão Mais, o cartão de relacionamento da rede de supermercados Pão de Açúcar.
Área Vip - Um Espaço Vip para receber 800 convidados por dia também será montado dentro do Espaço Pão de Açúcar Emotion para receber celebridades, autoridades e artistas brasileiros que nesses 14 anos do projeto Pão Music, emprestaram seu talento e carisma para alegria de muitos brasileiros. Neste espaço será possível degustar as delícias da culinária da jovem chef Morena Leite, proprietária do famoso restaurante Capim Santo em São Paulo.
Hot Area - Espaço reservado em frente ao palco para o público que não quer perder nenhum detalhe do show. Este espaço acompanha a turnê mundial da banda. Promoção - Sorteio de Ingressos - 100 pessoas festejando na hot area. A companhia também criou uma promoção especial em toda a rede Pão de Açúcar do Brasil e que permitirá a 100 pessoas (25 casais/dia) assistirem de pertinho o show do U2 em frente ao palco (hot area). A cada R$ 100,00 em compras, o cliente concorre a dois ingressos para assistir ao show em frente ao palco. Os ganhadores terão passagens de ida e volta pagas pelo Pão de Açúcar, hospedagem, diária de alimentação e traslado exclusivo para o dia do show. A promoção tem início no dia 09 de janeiro e encerramento no dia 12 de fevereiro. Os sorteios acontecem nos dias, 18/01, 01/02 e 15/02.
Conforto e agilidade na venda dos ingressos - O Grupo Pão de Açúcar utilizará sua vasta rede de supermercados Pão de Açúcar de São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro para a venda de ingressos ao público, incluindo as lojas Pão de Açúcar 24 horas. Os ingressos serão vendidos a partir do dia 14 de Janeiro. Além das lojas o público também poderá comprar ingressos via Internet pelo site da empresa Ticketronic - www.ticketronic.com.br.
Setores disponíveis e valores dos ingressos:
ARQUIBANCADA
Inteira ..................R$ 160,00
Estudante.............R$ 80,00

PISTA/CADEIRAS INFERIORES
Inteira.....................R$ 180,00
Estudante...............R$ 90,00

HOT AREA - FRENTE DE PALCO
Inteira........................R$ 1.000,00
Estudante..................R$ 500,00

ESPAÇO PÃO DE AÇÚCAR EMOTION
Inteira.........................R$ 380,00
(ingresso + Kit Emotion)
*Não pode ser vendido separadamente

Estudante e cliente do cartão Mais
Inteira..........................R$ 255,00
(ingresso + Kit Emotion)
*Não pode ser vendido separadamente

INFORMAÇÕES IMPORTANTES: Pagamento - dinheiro, cartão de crédito e de débito
- Limite de venda de 10 ingressos por pessoa
Não será efetuada devolução de dinheiro após a compra
Não será permitida a troca de ingressos após a compra
SERVIÇO O QUE - U2 TURNÊ VERTIGO WORLD TOUR 2006
PATROCÍNIO - PÃO DE AÇÚCAR E SIMENS
REALIZAÇÃO - ACCIOLY ENTRETENIMENTO E PLAN MUSIC
QUANDO - DIAS 20 E 21 DE FEVEREIRO DE 2006
ONDE - ESTÁDIO CÍCERO POMPEU DE TOLEDO - MORUMBI
ENDEREÇO: PRAÇA ROBERTO GOMES DE PEDROSO, Nº 01
HORÁRIO DE INÍCIO DO SHOW - 21H45
ABERTURA DOS PORTÕES - 15 HORAS
VENDA DE INGRESSOS - SOMENTE NAS LOJAS DA REDE PÃO DE AÇÚCAR DE SÃO PAULO E RIO DE JANEIRO e Ticketronic- www.ticketronic.com.br
* VENDAS A PARTIR DO DIA 14 DE JANEIRO DE 2006
Endereços das lojas Pão de Açúcar em SP e RJ - venda de Ingressos
São Paulo/SP
Loja -Jardim Paulista - Avenida Brigadeiro Luiz Antonio, 3126,
Loja - Santana - Rua Voluntários da Pátria, 1723, Santana (24hs)
Loja - Borba Gato - Avenida Santo Amaro, 5460 (24hs)
Loja - Moema - Avenida Ibirapuera, 3068, Moema (24hs)
Loja - Alphaville - Alameda Madeira, 152, Barueri (24hs)
Loja - Shopping Villa Lobos - Av. das Nações Unidas, 4777, V. Leopoldina
Loja - Tatuapé - Rua Serra de Japi s/n - Vila Gomes Cardim (24hs)
Loja- Real Parque - Avenida major Sylvio de Magalhães Padilha, 13.000 (24hs)
Loja Ricardo Jafet - Rua Professor Serafim Orlandi, 299, Vila Mariana(24hs)
Rio de Janeiro/RJ
Loja Paróquia - Avenida - Copacabana
Loja - Barra da Tijuca - Avenida das Américas, 2000 - Barra da Tijuca
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