The Edge is the 38th best guitarist of all-time. At least according to Rolling Stone‘s latest survey of a couple dozen guitarists and music industry folks. (full list of survey takers here) Daniel Lanois writes a nice, short essay about The Edge that ends with this: There’s a breakdown about two-thirds of the way through [...]
The famous Fender Telecaster electric guitar is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, and The Edge has recorded a short video talking about the instrument for Fender Guitars. The video was posted on YouTube a month ago, but Fender has just publicized it today on their blog, so we’ll do the same. Thanks to @wildcat630 [...]
During the last episode of Season 25: Oprah Behind The Scenes, Oprah shared that she had never listened to U2’s music prior to interviewing Bono. She said that while taping her shows in Australia last year, she and her producers received texts inviting them to a party hosted by Bono. Despite the event’s midnight start [...]
Today, on the very same day, we have two op-eds bringing “the eternal note of U2′s taxes in” (sorry, Matthew Arnold). Kevin Myers of Ireland’s The Independent weighs in on the normal issues surrounding this topic, while also responding to the Glastonbury Festival Michael Eavis’ move to crack down on protestors who came to disapprove [...]
It was nice to hear today from someone who knows what Broadway and Hollywood success looks like that Bono and Edge’s decision to put on the brakes for a while for Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark was a good thing. Scott Rudin has won seven Tony Awards already as a Broadway producer, and he’s behind The [...]
CollegeHumor.com released a hilarious mock commercial for Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark today. If you need a chuckle, click play on the graphic below.
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