Biographic - Sunday February 6, 2011 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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The Edge When David Howell Evans was born in Essex, England, on August 8, 1961, his Welsh father predicted that one day his son would play Rugby in Wales. Soon after, however, the family moved to Ireland. In 1976, David teamed up with fellow students at Dublin's Mount Temple Comprehensive School, adopted the nickname The Edge, and formed the band that would become world-conquering U2, the most successful musical export in Irish history. To date, U2 has sold more than 150 million albums and won 22 Grammys. Having embraced spiritualism and pacifism from the start, the quartet- and, in particular, singer Bono have become renowned as crusading activists for social justice, spearheading campaigns ranging from aids awareness to forgiving third world debt. The Edge has recorded with artists as diverse as Johnny Cash and Rihanna, and has collaborated with Bono on numerous projects, including writing songs for Roy Orbison and Tom Jones, creating the soundtracks to The Royal Shakespeare Company production of "A Clockwork Orange" and the title song of The James Bond movie "Goldeneye." the pair's most recent collaboration is the soundtrack of the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark." His other soundtrack credits include the score of the 1986 movie "Captive" and the theme song and the animated tv series "The Batman" and he starred opposite fellow Virtuoso guitarists Jimmy Page and Jack White in the 2009 documentary "It Might Get Loud" One of rock's biggest-ever stars, he still managed to fulfill his father's sports prophecy. When U2 played Cardiff Arms Park in 1987, he kicked a rugby ball into the crowd!

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