The Edge
The Edge was born on August 8, 1961 in Barking, England (59 years old). The Edge is a Guitarist, zodiac sign: Leo. Find out The Edgenet worth 2020, salary 2020 detail bellow.
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In 2011, Rolling Stones listed him as #38 on their list of The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.
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The Edge Real Estate
Real Estate: One of Evans' most famous real estate deals involved a plan to build a $100 million family home in Malibu. The entire process started rather normally – Evans and his family purchased a 151-acre plot in the Sweetwater Mesa area for $9 million in 2005. The issues arose when the guitarist started planning out how he would develop the raw land. It was quickly revealed that The Edge wished to create a sprawling, 5-mansion compound all across the 151 acres of untouched Californian mountains.
As soon as he started to take these plans public, legal issues started to arise. Various environmentalist groups accused Evans of planning to "pave over paradise." There were notable concerns about public beach access and the destruction of the existing natural splendor in the area. Evans did not back down and instead invested heavily in legal action. His goal was to prove that his development plans would have a minimal impact on the environment.
First, he tried to convince the government of California and concerned residents that his mansions would be very inconspicuous and that they would seamlessly blend into the mountainside. The Edge then spent $400,000 on geological studies in an effort to prove the development would not cause landslides, as many residents feared might be the case. Next, he set aside acres of land and pledged $1 million for the construction of a public hiking trail through his property.
Evans' entire legal team consisted of consultants, lobbyists, and design specialists. However, his efforts fell on deaf ears, as his plans were deemed more environmentally devastating than any previous Malibu developments in the past 40 years. One major concern was the widespread growth of purple needle grass across his 151 acres, which is an environmentally-protected plant species.
Years went by, and at one point The Edge managed to win the approval of all 12 commissioners after dramatically scaling back his development plans. Unfortunately for Evans, his hopes were once again dashed when the Santa Monica Mountains Tasks Force, a chapter of the Sierra Club, stepped in and filed a lawsuit against Evans. As a result of the appeals and court decisions that followed, The Edge's plans were once again denied.
As it turned out, the organization that Evans had been trying to gain approval from (the Coastal Commission) didn't actually have the authority to grant permission for his developments. This meant that The Edge had spent millions of dollars trying to get permission from the wrong people. This brings us to 2019 – a year when Evans started to consider whether to give up on his dreams or go through this entire legal process once again – this time with the Los Angeles County of Regional Planning. Even if he does succeed in the years to come, the Sierra Club is likely to sue him once more.
As of 2020, Evans has spent over $10 million on legal and lobbying fees. According to the plans for his dream home, the project will cost him at least $80 million. $24 million is needed to create the access road alone.
Before Fame
He answered an advertisement with his brother at Mount Temple Comprehensive School to join the band that later became U2.
Biography Timeline
David Howell Evans was born at the Barking Maternity Hospital, in the county of Essex in England, on 8 August 1961. He is the second child of Welsh parents Garvin and Gwenda Evans, both of whom originated from Llanelli, a coastal town in South Wales. Garvin was an engineer who worked for the local electricity board, and subsequently worked for the electronics company Plessey. The Edge has an elder brother Richard (often called Dik) and a younger sister called Gillian. The Evanses initially lived in Chadwell Heath, Essex. Around 1962, Garvin was offered a promotion and a transfer at his job, and the family subsequently moved to County Dublin, Ireland for him to take it.
While the Evans brothers were at Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Dublin in 1976, they went along to a meeting in response to an advert posted by another pupil, Larry Mullen Jr., on the school's noticeboard seeking musicians to form a new band with him. Among the several other pupils who also responded to the note were Paul "Bono" Hewson and Adam Clayton. The band went through a number of reformations before becoming known as U2 in March 1978 (Richard Evans having left before this to join another band, leaving his younger brother as the lead guitarist).
U2 began its public performance life in small venues in Dublin in 1977, occasionally playing at other venues elsewhere in Ireland. In December 1979, they performed their first concerts outside Ireland, in London, and in 1980 began extensive touring across the British Isles, developing a following. Their debut album Boy was released in 1980.
In 1981, leading up to the October Tour, Evans came very close to leaving U2 for religious reasons, but he decided to stay. During this period he became involved with a group called Shalom Tigers, in which bandmates Bono and Larry Mullen Jr. were also involved. Shortly after deciding to remain with the band, he wrote a piece of music that later became "Sunday Bloody Sunday".
He received his initial formal education at St. Andrew's National School, in Malahide. As a child, he also received piano and guitar lessons, and practised music with Dik. The Edge received his first guitar at the age of seven when his mother bought him a Spanish guitar. He did not know how to properly tune it or hold it and referred to it as "little more than a toy", but he was fascinated by how cool it was. At the age of nine, the "first proper guitar" came to the Evans household when the Edge's mother purchased an old acoustic guitar at a jumble sale for a pound. He and Dik both experimented with this instrument, replacing the rusty wire strings with nylon ones and learning to properly play it. The Edge said in 1982 of this early experimentation, "me and my elder brother Dik both played it, plonking away, all very rudimentary stuff, open chords and all that."
Evans married his secondary school girlfriend Aislinn O'Sullivan on 12 July 1983. They have three daughters: Hollie (born in 1984), Arran (in 1985) and 'Blue Angel' (in 1989). The couple separated in 1990, but were unable to get legally divorced because of Irish laws regarding marriage annulment at the time; divorce was legalised in 1995, and the couple legally divided in 1996.
In 1993, he began dating Morleigh Steinberg, an American professional dancer who was employed by the band as a choreographer and on-stage belly dancer during the Zoo TV Tour. They have a daughter, Sian (born 1997), and a son, Levi (born 25 October 1999). The couple were married in 2002.
The Edge, Bob Ezrin and Henry Juszkiewicz co-founded Music Rising in 2005, a charity that helped provide replacement instruments for those that were lost in Hurricane Katrina. The instruments were originally only replaced for professional musicians but they soon realised the community churches and schools needed instruments as well. The charity's slogan is "Rebuilding the Gulf Region note by note" and has so far helped over a hundred musicians who were affected by Hurricane Katrina. The Edge also serves on the board of the Angiogenesis Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organisation dedicated to improving global health by advancing angiogenesis-based medicine, diets, and lifestyle.
In 2007, the Edge was awarded an honorary doctorate of music from Berklee College of Music. In 2010, Gibson ranked him the 23rd-best guitarist of all time, saying that he "created a sound that is distinctly his own – no small feat when you consider he's had to do it in the course of three decades while working shoulder-to-shoulder with one of the biggest personalities in rock, Bono". The following year, Rolling Stone placed the Edge at number 38 on its list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time"; Daniel Lanois called him an "innovative mind", a "scientist, and a poet by night", and said he is "dedicated to note-taking" to "document every detail of his sound". In 2012, Spin ranked him 13th on their list of the 100 greatest guitarists, saying that he "masked and flaunted his willful ignorance of how guitars are meant to be played with forgiving delay pedals, forging a sonic trademark so distinctive that his band's name became an adjective". In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked Bono and the Edge at number 35 on its list of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. At the 2017 Bonnaroo Music Festival, the Edge was honoured with the Les Paul Spirit Award by the Les Paul Foundation for being someone who "exemplifies the spirit of the late, great Les Paul through innovation, engineering, technology and/or music".
In 2008, the Edge participated in the Davis Guggenheim-directed documentary film It Might Get Loud. The film examines the history of the electric guitar, focusing on the careers and styles of the Edge, Jimmy Page, and Jack White. The film premiered on 5 September 2008 at the Toronto International Film Festival
He also created the theme song for season one and two of The Batman. He and fellow U2 member Bono wrote the theme of the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye. The Edge, along with Bono, composed a musical adaptation of Spider-Man. On 25 May 2011, a single titled "Rise Above 1" by Reeve Carney featuring Bono and the Edge was released digitally. The music video was released on 28 July 2011.
On 29 April 2016, the Edge performed in the Sistine Chapel as part of a conference for the Angiogenesis Foundation, making him the first rock artist to stage a concert at the site.
The Edge plays electric guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboards, piano, bass guitar (on "40" and "Race Against Time") and lap steel guitar. Detailed gear diagrams of the Edge's U2 guitar rig for the 1981 October Tour, the 1983 War Tour, and the 2009 U2 360° Tour are well-documented. In 2016, Fender unveiled a signature model of guitar and amplifier designed in collaboration with the Edge: the Edge Signature Stratocaster and the Fender Edge Deluxe, respectively.
Family Life
The married his high school girlfriend Aislinn O'Sullivan on July 12, 1983; after their divorce in 1996, he married professional dancer and choreographer Morleigh Steinberg on June 22, 2002. The has five children.
🎂 Upcoming Birthday
Currently, The Edge is 61 years, 0 months and 2 days old. The Edge will celebrate 62nd birthday on a Tuesday 8th of August 2023. Below we countdown to The Edge upcoming birthday.
Recent Birthday Highlights
58th birthday -
Thursday,
August 8, 2019
57th birthday -
Wednesday,
August 8, 2018
Happy Birthday to the coolest member of U2, The Edge | IrishCentral.com
The Edge, the lead guitarist and famed hat wearing member of U2, has been a member of the massively successful rock band since its inception in 1976. Fourteen studio albums later U2 are still selling out arenas all over the world.
55th birthday -
Monday,
August 8, 2016
Happy 55th Birthday, The Edge
54th birthday -
Saturday,
August 8, 2015
53rd birthday -
Friday,
August 8, 2014
Happy Birthday Edge !
David Howell Evans is having a birthday today. He was given the nickname The Edge by one of his U2 band mates, because of the shape of his head ....
52nd birthday -
Thursday,
August 8, 2013
Happy Birthday The Edge and Scott Stapp
Born this day in 1961, Dave Evans or The Edge as he is known to the masses. Happy 52nd Birthday. Van Dieman's Land . Numb . Bor...
51st birthday -
Wednesday,
August 8, 2012
Happy 51st to U2's The Edge! - Mage Music Guitars
Happy 51st to U2's The Edge! - Mage Music Guitars
49th birthday -
Sunday,
August 8, 2010
Happy Birthday, Mr. The Edge
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