The Edge

Where the Streets Have No Name: Delay, Discipline, and Design: From Dublin Basements to Immersive Arenas

De: Caius D. Merrow

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

David Howell Evans, known to the world as The Edge, reshaped the sound of modern rock not through flamboyant solos but through architecture. This definitive biography traces his journey from hymnals and transistor radios in Dublin to the unprecedented immersive geometry of the Sphere in Las Vegas. Written with the authority of a seasoned music historian, it offers a cinematic, deeply researched portrait of one of rock’s most disciplined innovators.

Across thirty chapters, the book situates The Edge inside wider cultural and technological currents. From Mount Temple classrooms in 1976, where Feedback rehearsed on battered amps, to the meticulous engineering of Where the Streets Have No Name, the story captures how restraint and delay grids became global signatures. Readers step inside Windmill Lane Studios, the militant bite of War, the atmospheric breakthroughs of The Unforgettable Fire, and the cinematic expanse of The Joshua Tree.

The narrative explores the transformations of Berlin’s Hansa Studios during Achtung Baby, the media overload of Zoo TV, the nightclub experimentation of Pop, and the song-first reset of All That You Can’t Leave Behind. It details the engineering risks of the 360° Tour, the immersive demands of Las Vegas’s Sphere, and Evans’s current pursuit of spatial scores, editable stems, and sustainable touring.

This is not hagiography but cultural anthropology: U2’s guitarist as node in networks of producers, venues, technologies, and political atmospheres. With scene-by-scene detail—amps humming in damp basements, echo bouncing off Red Rocks, footswitch choreography under the Claw—The Edge — Where the Streets Have No Name reveals how minimal gestures, disciplined grids, and architectural clarity carried a band from Dublin rooms to the largest stages on earth.