David Howell Evans was born in Barking Maternity Hospital in East London on August 8, 1961 to Garvin and Gwenda Evans. He has an older brother, Dik, and a younger sister, Gil.

It was not until autumn of 1974 that Dave (who by this time had been nicknamed "The Edge" by his friends) played his first gig as guitar player with Bono, Adam, Larry, and Dik, who were then known as Feedback. They played a short set at Dublin's Mount Temple High School. Feedback changed its name to The Hype and then to U2. By the time they were known as U2, Dik had left the band.

In July of 1983, after U2 had released their War album, Edge married Aislinn O'Sullivan. He had seen her at some of his gigs and eventually worked up the nerve to talk to her (he used to be very shy...awwww) They have three daughters together: Arran, Hollie, and Blue Angel. Edge and Aislinn later split up, prior to the Achtung Baby album. Edge met Morleigh Steinberg, a dancer and choreographer, on the ZooTV tour. He is last rumoured to be seeing her, and they have a daugher together, named Sian.

In addition to playing guitar for U2, Edge also plays keyboards, sings backing vocals, and produces and co-writes some songs. He sings lead vocals on the songs Seconds, Van Dieman's Land, Numb, and Corpse, from Passengers: Original Soundtracks 1.

Edge has worked on some projects outside of U2, including writing the soundtrack to the film Captive with Michael Brooks. He and Bono have written the soundtrack to the Royal Shakespeare Company's A Clockwork Orange and the film Goldeneye.

What is Edge up to now? Hmm... well, we hope he is writing some new songs with Bono and the boys, but I really don't know. I do hear that he likes to surf the internet, though...

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