U2: after over 60 years The Edge is an Irish citizen

After 62 long years, The Edge degli U2 has finally officially become Irish citizen. While living in the country for over sixty years, having moved when he was only one year old, the guitarist made official Irish citizenship only yesterday, Monday 23 June.

Born David Howell Evans in London to Welsh parentsThe Edge received citizenship together with 7,500 applicants over the course of two days. With a pin of the Irish flag pinned on the jacket, the musician told the “Journal”:

“What an extraordinary and joyful event for all of us. A monumental day. I guess I have made some delay with practices. I have lived in Ireland since I was a year. But now it is the right time. And I couldn’t be more proud of my country, for everything that represents and everything he is doing”.

Then referring to the position of Ireland in the world and the current political scenario, The Edge continued: “At this moment Ireland is demonstrating real leadership in the worldand for me it could not arrive in a better moment. I am simply very happy to be able to deepen my link with my homeland even more “.

As for why he put so much to obtain Irish citizenship, Bono’s team then revealed that the process was “actually quite simple” and explained: “Honestly, there have been many moments in the past in which I could have done it with a simple compilation of the form, but I’m happy to have done it now. It has a deeper meaning, it is more felt. “

The citizenship of The Edge comes a month after another historical goal: the U2 became the first Irish band to receive the Ivors Academy Fellowship in its 81 years of history. After the conferment, Bono confirmed that the Band returned to the studio And he is actively trying to open a new chapter. Interviewed at “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”, Bono also said: “We have been to the studio, and sometimes we have to deal with the past to get to the present, in order to create the sound of the future. It is what we want to do”. In another interview for the British Sunday magazine “The Observer”, the frontman had also made it known that he and The U2 have recently gathered in the studio Together with the longtime collaborator Brian Eno“To lay the foundations of what their sixteenth album will be“.