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March 15, 1985: Edge seeks the perfect music, but 'we haven't got there yet'

By Jon Bream

July 15, 2011 at 7:54PM

Excerpt: "I don't really have much time for escapist music that doesn't challenge anyone," U2's guitarist Dave "The Edge" Evans told our critic. "Our ambition is definitely to be appreciated by as many people as we can, but that doesn't compromise what we're trying to do musically. We have this image of sort of the perfect music -- it's something indefinable. We're always striving toward that goal. We haven't got there yet. But striving is important."

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Jon Bream

Critic / Reporter

Jon Bream has been a music critic at the Star Tribune since 1975, making him the longest tenured pop critic at a U.S. daily newspaper. He has attended more than 8,000 concerts and written four books (on Prince, Led Zeppelin, Neil Diamond and Bob Dylan). Thus far, he has ignored readers’ suggestions that he take a music-appreciation class.

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