4:30 a.m. in U2’s Big Brother House I cannot sleep because Edge is playing guitar in the room above me. An acoustic, Spanish catgut strings, it sounds like. He’d woken me just after two o’clock, but I’d fallen back asleep. Now it’s gone four, and he’s still playing the same part. I mean…the exact same part. For two hours now. The arpeggiation that carries “Song for Someone” appears to be carrying him into the land of nod. The Edge may not be casual about the instrument that made him famous. He’s not a man to “sit in” with other guitar players, but I’m here to tell the world that…he plays
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