U2's The Edge Is Not Allowed to Ruin Malibu's Hills 16.78K Jeff Neumann 06/17/11 05:08AM Filed to: Briefly Briefly U2 The Edge the rich California U2 guitarist The Edge wanted to build five mansions on a ridge overlooking Malibu, but a California Coastal Commission official called it "one of the three worst projects that I've seen in terms of environmental devastation." Ouch.