The past three years have tested U2 in different ways, from the fierce backlash they received for gifting 2014's Songs of Innocence to every iTunes user to Bono's devastating bicycle accident, which left him with several fractured bones and a shattered left arm. But those setbacks didn't compare to another crisis
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: The Edge on U2’s ‘Songs of Experience,’ Bono’s ‘Brush With Mortality’