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U2 Guitarist Sends Letter To the Sun

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

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U2 guitarist The Edge wouldn't seem a likely candidate to be sending a letter to the editor at the Baltimore Sun but that's exactly what happened last week.

From the source:

In the letter to the Baltimore Sun the guitarist responds to criticism of the band's controversial revenue affairs.

He defended U2's financial practices and rubbished "the possibly libelous accusation that U2 and Bono have, by moving a part of their business activities to Holland, been involved in tax evasion".

"For the record, U2 and the individual band members have a totally clean record with every jurisdiction to which they are required to pay tax and have never been and will never be involved in tax evasion," he said in the letter published on Tuesday.

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