Listening to The Joshua Tree album, having seen the U2 'Making Of' documentary on DVD, it's a really good sound, because it's so familiar, having heard lots and lots of it on radio and at parties. I'm ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thirty-nine years ago today, four guys from Dublin released an album that went platinum in the United Kingdom in 48 hours, and the ...

U2 in the 1980s was unstoppable. They were on top of the world; a fixture in the musical zeitgeist. The four-piece Irish rock outfit's 1987 record, The Joshua Tree, was their greatest commercial ...

The Police handed off their instruments to U2 at a 1986 "Conspiracy of Hope" concert, but it wasn't until the "The Joshua Tree" in 1987 that U2 truly won the mantle of World's Biggest Band. U2's fifth ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U2's hugely successful album The Joshua Tree was released on March 9, 1987, and quickly became one of the fastest-selling records ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Irish rockers U2 said on Monday they would mark the 30th anniversary of their hit album "The Joshua Tree" by playing it in full on a European and North American tour. The 1987 album ...

On the inside cover of "The Joshua Tree," the members of U2 stare grimly into the camera, a lone Joshua tree looming behind them. The story goes that it was Dutch photographer and filmmaker Anton ...

U2 first crossed paths with B.B. King in early 1987, when the blues icon played a show in Dublin. It was King’s idea to record a song together. When U2 headed to America later that year, they booked a ...

Irish rock band U2 has unveiled their plans for a new international tour to celebrate the 30-year anniversary of their beloved fifth album The Joshua Tree. The tour will begin May 12 in Vancouver, ...

A long-ago performance aboard a New Orleans riverboat changed U2 forever. On Feb. 11, 1982, the fresh-faced quartet from Ireland rocked the President, a riverboat that cruised the Mississippi River ...

In the 80s, U2went from a local post-punk band in Dublin, Ireland to a global sensation, becoming one of the biggest bands in the world. The quartet formed in 1976, comprised of Paul Hewson, aka Bono, ...