Producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois joined U2 for a second consecutive time when they headed to Dublin to record The Joshua ...

Thus was born in Mullen's home the band U2 -- well, almost. The Irish teens didn't choose that name right away; after calling themselves the Hype and the Feedback, the quartet settled on U2, an ...

On Christmas Eve, Bono busked at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, singing U2’s Joshua Tree favorite “Running to Stand Still” to help raise money for local charities combatting homelessness. Backed ...

Hungry for creative renewal after a lapse in artistic stagnation U2 looked to alternative music's fringes to colour 1991's ...

It’s never easy for a band to make the jump from critical buzz to consensus greatness. For U2, that leap came with the album The Joshua Tree, and the single “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For ...

One of the country of Ireland's greatest exports of music is unquestionably the internationally successful rock band U2. Fronted by lead singer Bono and accompanied by guitarist/keyboardist/backing ...

Popular music, like books or visual arts, is often one of the best ways we have through which we can view our own cultural orientation and the times we live in. The artistic and experimental shifts in ...

It's taken me decades, but I finally know why U2 called their career-defining album The Joshua Tree. To understand, you have to visit Palm Springs in California - and the best way to get there is by ...

How the band plans to celebrate. — -- U2's classic album, "The Joshua Tree," was released March 9, 1987 -- 30 years ago today. With over 25 million copies sold worldwide, "The Joshua Tree" is ...

Oasis' Noel Gallagher likes playing all of the songs from U2's 'The Joshua Tree' on a specific instrument. The album was an international hit. Gallagher explained his choice. “The reason that I picked ...

Corbijn has essentially shaped U2’s image ever since. Among many other projects, he shot the iconic desert photographs that decorate “The Joshua Tree,” the watershed 1987 album that elevated U2 to ...