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 ...

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 ...

U2 reclaimed its most lauded album on Wednesday night, courtesy of an anniversary tour that reignited all 11 “Joshua Tree” tracks in sequence, and bolstered them with a level of grandiosity few other ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nostalgia is an easy medicine for a nation wrought with uncertainty of the future. And what better medicine than a record that has never waned in its profundity? It’s no surprise that when U2 set out ...

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 ...

U2 announced plans this week to roll out four vintage concerts onto YouTube during the next four weeks. They’re calling the series “U2: The Virtual Road” and it will spotlight a 2001 gig at Ireland’s ...