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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SANTA CLARA (KPIX 5) -- Thousands of rock fans attended Wednesday night's big U2 concert as the band celebrates the 30th anniversary of their iconic Joshua Tree album by playing the record in its ...

Rock was looking for new heroes at the dawn of the 1980s. The dinosaur bands of the classic rock era still filled stadiums, but their best work was behind them. The mainstream acceptance of heavy ...

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, ...

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 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Irish rock group U2 kicked off the European leg of "The Joshua Tree" tour on Saturday by returning to the album that tackled their love-hate relationship with America and propelled ...

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 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 ...