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 ...
As the sun set on the Meadowlands and Trump’s travel ban 2.0 went into effect Thursday night, Bono remained steadfast in his belief that America is a nation of immigrants. “This city, this country has ...
Thirty-nine years ago today, four guys from Dublin released an album that went platinum in the United Kingdom in 48 hours, and the music world hasn't been the same since. The album's commercial ...
There's no denying it -- U2 is one of the greatest rock bands of all time. The four-piece Irish outfit has kept its finger on the pulse of sociopolitical commentary while evolving its anthemic rock ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...