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.

U2's 'The Joshua Tree' album was the fastest-selling album ever in the U.K.

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 ...

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 ...

The Joshua Tree's iconic album cover. The Joshua Tree, the album that made U2 global megastars, turns 30 this year. To mark the milestone, the band will perform the seminal album in its entirety 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 ...

Expect a lot of U2 this week in print, the Internet and on the radio: March 9 marks the 25th anniversary of the band's fifth studio album, Joshua Tree. It was the album, some critics said, that turned ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...