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

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.

“We can be in the middle of the worst gig in our lives, but when we go into that song, everything changes,” said Bono in Visnja Cogan’s 2008 book U2: An Irish Phenomenon. “The audience is on its feet, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The roots of U2’s seminal “The Joshua Tree” album won’t stop growing. What originally was conceived as a couple of shows to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the 1987 album featuring key tracks “With ...