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 ...

Correction: An earlier version of this story contained an incorrect date for the founding of the band. U2 was founded on Sept. 25, 1976. "It takes a special band to fill a stadium. "Not just with ...

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 ...

Hindsight being 20/20, it seems almost prophetic that U2’s epic “The Joshua Tree” album topped Prince’s “Sign O’ The Times” to win Album of the Year honors at the1988 Grammy Awards. “The Joshua Tree,” ...

Contributed photo by Anton Corbijn -- U2 will bring the 2017 tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of 'The Joshua Tree' album to the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans. The band has always ...

It was a night of emotional highs, majestic visuals and a surprise cameo from Patti Smith as U2 breathed a fresh burst of life into an old classic. Coming off a four-week break, the Irish quartet was ...

The day before U2 headlines the Superdome, the band's longtime tour director, Craig Evans, leads a media tour of the elaborate stage production, which includes the largest video screen ever taken on ...

Six years ago, Rolling Stone labeled the Irish rock band U2 the "next big thing." The magazine is prone to such hyperbolic, self-important statements. But this time it has come true. In the past year, ...

Producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois joined U2 for a second consecutive time when they headed to Dublin to record The Joshua Tree.

Bono and The Edge, members of U2, kicked off their world tour of “The Joshua Tree” in Vancouver, B.C., on May 12. Jonathan Hayward AP U2’s seminal album “The Joshua Tree” came out 30 years ago, and ...

Early in U2’s triumphant return to the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on Thursday, Bono articulated his modest goal, or "prayer," for the evening: “That we might have one of those nights that none of us ever ...

Hindsight being 20/20, it seems almost prophetic that U2’s epic “The Joshua Tree” album topped Prince’s “Sign O’ The Times” to win Album of the Year honors at the 1988 Grammy Awards. “The Joshua Tree, ...