U2 The Joshua Tree – 30 Years
U2
The Joshua Tree - 30 Years
“The album that launched U2 into the stratosphere.”- Mojo, April 2017
"Heavy times call for “Big Music”… and there’s no music bigger than The Joshua Tree.” - Billboard, January 2017
"Their 1987 masterpiece… Thirty years ago, the wild success of The Joshua Tree transformed U2 into the biggest band on the planet.”- Rolling Stone, January 2017
9 March 2017 – TORONTO, ON - To mark 30 years since the release of U2’s fifth studio album The Joshua Tree, an anniversary edition of the seminal record will be released on June 2 by Island Records/ Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading music company. Alongside the 11-track album, the super deluxe collector’s edition includes a live recording of The Joshua Tree Tour 1987 Madison Square Garden concert; rarities and B-sides from the album’s original recording sessions; as well as 2017 remixes from Daniel Lanois, St Francis Hotel, Jacknife Lee, Steve Lillywhite and Flood; plus an 84-page hardback book of unseen personal photography shot by The Edge during the original Mojave Desert photo session in 1986. Released to universal acclaim on March 9, 1987 and featuring hit singles “With Or Without You”, “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” and “Where The Streets Have No Name”, The Joshua Tree went to #1 in the U.K, Canada, U.S., Ireland and around the world, selling in excess of 25 million albums, and catapulting Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr “from heroes to superstars” (Rolling Stone). Time Magazine put U2 on its cover in April 1987, proclaiming them “Rock’s Hottest Ticket” and the 12 months that followed saw U2 create iconic moments including the traffic-stopping Grammy Award-winning “Where The Streets Have No Name” video on the roof of a Los Angeles liquor store, and go on to win a BRIT Award and two Grammys - including Album of the Year - their first of 22 received to date; as well as a triumphant return home for four unforgettable shows in Belfast, Dublin and Cork in the summer of 1987. The Joshua Tree was produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois. Recording took place in Dublin at Windmill Lane Studios and Danesmoate, the house that subsequently became bassist Adam Clayton’s home. Full details of all formats available here. The Joshua Tree original track listing is as follows: Where The Streets Have No Name I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For With Or Without You Bullet The Blue Sky Running To Stand Still Red Hill Mining Town In God's Country Trip Through Your Wires One Tree Hill Exit Mothers Of The Disappeared The Joshua Tree Tour 2017 opens in Vancouver on May 12, 2017, kicking off a run of stadium dates across North America and Europe, with a show at Toronto’s Rogers Centre on June 23. On March 12, The Hard Rock Cafe and Universal Music Canada will be hosting an event in Toronto, The Vinyl Sessions Presents: The 30th Anniversary of U2’s The Joshua Tree featuring a conversation with Daniel Lanois an a performance by ACROBAT. For more information, click here.-30-