Since the announcement of the latest Joshua Tree Tour, I’ve been focusing on lesser known highlights from the album the upcoming tour takes it’s name from. One such underappreciated song comes from The Joshua Tree’s second side, the wild and unruly song that hasn’t been played live since 1987, “Trip Through Your Wires”
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As I sit down to write this, the U2 world is engulfed in an inferno of rumors. What’s known for sure is this – this year, 2017, is the thirtieth anniversary of the original release of U2’s hit record The Joshua Tree, and U2 seems to be planning a tour or a series of concerts […]
Read MoreThe astounding popularity of the rock group U2 raises this question: How has an Irish band that sings of the strife in Northern Ireland (“Sunday Bloody Sunday”) and the horrors of heroin addiction (“Running to Stand Still”) been able to achieve the same iconlike status enjoyed by Bruce Springsteen? Evidence of the group’s dominance is […]
Read MoreIt’s a little unsettling how implacably serious these four young Dubliners have become in a relatively short period of time. The darkness of their costumes, the grimness of their faces and the bleak majesty of the desert terrain in which they are photographed on the cover of their new album announce a mood that is […]
Read MoreWith their finest LP U2 stands and delivers More than any other rock band, U2 is associated with rock’s revived social consciousness. Whether it is as a result of, or in spite of, their professed Christian beliefs, U2 is one band that gives a damn. And their latest album, The Joshua Tree, delivers even deeper into […]
Read More(Dublin, Ireland) — It’s raining downtown, but that doesn’t discourage shoppers along Grafton Street, one of the city’s busiest commercial areas. Dubliners appear so used to the rain that most of them don’t even carry umbrellas. Quips one merchant, “If you let the rain bother you here, you’ll live your life indoors.” The shoppers are […]
Read MoreU2: The Joshua Tree We say: A joyful noise. U2’s idealistic, hopeful vision of a world without war, drugs, hunger, racial tension and religious persecution is growing moredesperate with each album. On The Joshua Tree, its first LP in almost three years, this not-so-young-anymore Irish band comes across as feisty and concerned as ever, despite […]
Read MoreA fiery blend of passion and spirituality have earned Ireland’s U2 acclaim as one of the decade’s top rock groups. Such past hits as the pacifist anthem Sundy Bloody Sunday and Pride (In the Name of Love), a homage to Martin Luther King, typify the band’s Christian, but never preachy, message. The Joshua Tree, the […]
Read MoreTHE MEMBERS OF U2, THE IRISH rock band – Bono Vox, also known as Paul Hewson, the singer; Dave (the Edge) Evans, the guitarist; Adam Clayton, the bass player, and Larry Mullen Jr., the drummer – are in their mid-20’s. Even before their first album, ”Boy,” in 1981, they had a strong cult and critical […]
Read MoreU2 soars with a top album, a hot tour and songs of spirit and conscience He remembers it this way. Outside San Salvador, 30 or 40 miles up in the hills, mortars began to hit the village, and bombs cratered the hillside. Run. That was his first thought. And this was the second: Where? It […]
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