U2: The Joshua Tree

Who are today’s most respected arena rock acts? The names Bruce Springsteen, Peter Gabriel, Pretenders and Elvis Costello leap to mind, but none–including Springsteen–has earned more respect than the Irish band U2. U2 came out of Dublin in the late ’70s, moving from new wave cult status to arena stardom with no loss of moral […]

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U2’S ROOTS GO DEEPER

The mantle of leadership can be a destructive force in rock. Remember all the worthy singer-songwriters who crumbled under “new Dylan” proclamations in the ’70s, or how quickly the Clash disintegrated on the 1982 Who tour when observers began describing their appearances together as a passing of the torch from one generation in rock to […]

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Joshua Tree Blooms

All too often, the anticipation of an event is far greater than it’s arrival, as great expectations are built up beyond the point of reality. Since U2 began work on their fifth studio album over one year ago, public demand placed on the band the Herculean task of producing an album that would satisfy all […]

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