The Joshua Tree

album by U2

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The Joshua Tree, released in 1987 by the Irish band U2, was a significant commercial and critical success. The album achieved multimillion-selling status and featured number-one hits like "With or Without You" and "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For". It was recognized with the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and was later added to the National Recording Registry by the U.S. Library of Congress in 2013. The album's title refers to the Joshua tree, a tall, branched yucca native to arid regions of the southwestern U.S..123

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U2
…biggest-selling and most influential recording, The Joshua Tree (1987), which ranked 26th when Rolling Stone magazine selected its top 500 albums of all time in 2003. How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004) became U2’s sixth number one album, and by 2006 the group had sold some 150 million albums…
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…biggest-selling and most influential recording, The Joshua Tree (1987), which ranked 26th when Rolling Stone magazine selected its top 500 albums of all time in 2003. How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004) became U2’s sixth number one album, and by 2006 the group had sold some 150 million albums…
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The Joshua Tree and Rattle and Hum
With the multimillion-selling success of The Joshua Tree album (1987) and the number one hits “With or Without You” and “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” U2 became pop stars. On Rattle and Hum (1988), a double album and documentary movie, the band explored American roots music—blues, country,…
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With the multimillion-selling success of The Joshua Tree album (1987) and the number one hits “With or Without You” and “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” U2 became pop stars. On Rattle and Hum (1988), a double album and documentary movie, the band explored American roots music—blues, country,…
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Brian Eno
…chart-topping albums Unforgettable Fire (1984), The Joshua Tree (1987), and Achtung Baby (1991).
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…chart-topping albums Unforgettable Fire (1984), The Joshua Tree (1987), and Achtung Baby (1991).
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