LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 9, 2020…ON THIS DATE 33 YEARS AGO U2 RELEASED THEIR FIFTH STUDIO ALBUM ‘THE JOSHUA TREE’. THIS MIGHT BE THE DEFINITION OF A MONUMENTAL ALBUM. ‘THE JOSHUA TREE’ WAS NUMBER 1 ON BILLBOARD’S ALBUM CHART FOR 9 WEEKS, AND STAYED ON THE TOP ALBUM CHART FOR A TOTAL OF 103 WEEKS! THE SINGLES ‘WITH OR WITHOUT YOU’ AND ‘I STILL HAVEN’T FOUND WHAT I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR’ WERE BOTH NUMBER 1 ON THE SINGLES CHARTS, AND ARE THE ONLY #1 SONGS FOR U2 IN AMERICA. A THIRD SINGLE ‘WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME’ HIT #13. “THE JOSHUA TREE ALSO WON 2 GRAMMY AWARDS 1987, INCLUDING “ALBUM OF THE YEAR” AND HAS SOLD OVER 25 MILLION COPIES. YEP, MONUMENTAL.
HERE’S U2 PERFORMING ‘WITH OR WITHOUT YOU’
