U2 and The Joshua Tree at 30 with Daniel Lanois Part 1
b'On March 9, 1987\\u2014a little more than ten years after a bunch of kids met up in a Dublin kitchen\\u2014U2 released their fifth album\\u2026expectations were running pretty high\\u2026after establishing themselves with their first two albums, there was a leap ahead with the \\u201cWar\\u201d album in 1983\\u2026\\n\\nBut then came \\u201cThe Unforgettable Fire\\u201d in 1984\\u2026that represented another leap forward\\u2026things seemed more sophisticated, stronger, bigger, better\\u2026much of the credit has to go to the new production team of Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, guys who found new ways to bring new things from the band\\u2026\\n\\nThe partnership worked so well that everyone agreed that they should work together on the next record, too\\u2026maybe they could take things even further, built up the band even bigger\\u2026\\n\\nThe result was \\u201cThe Joshua Tree\\u201d\\u2026it has sold somewhere north of 25 million copies, making one of best-selling albums of all time\\u2026it became a number one album in two dozen countries\\u2026five of the eleven songs were released as singles, several of which sold more than a million copies on their own\\u2026\\n\\nThe tour in support of the record had to grow from arenas to stadiums\\u2026it resulted in a live record called \\u201cLive From Paris\\u201d and a documentary film called \\u201cRattle and Hum\\u201d\\u2026and it earned U2 two Grammys: album of the year and group of the year\\u2026\\n\\n\\u201cThe Joshua Tree\\u201d set the band up as one of the biggest in the world\\u2026and over the coming decade, they would become the biggest band in the world\\u2026.the album has been studied at all levels of academia\\u2026its songs covered thousands of times\\u2026the material has even been adopted as hymns for modern church services\\u2026\\n\\nAnd later, in 2014, the album was added to the us library of congress as a recording considered to be \\u201cculturally, historically and aesthetically significant\\u201d \\u2026\\n\\nWow\\u2026that\\u2019s a lot stuff to think about when it comes to just one single album\\u2026. doesn\\u2019t it make you curious about what went into making it?...that\\u2019s how I felt\\u2026so I thought I\\u2019d talk to one of the guys who was there with the band the whole time\\u2026let\\u2019s get his story on the making of \\u201cThe Joshua Tree\\u201d\\u2026.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'