It seems U2 couldn't decide exactly how to commemorate their coronation as rock's new socially conscious kings. So after the multi-platinum success of The Joshua Tree and the celebratory sold-out tour ...

In 1988, U2 was one of the biggest rock bands in the world. Their 1987 album The Joshua Tree had won Album of the Year against all odds, and the tour supporting it was one of the highest-grossing of ...

One of the essential live classic rock albums is U2's 'Rattle and Hum'. U2’s Bono couldn't explain some of the reactions to 'Rattle and Hum'. “And I was thinking that it’s been a long time since a ...

Classic rock begets more classic rock. U2’s Rattle and Hum became controversial for the way it tried to connect the band to earlier groups like The Beatles. Bono was surprised by the reaction to U2’s ...

When B.B. King died in May 2015 at the age of 89, his Variety obituary hailed him as “the ‘King of the Blues,’ who helped define his genre’s electrified postwar sound and became the music’s best-known ...

This article originally appeared in the January 1989 issue of SPIN. It's midnight, Sunday night in Dublin, and the crowds around most record stores are lining up around the block. A tramp wandering by ...

U2 delivered the first show of their three-month residency at the new Las Vegas Sphere video arena on Friday night. But they did it without one of their founding members, who they’ve never performed ...

During a hometown show on December 31, 1989, Bono took a minute to air his band’s dirty laundry. U2 had entered the final stretch of the Lovetown Tour, launched earlier that year to help promote ...

LAS VEGAS — You didn’t think Bono would allow himself to be outdone, did you? In a year of state-of-the-art pop spectacles by the likes of Beyoncé and Taylor Swift — and in a city that runs on glitz — ...