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 ...

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 ...

Dubliners angry over the around-the-clock dismantling of U2's monumental concert stage mounted street protests Tuesday, snarling the Irish band's plans for the next stages of their European tour.

The Rolling Stones inspired U2’s 'Rattle and Hum'. That is not the only time U2 did something similar to The Rolling Stones. Bono explained why Rattle and Hum came with an accompanying film of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Within the band’s ranks, though, the mood wasn’t so joyous. Rattle and Hum might’ve been a commercial success, but it was also the closest U2 had come to a critical flop. Audiences didn’t know what to ...