U2 - 1987-11-07 - Denver, CO (SBD)

U2

1987-11-07

McNichols Arena

Denver, CO

Soundboard Re3cording

256 kbps

Artwork Include

01. Tuning

02. Where the Streets Have No Name

03. I Will Follow

04. Trip Through Your Wires

05. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

06. Gloria

07. MLK

08. The Unforgettable Fire

09. Sunday Bloody Sunday

10. Exit

11. In God's Country

12. Helter Skelter

13. Help

14. Bad

15. October

16. New Year's Day

17. Pride

18. Bullet the Blue Sky

19. Running To Stand Still

20. Silver & Gold

21. Spanish Eyes

22. With Or Without You

23. 40

U2 - 1987-11-07 - Denver, CO (SBD)

1987:  This soundboard recording, from November 7, 1987, 3 decades ago this very day, goes back to the period after Live Aid, when U2 used their fifth studio album to scale new musical heights. U2 had achieved prominence with their 4th album, the Unforgettable Fire, and, as mentioned above, their appearance at Live Aid. With album #5, The Joshua Tree, however, the band became the biggest rock and roll act in the world. The Joshua Tree debuted on the Billboard charts at number seven then quickly climbed to the top spoT, where it remained for 9 consecutive weeks. The album spawned U2’s first two number one singles, With Or Without You and I Still haven’t Found What I’m Looking For. The band became only the 4th rock act to make the cover of Time Magazine, which proclaimed US as “Rock’s Hottest Ticket”. The Joshua Tree would win the Grammy Award for Album of The Year, while being hailed by critics as the band’s masterpiece. That opinion continues to this day. Rolling Stone, for example, in its 2005 list of the top 500 albums of all time, ranked the Joshua Tree at #27.