6/27/2023 0 Comments Joshua tree u2![]() ![]() The following day, Bono declared that the album should be titled ‘The Joshua Tree’. ![]() On the evening after the first day’s shooting, Corbijn told the band about Joshua trees, hardy and twisted plants in the deserts of the American Southwest, and he suggested their use on the sleeve. The group stayed in small hotels and shot in the desert landscape, beginning in Bodie, a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range before moving to locations such as Zabriskie Point and other sites in Death Valley which is the lowest, driest, and hottest area in North America. In December 1986, the band travelled with Corbijn and Averill on a bus around the Mojave Desert in California for a three-day photo shoot. They represented this in the sleeve photography depicting them in American desert landscapes, which were designed by Steve Averill, and their regular photographer Anton Corbijn was sent out to search for locations in the US. Inspired by American tour experiences, literature, and politics, U2 chose America as a theme for the record and recording began in January 1986 in comfortable surroundings in Ireland, Throughout the sessions, U2 sought a “cinematic” quality for the record, one that would evoke a sense of location, in particular, the open spaces of America. They didn’t realize it at the time but it was a set that would alert a whole new audience to their music but it was another two years before the band released, The Joshua Tree in 1987, the original working title of which was ‘The Two Americas’. Was it Queen or U2 who stole the show? In the middle of “Bad” Bono jumped off the front of the stage trying to pick out some girls to dance with, and returned with a female fan (who we later discovered was called Melanie Hills). Back in the 1980’s, U2 under-took a gruelling nine-month tour following the release of The Unforgettable Fire, which took in 54 US dates and led to the band’s unforgettable appearance at Live Aid in July 1985.
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