Bono and friends are top of the pops. BBC Radio 2 has released the results of a new poll of the greatest albums of the 1980s, and U2 claimed the top spot with their 1987 album The Joshua Tree.
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It was written in the mid-’80s, during the Reagan-Thatcher era of British and U.S. politics, a period when there was a lot of unrest,” U2’s The Edge told NME on learning the news. “And it feels like we’re right back there in a way, politics are still so polarized.
We’ve had the privilege of playing ‘The Joshua Tree’ live all over the world in the last few years and it’s almost like the album has come full
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