How it’s New York: Well the music does look at the band’s love-hate relationship with America, and despite what some people say about us, NYC is part of America…

How it’s Irish: U2 are Irish, maybe the biggest Irish international act since Van Morrison.

‘The Joshua Tree’ Turns 30

U2’s 1987 masterpiece, The Joshua Tree, was released 30 years ago, on March 9, 1987. The album sold tens of millions of copies and made U2 into one of the world’s biggest bands, trading in the synthpop of the ’80s for earnest, anthemic rock. Here’s the feature that Newsweek published on U2 in the spring of…