A question about the band U.2.?

Question

The albumn The Joshue Tree, What is the meaning of the Title?

Answer 1

Here's something I found on wikipedia -

Taking place in the middle of their 1986 album sessions, U2 were a headline act on Amnesty International's A Conspiracy of Hope Tour, but rather than a distraction to their album work, their tour experiences had the effect of adding extra intensity and power to their music, focussing the band on what they really wanted to say. [44] Bono’s 1986 travels in San Salvador and Nicaragua, for example, where he saw first hand the distress of peasants bullied in internal conflicts, were a central influence on the album most noticeably on 'Bullet the Blue Sky' and 'Mothers of the Disappeared'. Antipathy towards America, including anger at American foreign policy in Central America, is juxtaposed against the band’s deep fascination with the country, its open spaces, freedom and what it stood for.[45] The band aimed for music with a sense of location, or a 'cinematic' quality, with music and lyrics that drew on the imagery created by American literary writers that the band had been reading.[46]

Named The Joshua Tree as a 'tribute' to, rather than a 'metaphor' for America,[47] the album was released in March 1987.

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I'm sure the band members themselves could expand on this tribute of theirs, but at least this is a little history. Hope this helps.

Sue (a big U2 fan)

Answer 2

There really is a Joshua Tree...somewhere near Palm Springs, California. Not sure why they used it for the name or Album Cover though.

Answer 3

its just the cacti type tree the album art is all johsua tree natonal park