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1987

The exposure gained from their Live Aid appearance made The Joshua Tree U2's most eagerly anticipated album yet. They chose to release the first single With Or Without You a week after the album, which probably cost them a UK number one placing for that single.

I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For was released to coincide with the European tour, while the release of Where The Streets Have No Name saw U2 return to the USA for a second leg of concerts.

In God's Country achieved a placing in the UK, despite being released in North America only, while in New Zealand they opted for a release of One Tree Hill dedicated to Greg Carroll.

The Special Olympics album A Very Special Christmas featured a version of Christmas, Baby Please Come Home recorded during a soundcheck in Edinburgh.

"The Joshua Tree"

Tracks: Where The Streets Have No Name, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, Bullet The Blue Sky, Running To Stand Still, Red Hill Mining Town, In God's Country, Trip Through Your Wires, One Tree Hill, Exit, Mothers Of The Disappeared
Format: Promo boxed set LP LP LP CD LP
Country of Origin: UK UK Japan Mexico USA Yugoslavia
Label: Island Island Island Island Mobile Fidelity Jugotron
Catalogue Number:   U26 R2D8-2066 U26P UDCD650 LSI11168
Release date: March 1987
Notes: Includes CD, LP and cassette     Picture disc 20-bit digitally remastered gold CD  
Highest UK Chart position: No.1

 

"With Or Without You"

Tracks: With Or Without You, Luminous Times (Hold On To Love), Walk To The Water
Format: 7 inch single 12 inch single Cassette single CD single 7 inch single
Country of Origin: UK UK UK UK Japan
Label: Island Island Island Island Island
Catalogue Number: IS319 12IS319 CIS319 CID319 D07D-2025
Release date: March 1987
Notes:          
UK Chart position: No.4

Had this single been released a week or two earlier rather than a week after after The Joshua Tree, it would more than likely have been U2's first ever UK No.1 single, but when your album amasses the highest first week sales total ever (300,000 or 500,000 copies depending on who you listen to - a record that stood until Michael Jackson's "Bad" was released six months later) you tend not to worry.

"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"
Tracks: I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, Spanish Eyes, Deep In The Heart
Format: 7 inch single 12 inch single Cassette single CD single 7 inch single
Country of Origin: UK UK UK Germany Japan
Label: Island Island Island Island Island
Release date: May 1987
Catalogue Number: IS328 12IS328 CIS328 659 152 D07D-2026
Notes:       CD Reissue  
UK Chart position: No.6    

 

"Where The Streets Have No Name"

Tracks: Where The Streets Have No Name, Silver And Gold, The Sweetest Thing Where The Streets Have No Name, Race Against Time, Silver And Gold, The Sweetest Thing Where The Streets Have No Name, Silver And Gold, The Sweetest Thing
Format: 7 inch single 12 inch single Cassette single CD single 7 inch single
Country of Origin: UK UK UK UK Japan
Label: Island Island Island Island Island
Catalogue Number: IS340 12IS340 CIS340 CID340 D07D-2027
Release date: August 1987
Notes:          
UK Chart position: No.4

 

"In God's Country"

Tracks: In God's Country, Bullet The Blue Sky, Running To Stand Still
Format: 7 inch single 12 inch single
Country of Origin: USA Canada
Label: Island Island
Catalogue Number: 7-99385 IS1167
Notes: Not released in the U.K. Not released in the U.K.
UK Chart position: No.48

 

"One Tree Hill"

Tracks: One Tree Hill, Bullet The Blue Sky, Running To Stand Still
Format: 7 inch single
Country of Origin: New Zealand
Label: Island
Catalogue Number: K338
Notes: Not released in the U.K.; includes photo/lyric insert

"A Very Special Christmas" by Various Artists
Featuring U2's version of "Christmas, Baby Please Come Home"

Tracks: Christmas, Baby Please Come Home
Format: CD
Country of Origin: USA
Label: A&M
Catalogue Number: CD3911
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