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The Irish rock band U2 has released 15 studio albums, one live album, three compilation albums, 84 singles, and nine extended plays (EPs). [1] [2] The band formed at Mount Temple Comprehensive School in 1976 as teenagers.
October is the second studio album by Irish rock band U2.It was released on 12 October 1981 by Island Records, and was produced by Steve Lillywhite.The album was lyrically inspired by the memberships of Bono, the Edge, and Larry Mullen Jr. in a Christian group called the Shalom Fellowship, and consequently it contains spiritual and religious themes.
U2 issued an official autobiography, U2 by U2, that month, [253] followed in November by their third compilation album, U218 Singles. [255] The Vertigo Tour concluded in December, having sold 4.6 million tickets and having earned US$389 million , the second-highest gross ever at the time.
Following the release of their single "Another Day" in 1980, U2 signed a recording contract with Island Records, [2] and released their first album, Boy, later that year. The band has since released 15 full-length studio albums, the most recent being Songs of Surrender in 2023.
The Best of 1990–2000 is the second greatest hits album by Irish rock band U2.It was released on 5 November 2002 through Island Records and Interscope Records.The follow-up to The Best of 1980–1990 (1998), it was issued as both a single-disc CD compilation and as a multi-disc compilation called The Best of 1990–2000 & B-Sides, which included a second disc of 14 B-sides released between ...
Pride (In the Name of Love)" is the second song on U2's 1984 album, The Unforgettable Fire and was released as the album's first single. Written about Martin Luther King Jr., it is one of the band's most recognized songs.
"Seconds" is the second track on U2's 1983 album, War. The track, with its recurring lyric of "it takes a second to say goodbye", refers to nuclear proliferation.It is the first song in the band's history not sung solely by Bono, as the Edge sings the first two stanzas.
The Joshua Tree is the fifth studio album by Irish rock band U2.It was produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, and was released on 9 March 1987 by Island Records.In contrast to the ambient experimentation of their 1984 release, The Unforgettable Fire, the band aimed for a harder-hitting sound within the limitation of conventional song structures on The Joshua Tree.