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In December 1985 Bono and his wife Ali visit Ethopia for the first time, supporting an organisation called 'World Vision'. Ali work in refugee camps and orphanages, where she collects first-hand experiences of the consequences of the famine in this country. Still, even where poverty is worst, Bono observes a great spirit in people, so often lacking in the developed world: 'They have a real desert, we have different kinds of deserts'. This, for the first time, triggers in Bono the thought to take the desert as a symbol for U2's next album.

Recording begins a year later, with early working titles such as 'The Desert Songs' and 'The Two Americas'. Accordingly, Anton Corbijn starts searching for an appropriate location for the photo shoot for the album's artwork. He draws a picture of the Joshua Tree, which he had seen in earlier photos, and shows it to Bono. In December 1986 the band finally get on the road to take new photos for the album. Corbijn’s idea, and the fact that usually Joshua Trees grow in groups, but that THE Joshua Tree stands on its own, lead to the album’s title,'The Joshua Tree'.

Further mile stones in U2’s US history are the video shoot for 'Where The Streets Have No Name' on the roof of a liquor store in L.A., where U2 for the first time encounter the 'Million Dollar Hotel', and of course the spontaneous 'Save the Yuppies' concert at San Francisco’s Justin Herman Plaza.


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