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U2: Happy 25th

U2 released their fifth album, The Joshua Tree, 25 years ago today (Friday). This was the album that elevated them to superstar status thanks to such tracks as "Where the Streets Have No Name," "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," "With or Without You," "Bullet the Blue Sky" and "In God's Country." Two of those songs -- "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" and "With or Without You" -- went to number-one, with "Where the Streets Have No Name" parking itself at 13.

The album topped the charts in more than 20 countries and has sold more than 10 million copies in the U.S., including being the first album to sell more than a million copies on CD. But despite all the success, The Edge feels a little disappointed that they weren't able to "push up some of the other tunes, the ones on side two. I left feeling that we could've made an even better record." Among the songs on side two are "Red Hill Mining Town," "Trip Through Your Wires," "One Tree Hill," "Exit" and "Mothers of the Disappeared."