Forty years young... but what three tracks could you not live without?

A special release of the band's debut album as Boy reaches forty.

‘October, when the trees are stripped bare…' The second @U2 album, produced by @sillywhite, released #onthisday in 1981.

Rare live set from 1980, now on double vinyl and digitally remastered. Introducing our 2014/15 subscription offer.

'I bought a £5 acoustic guitar from a junk-shop down Dublin quays and I started learning chords and collecting songs....' Adam's first guitar - latest feature from the U2.com archives, and this one's really early.

U2 won 'Classic Album' for The Unforgettable Fire at the Q Awards in London today - the day that the remastered edition of this 1984 album goes on release.

You don't want to miss this funny, revealing, nostalgic, insightful, historic and frankly rather beguiling video .... from 25 years ago. It's on our dedicated microsite. Dedicated to what? Dedicated to the remastered release of The Unforgettable Fire, in the shops this Monday.

A remastered edition of the band's fourth album, The Unforgettable Fire, arrives next month and we've just got hold of the track listing for the bonus album and the accompanying DVD.

'New Year's Day' is the soundtrack to a TV spot from The European Commission, celebrating the 20th anniversary of free elections in Poland earlier this year. The band play Chorzow in Poland tonight.

'Like all great rock, you feel you must have heard these songs somewhere else...' Original reviews: Boy, October and War.

Surely the coldest video the band have ever shot ? New Year's Day, from December 1982.

Monday night's BBC Radio 2 Music Club is devoted to The Joshua Tree and features archive interviews with the band. ...

Edge and Bono were on stage for a surprise acoustic set tonight for the Mencap Little Noise Sessions at ...

Wave of Sorrow is one of the tracks on the 14-song bonus CD of b-sides and rarities that you can ...

Got the boxed set of The Joshua Tree yet ? Some of you have mailed us with a question ...

The remastered Joshua Tree features several unreleased demos from The Joshua Tree Sessions. Bono recently added new vocals to one ...

'The Joshua Tree will prove a braver and better record than anything else that's likely to appear in 1987. ...

A little bit of an audio classic as Dave Fanning talks with the band in 1987 just after the release ...

BBC6 Music mark 20 years of The Joshua Tree, Edge goes through the album song by song.

Competitions, quizzes, reviews and ...

'A lot of the songs were ones that were recorded in Larry's spare bedroom or Adam's living room.' On ...

Brian Eno has some advice for 'future U2 producers' in the Q special marking 20 years of The Joshua Tree.

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Hard to believe but true: in late October 1980, an album called Boy was released by a little known band ...

As the Virgin Prunes back-catalogue is re-released, Gavin Friday remembers when 'Fionan became Gavin, Derek became Guggi and Paul became Bono.

'U2 is what the Rolling Stones ceased being years ago - the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world...'

My guess is that U2 will be remembered as the most influential band of the late '80s and early '90s. ...