The whole idea, the theme, was desert and ghost towns,” says cover designer and art director Steve Averill about the iconic shoot that begat the indelible images used for the band’s multiplatinum 1987 watershed album, The Joshua Tree. “We wanted to find places where nature and civilization met. When the Irish band U2 began work on its fifth album in 1986, its members had one destination in mind to capture the accompanying visual: the American West as personified by the Coachella Valley.
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