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Bryan Adams- 18 ‘Til I Die 30th Anniversary

Bryan Adams joins me on the thirtieth anniversary of his seventh studio album, “18 'Til I Die”, a #1 seller in the UK and Top Five sales in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, Germany, Sweden, and Switzerland. The international popularity was driven by hits "The Only Thing That Looks Good on You is Me", "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman", and the title song.
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U2- Rattle and Hum- Bono,The Edge, Adam Clayton

U2's "Rattle and Hum" in October 1988 saw the gauzy media perceptions of American culture by my guests Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen jr jammed up against a Reagan-era reality that did not always ring true. "Rattle and Hum" was a loud love letter to an America that may never have actually existed.
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U2- The Joshua Tree- Bono, The Edge

Here are the first-person memoirs of U2's Grammy Award Album of the Year "The Joshua Tree". Following the release of March 1987's "The Joshua Tree" and subsequent world tour, U2 became recognized as the most popular band in the world then. In the Studio, Bono and The Edge scan the horizon from their often precarious perch atop rock history.
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U2- Achtung Baby @35- Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen jr

U2 drummer Larry Mullen jr blurted out in my In The Studio classic rock interview regarding "Achtung Baby" that the Dublin-based quartet nearly broke up in the Berlin recording studio after reconvening following "Rattle and Hum"...

U2- Love Rescue Me- 1987

Maybe one of the reasons why U2's Rattle and Hum  film and soundtrack album did not receive quite the same critical worship that their preceding album The Joshua Tree  had is because all five U2 studio efforts to date had been conceived with…