U2 – The Joshua Tree (1986)
Design by Steve Averill and Anton Corbijn
The Joshua Tree is an actual name of a plant – a slow-growing shrub with sharp-tapered leaves to be exact. It’s indigenous to the American southwest desert and was named by a group of 19th century Mormons. And it was something about the timeless aspect of this tree that attracted U2 into Death Valley National Park in California.
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Larry Mullen, Jr., the band’s drummer, said “It’s supposed to be the oldest living organism in the desert,” and it really must have been, considering that it later fell over and died in 2000. And as the story goes, U2 fans have since built a shrine in the desert to memorialize the famous tree.