U2's Rattle and Hum tried to be everything to everybody, with gutsy live reworkings of tracks from their smash album The Joshua Tree, cover songs honoring Bob Dylan and the Beatles and nine new cuts.

This article originally appeared in the January 1989 issue of SPIN. It's midnight, Sunday night in Dublin, and the crowds around most record stores are lining up around the block. A tramp wandering by ...

During the last week of October 1988, U2‘s anticipated concert movie ‘Rattle and Hum’ was released in their native Ireland. It would premiere in the U.S. on Nov. 4. The feature-length film, which was ...