Tuesday, April 25, 2017

U2 The Joshua Tree Tour Leg 1 Itinerary USA SPRING 1987

Once The Unforgettable Fire Tour finished we had to wait for a couple of years to see U2 on tour again. It was in 1987 when they hit the road again with their amazing The Joshua Tree tour.

Three legs of the tour means in this case 3 different itinerary books, and this one I'm showing is the first one.

The black and white cover shows the Joshua Tree right in the middle with a The Joshua Tour text on the top and a USA Spring 1987 text on the bottom. This is the only original book.

I have also known that there are reprints out in the market with a gold cover with black letters but they are only that... REPRINTS. Those reprints are taken from the original book but not all the information on the original itinerary was copied on the reprints. You can see a picture of a reprint under the original book picture.




The book contains information from April 1st 1987 when a Production Rehearsal took place at A.S.U. Events Centre in Tempe, Arizona to May 17th when the tour was over and they all returned home from New Jersey.

Even though first pages are listing tour events from April 1st, once you take a look at the book you find also information for the previous week.


The band arrived in L.A. on March 24th and the advice on the book for that day is "Acclimatise onesself and accept culture shock syndrome".

It was on that week, on the 27th, when the band recorded "Where the streets have no name" video on the rooftop of a liquor store in downtown Los Angeles. Click on the picture to see some of the information about the video shoot.


Production rehearsals began on March 28th and took place until April 1st, just one day before the opening show.



The group considered as "Group and management" was only 16 people. The rest of staff, considered "Crew Personel" was 38 people.....nothing compared with more recent tours in terms of number of people.

On Sunday May 17th U2 and their management left JFK airport to Dublin and they had a few days off before the start of the European Leg.



My copy of this book was signed in Berlin by Bono in September 2015.














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