The Joshua Tree Gets Its US National Recording Registry Essay — atu2blog.com

The United States’ Library of Congress’ entered U2’s The Joshua Tree in its National Recording Registry in 2013. Each entry in the registry has an accompanying essay (or will eventually have one) and now, five years later, The Joshua Tree‘s entry is complete thanks to Stephen Catanzarite. Catanzarite is a familiar name to many U2 fans for his insightful mega-essay Achtung Baby: Meditations on Love in the Shadow of the Fall for the popular series of short books in the Bloomsbury 33 1/3 collection. Neil McCormick found his book to be “a surprisingly profound meditation on Achtung Baby as a metaphor for the Fall of Man,” and in 2007, @U2’s Angela Pancella interviewed Catanzarite about the book while Marylinn Maione reviewed it for @U2.

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