{"id":30093,"date":"2024-08-08T18:02:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T18:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-aug-8-1987-u2-scores-their-second-1-with-i-still-havent-found-what-im-looking-for\/"},"modified":"2024-08-08T18:02:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T18:02:37","slug":"on-this-day-aug-8-1987-u2-scores-their-second-1-with-i-still-havent-found-what-im-looking-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-aug-8-1987-u2-scores-their-second-1-with-i-still-havent-found-what-im-looking-for\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Aug. 8, 1987: U2 scores their second #1 with \u201cI Still Haven\u2019t Found What I\u2019m Looking For\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-08-06\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag_1.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Aug. 8, 1987 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>U2\u00a0<\/strong>found themselves atop the\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">Hot 100 for the second time with \u201cI Still Haven\u2019t Found What I\u2019m Looking For,\u201d the second single off their first #1 album,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">The Joshua Tree<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">. The track spent two weeks in the #1 position.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Irish rockers had previously topped the chart with the album\u2019s first single, \u201cWith Or Without You,&#8221; which spent three weeks at #1.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI Still Haven\u2019t Found What I\u2019m Looking For\u201d went on to become one of the band\u2019s most iconic tracks and was nominated for two Grammy Awards in 1988: Record of the Year and Song of the Year. It has also landed on several best-of lists, including\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Rolling Stone\u2019<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In other U2 facts &#8230; Aug. 8 also happens to be U2 guitarist\u00a0<strong>The Edge<\/strong>\u2019s birthday.\u00a0Born\u00a0<strong>David Howell Evans<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>the rocker\u00a0turns 63 this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Aug. 8, 1987 &#8230; U2\u00a0found themselves atop the\u00a0Billboard\u00a0Hot 100 for the second time with \u201cI Still Haven\u2019t Found What I\u2019m Looking For,\u201d the second single off their first #1 album,\u00a0The Joshua Tree. The track spent two weeks in the #1 position. The Irish rockers had previously topped<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-aug-8-1987-u2-scores-their-second-1-with-i-still-havent-found-what-im-looking-for\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}