{"id":30830,"date":"2024-11-12T18:02:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T18:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-nov-12-1988-u2-topped-the-album-chart-with-soundtrack-to-rattle-and-hum\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T18:02:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T18:02:49","slug":"on-this-day-nov-12-1988-u2-topped-the-album-chart-with-soundtrack-to-rattle-and-hum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-nov-12-1988-u2-topped-the-album-chart-with-soundtrack-to-rattle-and-hum\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Nov. 12, 1988: U2 topped the album chart with soundtrack to &#8216;Rattle and Hum&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-11-12\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Nov. 12, 1988 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>U2<\/strong> topped the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> 200 Album chart with <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Rattle and Hum<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, the soundtrack to their documentary of the same name.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The album, produced by <strong>Jimmy Iovine<\/strong>, featured a combination of live and studio recordings. Live tracks included performances of \u201cI Still Haven\u2019t Found What I\u2019m Looking For,\u201d \u201cPride (In The Name of Love)\u201d and \u201cBullet The Blue Sky,\u201d as well as a live cover of <strong>The Beatles<\/strong> track \u201cHelter Skelter.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It also featured studio tracks \u201cDesire,\u201d a top five hit for the band, \u201cAngel of Harlem\u201d and \u201cWhen Love Comes to Town\u201d featuring <strong>B.B. King<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The album would be U2\u2019s second #1 record, spending six weeks on top of the chart. They went on to have a total of eight #1\u00a0albums over the course of their career, their last being 2017\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Songs of Experience<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Nov. 12, 1988 &#8230; U2 topped the Billboard 200 Album chart with Rattle and Hum, the soundtrack to their documentary of the same name. The album, produced by Jimmy Iovine, featured a combination of live and studio recordings. Live tracks included performances of \u201cI Still Haven\u2019t Found<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-nov-12-1988-u2-topped-the-album-chart-with-soundtrack-to-rattle-and-hum\/\">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\/30830"}],"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=30830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}