Bono was named the MusiCares Person of the Year in 2003.They won for 1987 for The Joshua Tree and again in 2005 for How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb. Did you know? U2 are the only group to win the Album Of The Year category twice.They made their GRAMMY performance debut with 'Beautiful Day' at the 43rd GRAMMY Awards in 2001. U2 won their first two career GRAMMY Awards for 1987 for The Joshua Tree: Album Of The Year and Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal.12 on the Billboard 200 and yielded their first Top 40 hit, 'Pride (In The Name Of Love).' The Irish band's third album, 1983's War, hit No.Band members: Bono, Adam Clayton, The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr.These tunes chart U2’s ever-changing, ever-evolving sound that mirrors the band's evolution from blue-collar dreamers to rock superstars.'What I like about pop music, and why I’m still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.' - Bono This playlist includes tracks that rock hard, open wounds, lift you up and bring you crashing to the ground-that place between pop songs and classic rock songs and just-plain-awesome ’80s songs. In celebration of that milestone, we present the best U2 songs of all time: 33 in total, one for every year since the band first stepped onto the Garden stage.

Three decades later, the band has racked up 30 concerts at the venue. In April, 1985, just a few months before that legendary Live Aid performance, U2 played its first show at NYC's Madison Square Garden. But it was U2’s blistering, politically charged set-complete with Bono venturing into the crowd during the 12-minute rendition of “Bad”-that would catapult the band to international stardom and crown them the “world’s most important rock band.” Today Live Aid is mostly remembered for being one of Freddie Mercury’s last-and arguably most memorable-live performances with Queen before his death in 1991. The band would play two songs in just under 20 minutes. U2 took the stage at London's Wembley Stadium for Live Aid, the multi-city concert for famine relief in Africa that would feature the music industry’s greatest acts and biggest names. Where do we start with ranking the best U2 songs of all time? Let’s begin on Saturday, July 13, 1985.

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