On This Date In Music

1975 - The Alice Cooper horror/music special, Alice Cooper: The Nightmare (featuring Vincent Price) airs on ABC.

1987 - U2 started a nine-week run at No. 1 on the US album chart with their fifth studio album The Joshua Tree. Inspired by American tour experiences, literature, and politics, the album topped the charts in over 20 countries, and is one of the world's all-time best-selling albums, with over 25 million copies sold. The album which won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year produced the hit singles 'With or Without You', 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For', and 'Where the Streets Have No Name'.