10 Legendary Rock Shows In Music History

10. U2 ZooTV Tour

There are probably still a handful of U2 fans that almost come to the band more for the live show than anything else. Outside of their views on politics and occasional rock star behavior, everything fades away when they take to the stage, being in communion with the music as they take their fans on a journey. Things were already at their peak during the Joshua Tree tour, but they made things a bit more larger than life a few years later.

With Achtung Baby’s focus shifting to more electronic soundscapes and over the top rock star songs like the Fly, the Zoo TV didn’t skimp on any of that bombast, making gigantic television screens that projected the band playing and giving Bono the opportunity to play up that Fly persona that he loved to the nth degree.

Aside from the music, the actual presentation of the music felt more like something ripped out of George Orwell’s 1984, with the audience tuning into this dystopian future known as rock and roll. This would only become the template though, since this kind of over the top production would turn into the norm for big rock bands, adopting the massive screens and over the top light shows to suit their own needs. The tides for the rock scene were already shifting at the time, and U2 made sure that the next few years would be even more interesting.