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U2’s The Joshua Tree album added to US Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry

U2’s The Joshua Tree is among 25 new additions to the US Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry.

U2’s 1987 album spawned such hits as With or Without You and Where the Streets Have No Name.

The original cast recording of Stephen Sondheim’s 1979 musical Sweeney Todd and Isaac Hayes’ Theme from Shaft have also been added to the archive.

U2’s The Joshua Tree is among 25 new additions to the US Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry

Established in 2000, the US Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry contains recordings deemed important enough to be preserved for posterity.

Each year, 25 recordings that are at least 10 years old are added to the registry, which now includes 400 deemed to be “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant”.

The oldest of this year’s additions is The Laughing Song, a track by George Washington Johnson – the first African-American to make commercial records – that dates from around 1896.

The most recent, Jeff Buckley’s version of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, was recorded in 1994.

Other familiar tracks to join the registry include the Everly Brothers’ 1960 single Cathy’s Clown, the 1969 Creedence Clearwater Revival track Fortunate Son and Linda Ronstadt’s 1974 album Heart Like a Wheel.

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