U2 The Joshua Tree

Those four Irish guys could hardly play their respective instruments back in 1976, but in the meantime they developed their own style, inspired millions with their rocking, synthetic and anthemic pop songs and became one of the biggest rock bands in History. Guitarist The Edge has become the specialist of delay-drenched textures and impressionistic landscapes, an approach that was ruthlessly ripped off by every single pop guitarist from the early eighties on.