U2 in Vegas through the years

Joshua Tree Tour, April 12, 1987, Thomas & Mack Center. The band's Vegas debut drew a good crowd of 8,637 fans (out of a total capacity of 9,700), but was the only arena date of the tour’s two U.S. legs not to sell out. Zoo TV Tour, Nov. 12, 1992, Sam Boyd Silver Bowl. The production employed 180 crew members, boasted a million-watt sound system weighing 30 tons and even had full-sized cars dangling from the rafters, playing to an audience of 27,774 here. Popmart Tour, April 25, 1997, Sam Boyd Stadium. The crowd of 36,742 marked the band’s first sold-out Vegas gig. Costing a cool $100 million to produce, the Popmart Tour was even more over-the-top than the band’s previous outing. Elevation Tour, Nov. 18, 2001, Thomas & Mack Center. This one set the venue attendance record at 17,771 fans. Vertigo Tour. Nov. 4-5, 2005, MGM Grand Garden . The band's two-night stand here lured a combined crowd of 31,863. U2 360° Tour, Oct. 23, 2009, Sam Boyd Stadium . The tour’s “spaceship-on-four-legs” stage design was so massive and elaborate that it required daily production costs of $750,000 and upward of three days to dissemble.