U2 performed from the roof of a store in downtown LA to make the video for 'Where The Streets Have No Name", March 27, 1987.

The accompanying music video for the song was filmed on Fremont Street in Las Vegas on 12 April 1987 following their Joshua Tree Tour concert in that city. It features the band members wandering around while the Edge plays an acoustic guitar.

On This Day, March 27, 1987: U2 films the video for “Where the Streets Have No Name” U2 filmed the video for “Where the Streets Have No Name,” the third single off their album The Joshua Tree. Inspired by The Beatles' 1969 rooftop concert, U2 took to the roof of a downtown Los Angeles liquor store to perform the song.

The band attracted over 1,000 people during the video's filming, which took place on the rooftop of a liquor store in Downtown Los Angeles on 27 March 1987. The band's performance on a rooftop in a public place was a reference to the Beatles' final concert, as depicted in the film Let It Be.