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When you have an hour to spare, you might find the link I gave interesting, rusty. Such a shame about Kirsty McColl.

U2 had an album called Joshua Tree, but I do not know if it is anything to do with Gram.

Yes, I shall "check it out" as the young ones say!

Yes - when I heard about Gram's death (rather later than it happened, of course), I made the connection. It would seem odd if U2 hadn't named it in some sort of recognition.

I'll Google.

Apparently not:

"The Joshua Tree takes its title from the tree that somehow survives in the desert, and much of its material suggests an attempt, within the aridity, to quench a profoundly spiritual thirst."

—Don McLeese of Chicago Sun-Times, on the album title as a metaphor for the songs

Chris, there is a great story about Gram's band (Fallen Angels?) attempting to cremate his body out in the desert, using tequila and gasoline. They were keeping a promise to him.
It is a fairly complicated tale, but with a feel good factor about his friends in the band.

Sounds pretty incendiary - didn't it work?

No, the cops were after them, (they had stolen Gram's corpse from an airport). He wanted to stay in the desert and asked the band to cremate him if he died out there, so they stole his body.
They saw the lights of the cops cars chasing them and jumped out and ignited Gram's corpse using tequila and gasoline, but they had too little time.
To me, it is a great story about friendship.

Mmmm - one would have to wonder if they were in full possession of their faculties.

Possibly not, but they stole his body from Los Angeles International Airport.
That was a neat trick.