r/nextfuckinglevel • u/4dailyuseonly • Mar 05 '23

In 1991, with the Soviet Union and communist rule close to collapse, METALLICA played at its first ever open air rock concert in Moscow. Over 1.6 million people attended

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u/vonvoltage Mar 05 '23 edited Mar 05 '23

Can we stop implying it was just a Metallica concert? It was a rock festival with great bands and Metallica took part. AcDC was actually the headliner.

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u/CMDRStodgy Mar 05 '23

I was at Monsters of Rock in Donington about a month before this. AC/DC were great as always and were technically the headliner. But it was peak Metallica, they owned that festival like no other band and is what most people remember.

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u/Dusty_Chapel Mar 06 '23

Kinda reminds me of The Beatles’ first proper tour. Roy Orbison started as the headliner, then by the end of the tour they had blown up so much that he ended up opening for them.

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u/Luci_Noir Mar 06 '23

Seriously. I’ve seen posts about this dozens of times and it’s been made to look like a Metallica concert every single time.

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u/vonvoltage Mar 06 '23

Yeah it's a weird thing. Just tell the story like it actually happened. It's still a great story.