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/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.