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On September 28, 1991, only a month after the August Putsch failed, 500,000 (the figure stated in the notes of the original VHS and subsequent DVD release) rock and metal music fans converged in Moscow at Tushino Airfield for the first open-air rock concert, as part of the Monsters of Rock series. The concert was completely free, causing many ...
The 1991 European leg was part of the Monsters of Rock festival. The last concert of that leg, held on September 28, 1991, at Tushino Airfield in Moscow, was described as "the first free outdoor Western rock concert in Soviet history" and had a crowd estimated between 150,000 and 500,000 people, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] with some unofficial estimates as ...
1991: Monsters of Rock '91: Europe: August 10 – September 28, 1991: 19: ... The last concert of the tour, held on September 28 at Tushino Airfield in Moscow, ...
In 1991, Tushino Airfield was used to host the first outdoor rock festival ever held in the Soviet Union - the free Monsters of Rock concert featuring AC/DC, Metallica, the Black Crowes and Pantera. Official estimates placed the crowd at between 1,000,000 and 1,600,000 people.
We know, we know — the best concert of all-time is your friend’s obscure indie-punk band playing a sweaty neighborhood basement back in ‘94. We admit that one slipped through the cracks.
Monsters of Rock was a hard rock and heavy metal music festival. It was originally held annually in Castle Donington , England, from 1980 to 1996, taking place every year except 1989 and 1993. It later branched into other locations such as the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Sweden, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the ...
With an audience of over 184,000 people on April 21, 1990, McCartney's record was broken by Norwegian synth-pop band a-ha with 198,000 paying audience during Rock in Rio on the 26 January 1991, then a-ha record was broken by a Japanese rock band, Glay, which held a concert with an audience of 200,000 people on July 31, 1999, in Chiba, Japan ...
This article originally appeared in the May 1991 issue of SPIN. Chris Robinson, the Black Crowes' very skinny lead singer, is standing in the band's tour bus outside the Market Square Arena in ...