Moscow Music Peace Festival
 The stage in the Luzhniki Stadium |
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| General information | |
| place | Moscow |
| genre | Rock , metal |
| Visitor numbers | |
|---|---|
| 1989 | 250,000 |
The Moscow Music Peace Festival took place in Moscow's Olympic Stadium on August 12th and 13th, 1989 , exactly 20 years after the legendary Woodstock Festival . The "Peace Festival" is also known as the Woodstock of the USSR and recorded 260,000 spectators.
background
Former manager of Mötley Crüe , Skid Row and the Scorpions , Doc McGhee , had committed a criminal offense while helping a smuggler ring to bring large quantities of marijuana from Colombia to the United States. On January 19, 1987, he had to answer for the first time before the North Carolina Federal Court , where he pleaded guilty. Instead of the originally imposed five-year prison sentence McGhee was sentenced to a fine in the amount of $ 15,000, the adhesion became the parole suspended. McGhee had to organize an anti-drug campaign in addition to the fine .
In the course of this engagement, McGhee organized the "Moscow Music Peace Festival" together with the Soviet concert promoter Stas Namin . To this end, he brought 641 people and 64 transport vehicles with two aircraft of type Boeing 757 to Moscow to possess it without any permission. He also produced the television broadcast of the event and took care of the broadcast to 51 countries around the world. Performing artists and bands were (in alphabetical order)
- Bon Jovi
- Brigada S.
- Cinderella
- the Russian rock band Gorky Park ( Russian Парк Горького )
- Mötley Crüe
- nuance
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Scorpions
- Skid Row
Even during the concert, the participating musicians argued backstage about the order of their performances. The Scorpions, clearly the best known of the Western bands due to a previous tour through the USSR, headlined Ozzy Osbourne and Mötley Crüe, Mötley Crüe also complained that the McGhee management clearly preferred Bon Jovi. Osbourne had already gone to the airfield in the course of the dispute to take the next plane back to Great Britain , but could still be moved to perform.
publication
The concert was released in 1989 on two video cassettes and later as a "remastered version" on four DVDs. In addition, an LP or CD was released with the title Stairway to Heaven / Highway to Hell . It contained eight cover versions of well-known songs recorded in the studio by the participating bands . It also included a live recording of a jam session that was recorded at the Moscow festival. The session consisted of the titles Hound Dog ; Long Tall Sally / Blue Suede Shoes and Rock & Roll .
Trivia
During the stay in Moscow, the song Wind of Change was written by Scorpions singer Klaus Meine :
“The idea for this came to me in the USSR when I was sitting in the Gorky Park Center one summer night and looking at the Moscow River. The song is my personal reappraisal of what has happened in the world in recent years. The title is Wind of Change. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Peace, Joy, Hash and Perestroika, in: Rocks - Das Magazin für Classic Rock , issue 01.2014, pages 84 to 88
- ↑ a b Tommy Lee, Mick Mars, Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx, Neil Straus: The Dirt - Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rockband ; Harper Collins, USA, 2001. ISBN 0-06-039288-6
- ↑ Bon Jovi's Secret Letter To Judge That Saved Band Manager From 20 Ton Pot Bust - radar online.com, accessed July 22, 2011
- ↑ Make a difference? ; newsobserver.com ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ In the Hot Seat with Larry LeBlanc ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Interview on celebrityaccess.com
