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Concert

Great Britain · Arts / Music. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

6Records
1968–1989Date range
5Named people
2Places

Chronological records

1968

Marc Bolan21 March 1968

Arts / Popular Music

Supports Donovan at the Royal Albert Hall.

Marc Bolan3 June 1968

Arts / Popular Music

Tyrannosaurus Rex play the Royal Festival Hall.

1971

George Harrison1971

New York · Arts / Popular Music

2 benefit concerts at New Yorks Madison Square Garden for the people of Bangladesh

1974

John Winston LennonNovember 1974

Arts / Popular Music

John Lennon makes his last ever concert appearance when he appears onstage at Madison Square Garden with Elton John, that night Lennon is reunited with Ono and, in his words, "the separation failed"

1989

Marianne Faithfull21 July 1989

Berlin · Arts / Popular Music

The concert takes place on Potsdamer Platz, part of the former "no-mans land" of the Berlin Wall, and features many guest superstars: The Band, Bryan Adams, Cyndi Lauper, Van Morrison, Sin‚ad OConnor, The Scorpions, Marianne Faithfull, and Joni Mitchel

Roger Waters21 July 1989

Berlin · Arts / Popular Music

The concert takes place on Potsdamer Platz, part of the former "no-mans land" of the Berlin Wall, and features many guest superstars: The Band, Bryan Adams, Cyndi Lauper, Van Morrison, Sin‚ad OConnor, The Scorpions, Marianne Faithfull, and Joni Mitchel. After the Berlin Wall came down Waters stages The Wall Concert in Berlin to commemorate the end of the division between East and West Germany

Names involved

George HarrisonJohn Winston LennonMarc BolanMarianne FaithfullRoger Waters

Provenance

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