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mahatmakanejeeves

(61,659 posts) Wed Dec 18, 2024, 11:51 AM Dec 18

On this day, December 18, 1981, 35 million people around the world watched a Rod Stewart concert.

On this date in 1981 an estimated 35 million people around the world watch a live satellite transmission of a Rod Stewart concert at the Los Angeles Forum. It is the first broadcast of its kind since Elvis Presley's "Aloha from Hawaii" special in 1973. #80s #80smusic

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Mon Dec 18, 2023: On this day, December 18, 1981, 35 million people around the world watched a Rod Stewart concert.

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Fri Dec 18, 2020: On this day, December 18, 1981, 35 million people around the world watched a Rod Stewart concert.

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On this day, December 18, 1981, 35 million people around the world watched a Rod Stewart concert. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Dec 18 OP

I think he still has the record for the largest in person concert underpants Dec 18 #1

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1. I think he still has the record for the largest in person concert

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Wed Dec 18, 2024, 11:56 AM

Dec 18

on the beach in Rio I think. Well over a million people if memory serves.
Metallica played in front of almost a million in Russia before the wall came down. Again that’s just from memory

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