If we look through the arched window today we can see Metallica and Iron Maiden....and who is that next to them? Oh it's Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band.
I can't guarantee that anything I write will articulate the excitement that has been generated from the announcement of the 3 big guns playing the Rock In Rio Festival 2013, as well as the Rock Rio website. Here it is, straight from the interweb translating horses mouth.
Headliner of the World Stage, Bruce Springsteen and his band contaminated quite the Portuguese public on the last day of this year's Rock in Rio Lisboa. The artist showed that, at 62, still in top form, wasting a lot of energy. Sweating from head to toe and still making fun of the audience sponges with water to soften the heat, he ended the night with a classic Beatles' "Twist and Shout", which raised an audience of more than 80 thousand people. Were two and a half hours a memorable show.
" Bruce Springsteen has an amazing stage presence. I'm sure the audience will love your presentation. This was a great desire of mine. I am immensely happy to provide a show like this for the fans of Rock in Rio in Lisbon, in the edition of this year's festival, Bruce did an amazing show. A contagious energy , "said Roberto Medina(festival president. ) They play on September 15, 2013.
Since Iron Maiden debuted on stage in Brazil with the World Slavery Tour, the first edition of Rock in Rio in 1985, the band developed a long relationship of affection with the Brazilian fans and Latin America. Another historic moment was when the group participated in the 2001 Rock in Rio, featuring up to 200 thousand fans, shortly after Bruce Dickinson and Adrian Smith returned to Maiden for the groundbreaking album Brave New World. The resulting video presentation, "Rock in Rio", reached number one of the stops and showed international undeniable passion that the audience has the banda and Brazilian musicians have for fans.
Since then, Iron Maiden comes to Brazil often taking their tours to major arenas and stadiums across the country, from Bethlehem to Porto Alegre, Recife to Manaus and several other cities, including four sold out arena concerts in Sao Paulo, a feat that few bands have achieved. And now back to perform at Sept. 22 at Rock in Rio 2013.
The members of Metallica return to the stage of the Rock in Rio in 2013. Formed in 1981, the band won nine Grammy Awards is composed of James Hetfield (vocals and guitar), Lars Urich (drums), Kirk Hammett (guitar) and Robert Trujillo (bass) joined in 2003, having already played with Suicidal Tendencies and Ozzy Osbourne. Metallica is one of the most influential and popular bands of all time and will play for the sixth time at Rock in Rio They take the stage at the world Sept. 19, the night of the festival dedicated to the Metal.
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Tickets will be available in a special pre-sale for Rock In Rio members beginning October 23 at 12:01 a.m. Rock In Rio cards, the equivalent of a ticket in advance for one day, will go on sale on October 30 at 12:01 a.m. and this sale is open only to fans who are Brazilian residents.
For those of you who live outside the country and plan to travel to Brazil, there will be an international
ticket sale in April 2013.
