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I've always said that band shirts are a part of music history. Here is a perfect example of that. This shirt commemorates a moment in music history and a moment in modern history.
For those of you aren't familiar with the Moscow Music Peace Festival, as I wasn't, I'll give you a brief recap of what you can learn from Wikipedia. First off, this festival was so full of backstage drama and hypocrisy its pretty funny. So, the festival took place in Moscow on August 11 & 12, 1989. The mission of the featival was to promote world peace and the international drug war in Russia. Enter the hypocrisy, most of the performing bands were notorious drug users, drinking and drug use were reported backstage. The show performers where Cinderella, Gorky Park, Scorpions, Skid Row, Motley Crue, Ozzy Osbourne and Bon Jovi. Apparently the other bands were unset by perceived special treatment of Bon Jovi. Ozzy even threatened not to perform. The show is considered the peak of the 1980s Glam Metal genre. Many also say that the concert, which exposed Russia to western culture, was an important step on the path to democracy.
A couple interesting bits of trivia about the concert. It was the first time in the Soviet Union that concert goers were ever allowed to dance at a stadium rock concert. Also, it is after this show that Ozzy Osborne apparently tried to kill his wife/manager Sharron Osborne after drinking several bottles of Russian vodka.
Anyways, I thought this Moscow Music Peace Festival shirt and the story were interesting and I wanted to share it with my site visitors. Check out the shirt in more detail here.
