Fact #176552
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Short story:
When Luciano Ligabue plays his Campovolo concert at Reggio Emilia Airport, Reggio Emilia, Italy, Europe, the show sells 165,264 tickets, for a record-breaking performance which features four separate stages with the audience in the middle.
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Claudio Trotta (promoter) : That show held the record for a long time (apart from Paul McCartney in Brazil) for the biggest audience ever as a concert by one act. I was also very pleased because the show was based on a crazy production idea that I had. It was a huge field, so I realised that if we did it with just one stage, a large part of the audience would really only be able watch it on the screens. So I put the people in the middle and constructed four stages around them. Luciano moved from one stage to another, which meant that a much larger portion of the audience would be closer to a stage for at least some of the time. Luciano loved it, because on one stage he was completely solo, on another he was acoustic with one additional musician, another was with his current band and the last was his original period band.
(Source : interview new with Johnny Black for Audience magazine, February 2009)
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(Source : interview new with Johnny Black for Audience magazine, February 2009)