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Fact #158597

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The first Rock In Rio Festival, featuring Queen, Rod Stewart, AC/DC, Whitesnake, Ozzy Osbourne, Yes and Iron Maiden is claimed to be the biggest ever staged. The event hosts 1,380,000 people over the course of ten days.

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Gerry Stickells (tour manager, Queen) : Rod Stewart showed up with his personal armed mini-military,” Mr. Stickells told . “Death squads were the norm, and it was pretty intense, but Queen got along O.K. down there because they were able to just get with the local flavor.”
(Source : interview in Projection Lights and Staging News, 2007)