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Fact #84949

When:

Short story:

Elton John plays the first of four nights at The Great October Hall, Leningrad, Russia, Europe.

Full article:

Artemy Troitsky (Russian music journalist and author) : The Elton John concerts in 1979, were a real breakthrough, but it was a peculiar case because he played in rather small venues and it was impossible to buy tickets. They were more or less like invitation-only concerts for party members, diplomats, KGB members and their families and such. For a normal pop fan it was not possible at all to get to these gigs.
rn(Source : interview with Johnny Black for Classic Rock magazine, March 2013)