Rock festival

A Rock Festival is a music festival in which several groups or performing in and play rock music. It usually takes several days. The first rock festivals were organized in the 1960s and were important socio - cultural milestones. From the 1980s rock festivals were also organized, which were not pure musical events, but aspired to the achievement of attention and the collection of money for charitable purposes.

Past concerts and festivals

1960

• In the 1960s there were several venues, where took place major rock concerts, which were published in part as live albums. These rock palaces were: San Francisco: The Fillmore Auditorium (1965-1968), the Fillmore West (1968-1971), the Winterland (1967-1978) and the Avalon Ballroom (1966-1968)
• In New York: the Fillmore East (1968-1971)
• London: UFO Club (1966-1967), the Roundhouse (1966-1983)

1970

1980

1990

• July 21, 1990: Only a few months after the Wall Pink Floyd's "The Wall" is listed on the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin.
• 1980s and 1990s: Monsters of Rock in Leicestershire
• April 20, 1992: " Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert" in London's Wembley Stadium
• Lollapalooza was in the years 1991 to 1997 and 2003, a festival tour in Canada and the United States.

2000

Current festivals

• Every year in late June that takes place in Pilton / GB " Glastonbury Festival "
• Known Open -air festivals in Germany are "Rock am Ring" ( Nürburgring Eifel) and " Rock im Park" (Nuremberg ), both held annually and each almost the same bands in the squad have, " With Full Force Festival " in Roitzschjora in Leipzig, as well as " Southside Festival " at Lake Constance and "Hurricane Festival " North Germany, which also have the same band line-up.

• The most common metal open-air concerts: " Graspop ", " Wacken Open Air", "Bang Your Head ", " Summer Breeze " and the " With Full Force "
• Popular indie festivals are the Fusion Festival and the Immergut Festival in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern.
• In Switzerland, in particular, the annual festival " Gurtenfestival ", " OpenAir St. Gallen ", " Openair Gampel " and " Paleo " internationally known and popular. New addition also the " Greenfield Festival " in Interlaken in 2005 focused mainly on rock music.
• Since 1996 takes place in the Bavarian Rothenburg ob der Tauber, the " Tauber Valley Openair " instead.
• Since 1984, every year in Vienna -find, biggest open air festival in Europe: Danube Island Festival.
• About the borders of Austria known are the festivals in the Burgenland meadows (Burgenland ) as the " Forest Glade ", " Jazz Fest ", " Sunsplash ", the " Frequency Festival " in St. Pölten, the " Aerodrome " in Wiener Neustadt and the " Nova Rock " nickel in the village (Burgenland).
• " Zappanale " in Bad Doberan Mecklenburg