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Vertigo Records artists

  • MetallicaIn 1986, a tour bus overturned in Sweden and killed Metallica bassist Cliff Burton.
  • Black SabbathThe band Black Sabbath took its name from a horror film showing across from its rehearsal room.
  • SoundgardenSoundgarden took its name from a sculpture of wind-channeling pipes called A Sound Garden. The artwork stands on National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration property at 7600 Sand Point Way, beside Magnuson Park in Seattle. The band…
  • Bon JoviBon Jovi is an American rock band formed in Sayreville, New Jersey in 1983. Over the decades since, the group has played 3000 concerts in 50 countries, in front of a combined audience of 34 million people. Its records have sold more than…
  • Dua LipaIn the week beginning the 15th of May 2020, Dua Lipa's album Future Nostalgia sat at number one on the UK chart with only 7,317 sales. No chart-topping album this century has sold fewer copies in a single week. That modest number belongs…
  • Kiss (band)Kiss played its first show on the 30th of January 1973 at the Popcorn Club in Queens, New York. Fewer than ten people were in the audience. The band was paid $50 for two sets, after Gene Simmons cold-called the venue and talked the owners…
  • Tears for FearsTears for Fears, the English pop rock band from Bath, had a song from the 1980s climb back onto the UK singles chart in June 2023. "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" then stayed for another 22 weeks. That is a long second life for a…
  • Dire StraitsA London DJ played a rejected Dire Straits demo, and two months later the band had a record deal.
  • Rush (band)Rush, the Canadian rock band, collected CA$25 for its first public concert in September 1968. The stage was a youth centre called the Coff-Inn, tucked into the basement of St. Theodore of Canterbury Anglican Church in Toronto. When the…
  • Rod StewartRod Stewart, the British singer with the raspy voice, stood on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro on the 31st of December 1994 and sang to 3.5 million people. Nobody paid to get in. That crowd earned him an entry in the Guinness Book of…
  • Mark KnopflerMark Knopfler found his guitar voice on an instrument nobody would have chosen. One night, while spending time with friends, the only guitar within reach was an old acoustic with a badly warped neck. Someone had strung it with extra-light…
  • KraftwerkKraftwerk did not own a computer when recording Computer World. The 1981 album was about computers.

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