Dodger Stadium - Other Events

Other Events

• Four home runs have been hit completely out of Dodger Stadium. Outfielder Willie Stargell of the Pittsburgh Pirates hit two of those home runs. Stargell hit a 507-foot home run off the Dodgers' Alan Foster on August 5, 1969 that completely cleared the right field pavilion and struck a bus parked outside the stadium. Stargell then hit a 470-foot home run off Andy Messersmith on May 8, 1973 that landed on the right field pavilion roof and bounced into the parking lot. Dodger catcher Mike Piazza hit a 470-foot home run off Frank Castillo of the Colorado Rockies on September 21, 1997 that landed on the left field pavilion roof and skipped under the left field video board and into the parking lot. Finally, on May 22, 1999, St. Louis Cardinal first baseman Mark McGwire cleared the left field pavilion with a 483-foot home run off the Dodgers' Jamie Arnold.
• The Beatles played their second to last concert here in 1966.
• Elton John played two sold-out concerts here in 1975.
• The Fleetwood Mac song "Tusk" was recorded and filmed at the empty stadium in 1979.
• Dodger Stadium has also staged other sporting events such as boxing, a basketball game featuring the Harlem Globetrotters and a ski-jumping exhibition, as well as the baseball competition of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games.
• The Jacksons performed six sold out concerts at Dodger Stadium on November 30 and December 1, 2, 7, 8 and 9, 1984 during their Victory Tour.
• Pope John Paul II celebrated Mass at Dodger Stadium on September 16, 1987.
• The baseball scenes from the first Naked Gun film were filmed at Dodger Stadium, although the team represented in the film was the California Angels.
• The stadium hosted the opening ceremony of the 1991 U.S. Olympic Festival.
• Baseball games from Thursday April 30, 1992 to Sunday May 3, 1992 were postponed due to the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Three consecutive days of double headers were held later in the season.
• Dodger Stadium was also the site of "Encore - the Three Tenors", a 1994 concert reuniting internationally renowned tenors Plácido Domingo, José Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti, conducted by Zubin Mehta.
• On October 31, 1998, American rock group KISS began their Psycho Circus Tour at Dodger Stadium. This was the first tour with 3D visual effects.
• This was the starting point of a popular reality show, The Amazing Race in its fourth season
• Dodger Stadium was used as the model for Metropolis' baseball stadium in the 2006 film Superman Returns. The end of the airplane rescue scene was filmed at Dodger Stadium, and a CGI backdrop for the city was added behind the outfield.
• In a scene from the 2007 film Transformers, an empty Dodger Stadium is depicted being hit by the Autobot Jazz's protoform, which crashes through the upper deck and lands in the outfield. Though empty, the stadium's lights are on.
• Many of the world's top rock, pop and electronic bands have performed at Dodger Stadium, including acts such as The Cure, KISS, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Bee Gees, Elton John, Simon and Garfunkel, David Bowie, Genesis, Eric Clapton, Depeche Mode (2 Nights), U2 (2 Nights), Dave Matthews Band and Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band. The Police played at Dodger Stadium on their reunion tour.
• Madonna played at Dodger Stadium on November 6, 2008 during her Sticky & Sweet Tour. Two special surprise guests joined her onstage. Britney Spears joined her during "Human Nature" and Justin Timberlake appeared onstage during "4 Minutes". The concert was played for the sold-out crowd of 43,919 people. The gross revenue was $5,858,730.