Concert Venue
Parken is also used as a concert venue, and hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2001. As a direct consequence of this, and to make Parken a more useful venue in general, a retractable roof was applied to the existing structure.
Once a year, the TV channel TV 2 Zulu organizes a big concert, Zulu Rocks.
Musicians like Take That, Pink, Madonna, Britney Spears, AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Celine Dion, Tiesto, Depeche Mode, The Rolling Stones, U2, The Black Eyed Peas, Pet Shop Boys, Kashmir, Pharrell, Mew, Robbie Williams, George Michael, R.E.M., Metallica, Bruce Springsteen, Muse, Tina Turner, David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Lady Gaga and Michael Jackson have performed at Parken.
The biggest concert ever held in Parken was a performance by Michael Jackson on August 14, 1997, during his HIStory tour, with 60,000 tickets sold.
Britney Spears performed at the stadium to a sold-out crowd of 44,821 people in 2009 as part of her record-breaking The Circus Starring Britney Spears tour on July 11, 2009.
Madonna performed at the stadium to a sold-out crowd of 29,416 people during her MDNA Tour on July 2, 2012.
Eminem was scheduled to perform at Parken in 2005, but he canceled his European tour.
Lady Gaga performed to a crowd of 27,819 people as part of her Born This Way Tour. This concert took place on 2nd September, 2012.
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Famous quotes containing the word concert:
“Proportion ... You can’t help thinking about it in these London streets, where it doesn’t exist.... It’s like listening to a symphony of cats to walk along them. Senseless discords and a horrible disorder all the way.... A concert of Brobdingnagian cats. Order has been turned into a disgusting chaos. We need no barbarians from outside; they’re on the premises, all the time.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)