There were four young men in charge of organizing the festival. The flower was a symbol of the hippie movement during the 1960s. The Woodstock Festival, held for three days in August 1969, was a pop and rock concert that was the most successful music event of all time. Concert performances of that scale have not been held since then. Jean Michel Jarre performs four concerts yearly, attracting over a million people. He performed on Copacabana Beach on New Year’s Eve in 1994 for 3.5 million people. Rod Stewart holds the current world record for the largest concert performance. The Love Parade, an annual celebration of music and fun, drew more than 1.6 million visitors to Dortmund in 2008. AC/DC, Metallica, and The Black Crowes formed the Soviet Union’s Monster of Rock in 1991. In Rio de Janeiro, the Rolling Stones‘ 2006 performance on Copacabana beach drew 1.5 million fans. But regarding sheer scale, the biggest concert ever was the Live Aid benefit concert in 1985, which was staged simultaneously in London and Philadelphia and featured an unprecedented lineup of music’s biggest stars. The largest audience for a multiple-day event was probably the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in 1969, which attracted an estimated 400,000 people over four days. The answer may depend on how you define “biggest.” The largest attendance for a single-day concert was the 2010 Love Parade in Duisburg, Germany, which drew an estimated 1.6 million people.
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