Classic Rock

METALLICA

“I spent six months listening only to AC/DC, and it changed my entire approach to songwriting.”
Lars Ulrich

'KILL BON JOVI’. That was the blunt message that Metallica frontman James Hetfield scrawled on his white Jackson guitar in 1987. Hetfield had good reason to be pissed off. That year, during Metallica’s performance at the Monsters Of Rock festival at Donington Park, they were momentarily upstaged when a helicopter carrying Bon Jovi, the headline act, flew in over the audience. But for Hetfield, this wasn’t

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