Ever been invited by Prince to dance with him on stage? Ever turned the tables at the turntable of your favourite DJ?

We all have a particular moment in our personal music history that we will never ever forget.

Besides our personal experiences, we all share a collective live music memory. But what are the most memorable concert moments according to you? A question way too difficult to answer! That’s why we gave it a try to list the most remarkable moments in concert history. Here we go!

John Coffey - Catching a beer while crowd walking at Pinkpop Festival

Lead singer David achter de Molen went viral after catching (and drinking) a beer while crowd walking at the Pinkpop Festival. David: ‘At one point I stood on the audience. Apparently that is possible, I did not know either. I was standing there feeling a bit of a boss already. Then I saw the beer coming from the corner of my eye and caught it. Tasted pretty good by the way!’

Foo Fighters - Dave breaks his leg and comes back to finish the concert

Dave Grohl falls off stage and breaks his leg during the song Monkey Wrench at the Foo Fighters concert in Gothenburg, Sweden. The band were two songs into their set at the Ullevi stadium when the singer tripped on a cable, tried to jump, but fell into the security area. "I think I just broke my leg," Grohl told the crowd as he lay on the ground. "I'm going to go to hospital. I'm going to fix my leg. And then I'm going to come back." Within an hour, he came back on stage and played for another 2,5 hours. Epic!

Metallica - “Give me fuel, give me fire…” The ‘92 Montreal gig

Metallica visited Montreal on August 8, 1992 to play the Guns N' Roses/Metallica Stadium Tour. Never knowing it would become one of their most famous concerts ever.

Everybody who has ever been lucky to visit a Metallica concert, knows that Metallica likes to be surrounded by flames. As Fade To Black builded, Hetfield was suddenly unsure about his stage position as huge, fiercely hot plumes of coloured flame burst into life around him.

James about this scary moment: “I’m a little confused on where I’m supposed to be and then pyro guy doesn’t see me, and ‘whoosh!’, a big coloured flame goes right up under me. I’m burnt. My arm, my hand, completely down to the bone. The side of my face. Hair’s gone. Part of my back. I watched the skin just rising, all these things going wrong."

Jimi Hendrix - War protest at Woodstock ‘69

During the 60s, many artists protested against the Vietnam War. Creedence Clearwater Revival came with songs like 'Have You Ever Seen The Rain' and 'Bad Moon Rising' and John Lennon held a real Bed-in with Yoko Ono as a peace protest.

In 1969, Jimi Hendrix decided to take a stand in a different way. He did not express his protest in words, but played the American national anthem in a very unorthodox way at the legendary Woodstock Festival. If you listen carefully, you will hear that it contains sounds of bombs, planes and missiles. He made these sounds with a lot of overdrive on his guitar. In the US, this was seen as extremely controversial at the time.

Queen - Bringing the world together at Wembley

Queen's 1986 performance is Queen's very first concert at Wembley Stadium. With 400,000 concertgoers, this concert broke all visitor records. It was the most spectacular show of that time. Never before had such a large stage and such a large light show been built for a performance. Queen performed hits such as A Kind of Magic, I Want To Break Free and of course Bohemian Rhapsody.

Less than a month later, Queen gave their last concert ever in the original line-up. In 1987, Mercury was diagnosed with AIDS and the band made the decision to stop touring, making the concert at Knebworth on August 9, 1986 the last time that the four original members of Queen performed on stage together.

Pearl Jam - 10 years after Roskilde tragedy - remembrance in Berlin

Roskilde Festival is a pop festival that takes place in the Danish city of Roskilde, west of the capital Copenhagen. Pearl Jam's performance in 2000 saw nine people killed as a result of being crushed in the crowd.

10 years later, Eddie Vedder breaks down in tears remembering the victims of Roskilde before singing 'Come Back' to the audience in Berlin. Some of the victims' families attended this concert.

Although the accident was not caused by crowd surfing, this accident was the reason to ban crowd surfing at most European festivals.

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