JUNE 5
IN 2003 METALLICA RELEASE ‘ST. ANGER’, THEIR EIGHTH STUDIO ALBUM. THIS IS METALLICA’S ONLY ALBUM AS AN OFFICIAL TRIO, AS BASSIST JASON NEWSTED LEFT THE BAND PRIOR TO THE RECORDING SESSIONS. ROBERT TRUJILLO JOINED THE BAND ON BASS FOLLOWING ITS COMPLETION.
ON THIS DAY IN 1983 U2 PLAY THE RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATER IN COLORADO. DESPITE RAIN, THE CONCERT IS RECORDED AND RELEASED AS ‘U2 LIVE AT RED ROCKS: UNDER A BLOOD RED SKY.’
AND IN 1989 PAUL MCCARTNEY RELEASES “FLOWERS IN THE DIRT”, HIS EIGHTH SOLO STUDIO ALBUM, FEATURING THE ELVIS COSTELLO COLLABORATION “MY BRAVE FACE”