Christie Goodwin/RedfernsThis past weekend marked the 10th anniversary of what Tom Morello believes was Rage Against the Machine‘s “greatest” concert.
On June 6, 2010, the rap-metal titans headlined a free show at London’s Finsbury Park. Rage had scheduled the concert after U.K. fans made the band’s 1992 song “Killing in the Name” the number-one single during Christmas 2009.
Scoring the Christmas number-one single is a coveted achievement in the U.K., and “Killing in the Name” became the first non-X Factor song to earn that title in four years.
On Saturday, Morello marked the show’s 10th anniversary with an Instagram post.
“[Ten] years ago today @rageagainstthemachine performed a free ‘Victory Concert’ for 90,000 people in Finsbury Park, England to celebrate the successful ‘people’s campaign’ that dethroned Simon Cowell‘s X Factor and put ‘Killing in the Name’ at THE #1 SPOT ON UK XMAS CHART,” Morello wrote.
“The band donated 100 [percent] of sales from the single to UK homeless charities and the show may go down as the greatest in the band’s history,” the guitarist added. “So today I suspect it won’t be hard find a worthy target or two & tell em: #F***YouIWontDoWhatYouTellMe.”
Meanwhile, you may have seen Morello trending on Twitter over the weekend after a past anti-Donald Trump Instagram post of his started recirculating online. In the post, Morello shot back at someone who left a comment dismissing him as “another successful musician [who] instantly becomes a political expert.”
“One does not have to be an honors grad in political science from Harvard University to recognize the unethical and inhuman nature of this administration,” Morello wrote. “But well, I happen to be an honors grad in political science from Harvard University so I can confirm that for you.”
By Josh Johnson
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