Two Toronto concerts turned into a rebuke of Donald Trump’s order renaming Lake Ontario. Bruce Dickinson pointedly used the old name from the Scotiabank Arena stage, and Christopher Cross apologized to Canadians for his own president.
In April 1983, Metallica tore through a lethal set at Brooklyn’s L’Amour, then fired Dave Mustaine the next morning and handed him a bus ticket home. That brutal exit ignited Kill ‘Em All and Megadeth.