In ’04, Red Hot Chili Peppers played the first of three shows at London’s Hyde Park. This concert plus the two that followed on June 20th and 25th earned more than $17 million setting a record for being the highest-grossing concerts at a single venue.
Tracks were recorded for the group’s first official concert album, the double-disc “Live In Hyde Park,” which was released later in the year. It went straight to #1 in the U.K. and stayed there for two weeks, selling over 120,000 copies
Four years later – to the day – The Peppers’ vocalist Anthony Kiedis (pictured) was the top male vote-getter in the Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrity poll conducted by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. “Soon after I (went vegan) I saw some documentary footage of what happens in the factory farming of cows,” said the Kiedis. “It sealed the deal.”
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