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1. TV on the Radio on a Billboard
TV On The Radio is the most recent band to take part in this tradition (or non-tradition) with their performance last week in front of the Heineken Light #OccasionallyPerfect billboard in Soho, NYC.
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2. Pink Floyd at Pompeii Ruins
Sure, they performed for an audience of about three (albeit drug-influenced) people. But those three people can now say they saw Pink Floyd perform in the amphitheater in the ruins of Pompeii.
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3. The White Stripes on the Bus
You really do meet the most special people on public transportation.
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4. Rage Against the Machine on Wall Street
Rage Against the Machine arent really the typical suits you see roaming Wall Street.
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5. The Cramps at Napa Mental Hospital
There is a striking resemblance between the band and the patients in this video of The Cramps gig at Napa Mental Hospital in 1978.
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6. U2 on the Roof
The Beatles may have done it first in their final concert, but U2 really took the roof top performance to new heights.
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7. Brian May on top of Buckingham Palace
Brian May playing on top of Buckingham Palace… talk about the royal treatment.
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8. Katie Melua in an Oil Rig
And the award for deepest underwater concert goes to… Katie Melua.
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9. Alicia Keys at the Great Wall of China
As Alicia Keys so eloquently said after her performance at the Great Wall of China, China is 'so much more historical than America'.
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10. Jean Michel Jarre at the Pyramids
It was New Year’s Eve 1999, and to celebrate the new millennium and the release of his new album “Metamorphoses”, Jean Michel Jarre chose to perform an extravagant music and light show at… you guessed it: the pyramids near Giza.
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11. David Hasselhoff at the Berlin Wall
Not sure what is less appropriate: David Hasselhoff performing at the Berlin Wall a little over a month after it came down, or the fact that he is well-known for his music in Germany and Austria.
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12. The Presidents of the United States of America at Mount Rushmore
What's better than a performance based solely on puns?
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