The festivities will also celebrate Turku's dark side – watch out for the "live music and images of death" concert series, and the "death and its many faces" exhibitions.
Contrary to the accusations, the band have always denied the notion that they are Satanists, with lead vocalist, Bruce Dickinson, doing so on-stage in the Live After Death concert video.
Winehouse's last concert before her death had been a shambling and shameful affair, which saw her step onto a stage too drunk to stand.
He gave his last concert in 1960, less than a year before his death.
For a mule kick of cultural disjunction, try tourist-drunk Times Square, radiant with both an enormous new Toys RR" Us store and the new World Theater (which doubles as the World Wrestling Federation's theme restaurant), scene of a death-metal concert last Wednesday by Deicide and Morbid Angel.
Bowie, meanwhile, covered Amsterdam on the B-side of his 1973 single Sorrow and frequently played My Death in concert.
The movie reaches a climax of sorts when Lestat's Death Valley concert -- the kind of thing that passes for intentional humor in "Queen" -- turns into a Vampire Throwdown, with bloodsuckers from everywhere attacking the vampire star onstage.
Postponed from last month because of Ronald Reagan's death, the concert brought 6,200 people, paying $250 to $25,000 each, to the historic hall, beating the $6.8 million haul from a parallel gala last month in Los Angeles featuring Barbra Streisand, Willie Nelson and Billy Crystal.
This weekend #rechercheParis and #RechercheBataclan were used to help families search for their loved ones who'd been at an Eagles of Death metal concert where more than 80 young revellers were shot dead.
Postponed from earlier this month because of Ronald Reagan's death, the concert was the first of a pair; Jon Bon Jovi and the Dave Matthews Band are to lead the bill at Radio City Music Hall on July 8. Kerry campaign aides said the performers had agreed to appear on the condition that cameras and recorders be barred.
Besides the size (unbearable — think mosh pit at a death metal concert, only with much dorkier t-shirts) or the giant, overstated big-brand activations that are a visual incongruity to the festival I once adored, it's the authenticity and intimacy that has disappeared.
