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Joe Daly

"I found Steven Tyler on top of a table and on all fours, snorting a line that extended from one end of the table to another." The wild and deadly story behind the 1979 World Series of Rock

Aerosmith onstage in July 1979.

Not since Woodstock had the United States witnessed such a wild, momentous and ultimately deadly showcase of pure rock'n'roll excess.

July 28, 1979, began as a glorious summer day, with some of the biggest bands on the planet assembling for a day-long rock festival in Cleveland, Ohio. By the day’s end, however, the stadium grounds lay in shambles, the headliners ripped at each other’s throats, and two people lay dead.

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