User:Xinyang Aliciabritney/List of concerts held at the PalaLottomatica

Many artists have performed at the Palazzo dello Sport / PalaLottomatica since late 1960s and early 1970s: amongst them the Rolling Stones in 1970, the Depeche Mode several times since 1987, the Cure, Paul McCartney, Iron Maiden, Dire Straits and many others. In 1975 a Lou Reed concert was cancelled because of turmoils between police and groups of people who protested against the high prices of concert tickets; because of those turmoils the Palazzo dello Sport was seriously damaged and foreigner artists refused to perform in Italy for the following 5 years until Bob Marley performed in Milan in 1980. The Spice Girls performed a show in March 1998 during their Spiceworld Tour. This arena also hosted the concert of Avril Lavigne with her The Black Star Tour on September 10, 2011.

The first artist to perform after the modernization and the renaming as PalaLottomatica was Carlos Santana in 2003.