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The Rose Bowl stadium is the only site west of the Mississippi River to host an Army-Navy game(1983). The city of Pasadena paid for the traveling expenses of the all students and supporters of both the U.S. Naval Academy and U.S. Military Academy. The attendance was 81,000. The game was brought to the Rose Bowl as there are a large number of military installations and servicemen and women, along with many retired military personnel, on the West coast.
The stadium hosted the 2007 Drum Corps International World Championships August 7 through August 11, 2007. The Rose Bowl is the final stadium to host the championship before DCI moved their corporate offices to Indianapolis, Indiana with the championships being held at Lucas Oil Stadium until at least 2018. This was the first time the DCI championships have ever been held west of Denver, Colorado in the 35 year history of DCI.
It hosted auditions for the top American television show, American Idol, on August 8, 2006. The stadium has also been used as part of the music video shoot for the song "The Last Song", the second single released by the American rock band The All-American Rejects, which features the band performing the song in the middle of the stadium to an empty crowd.
On June 18, 1988, Depeche Mode played the last concert of their Music for the Masses Tour, at the sold-out Rose Bowl in front of 60,452 people. This concert was recorded and filmed for their first live album and documentary movie, 101, which was released in 1989 and was directed by D. A. Pennebaker.
Metallica and Guns N' Roses brought the Guns N' Roses/Metallica Stadium Tour to the stadium on October 3, 1992, with Motörhead and Body Count as their opening acts.
Pink Floyd played at the Bowl, on two consecutive nights, during The Division Bell Tour on April 16–17, 1994 & is available on ROIO.
The stadium hosted the Lilith Fair in 1998 & 1999.
On October 25, 2009, U2 played to the first ever full capacity sell out crowd (97,014) in the history of the Stadium. Their 360° Tour visited the stadium in support of the #1 album No Line on The Horizon. This concert streamed live on YouTube worldwide and was released the DVD and Blue-ray disc U2 360° at the Rose Bowl.
The stadium also plays host to the annual 4 July Fireworks show since 1926. Since 2008, "Americafest" has featured "Drum Corps International (DCI), Marching Music's Major League, which presents 'five of the country's best Drum and Bugle Corps", and a "world-class fireworks show that will thrill and delight families from throughout Southern California".
The stadium's Court of Champions was the site of a "Roadblock" from Season 17 of the hit CBS reality TV show The Amazing Race where teams had to help decorate three sections of the theme float for the 2011 New Year's Day Rose Parade.
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