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Road to Revolution: Live at Milton Keynes (2008)

Where the lyrics of Road to Revolution: Live at Milton Keynes take you, and where it was really made.

A show planned for MTV ended up as a commercial CD and DVD because legal reasons blocked the broadcast.

Key places

Recorded at the National Bowl, June 2008 (2008)

Recording site National Bowl — The album was recorded at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes during the band's Projekt Revolution tour on 29 June 2008. The venue is a stadium-type outdoor site in Milton Keynes. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Second live album and fourth DVD by American rock band Linkin Park
• Released 21 November 2008 through Warner Records
• Release date first set for 25 November 2008, then moved to 24 November
• Recorded at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes on 29 June 2008
• Recorded during the band's annual Projekt Revolution festival tour
• Material drawn from all three of the band's albums
• Also includes songs from the EP Collision Course with Jay-Z and elements from Reanimation and Fort Minor's The Rising Tied
• Certified gold in Italy by the Federation of the Italian Music Industry

Background

• Concert announced months beforehand and promoted heavily
• Promotion possibly aimed to draw as large a crowd as possible for the DVD/CD release and to compete with the Glastonbury Festival, held over the previous three days
• First time Projekt Revolution came to the UK, as part of the first Projekt Revolution in Europe; the other three European shows were in Germany
• First time Linkin Park and Jay-Z collaborated outside the US
• Supporting acts: Innerpartysystem, The Bravery, Enter Shikari, N*E*R*D, Pendulum, and Jay-Z, who performed a full solo set as well as his collaboration with the headliners
• Many flyers distributed by the Linkin Park Street Team listed HIM as performing

Recording

• 22 songs played in total
• Songs cut from the CD because of the CD's 80-minute limit
• The 'Bleed It Out' singalong with the crowd appears on the DVD only
• 'Wake' also cut from the CD; the CD ending fades from 'No More Sorrow' to 'Given Up'
• 'Somewhere I Belong', 'Papercut' and 'Points of Authority' appear as bonus content after the credits on the DVD
• During 'Jigga What/Faint' Shinoda forgot to get his guitar in time; his part was edited in

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Linkin Park was formed in Agoura Hills, California, in 1996 by high school friends Mike Shinoda, Rob Bourdon, and Brad Delson.
• The band began as Xero, recorded a four-track demo in 1997, and changed its name to Hybrid Theory after Chester Bennington joined in 1999.
• Warner Bros. Records advised another name change, and the band chose Linkin Park.

Members

• The original lineup included vocalist Chester Bennington and drummer Rob Bourdon.
• Bennington died by suicide in July 2017, and the band went on hiatus.
• In September 2024 the reformed lineup was announced, with Emily Armstrong and Colin Brittain added to Shinoda, Delson, Joe Hahn, and Dave Farrell.

Career

• Debut album Hybrid Theory (2000) was certified Diamond by the RIAA and sold more than 4.8 million copies in its first year.
• Meteora (2003) followed, and Minutes to Midnight (2007) marked a change in sound.
• A Thousand Suns (2010), Living Things (2012), The Hunting Party (2014), and One More Light (2017) explored electronic, rock, and pop directions.
• The band has sold more than 100 million records worldwide.
• Eighth album From Zero (2024) returned to a heavier sound.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Critical reaction divided, though most agreed fans would be pleased with the album
• Kerrang! critic Ryan Bird praised the album highly, calling it the band's most triumphant moment and describing the concert as flawless in every detail
• Artistdirect critic Rick Florino praised the album as one of those rare live packages that works on every level
• AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave a mixed review, saying fans would surely be pleased but that the album is not a bracing testament to the band's on-stage prowess
• CHARTattack critic Kate Harper gave a negative review, calling the band boring to watch, though she praised Jay-Z's appearance

Records

• Certified gold in Italy by the Federation of the Italian Music Industry
• The live version of 'What I've Done' from the album was announced on 2 December 2009 as nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The concert was announced months ahead and promoted heavily, possibly to draw a big crowd for the DVD/CD release and to compete with the Glastonbury Festival held over the previous three days.
• A broadcast on MTV was planned, but for legal reasons the show was released commercially on CD and DVD instead.
• Bennington told the crowd the show was the biggest Projekt Revolution show to date and said it was the best day of his life.
• Fans voted on five candidate titles in an October 2008 poll; 'Road to Revolution' won and was announced on 13 October.
• As with many Linkin Park shows since 2007, the full show could be downloaded as MP3 by those who bought a code at the concert.
• A shortened version of the show was broadcast on WOWOW on 28 October 2008, and five songs were left out of that broadcast.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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