SARSstock
5Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto, also known as SARSstock, was a benefit rock concert headlined by the Rolling Stones.
The Stones had held tour rehearsals in Toronto on more than one occasion; Toronto was also the setting for Keith Richards's 1977 arrest and subsequent trial (for heroin possession).
When The Rolling Stones announced the concert, Toronto was still under a SARS warning from the World Health Organization. The publicity garnered by the SARS outbreak led to a downturn in Toronto's tourism industry, which the concert was intended to help revive.
Tickets for the concert went on sale on June 27, 2003 and cost $21.50 Canadian. The first tranche of 150,000 tickets sold out almost immediately and made a single-day record for the Canadian arm of Ticketmaster.
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