Metallica has lost its lawsuit pertaining to a small number of 2020 concert cancellations in South America. After the band was forced to cancel six tour dates due to COVID-related travel restrictions, their insurance policy from Lloyd’s of London, the company they used, did not cover losses, pointing out they had an obvious exclusion in their contract for any losses incurred due to “communicable diseases.” The iconic metal band sued the insurance company, demanding that it pay them over $3 million in losses due to the restrictions, but a California appeals court denied their lawsuit.
Justice Maria Stratton, who was shown the lawsuit, quoted Taylor Swift’s track “All Too Well” and stated that Metallica’s case should not have gone to trial, and “it was absurd to think that government closures were not the result of Covid-19.” “To paraphrase Taylor Swift: ‘We were there. We remember it all too well,'” she added. “There was no vaccine against Covid-19 in March 2020 and no drugs to treat it.” The mortality rate was unknown and patients were being treated in tents in parking lots, she said. “The mortality rate of Covid-19 was unknow, but to give just one example of the potential fatality rate, by late March, 2020, New York City was using refrigerated trucks as temporary morgues.”
Metallica had reported its losses from the canceled concerts to be $3,234,569. On March 20, 2024, the band performed at the 2024 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song at Washington, DC’s DAR Constitution Hall, as of press time.
Elton John was recently covered by Metallica at the 2024 Gershwin Prize in Washington, D.C., on another note. They began the show with a rendition of “Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding” from John’s 1973 double album “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.” Swift’s recreation of her “Eras” live tour has set Disney+ streaming records: just three days after its launch, “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version)” has become the most-streamed music, according to recent reports
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