Destination Docklands

Destination Docklands was a concert held by musician Jean-Michel Jarre on the Royal Victoria Docks, Docklands, London on October 8 and October 9, 1988. The concert was attended by 200,000 people, not including the people who watched the concert from the nearby streets and households. The grandstands for the audience (surrounding a standing-room area) lined the North side of the dock, an area now occupied by

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Jean-Michel Jarre - Royal Victoria Docks - Docklands - London - October 8 - October 9 - 1988

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the ExCeL Exhibition Centre. The warehouses on the South side of the dock, by then mostly empty, were painted white to provide enormous backdrops for projected images. The stage floated in the middle of the dock and the concert was accompanied by the musician's trademark breathtaking firework and searchlight show.

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