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1994 Green Day ‘riot’ concert at the Hatch Shell

In 1994, Green Day played a concert at the Hatch Shell in Boston that turned into a riot.

Maybe WFNX Radio didn’t anticipate their catapult onto the charts when they scheduled them for a free concert on the Esplanade. Thirty years ago, on Sept. 9, 1994, Green Day drew between 70,000 to 100,000 fans to the show, which quickly got out of control, The Boston Globe reported at the time.

Green Day headlined at the Hatch Memorial Shell to celebrate college students returning to the city. After the crowd swelled, fans stormed the metal barricades, and bottles were thrown, Green Day lasted about 20 minutes on stage.

More than 100 people were treated for illness and injuries, at least 20 were transported to local hospitals, and least one officer was injured, the Globe reported.

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