RollingStone magazine recently asked Lars Ulrich (Metallica) about his 2020 for their December series of articles. Below is an excerpt from the article by Kory Grow.
RollingStone Magazine:
So, How Was Your 2020? is a series in which our favorite entertainers answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their year. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December.
Metallica had booked gigs all around the world, including several summer festival headliners in the U.S., but Covid had other plans for 2020. After the group canceled its tour dates, it donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Covid relief organizations through its All Within My Hands charitable foundation, using money it raised from streaming video of past concerts. Eventually, the band members figured out how to play together again — creating a socially distanced, acoustic rendition of “Blackened,” regrouping in person for a newly filmed concert that they showed at drive-in movie theaters, unplugging again for a charity livestream, and releasing their S&M2 album, among other activities. Drummer Lars Ulrich also revealed to singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers in a Rolling Stone interview that Metallica had already begin writing music for a follow-up album to 2016’s Hardwired … to Self-Destruct.
In between his commitments to Metallica, Ulrich has found creative ways to stay busy during a year of quarantine. He played cinematographer to his sons, who jammed out a heavy version of the Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby.” He and his family members took turns picking classic movies to show each other. He helped out in a local food pantry. And he found creative ways to fill his time, whether watching Ken Burns’ epic docs or reading Matthew McConaughey’s memoir, Greenlights. Here, he tells Rolling Stone about the things that got him through 2020, as well as his hopes for 2021.
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