Red Hot Chili Peppers – review

Stadium of Light, SunderlandWhen Red Hot Chili Peppers last visited the north-east – hauling their punky-funky-metal fusion into Newcastle's modest Riverside club in 1990 – few would have put money on the Californians living out their days playing stadiums. But that was followed by a commercial ascent through the 1990s, which peaked when 2002's By the Way album channelled years of hard partying, sex, drug addiction, a death and a breakdown into a multimillion-selling reflection on the ba...

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