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Metallica Moves to Center Stage

Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 5 March 1989

LAKELAND, Fl. — Just as Metallica helped change the face of the Grammys — it was one of five acts nominated for the first-ever hard-rock/metal award last month, and it played its grim song 'One' during the broadcast — it has irrevocably changed the face of heavy metal.

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