85-Year-Old METALLICA Fan Gets Backstage Pass To Meet Band

October 3, 2009

Sean Daly of the St. Petersburg Times reports: Margaret Priebe, 85 — a huge, if unlikely, fan of headbanging heroes METALLICA — became a viral sensation after her story appeared in Thursday's St. Petersburg Times. The Internet, from Fark to Twitter to Facebook, lit up with the Largo woman's story. An international METALLICA site even asked to translate the story into Bulgarian.

But the coolest thrill for the recent cancer survivor was yet to come. Before METALLICA's show tonight (Saturday, October 3) at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa, the thrash-metal quartet will bring Margaret backstage for a meet-and-greet. A rep from the band's Warner Bros. label confirmed the invitation Friday.

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