Linkin Park closed this year's Rock'n Coke festival in İstanbul Sunday night, wrapping up two days of reveling under the sun and the stars at the vast greenery of the İstanbul Park Formula 1 race track area.

The Sixth Rock'n Coke festival, which returned this summer with an impressive lineup after a one-year hiatus due to financial problems in 2008, was expecting to draw around 40,000 revelers to see more than 300 musicians perform live on two separate stages in the huge festival area, which hosted the event for the first time.

Linkin Park was the highlight of the fest's final night, staying on the main stage for almost two hours, blaring such modern rock anthems as “In The End,” “New Divide” and “One Step Closer” to a cheering crowd of tens of thousands, which the band saluted by waving a Turkish flag onstage.

The nu metal and alternative rock band, since its formation in 1996, has sold more than 50 million albums and earned two Grammy Awards, achieving mainstream success in 2000 with the release of its debut album, “Hybrid Theory.”

Other acts of international fame who played at this year's festival included Nine Inch Nails, The Prodigy, Kaiser Chiefs, Jane's Addiction, Juliette Lewis, Howling Bells, Janelle Monae, D2, Cold War Kids and Razorlight as well as Turkish rockers Duman, Manga, Hayko Cepkin, Emre Aydın and Aylin Aslım.

Around 60 hours of live music was played throughout the festival, which also featured a camping area for 15,000. The festival area, constructed over one-and-a-half months, also contained entertainment and shopping centers, food shops, parking lots, a mobile hospital, a post office, an amusement park and an Internet café.


Source: Today Szaman