CALENDAR SECTION only of the Los Angeles Times, Feb. 14, 1985 

* Early "Metallica" heavy metal band 
* Hollywood Palladium advertisement 
* Bassist Cliff Burton era - "Ride the Lightning"

This Calendar section of the Times is loaded with entertainment related material throughout. Page 61 has a 4 x 3 3/4 inch advertisement with a few upcoming performances at The Hollywood Palladium including one by Metallica with Armored Saint. (see images)
A very early item for this San Francisco based Heavy Metal band before they became iconic.
This is a rare surviving item from of the early 1980s - a publication that held no obvious historic value at the time, giving no one a reason to save it.
Complete Calendar section only with all 92 pages, tabloid size, great condition.

Background: The March 10, 1985, performance at the Hollywood Palladium—boldly heralded in the Los Angeles Times just weeks prior—stands as a watershed moment in heavy metal history, capturing the exact flashpoint where underground thrash metal definitively broke into the mainstream consciousness. Shared with local power-metal titans Armored Saint, the concert served as a victorious homecoming and a changing of the guard in a Southern California landscape otherwise dominated by the polished, radio-friendly glam metal of the Sunset Strip. By filling a prestigious, large-capacity venue like the Palladium on the strength of Ride the Lightning, Metallica proved that raw speed, complex compositions, and aggressive street-level authenticity possessed massive commercial viability without the need for mainstream radio airplay. Furthermore, because high-quality soundboard audio survived to immortalize the unmatched, ferocious chemistry of the definitive early lineup—particularly the virtuosic bass work of the late Cliff Burton—this event acts as a pristine historical time capsule documenting the precise weekend Metallica transitioned from underground tape-trading icons into an unstoppable, arena-bound cultural phenomenon.