Kurt Cobain was, after all, a Metallica fan. “Enter Sandman” epitomised the new ... it was the last song James wrote lyrics to. So in the spring of ’91 he came in with these lyrics about ...

With word of the band coming to Lane stadium ... know anything about Mozart or Beethoven... But they all know ‘Enter Sandman’ and Metallica even before they come in these doors.” ...

Send it on its way to two billion…” Metallica’s 1986 masterpiece has surpassed one billion streams on Spotify.

DeMarco’s rendition of “Enter Sandman ... from Metallica’s 1984 record Ride The Lightning, and there are quite a few covers of the song out there. It’s a classic, after all.

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Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” has now spent an incredible 750 weeks on the Official Rock & Metal Singles chart, solidifying its status as the band’s longest-running U.K. hit.