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This article lists the most-attended concerts of all time. The oldest 100,000-crowd concert reported to Billboard Boxscore is Grateful Dead's gig at the Raceway Park, Englishtown, New Jersey on September 3, 1977. The concert was attended by 107,019 people. Internationally, 40 paid concerts have surpassed the initial record set by Grateful Dead.
On AllMusic, Timothy Monger said, "Created as a counterpart to their 2015 two-disc Best of the Grateful Dead studio collection, The Best of the Grateful Dead Live includes highlights culled from the band's commercially released concert albums on the Warner Bros. and Arista labels as well as a handful of live selections from their own personal archives."
In a 1993 poll of Grateful Dead tape traders, based on the concert recordings then in circulation, the 2/13/70 show was ranked #2 on the list of all-time favorite Dead tapes, and 2/14/70 was #17. (The May 8, 1977, concert at Cornell University's Barton Hall received the top ranking.)
The Grateful Dead’s 1978 concert at Duke University was just released last week, part of 19-CD package entitled “Friend Of The Devils.” The start of Duke campouts
Satellite radio service Sirius played the concerts, with a slight delay, on their Grateful Dead channel. [11] The concerts were also simulcasted at movie theaters in the United States. [ 12 ] The pay-per-view set a new record for a music event with more than 400,000 subscriptions, surpassing a 1999 simulcast by the Backstreet Boys which drew ...
Lyceum '72: The Complete Recordings is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead.Packaged as a box set of 24 LPs, it contains four complete concerts recorded at the Lyceum Theatre in London on May 23, 24, 25, and 26, 1972.
Giants Stadium 1987, 1989, 1991 is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead.It contains five complete concerts on 14 CDs. The shows were recorded at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on July 12, 1987, July 9 and 10, 1989, and June 16 and 17, 1991.
At the tail end of a light-hearted interview with Anthony Mason for “CBS Saturday Morning,” the concert promoter Peter Shapiro said he “might be holding” Chicago’s Soldier Field for GD ...