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The land on which Tampa Stadium was situated had been the perimeter of Drew Field, a World War II-era airfield which was the precursor to Tampa International Airport.In 1949, the city of Tampa bought a 720-acre (290 ha) grassy parcel between the airport and West Tampa from the federal government with the idea of eventually building a community sports complex.
Raymond James Stadium has hosted several large scale concerts, with the largest attendance (72,000) coming at a show by U2 in 2009. [64] The annual Sunset Music Festival is also hosted at the stadium. [65] Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour is the first act in stadium history to sell out two and three shows on a single tour. [66] [67]
During their 1973 tour of the United States, they played to 56,800 fans at Tampa Stadium, Florida, breaking the record set by The Beatles at Shea Stadium in 1965. Similar crowds were drawn on Led Zeppelin's subsequent U.S. tours, and they continued to break attendance records (on April 30, 1977 they played to 76,229 fans at the Pontiac ...
Led Zeppelin's 1973 North American Tour was the ninth concert tour of North America by the English rock band.The tour was divided into two legs, with performances commencing on 4 May and concluding on 29 July 1973.
The concert video Perfect Square was taken from footage captured from a show in Wiesbaden, Germany, on this tour. At a concert in Raleigh, North Carolina, Berry made a surprise appearance, performing backing vocals on "Radio Free Europe". He then sat behind the drum kit for a performance of the early R.E.M. song "Permanent Vacation", marking ...
At Tampa Stadium in Florida, they played to 56,800 fans, breaking the record set by the Beatles' 1965 Shea Stadium concert and grossing $309,000. [61] Three sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden in New York City were filmed for a motion picture, but the theatrical release of this project (The Song Remains the Same) was delayed until 1976.
October 10, 1997: The Rolling Stones play the first concert at the then-Ericsson Stadium, a sell-out. 2002: Then-Ericsson Stadium becomes the home of a new college football bowl.
After the performance, news came that Plant's five-year-old son, Karac, had died from a stomach virus. The rest of the tour (including the Chicago Stadium makeup show, a second concert at the venue, and five additional concerts at the Louisiana Superdome, Rich Stadium, the Pittsburgh Civic Arena and John F. Kennedy Stadium) was immediately ...