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Throughout the late 1960s and 1970s, Led Zeppelin made numerous concert tours of the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe in particular. They performed over 600 concerts, [1] initially playing small clubs and ballrooms and then, as their popularity increased, larger venues and arenas as well.
Led Zeppelin's 1977 North American Tour was a massive financial success, as the band sold out large arenas and stadiums. On 30 April they performed to 76,229 people at the Pontiac Silverdome , a new world record attendance for a solo indoor attraction, beating the 75,962 that The Who attracted there on 6 December 1975 for Opening Night, and ...
Led Zeppelin's Summer 1970 North American Tour was the sixth concert tour of North America by the English rock band. The tour commenced on 10 August and concluded on 19 September 1970. The tour commenced on 10 August and concluded on 19 September 1970.
Logo of the cancelled tour. Led Zeppelin – The 1980s, Part One was a planned autumn 1980 concert tour of North America by the rock band Led Zeppelin.It was scheduled to take place from 17 October through 15 November of that year and cover much of the East Coast and Midwest.
A review in Rolling Stone magazine referred to Physical Graffiti as Led Zeppelin's "bid for artistic respectability", adding that the only bands Led Zeppelin had to compete with for the title "The World's Best Rock Band" were the Rolling Stones and the Who. [68] The album was a massive commercial and critical success.
Depending who you ask, the band’s fourth album is either called Led Zeppelin IV, has no title at all, or is known by four hand drawn symbols on the vinyl label, one of which resembles the ...
The second leg of the band's US tour concluded in March, and was followed by a series of shows at London's Earl's Court in May 1975.The band had planned to continue touring after a break, with a further round of eight US shows scheduled from August 23 to September 9; this leg would have commenced with two sold out dates at Oakland Coliseum and included a show at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena ...
Guitarist Jimmy Page considers Led Zeppelin at this point to have been at their artistic peak. [1] However, despite selling out their concerts, the tour had the lowest profile of all of the band's eleven North American concert tours, being vastly overshadowed by the Rolling Stones' tour of the same period, much to the annoyance of Led Zeppelin.