Fifty years ago this month, 56,800 fans crammed into Tampa Stadium to watch Led Zeppelin play their new album, “Houses of the Holy.” Just four years prior, they had played to 7,000 at Curtis Hixon Hall.
The May 5, 1973, Tampa concert wasn’t just a killer show. It also shattered the attendance record for the biggest crowd at any single-act concert. Up until that point, the Beatles held that honor with their 1965 performance at New York City’s Shea Stadium, which drew about 55,000.
“Between us we’ve done something nobody’s ever done before,” singer Robert Plant told the Tampa crowd that humid Saturday night.
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