4 Facts About Led Zeppelin’s 1973 Tampa Stadium Attendance Record
- Led Zeppelin drew 56,800 people to Tampa Stadium on July 17, 1973, making it the largest single-concert crowd in the US that year.
- The record held for a while, but thousands more were turned away due to capacity limits.
- The massive crowd caused stage lights to overheat, forcing the band to cut the set short.
- The record has since been broken many times, mostly by stadium shows in the 1990s and 2000s.