The Highest Concert Attendance on This Day in History

 

This Day in History: The English rock group Led Zeppelin set a record for paid attendance at a music concert, attracting 76,229 fans to the Pontiac Silverdome, a pro football stadium in Michigan in 1977. In 1973, they had set a record by bring 56,800 fans to Tampa Stadium in Florida, before The Who broke the record in 1975 by playing at Pontiac in front of 75,972 fans.

Some other concerts with large attendance numbers include:

Monsters of Rock Concert: 1.6 million attendees in 1991 at Tushino Airfield in Moscow, Soviet Union

The Rolling Stones' Bigger Bang Concert: 1.5 million attendees in 2006

Paul McCartney: 184,000 attendees in 1990 at Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro

Queen: 120,000 attendees in 1981 at Estádio do Morumbi in São Paulo

The Rolling Stones: 120,000 attendees in 1982 at Roundhay Park in Leeds

Madonna: 120,000 attendees in 1993 at Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro

Michael Jackson: 120,000 attendees in 1996 at Bemowo, Airport in Warsaw

Pink Floyd: 120,000 attendees in 1994 at Strahov Stadium in Prague 

Taylor Swift's Eras Tour is the highest-grossing concert tour of all time, with a total gross of $1.04 billion and 4.35 million tickets sold.

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The Yardbirds on This Day in History

 

This day in history: The Yardbirds played their final concert on this day in 1968, as the British R&B group finished its run at the Luton College of Technology in Bedfordshire.

The Yardbirds are an English rock band, formed in London in 1963. The band's core lineup featured vocalist and harmonica player Keith Relf, drummer Jim McCarty, rhythm guitarist and later bassist Chris Dreja, and bassist/producer Paul Samwell-Smith. The band started the careers of three of rock's most famous guitarists: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, all of whom ranked in the top five of Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 greatest guitarists. The band had a string of hits throughout the mid-1960s, including "For Your Love", "Heart Full of Soul", "Shapes of Things", and "Over Under Sideways Down".

Originally a blues-based band noted for their signature "rave-up" instrumental breaks, the Yardbirds broadened their range into pop, pioneered psychedelic rock and early hard rock, and contributed to many electric guitar innovations of the mid-1960s. Some rock critics and historians also cite their influence on the later punk rock, progressive rock, and heavy metal trends. Following the band's split in 1968, Relf and McCarty formed Renaissance and guitarist Jimmy Page formed Led Zeppelin. The Yardbirds re-formed in the 1990s, featuring McCarty and Dreja as the only original members. Dreja left the band in 2012, leaving McCarty as the sole original member of the band in the present lineup.

The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992. They were included at number 89 in Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" and ranked number 37 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock.

The breakup of the Yardbirds led to the formation of Led Zeppelin.  

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Led Zeppelin's 4th album on This Day in History

 

This Day In History: Led Zeppelin's 4th album was released on this day in 1971. It has gone on to sell over 37 million copies worldwide.

Led Zeppelin has been such an influential band that some groups actually sound just like them. During the 80's one of these groups were Kingdom Come. The musical style on Kingdom Come's debut album was very close to the early blues-rock style of English rock band Led Zeppelin, to the point that some listeners initially thought that Kingdom Come was actually a Led Zeppelin reunion. With a sound that was thought by many to be highly derivative of Led Zeppelin's, there was a backlash from critics, with the band being dubbed "Kingdom Clone" in the press.

Kingdom Come - Get it On

The biggest band to be accused to copying Led Zeppelin was Whitesnake. Tracks like "Slow an' Easy", "Still of the Night" and "Judgement Day" have been accused of copying Led Zeppelin, while David Coverdale has been accused of imitating singer Robert Plant. Responding to the claims, Coverdale jokingly stated in 1987: "I guess it's quite a compliment to be placed in a class like that." The comparison was exacerbated when Coverdale teamed up with Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page to release the album Coverdale–Page in 1993. In the press, Plant would refer to Coverdale as "David Cover-version". Coverdale denied any notion of plagiarism, stating: "I don't know how accurate the comparison is. People shouldn't forget that I worked in Deep Purple for a number of years, so my pedigree in hard rock is quite strong. I understand that bands like Whitesnake, Purple and Led Zeppelin all play a solid powerful brand of rock, but I don't think we're coming from the same place musically." Their bassist Neil Murray laid some of the blame on A&R executive John Kalodner, who he claimed began pushing Whitesnake in a more Led Zeppelin-like direction.

Whitesnake - Still of the Night

The latest band that sounds a lot like Led Zep is Greta Van Fleet. Even Robert Plant chimed in on them.

However, even Led Zeppelin has been accused to copying other bands. The iconic song “Stairway to Heaven” was part of an ongoing lawsuit. The band Spirit has claimed that the arpeggio opening is too similar to their 1968 song “Taurus.” "...a federal jury ruled in 2016 that Led Zeppelin’s song did not bear the burden of being 'virtually identical' to 'Spirit', as is the threshold for fairly common or simple chord progressions. This decision was then upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in March 2020, and finally on October 5th, the Supreme Court of the United States declined to hear the case." Source

Spirit vs Led Zeppelin

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