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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.
However, this stint of concerts also featured many unsavoury crowd control problems, with the shows often descending into violent confrontations between young concert-goers and the police. [2] The tour occurred at a time when civil tension was very high in the United States, with numerous demonstrations taking place against the Vietnam War. On ...
Hammer of the Gods is a book written by music journalist Stephen Davis, published in 1985.It is an unauthorized biography of the English rock band Led Zeppelin.Davis travelled with Led Zeppelin for two weeks at the beginning of the band's 1975 U.S. Tour, while he was a music journalist at Rolling Stone magazine.
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.
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 ...
Led Zeppelin's manager Peter Grant conceived this series of concerts as an effort that would reassert Led Zeppelin as the dominant band of the decade. [2] Fifty-one concerts were scheduled over a three-leg period, for 1.3 million ticket holders. It was Led Zeppelin's biggest ever tour, and tickets sold at a rate of 72,000 a day. [3]
Led Zeppelin's 1968/1969 tour of North America was the first concert tour of the United States and Canada by the English rock band.The tour commenced on 26 December 1968 and concluded on 16 February 1969.
The grounds of Knebworth House near the village of Knebworth had been a major venue for open air rock and pop concerts since 1974. In 1979, veteran promoter Freddy Bannister booked Led Zeppelin to play that year's concerts which took place on 4 August [1] and 11 August [2] after the bandleader of the Electric Light Orchestra, Jeff Lynne, turned down the offer to headline the festival.