Led Zeppelin
Chris Salewicz, Let It Rock, May 1975
ABOUT SIX MONTHS AGO THE BUZZ BEGAN TO SLIP IN AGAIN FROM THE SIDELINES. It had received appropriately casual nurturing since the summer of 1973 and the climax of Led Zeppelin's Houses Of The Holy US tour, during which, almost as the most logical of incidentals, the band had pulled in a 56,800 strong audience to a single show in Tampa, Florida, demolishing at a stroke, as they say, the attendance record established by the Beatles at Shea Stadium.
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