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1973
- Led Zeppelin play to 56,800 at Tampa Stadium, breaking the Beatles Shea Stadium record for largest concert attendance.
- The Summer Jam at Watkins Glen, New York breaks Woodstock's record with 600,000 fans seeing The Band, The Allman Brothers and The Grateful Dead.
- On U.S. television, concert series The Midnight Special and Don Kirshner's In Concert are launched featuring music acts playing live to a concert audience, rather than lip syncing.
- Singer/songwriter Jim Croce dies in a Louisiana plane crash. Croce had five U.S. Top Ten hits through the early 70's including two No. 1 hits.
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