Pontiac Silverdome
Concerts

Pontiac Silverdome

Section Title: Concerts
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Date	Artist(s)	Supporting act(s)	Tour	Attendance	Revenue	Note(s)	Reference(s)

December 6, 1975	The Who	Toots & the Maytals	The Who Tour 1975	75,962	—	The live versions of "Join Together", "Road Runner", and "My Generation Blues" were recorded for The Kids Are Alright soundtrack but were omitted from the first CD release of the soundtrack, but were included in the reissued edition.

December 31, 1975	Elvis Presley	—	—	62,500	$816,000	This is Elvis' very first New Year's Eve show.

May 8, 1976	Aerosmith	Ted Nugent Outlaws Foghat	Rocks Tour	76,900	—

July 11, 1976	Elton John	—	Louder Than Concorde Tour	—	—

July 25, 1976	Jethro Tull	Rick Derringer Robin Trower	Too Old To Rock 'N' Roll Tour	—	—

April 30, 1977	Led Zeppelin	—	1977 North American Tour	76,229	$792,361.50	Set attendance record for a solo indoor attraction.

March 5, 1978	Kenny Rogers Dottie West	Oak Ridge Boys	—	60,000+	—	This performance was billed as the "World's Largest Indoor Country Music Show".

July 13, 1979	Kiss	Cheap Trick New England	Dynasty Tour	—	—

July 28, 1979	Bee Gees	Sweet Inspirations	Spirits Having Flown Tour	36,270 / 36,270	$453,375

December 7, 1979	The Who	Blackfoot	The Who Tour 1979	—	—

November 30, 1981	The Rolling Stones	Iggy Pop Santana	American Tour 1981	152,696 / 152,696	$2,290,000

December 1, 1981

September 30, 1982	The Who	Eddie Money The Clash	The Who Tour 1982	75,000 / 75,000	$1,119,000

August 17, 1984	The Jacksons	—	Victory Tour	143,700	$4,350,030

August 18, 1984

August 19, 1984

September 4, 1985	Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band	—	Born in the U.S.A. Tour	69,844 / 69,844	$1,222,270

April 30, 1987	U2	Lone Justice	The Joshua Tree Tour	51,718 / 51,718	$853,347

August 7, 1987	Madonna	Level 42 Bhundu Boys Hue and Cry	Who's That Girl World Tour	41,017 / 44,556	$881,866

June 17, 1988	Van Halen Scorpions	Dokken Metallica Kingdom Come	Monsters of Rock Tour 1988	—	—

June 18, 1988

July 25, 1989	The Who	—	The Who Tour 1989	46,000 / 46,000	$1,058,000

December 9, 1989	The Rolling Stones	Living Colour	Steel Wheels Tour	100,234 / 100,234	$2,956,834

December 10, 1989

May 24, 1992	Genesis	—	We Can't Dance Tour	—	—

July 21, 1992	Metallica Guns N' Roses	Faith No More	Guns N' Roses/Metallica Stadium Tour	47,540 / 47,540	$1,378,660	After Guns N' Roses performed their song "You Could Be Mine", Axl Rose vomited onstage and left soon afterwards, but returned to the stage and apologized to the audience for the poor performance, so the band redid the song again.

September 9, 1992	U2	Primus The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy	Zoo TV Tour	36,740 / 40,680	$1,102,200	This show was on the Outside Broadcast leg of the tour.

June 4, 1993	Paul McCartney	—	The New World Tour	49,378 / 49,378	$1,291,778

July 14, 1994	Pink Floyd	—	The Division Bell Tour	111,355 / 111,355	$3,772,950	The band performed their classic album The Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety for the first time since 1975.

July 15, 1994

August 18, 1994	Billy Joel Elton John	—	Face to Face 1994	54,125 / 54,125	$2,444,334

December 1, 1994	The Rolling Stones	Spin Doctors	Voodoo Lounge Tour	38,274 / 38,274	$1,815,325

October 31, 1997	U2	Smash Mouth	Popmart Tour	35,463 / 40,000	$1,781,621	This show took place on Larry Mullen's 36th birthday

July 31, 1999	NSYNC	Jordan Knight Sugarhill Gang 3rd Storee	NSYNC in Concert	48,163 / 55,626	$1,528,735

December 31, 1999	Metallica	Ted Nugent Kid Rock Sevendust	M2K Mini Tour	54,707 / 54,707	$3,049,117	This was a New Year's Eve concert. At the show, Metallica broadcast the Times Square Ball Drop, ushering in the year 2000, and played the classic Kiss track "Detroit Rock City" alongside the opening acts.

July 18, 2000	NSYNC	P!nk	No Strings Attached Tour	48,708 / 48,708	$2,395,413	This concert was filmed for their concert movie "*NSYNC: Bigger Than Live".

February 15, 2001	Backstreet Boys	Destiny's Child	Black & Blue Tour	—	—

July 4, 2003	Metallica	Limp Bizkit Linkin Park Deftones Mudvayne	Summer Sanitarium Tour	—	—

Sentence(s)

Led Zeppelin played in front of 76,229 fans, at the Silverdome on, April 30, 1977.

final_sentence: Led Zeppelin played in front of 76,229 fans, at the Silverdome on, April 30, 1977.