Go on the road with some of the biggest bands of the seventies.
The Beatles and other big bands of the 1960s proved that youth culture could be a market for albums and concert tickets. So by the 1970s, the road was open for rock bands to hit the road and tour America’s theaters, rock clubs and stadiums.
Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, Wings, and many more groups spent the decade cruising around the country on tour buses and jets, messing around backstage, and trashing hotel rooms.
Here’s some pics of the massive concerts and wild antics from the biggest acts of classic rock
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Led Zeppelin aboard ‘The Starship’, a private passenger jet, during their North America tour, 30th July 1973.
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Gene Simmons with his mother backstage in 1977
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Rush in their tour bus
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1970's Eric Clapton In Concert
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Rock and Roll has landed!
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Loretta Lynn posing with her tour bus
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Angus Young, AC/DC
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John Bonham on Led Zeppelin's North American Tour, June 1977
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Van Halen on their tour bus, 1979
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Debbie Harry on a tour bus, travelling to Philadelphia, 1978
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Bruce Springsteen and Clarence Clemons in front of their bus for the 1978 Darkness on the Edge of Town tour
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KISS & Rush on tour in November 1975
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Concert Photo from the first tour of Queen, 1973, the tour started in September 1973
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The prog rock trio RUSH, performing live in the mid 1970’s
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Stevie Nicks doing the splits backstage,1978
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Paul and Linda McCartney with David Gilmour of Pink Floyd at a Zeppelin concert in 1973
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Paul McCartney and Wings in Detroit on the Wings Over America tour (1976)
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My dad with Paul and Linda McCartney backstage at Maple Leaf Gardens, May 9 1976
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Elton John Dodger Stadium Oct. 26, 1975
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Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page guzzling a bottle of Jack Daniels before going on stage in Indianapolis, 1975
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Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin holding a dove that flew into his hand during a concert in 1973
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Led Zeppelin backstage, Indianapolis 1975
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Led Zeppelin performed to a record breaking crowd of 76,229 people at the Pontiac Silverdome in Michigan, April 30th, 1977.
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Tom Waits on the tour bus
Reading Last Exit to Brooklyn, 1975 by Michael Dobo
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Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks
On the Fleetwood Mac Tour bus, 1976
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Led Zeppelin's Australia and New Zealand Tour
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Joan Jett backstage, 1977
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Hank Williams Jr. playing a guitar backstage (1974)
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