Houses of the Holy topped charts worldwide, and the band’s subsequent concert tour of North America in 1973 broke records for attendance, as they consistently filled large auditoriums and stadiums. At Tampa Stadium in Florida, they played to 56,800 fans, breaking the record set by the Beatles’ 1965 Shea Stadium concert and grossing $309,000. Three sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden in New York City were filmed for a motion picture, but the theatrical release of this project ( The Song Remains the Same ) was delayed until 1976. Before the final night’s performance, $180,000 ($1,305,000 today) of the band’s money from gate receipts was stolen from a safe deposit box at the Drake Hotel .
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