Zeppelin fans riot
In the early hours, an estimated 2,700 Led Zeppelin fans run amok at the Boston Garden Arena. They’d been queuing overnight to buy the $7.50 tickets for a Zep show on February 4 and had been allowed into the venue lobby when the night grew chilly. The throng broke into the hall proper around midnight, however, seizing 300 cases of beer, setting fire to seats and vandalising a piano. By 6am all 9,000 tickets are sold. Outraged, mayor Kevin H White cancels the show and bans the group from Boston for five years. In 2019, Jimmy Page reveals, “I was blissfully unaware of any of these shenanigans, but the mayor was, by all accounts, a Rolling Stones fan!”