The record for the largest attendance at a ticketed concert in the United States stood for nearly fifty years, when a 1977 Grateful Dead performance attracted 107,019 fans to Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey. That record was shattered on Saturday when George Strait—who previously held the record for the largest indoor concert attendance for the final night of his 2014 The Cowboy Rides Away Tour at AT&T Stadium in Arlington—blew past the milestone held for the past 47 years by Jerry Garcia and friends.At Texas A&M’s Kyle Field in College Station, Strait bested both his indoor and the outdoor record by drawing 110,905 fans to what was billed as his only show in Texas this year. The attendance record for the stadium itself—including at…
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