Ed Sheeran drew a huge sold-out crowd to his The +–=÷× Tour (aka the Mathematics Tour) stop at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara.
Ed Sheeran paused to remember how it all began, thinking back to the time when he debuted “The A Team” in an English pub and nobody paid any attention.
The previous recordholder, in terms of concerts, was set in June 2015 by Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of the Grateful Dead, which featured surviving members of the Dead and other musicians long associated with the band and drew nearly 76,000 per night over two nights. WrestleMania, also from 2015, held the overall mark with about 77,000 in attendance until Sheeran stamped his name on the record.
What makes the turnout even more incredible is that it wasn’t for some legendary rock band with a massive stage production like U2 or superstar pop act touring with backup dancers, costume changes and plenty of bells and whistles. Instead, it was mostly just a guy and his guitar, crooning through well-written songs in a way that would easily translate to a theater setting.
He stalked the stage like a cat in a cage, moving simply for moving’s sake, as he chatted up the crowd and sang all his biggest hits during roughly two hours and 15 minutes of stage time.
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