Led Zeppelin North American Tour 1977

The band's eleventh and last North American tour, April to July 1977, cut short by tragedy.

Led Zeppelin's 1977 North American Tour was the eleventh and final time the band toured North America. Played in three legs from 1 April to 24 July 1977, it was their first tour since Robert Plant's 1975 car accident and their biggest ever: Peter Grant planned it to reassert the band's standing, and it set a record for a solo indoor attraction when about 76,000 people saw them at the Pontiac Silverdome on 30 April. The band played six sold-out nights each at Madison Square Garden and the Los Angeles Forum.

The set brought back an acoustic section first revived at Earls Court in 1975, and included "Nobody's Fault but Mine" and "Achilles Last Stand" from Presence. The tour was troubled, though: there were crowd disturbances in Cincinnati and a riot after a storm-shortened show in Tampa, and after a show at Oakland in July, Grant, Bonham, tour manager Richard Cole and security man John Bindon were arrested over an assault on a member of promoter Bill Graham's staff.

The second Oakland concert turned out to be Led Zeppelin's last in the United States. Straight afterwards Plant learned that his five-year-old son Karac had died, and the remaining dates were cancelled.