In the summer of 1973, Led Zeppelin were winding down the biggest tour of their career, a cross-country debauch-a-thon. By July, when they arrived at New York's Madison Square Garden, the band was drained and eager to get home. To make things worse, their Manhattan hotel was robbed.
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