David Bowie at Western Springs Speedway

David Bowie’s Serious Moonlight Tour came through for a show at Auckland’s enormous Western Springs Speedway in 1983. The 74,480 strong audience was the largest ever recorded for an Australasian concert and was believed to be the largest single crowd gathering in the history of New Zealand. The gig was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest crowd gathering per head of population anywhere in the world. According to Bowie fan Paul from Auckland, some papers may have declared a mere 70,000 attendance, but that number had swelled considerably by at least 20,000 due to people pushing the perimeter fences over. Read more >