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In Pictures: The biggest music acts to play in Wales

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2023-06-10 09:50:43  • 2 mins

By Michael Burgess

BBC News

With Coldplay now departed from Cardiff's Principality Stadium, and a summer of music festivals ahead, we look at the other big names in music who have paid a visit to Wales over the years.

Whether it be The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Beyonc or Madonna, Wales has seen its fair share of some of the most famous music acts in modern history.

As these photographs of past concerts show, Wales isn't called the land of song for nothing.

Singer Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page, of rock group Led Zeppelin, sat down for a quiet number in Cardiff, December 1972.

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