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* On December 31, 1994, the New Year's Eve celebrations featured a Rod Stewart concert, which featured 3. 5 million, making it the largest concert crowd ever.

More recently, the beach has been a site for huge free concerts unrelated to the year-end festivities.

On March 21, 2005, Lenny Kravitz performed there in front of 300, 000 people, on a Monday night.

On February 18, 2006, a Saturday, The Rolling Stones surpassed that mark by far, attracting over 1. 5 million people to the beach.