The days or nights of a single performer selling out the nation’s huge auditoriums, arenas and domes may well be a thing of the past. Says Gerry Baron, director of promotions and public relations at the Pontiac Silverdome: “The last single entertainer who could have filled the full Silverdome was the late Elvis Presley.”

Presley’s New Year’s Eve concert in 1977 was the rock king’s largest “live” audience. Presley’s gross for that concert attended by more than 60,000—$816,000—is still the Silverdome record for a special entertainment event, although the rock group Led Zeppelin holds the attendance record at 76,229.

Baron feels Zeppelin would probably do that well again, as would the Rolling Stones, who may well be playing the Silverdome in 1980. The Who’s December 8 concert, which will be held in the Silverdome’s mini-dome conformation (35,000 seats), sold 20,000 advance seats by the first of October.