Here's Layton quoted in 2003, when he retired, in Dick Goldstein's New York Times obit the following year:
I've had my day. Playing with 50,000 watts of power, what rock star has an amplifier like that? I play for up to 56,000 people a night. Not even Madonna has done those kind of numbers."
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