"Bigger Than The Pope"
In 1979, Tovar broke the 300,000-person attendance record set in Monterrey, Mexico, earlier that year by Pope John Paul II when the artist performed a free concert at the Santa Catarina River which drew 400,000 concertgoers. Some newspapers reporting on the new attendance record even ran headlines declaring that Tovar was "bigger than the Pope".
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