In February 2018 , the Coliseum hosted the New York Open , an ATP 250 men 's tennis tournament replacing the long-running Memphis Open . The seating capacity for hockey during the life of the arena has been : Elvis Presley performed four sold-out concerts at the Nassau Coliseum on June 22 , 23 & 24 , 1973 . His last Coliseum appearance was on July 19 , 1975 . Six days following Presley 's death , a summer tour was scheduled to begin at the Coliseum on August 22 , 1977 . Tickets for the show have become collectors items . The Beach Boys performed to a sold-out audience on June 19 , 1974 . Their tour promoted the recently released Holland album and featured a setlist of recent songs as well as several of their early 60 's hits . They were joined onstage by Elton John and Paul Simon for the encore performance . David Bowie performed a radio broadcast from there during his Isolar Tour , in support of the album '' Station to Station '' . A heavily circulated bootleg of the concert saw official release in 2010 as part of the 2010 reissue of the album , and in 2017 as a separate release , '' Live Nassau Coliseum ' 76 '' . Queen played at the Coliseum in February 1977 during their A Day at the Races Tour . The band used footage of their performance of " Tie Your Mother Down " in the song 's promotional film
Isolar Tour
Isolar – 1976 Tour
Nassau Coliseum