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The Rolling Stones American Tour 1981
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The Rolling Stones American Tour 1981
Tour
by
The Rolling Stones
Associated album
Tattoo You
Start date
25 September 1981
End date
19 December 1981
Legs
1
No.
of shows
50
Box office
US million (US1,716,691 in 2016 dollars
[1]
)
The Rolling Stones
concert chronology
US Tour
1978
American Tour
1981
European Tour
1982
The Rolling Stones
'
American Tour 1981
was a
concert tour
of
stadiums
and
arenas
in the United States to promote the album
Tattoo You
. It was the largest grossing tour of 1981 with million in ticket sales. Roughly three million concert goers attended the concerts, setting various ticket sales records.
[2]
The 5 December show in New Orleans set an indoor concert attendance record which stood for 33 years.
Contents
[
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1
History
2
The Rolling Stones
3
Additional musicians
4
Set list
5
Worcester show
6
Irregular songs
7
Tour dates
8
References
9
External links
History
[
edit
]
Initially, lead singer
Mick Jagger
was not interested in another tour, but guitarists
Keith Richards
and
Ronnie Wood
were, as were elements of the press and public, and Jagger eventually relented.
[3]
As with previous tours, the American Tour 1981 was promoted by
Bill Graham
.
The band rehearsed for the tour at Long View Farm, North Brookfield, Massachusetts, from August 14 to September 25, 1981.
[4]
The Stones pre-opened the tour with a warm-up show at the Sir Morgan's Cove club in
Worcester, Massachusetts
on 14 September.
[5]
Though billed as Little Boy Blue & The Cockroaches, word got out and some 11,000 fans pushed and shoved outside the 300-person venue.
[5]
The
Mayor of Boston
Kevin H. White
stopped the notion of any further public rehearsals, saying "The appearance here of Mr. Jagger is not necessarily in the public interest."
[5]
The tour's elaborate and colorful stage was the work of Japanese designer Kazuhide Yamazaki.
[6]
According to
Mick Jagger
, "Most concerts that took place outdoors at the time were played during the day, probably because it was cheaper, I don't know. So we had the bright, bright primary colors... and we had these enormous images of a guitar, a car and a record—an Americana idea—which worked very well for afternoon shows."
[6]
Most shows later in the tour featured a
cherry picker
and the release of hundreds of balloons at the show's end.
[7]
During the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
[8]
stops on the tour, the band played a Friday and Sunday show and USC had a football game in between on Saturday. As a televised football game, viewers could see the full stage set-up and often field goals would land on stage at the East end zone. Two of the three opening bands,
George Thorogood
, and
The J Geils Band
were received well, but the third act, a still somewhat unknown
Prince
barely got through three songs before being booed off the stage.
[9]
The 1981 Tour was the largest grossing tour of not only 1981, but for several years to come. The tour grossed million in ticket sales when the average ticket price was . Roughly three million concert goers attended the concerts. The Stones set many ticket sales records that remain to this day unbroken. The ticket sales for Philadelphia's
JFK Stadium
shows received nearly 4 million request via post cards for tickets (a ticket selling method used at the time to prevent scalping); requests for the five arena shows in the
New York metropolitan area
were in the millions.
[2]
The New York Times
stated that, "The tour is expected to be the most profitable in the history of rock & roll; its sheer size has been staggering...ticket requests for these shows ran into the millions..."
[2]
The tour indeed did turn out to be profitable: the Stones were estimated to have reaped about million after expenses.
[10]
The 1981 Tour also was an early milestone for the rock tour industry by selling advertising rights to
Jōvan Musk
.
[11]
Jōvan paid million to put their name on Rolling Stones tickets.
[12]
This attracted considerable attention in the business media, as Jōvan's image of a pleasant fragrance was at complete odds with the Stones' bad boys image.
[13]
But the Stones behaved well on tour, and rock tour corporate sponsorships soon became the norm.
[13]
In another marketing first, the 18 December performance at
Virginia
's
Hampton Coliseum
[14]
was broadcast as "The World's Greatest Rock'n'Roll Party", on
pay-per-view
and in closed circuit cinemas.
[15]
It was the first such use of pay-per-view for a music event. Guitarist
Keith Richards
memorably hit a manic fan who ran onstage with his guitar.
Another notable performance during the tour was the 14 December performance at
Kansas City
's
Kemper Arena
. Previous Stones lead guitarist
Mick Taylor
joined the band for a large part of the performance.
[15]
Ronnie Wood was not happy with Taylor's appearance, however: "[He was] bulldozing through parts of songs that should have been subtle, ignoring breaks and taking uninvited solos."
[10]
Other guests during the tour were
Tina Turner
(who would sing "
Honky Tonk Women
"),
Chuck Leavell
,
Tower of Power
and
Sugar Blue
.
[15]
In general, there was less backstage madness on the 1981 Tour than on many previous outings.
[2]
This was largely due to Keith Richards having overcome his well-known drugs and alcohol problems;
[2]
The New York Times
wrote of Richards that, "He looks healthy, he is playing brilliantly and his backup vocals are often so lusty that they drown out Mr. Jagger, who is working harder to hold up his end of things as result."
[2]
Several of the concerts throughout the tour were captured and selected songs were released on the 1982 live album
Still Life
.
[16]
A
Hal Ashby
-directed
concert film
was also made from the tour,
Let's Spend the Night Together
, which grossed million.
[16]
Possibly due to the film most of the shows on this tour ended up being professionally recorded. To bootleggers there are currently 35 of the regular 50 shows from this tour in which more than half of the concert is available directly from the soundboard.
This was the last tour of the United States the Stones would do until 1989.
The Rolling Stones
[
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]
Mick Jagger
– lead vocals, guitar
Keith Richards
– guitar, vocals
Ronnie Wood
– guitar, backing vocals
Bill Wyman
– bass
Charlie Watts
– drums
Additional musicians
[
edit
]
Lee Allen
- saxophone (October 1, Rockford, Illinois, and on October 3 and 4 at Folsom Field, in Boulder, Colorado)
Ian Stewart
– piano
Ian McLagan
– keyboards, backing vocals
Ernie Watts
– saxophone
Bobby Keys
– saxophone (on 'Let it Bleed', 'Brown Sugar' and 'Honky Tonk Women')
Set list
[
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]
The usual set list was:
[15]
"
Under My Thumb
"
"
When the Whip Comes Down
"
"
Let's Spend the Night Together
"
"
Shattered
"
"
Neighbours
"
"
Black Limousine
"
"
Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)
"
"
Down The Road Apiece
" (played 26–27 September; 3, 5 & 9 November)
"
Mona
" (played only 26 September)
"
Twenty-Flight Rock
"
"
Going to a Go-Go
" (first played in Louisville, KY, November 3)
"Let Me Go"
"
Time Is on My Side
"
"
Beast of Burden
"
"
Waiting on a Friend
"
"
Let It Bleed
"
"Tops" (Played 25 & 27 September, and 3 October)
"
You Can't Always Get What You Want
"
"
Little T&A
"
"
Tumbling Dice
"
"
She's So Cold
"
"
All Down The Line
" (Only Played 18 Times)
"
Hang Fire
"
"
Star Star
" (Only Played 10 Times)
"
Miss You
"
"
Honky Tonk Women
"
"
Brown Sugar
"
"
Start Me Up
"
"
Jumpin' Jack Flash
"
"
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
" (played 25 September; 3 & 11 October until end of tour) [Encore]
"
Street Fighting Man
" (played from 25 September-9 October and 26 October) [Encore]
For the first dozen or so shows most of the set list was moved around to find the most comfortable feel for the concerts.
Worcester show
[
edit
]
"
Everybody Needs Somebody to Love
"
"
Mona (I Need You Baby)
"
"
Under My Thumb
"
"
When The Whip Comes Down
"
"
Shattered
"
"
Neighbours
"
"
Down the Road Apiece
"
"
Let It Bleed
"
"
I Just Want To Make Love To You
"
"
She's So Cold
"
"
Hang Fire
"
"
All Down The Line
"
"
Honky Tonk Women
"
"
Start Me Up
"
"
Sympathy for the Devil
"
"
Jumpin' Jack Flash
"
Irregular songs
[
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]
Beyond the first five shows "Tops" and "
Mona
" were not played (though neither were ever played on the same night, they did not occupy the same location in the set list). Up until the shows in New Jersey "
Down the Road Apiece
" and "
Street Fighting Man
" both made a few appearances. "
Star Star
" was added into the set for every gig in between and including Boulder and both Orlando shows (with the sole exception of the second show in Boulder). "
All Down the Line
" was played 18 times in the first 24 regular gigs. The six exclusions were the first 4 regular shows and the 2 first shows in November.
[7]
Tour dates
[
edit
]
Date
City
Country
Venue
Tickets Sold/Available
Box Office
North America
25 September 1981
Philadelphia
United States
John F. Kennedy Stadium
181,564 / 181,564 (100%)
,859,633
[17]
26 September 1981
27 September 1981
Orchard Park
Rich Stadium
75,000 / 75,000 (100%)
,125,000
[18]
1 October 1981
Rockford
Rockford MetroCentre
—
—
3 October 1981
Boulder
Folsom Field
120,000 / 120,000 (100%)
,920,000
[18]
4 October 1981
7 October 1981
San Diego
Jack Murphy Stadium
70,000 / 70,000 (100%)
,050,000
[19]
9 October 1981
Los Angeles
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
—
—
11 October 1981
14 October 1981
Seattle
Kingdome
—
—
15 October 1981
17 October 1981
San Francisco
Candlestick Park
135,000 / 135,000 (100%)
,092,500
[20]
18 October 1981
24 October 1981
Orlando
Tangerine Bowl
121,000 / 121,000 (100%)
,887,600
[20]
25 October 1981
26 October 1981
Atlanta
Fox Theatre
—
—
28 October 1981
Houston
Astrodome
65,000 / 65,000 (100%)
,202,500
[21]
29 October 1981
31 October 1981
Dallas
Cotton Bowl
156,000 / 156,000 (100%)
,695,332
[21]
1 November 1981
3 November 1981
Louisville
Freedom Hall
18,210 / 18,210 (100%)
7,540
[22]
5 November 1981
East Rutherford
Brendan Byrne Arena
61,035 / 61,035 (100%)
3,782
[22]
6 November 1981
7 November 1981
9 November 1981
Hartford
Hartford Civic Center
—
—
10 November 1981
12 November 1981
New York City
Madison Square Garden
—
—
13 November 1981
16 November 1981
Cleveland
Richfield Coliseum
—
—
17 November 1981
19 November 1981
St. Louis
Checkerdome
18,770 / 18,770 (100%)
2,313
[23]
20 November 1981
Cedar Falls
UNI-Dome
24,000 / 24,000 (100%)
8,156
[23]
21 November 1981
Saint Paul
St. Paul Civic Center
—
—
23 November 1981
Rosemont
Rosemont Horizon
55,230 / 55,230 (100%)
2,740
[23]
24 November 1981
25 November 1981
27 November 1981
Syracuse
Carrier Dome
—
—
28 November 1981
30 November 1981
Pontiac
Pontiac Silverdome
152,696 / 152,696 (100%)
,290,000
[23]
1 December 1981
5 December 1981
New Orleans
Louisiana Superdome
87,500 / 87,500 (100%)
,531,250
[24]
7 December 1981
Landover
Capital Centre
54,765 / 54,765 (100%)
6,826
8 December 1981
9 December 1981
11 December 1981
Lexington
Rupp Arena
—
—
13 December 1981
Tempe
Sun Devil Stadium
74,637 / 74,637 (100%)
,287,488
[25]
14 December 1981
Kansas City
Kemper Arena
—
—
15 December 1981
18 December 1981
Hampton
Hampton Coliseum
—
—
19 December 1981