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The Rolling Stones Tour of Europe '76

{{Short description|1976 concert tour by the Rolling Stones}}

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{{Infobox concert

|concert_tour_name = The Rolling Stones Tour of Europe '76

|image = Mick Jagger (1976).jpg

|location = Europe • North America

|artist = The Rolling Stones

|start_date = 28 April 1976

|end_date = 23 June 1976

|number_of_legs = 1

|number_of_shows = 41

|album = Black and Blue

|last_tour = Tour of the Americas '75

|this_tour = Tour of Europe '76

|next_tour = US Tour 1978

}}

The Rolling Stones' Tour of Europe '76 was a concert tour of Europe that took place in Spring 1976.

History

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Tickets were in high demand; on 1 April the promoters announced that they had received more than one million applications in the mail for tickets for three shows at London's Earls Court Exhibition Centre; subsequently three more dates were added there.{{cite book | last=Egan | first=Sean | title=The rough guide to the Rolling Stones | type=Paperback | publisher=Rough Guides Ltd. | year=2006 | location=London, Great Britain | isbn=1-84353-719-2 | page=[https://archive.org/details/roughguidetoroll0000egan/page/115 115] | url=https://archive.org/details/roughguidetoroll0000egan/page/115 }} The routing also saw two dates in Yugoslavia – the Stones' second visit to a Communist country after 1967.

The tour began a few days after the 23 April release of the group's album Black and Blue, and is documented by the 1977 concert release Love You Live. Much of the material on that album is from the shows at Les Abattoirs in Paris from 4 to 7 June. Keith Richards' 10-week-old son died of sudden infant death syndrome on 6 June, but Richards elected to keep the news secret and to play the shows as scheduled.{{cite book |last=Bockris |first=Victor |title=Keith Richards: The Biography |publisher= Simon & Schuster |year=1993 |isbn=0-671-87590-6 |page=247}}

Personnel

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Leicester, England, Granby Hall, May 15, 1976:

Typical tour set list

(Songs credited to Jagger/Richards unless otherwise noted)

  1. "Honky Tonk Women"
  2. "If You Can't Rock Me"/"Get off of My Cloud"
  3. "Hand of Fate"
  4. "Hey Negrita"
  5. "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" (Norman Whitfield, Eddie Holland)
  6. "Fool to Cry"
  7. "Hot Stuff"
  8. "Star Star"
  9. "Angie" – [played some shows]
  10. "You Gotta Move" (Traditional)
  11. "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
  12. "Happy"
  13. "Tumbling Dice"
  14. "Nothing from Nothing" (sung by Billy Preston) (Billy Preston, Bruce Fisher)
  15. "Outa-Space" (led by Billy Preston) (Billy Preston, Joe Greene)
  16. "Midnight Rambler"
  17. "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)"
  18. "Brown Sugar"
  19. "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
  20. "Street Fighting Man"

"All Down the Line" was played at the Frankfurt Festhalle. "Sympathy for the Devil" was played at Earls Court Exhibition Centre on 21–23 & 27 May. "Cherry Oh Baby" was played in Paris on 7 June.

The Rolling Stones also appeared at Knebworth Fair in August 1976, where they added "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", "Around and Around", "Little Red Rooster", "Stray Cat Blues", "Let's Spend the Night Together", "Dead Flowers", "Route 66", a fragment of "Country Honk," "Wild Horses," and "Rip This Joint" to the above set list.

The Rolling Stones also appeared at two club dates in 1977 at El Mocambo, Toronto, Canada. Like the Knebworth show these were not part of the 1976 tour.

Tour dates

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28 April 1976rowspan="2"|Frankfurtrowspan="6"|West Germanyrowspan="2"|Festhalle
29 April 1976
30 April 1976
2 shows		MünsterHalle Münsterland
2 May 1976KielOstseehalle
3 May 1976West BerlinDeutschlandhalle
4 May 1976BremenStadthalle
6 May 1976rowspan="2"|Brusselsrowspan="2"|Belgiumrowspan="2"|Forest National
7 May 1976
10 May 1976rowspan="3"|Glasgowrowspan="3"|Scotlandrowspan="3"|Apollo Theatre
11 May 1976
12 May 1976
14 May 1976rowspan="2"|Leicesterrowspan="10"|Englandrowspan="2"|Granby Halls
15 May 1976
17 May 1976rowspan="2"|Staffordrowspan="2"|Bingley Hall
18 May 1976
21 May 1976rowspan="6"|Londonrowspan="6"|Earls Court Exhibition Centre
22 May 1976
23 May 1976
25 May 1976
26 May 1976
27 May 1976
29 May 1976rowspan="2"|The Haguerowspan="2"|Netherlandsrowspan="2"|Zuiderpark Stadion
30 May 1976
1 June 1976Dortmundrowspan="2"|West GermanyWestfalenhalle
2 June 1976
2 shows		CologneSporthalle
4 June 1976rowspan="4"|Parisrowspan="5"|Francerowspan="4"|Pavillon de Paris (Les Abattoirs)
5 June 1976
6 June 1976
7 June 1976
9 June 1976LyonPalais des Sports de Gerland
11 June 1976BarcelonaSpainPlaza de toros Monumental
13 June 1976NiceFranceFrance Parc Des Sports De L’Ouest
15 June 1976ZürichSwitzerlandHallenstadion
16 June 1976rowspan="2"|Munichrowspan="3"|West Germanyrowspan="2"|Olympiahalle
17 June 1976
19 June 1976StuttgartNeckarstadion
21 June 1976rowspan="2"|Zagrebrowspan="2"|Yugoslaviarowspan="2"|Dom Sportova
22 June 1976
23 June 1976ViennaAustriaStadthalle
colspan="4" |Knebworth Fair
21 August 1976KnebworthEnglandKnebworth Fair
This concert was not technically part of the tour.
colspan="4" |1977 Dates
4 March 1977

| rowspan="2" |Toronto

| rowspan="2" |Canada

| rowspan="2" |El Mocambo

5 March 1977

References

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External links

  • [http://rocksoff.org/1976.htm 'Rocks Off' 1976 tour setlists]
  • [http://www.frayed.org/1976.html 'Frayed' 1976 tour pages]
  • [http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-rolling-stones/1976/knebworth-park-festival-knebworth-uk-3d6eddb.html Knebworth Fair setlist]

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