Rolling Stones Tour of Europe '76

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

[edit] History

Tickets were in high demand; on 1 April GP Productions announced that the demand for three dates at London's Earls Court was such that they had received more than one million applications in the mail. Subsequently three more dates were added there.^[1] The routing also saw two dates in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, the Stones' first time in a Communist country since an April 1967 foray to Warsaw.

The tour began a few days after the 23 April release of the group's album Black and Blue.

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The show's live performances tended to be sloppy and rushed. Mick Jagger also slurred his way through some of the numbers, which was his then new way of singing. The shows at Les Abattoirs in Paris from 5 June to 7 June formed much of the basis for the 1977 live album Love You Live. Tragedy struck the band on the night of the 6 June performance, when Richards was informed by his common law wife, Anita Pallenberg, that their 10-week-old baby Tara had died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

[edit] Tour Band

• Mick Jagger - vocals, guitar, Harmonica
• Keith Richards - guitar, vocals
• Ron Wood - guitar, backing vocals
• Bill Wyman - bass guitar
• Charlie Watts - drums

Additional musicians

• Billy Preston - piano
• Ollie Brown - percussion

[edit] Tour Set list

1. "Honky Tonk Women"
2. "If You Can't Rock Me"
3. "Get Off of My Cloud"
4. "Hand of Fate"
5. "Hey Negrita"
6. "Ain't Too Proud to Beg"
7. "Fool to Cry"
8. "Hot Stuff"
9. "Star Star"
10. "Cherry Oh Baby" - [played at some concerts]
11. "Angie" - [played at some concerts]
12. "You Gotta Move"
13. "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
14. "Happy"
15. "Tumbling Dice"
16. "Nothing From Nothing" - Billy Preston Spot
17. "Outa Space" - Billy Preston Spot
18. "Midnight Rambler"
19. "It's Only Rock 'N' Roll"
20. "Brown Sugar"
21. "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
22. "Street Fighting Man"

"All Down the Line" was played at Festhalle, Frankfurt and "Sympathy for the Devil" was played om the 21st of May at Earls Court.

[edit] Tour Dates

• 28/04/1976 Festhalle - Frankfurt, Germany
• 29/04/1976 Festhalle - Frankfurt, Germany
• 30/04/1976 Munsterlandhalle - Munster, Germany (2 shows)
• 02/05/1976 Ostseehalle - Kiel, Germany
• 03/05/1976 Deutschlandhalle - Berlin, Germany
• 04/05/1976 Stadthalle - Bremen, Germany
• 06/05/1976 Forest Nationale - Brussels, Belgium
• 07/05/1976 Forest Nationale - Brussels, Belgium
• 10/05/1976 Apollo Theatre - Glasgow, Scotland
• 11/05/1976 Apollo Theatre - Glasgow, Scotland
• 12/05/1976 Apollo Theatre - Glasgow, Scotland
• 14/05/1976 Granby Halls - Leicester, England
• 15/05/1976 Granby Halls - Leicester, England
• 17/05/1976 New Bingley Hall - Stafford, England
• 18/05/1976 New Bingley Hall - Stafford, England
• 21/05/1976 Earls Court Arena - London, England
• 22/05/1976 Earls Court Arena - London, England
• 23/05/1976 Earls Court Arena - London, England
• 25/05/1976 Earls Court Arena - London, England
• 26/05/1976 Earls Court Arena - London, England
• 27/05/1976 Earls Court Arena - London, England
• 29/05/1976 Stadion F.C. Den Haag In Het Zuiderpark - The Hague, Netherlands
• 30/05/1976 Stadion F.C. Den Haag In Het Zuiderpark - The Hague, Netherlands
• 01/06/1976 Westfalenhalle - Dortmund, Germany
• 02/06/1976 Sporthalle - Cologne, Germany (2 shows)
• 04/06/1976 Pavillon de Paris (Les Abattoirs) - Paris, France
• 05/06/1976 Pavillon de Paris (Les Abattoirs) - Paris, France
• 06/06/1976 Pavillon de Paris (Les Abattoirs) - Paris, France
• 07/06/1976 Pavillon de Paris (Les Abattoirs) - Paris, France
• 09/06/1976 Palais Des Sports - Lyon, France
• 11/06/1976 Plaza Des Toros Monumental - Barcelona, Spain
• 13/06/1976 Stade De L’Ouest - Nice, France
• 15/06/1976 Hallenstadion - Zurich, Switzerland
• 16/06/1976 Olympiahalle - Munich, Germany
• 17/06/1976 Olympiahalle - Munich, Germany
• 19/06/1976 Neckarstadion - Stuttgart, Germany
• 21/06/1976 Sportska Dvorana - Zagreb, Yugoslavia
• 22/06/1976 Sportska Dvorana - Zagreb, Yugoslavia
• 23/06/1976 Stadthalle - Vienna, Austria

[edit] References and notes

• Carr, Roy. The Rolling Stones: An Illustrated Record. Harmony Books, 1976. ISBN 0-517-52641-7

1. ^ Egan, Sean (2006). The rough guide to the Rolling Stones (Paperback), London, Great Britain: Rough Guides Ltd., 115. ISBN 1-84353-719-2. 

[edit] External links

• 'Rocks Off' 1976 tour setlists
• 'Frayed' 1976 tour pages