Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour

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Steel Wheels Tour/Urban Jungle Tour
Tour by The Rolling Stones
Start date 31 August 1989
End date 25 August 1990
Legs 3
Shows 115
The Rolling Stones tour chronology
European Tour 1982 Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour Voodoo Lounge Tour

The Rolling Stones' Steel Wheels Tour was launched in North America in August 1989 to promote the band's album Steel Wheels; it continued to Japan in February 1990, with ten shows at the Tokyo Dome. The European leg of the tour, which featured a different stage and logo, was called the Urban Jungle Tour; it ran from May to August 1990.

The tour was an enormous financial success, cementing The Rolling Stones' return to full commercial power after a seven-year hiatus in touring marked by well-publicized acrimony among band members.

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[edit] History

A Steel Wheels pre-tour 'surprise show' took place on August 12, 1989 at Toad's Place in New Haven, Connecticut with a local act, Sons of Bob, opening the show for an audience of only 700 people who had purchased tickets for $3.01 apiece.[citation needed] The official Steel Wheels Tour kicked off later that month at the now demolished Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Stones returned to Vancouver, B.C. in Canada and played two sold out concerts at B.C. Place Stadium.The fans went crazy for tickets.One local radio station 99.3 The Fox even had a man (Andrew Korn) sit in front of the station in a bath tub filled with brown sugar and water for free tickets to the concert.

The stage was designed by Mark Fisher with participation of Charlie Watts as well as Mick Jagger.

Canadian promoter Michael Cohl made his name buying the concert, sponsorship, merchandising, radio, television, and film rights to the Steel Wheels Tour. It became the most financially successful rock tour in history up to that time. Rival promoter Bill Graham, who also bid on the tour, later wrote that "Losing the Stones was like watching my favourite lover become a whore."

Performances from both parts of the tour were documented on the concert album Flashpoint, released in 1991.

Opening acts for the tour included Living Color and Guns N' Roses.

[edit] Tour Set Lists

For the opening night of the Steel Wheels Tour the setlist was:

  1. "Start Me Up"
  2. "Bitch"
  3. "Shattered"
  4. "Sad Sad Sad"
  5. "Undercover Of The Night"
  6. "Harlem Shuffle"
  7. "Tumbling Dice"
  8. "Miss You"
  9. "Ruby Tuesday"
  10. "Play With Fire"
  11. "Dead Flowers"
  12. "One Hit (To The Body)"
  13. "Mixed Emotions"
  14. "Honky Tonk Women"
  15. "Rock And A Hard Place"
  16. "Midnight Rambler"
  17. "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
  18. "Little Red Rooster"
  19. "Before They Make Me Run"
  20. "Happy"
  21. "Paint It, Black"
  22. "2000 Light Years From Home"
  23. "Sympathy For The Devil"
  24. "Gimme Shelter"
  25. "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll"
  26. "Brown Sugar"
  27. "Satisfaction"
  28. "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (encore)

For the final night of the Urban Jungle Tour (and the last show with Bill Wyman) the band played:

  1. "Start Me Up"
  2. "Sad Sad Sad"
  3. "Harlem Shuffle"
  4. "Tumbling Dice"
  5. "Miss You"
  6. "Ruby Tuesday"
  7. "Angie"
  8. "Rock And A Hard Place"
  9. "Mixed Emotions"
  10. "Honky Tonk Women"
  11. "Midnight Rambler"
  12. "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
  13. "Little Red Rooster"
  14. "Before They Make Me Run"
  15. "Happy"
  16. "Paint It, Black"
  17. "2000 Light Years From Home"
  18. "Sympathy For The Devil"
  19. "Street Fighting Man"
  20. "Gimme Shelter"
  21. "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll"
  22. "Brown Sugar"
  23. "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
  24. "Satisfaction" (encore)

Songs played

  1. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction {Jagger/Richards}
  2. 2000 Light Years From Home {Jagger/Richards}
  3. Almost Hear Your Sigh {Jagger/Richards}
  4. Angie {Jagger/Richards}
  5. Before They Make Me Run {Jagger/Richards}
  6. Bitch {Jagger/Richards}
  7. Blinded By Love {Jagger/Richards}
  8. Boogie Chillen {Hooker}
  9. Brown Sugar {Jagger/Richards}
  10. Can't Be Seen {Jagger/Richards}
  11. Dead Flowers {Jagger/Richards}
  12. Factory Girl {Jagger/Richards}
  13. Gimme Shelter {Jagger/Richards}
  14. Happy {Jagger/Richards}
  15. Harlem Shuffle {Jagger/Richards}
  16. Honky Tonk Women {Jagger/Richards}
  17. I Just Want To Make Love To You {Dixon}
  18. It's Only Rock'N'Roll (But I Like It) {Jagger/Richards}
  19. Jumpin' Jack Flash {Jagger/Richards}
  20. Little Red Rooster {Dixon}
  21. Midnight Rambler {Jagger/Richards}
  22. Miss You {Jagger/Richards}
  23. Mixed Emotions {Jagger/Richards}
  24. One Hit (To The Body) {Jagger/Richards}
  25. Paint It Black {Jagger/Richards}
  26. Play With Fire {Jagger/Richards}
  27. Rock And A Hard Place {Jagger/Richards}
  28. Ruby Tuesday {Jagger/Richards}
  29. Sad Sad Sad {Jagger/Richards}
  30. Salt Of The Earth {Jagger/Richards}
  31. Shattered {Jagger/Richards}
  32. Start Me Up {Jagger/Richards}
  33. Street Fighting Man {Jagger/Richards}
  34. Sympathy For The Devil {Jagger/Richards}
  35. Terrifying {Jagger/Richards}
  36. Tumbling Dice {Jagger/Richards}
  37. Undercover Of The Night {Jagger/Richards}
  38. You Can't Always Get What You Want {Jagger/Richards}

[edit] Tour Dates

[edit] North America

[edit] Japan

[edit] Europe

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