Wildest Dreams Tour

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Wildest Dreams Tour
Tour by Tina Turner
Start date May 1, 1996
End date August 10, 1997
Legs 5
Shows 150 in Europe
3 in Russia
18 in Australia
78 in North America
250 in total
Tina Turner tour chronology
What's Love? Tour
(1993)		 Wildest Dreams Tour
(1996/1997)		 Twenty Four Seven Tour
(2000)

The Wildest Dreams Worldtour was a record-breaking world-wide concert tour by Tina Turner from 1 May 1996 to 10 August 1997. It sold out stadiums and arenas all over the world. The European leg of the tour was a total of 152 shows in eight months. The tour itself lasted over 250 shows including 18 shows in Australia, 2 shows in Africa and 2 shows in Asia before heading off to North America in May 1997. The tour grossed a reported $100 million in Europe alone and around $30 million in the North American leg. The opening act for the North American and Candian tour was Cyndi Lauper.

A VHS was released later and shows one of the three sold out concerts in the new Amsterdam ArenA, where she was the first ever Performer who give an Concert in this new Arena. The VHS was 1998 Nominated by a Grammy for Best Long Form Video but lost.

Contents

[edit] Set List

The setlist varied throughout the tour; various songs were swapped around for the first few months. The costumes were also different on the South African leg (dates of which are unknown) and the first few months of the European tour. A standard setlist remained in place for the last half of the European tour, Australian tour and North American tour.

[edit] Start of the Tour

Encore

[edit] Middle of the European Tour

  • "Whatever You Want"
  • "Do What You Do"
  • "Thief Of Hearts" - (Dropped after Dublin show)
  • "River Deep Mountain High"
  • "Missing You"
  • "In Your Wildest Dreams"
  • "Goldeneye"
  • "Private Dancer"
  • "We Don't Need Another Hero"
  • "Let's Stay Together"
  • "Undercover Agent For The Blues"
  • "I Can't Stand The Rain"
  • "Steamy Windows"
  • "Better Be Good To Me"
  • "Addicted To Love"
  • "The Best"
  • "What's Love Got To Do With It"
  • "Proud Mary"

Encore

[edit] Final Setlist (which stayed after the September 1996 shows)

  • "Whatever You Want"
  • "Do What You Do"
  • "River Deep Mountain High"
  • "Missing You"
  • "In Your Wildest Dreams"
  • "Goldeneye"
  • "Private Dancer"
  • "We Don't Need Another Hero"
  • "Let's Stay Together"
  • "Undercover Agent For The Blues"
  • "I Can't Stand The Rain"
  • "Steamy Windows"
  • "Givin' It Up For Your Love"
  • "Better Be Good To Me"
  • "Addicted To Love"
  • "The Best"
  • "What's Love Got To Do With It"
  • "Proud Mary"

Encore

  • "Nutbush City Limits"
  • "Something Beautiful Remains" - (Played in September when it was released as a single.)
  • "On Silent Wings"
  • "Dancing In My Dreams" (Playback)

[edit] Tour Band

  • James Ralston - guitars, vocals
  • John Miles - guitars, vocals
  • Bob Feit - bass guitar
  • Warren McRae - bass guitar (replaced Bob Feit who left the tour in March, 1997)
  • Jack Bruno - drums
  • Timmy Cappello - percussion, keyboards, saxophone and vocals
  • Ollie Marland - keyboards, vocals
  • Kenny Moore - piano, vocals
  • Chuckii Booker - piano, vocals (replaced Kenny Moore after his death in March, 1997)
  • Karen Owens - dancer, vocals
  • Sharon Owens -dancer, vocals
  • Synthia Davila - dancer, vocals

[edit] Tour Dates

[edit] Europe

[edit] Australia

[edit] North America

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