The Rolling Stones European Tour 1973
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Tour by The Rolling Stones | |
Associated album | Goats Head Soup |
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Start date | 1 September 1973 |
End date | 19 October 1973 |
Legs | 1 |
No. of shows | 42 |
The Rolling Stones concert chronology |
The Rolling Stones 1973 European Tour was a
History
The tour followed the release of the group's album
This was the Stones' first trip to Europe since the European Tour 1970 and was part of parallel three-year cycles of touring the United States and Europe.
The shows
Without all the ballyhoo, media attention, and
Recordings
No
In November 2011, the Rolling Stones launched a web enterprise, www.StonesArchive.com and released the second 17 October Brussels show with two tracks from the first Brussels show as Brussels Affair (Live 1973) worldwide as a digital download in FLAC or MP3 format and as a box set.[2]
Personnel
The Rolling Stones
- Mick Jagger – lead vocals, harmonica
- Keith Richards – rhythm and lead guitars, vocals
- Mick Taylor – rhythm and lead guitars
- Bill Wyman – bass guitar
- Charlie Watts – drums
Additional musicians
- Billy Preston – piano, organ, clavinet, backing vocals
- Steve Madaio – trumpet, flugelhorn
- Bobby Keys – saxophone (until 30 September 1973)
- Trevor Lawrence – saxophone
- Manuel Kellough – percussion (some dates)
- Marshall Chess – trumpet on "Street Fighting Man" (some dates)
Bobby Keys left the tour after the Frankfurt dates. In his memoir,[3] he states that he left to clean up from drink and drugs to save his life.
Tour support acts
Opening for the tour's shows was Billy Preston and for him, Kracker, the first band ever to be signed to Rolling Stones Records. Part of the opening show by Preston was released on Preston's 1974 album release Live European Tour, which featured Mick Taylor.
Tour set list
The standard set list for the tour was:
- "Brown Sugar"
- "Gimme Shelter"
- "Happy"
- "Tumbling Dice"
- "Star Star"
- "Dancing with Mr D"
- "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)" (not on all shows)
- "Angie"
- "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
- "Midnight Rambler"
- "Honky Tonk Women"
- "All Down the Line"
- "Rip This Joint"
- "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
- "Street Fighting Man"
This set list was pretty stable once established; however, during the first few shows, Goats Head Soup tracks "100 Years Ago" (Vienna and Mannheim) and "Silver Train" (Vienna, Cologne, London 1st) got a trying out, as did "Bitch" and "Sweet Virginia" in Vienna. All of the pre-Goats selections had been played on the 1972 American Tour as well, and pretty much in this order. Completely absent was anything from before 1968 in the Stones' catalog. Indeed, on 18 August, before the tour began, Jagger had been quoted, "The only thing I don't really enjoy about playing live is having to perform the old numbers, even though that's what a lotta people wanna hear us do."
Tour dates
Date | City | Country | Venue | Opening act(s) |
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1 September 1973 | Vienna | Austria | Wiener Stadthalle | Kracker Billy Preston |
3 September 1973 | Mannheim | West Germany | Eisstadion am Friedrichspark | |
4 September 1973 2 shows |
Cologne | Sporthalle | ||
7 September 1973 | London | England | Empire Pool | |
8 September 1973 2 shows | ||||
9 September 1973 | ||||
11 September 1973 | Manchester | Kings Hall | ||
12 September 1973 | ||||
13 September 1973 2 shows |
Newcastle upon Tyne | Newcastle City Hall | ||
16 September 1973 | Glasgow | Scotland | The Apollo
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17 September 1973 | ||||
19 September 1973 2 shows |
Birmingham | England | Birmingham Odeon | |
23 September 1973 | Innsbruck | Austria | Olympiahalle | |
25 September 1973 | Bern | Switzerland | Festhalle | |
26 September 1973 2 shows | ||||
28 September 1973 2 shows |
Munich | West Germany | Olympiahalle | |
30 September 1973 2 shows |
Frankfurt | Festhalle Frankfurt | ||
2 October 1973 2 shows |
Hamburg | Ernst-Merck-Halle | ||
4 October 1973 2 shows |
Aarhus | Denmark | Vejlby-Risskov Hallen | |
6 October 1973 2 shows |
Gothenburg | Sweden | Scandinavium | |
7 October 1973 2 shows |
Copenhagen | Denmark | Brøndbyhallen | |
9 October 1973 | Essen | West Germany | Grugahalle | |
10 October 1973 | ||||
11 October 1973 | ||||
13 October 1973 | Rotterdam | Netherlands | Sportpaleis Ahoy | |
14 October 1973 2 shows | ||||
15 October 1973 | Antwerp | Belgium | Antwerps Sportpaleis
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17 October 1973 2 shows |
Brussels | Forest National | ||
19 October 1973 | West Berlin | West Germany | Deutschlandhalle |
References
- ^ Mentioned in several interviews over the years, among them in Guitar Player magazine 1977.
- ^ Dice, Tumblin (17 November 2011). "The Rolling Stones launch StonesArchive.com and release The Brussels Affair worldwide". The Rolling Stones. Archived from the original on 20 November 2011. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
- ISBN 9781582437835.
Further reading
- ISBN 0-517-52641-7