The Rolling Stones European Tour 1982

The Rolling Stones' European Tour 1982 was a concert tour of Europe to promote the album Tattoo You. It was in effect the European continuation of their long and successful 1981 US tour, and promoted by Bill Graham. It was during the Berlin concert on 8 June 1982 that thousands of balloons were released, inspiring a member of the audience, the guitarist Carlo Karges from the Nena (band) to write the song "99 Luftballons", which became a worldwide hit.^[1] The tour was the last the Stones would conduct for seven years.

The Rolling Stones

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

Additional musicians

• Ian Stewart – piano
• Chuck Leavell – keyboards, backing vocals
• Bobby Keys – tenor saxophone
• Gene Barge – alto saxophone

Opening acts

• The J. Geils Band (Newcastle, Leeds, Paris, Gothenburg, Rotterdam, Slane, The Netherlands; Vienna (Austria) and in Germany,Nice and Bristol, Avon, Wembley Stadium, Basel, Turin and Naples, Madrid)
• Peter Maffay (Germany except Frankfurt)
• BAP (Köln, Germany)
• Téléphone (France except Nice)
• Kim Larsen & Jungle Dreams, Thomas Ledin (Gothenburg)
• George Thorogood (Newcastle, Paris, Rotterdam ,Slane and Leeds)
• Talisman (Bristol)
• Black Uhuru (Wembley Stadium)
• Joe Jackson (Leeds)
• The Chieftains (Slane), film footage later used for a Guinness commercial
• TV21 (Apollo) Glasgow

Tour set list

The show set lists usually ran like this:

1. "Under My Thumb"
2. "When the Whip Comes Down"
3. "Let's Spend the Night Together"
4. "Shattered"
5. "Neighbours"
6. "Black Limousine"
7. "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)"
8. "Twenty Flight Rock"
9. "Going to a Go-Go"
10. "Chantilly Lace"
11. "Let Me Go"
12. "Time Is on My Side"
13. "Beast of Burden"
14. "Let It Bleed"
15. "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
16. "Little T&A"
17. "Tumbling Dice"
18. "She's So Cold"
19. "Hang Fire"
20. "Miss You"
21. "Honky Tonk Women"
22. "Brown Sugar"
23. "Start Me Up"
24. "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
25. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"

By July 1982 "Chantilly Lace" and "Let It Bleed" were dropped and past hit ballad "Angie" soon took their place.

Tour dates

See also

• Rolling Stones concerts

References