Tour by Pink Floyd | |
Associated album | Wish You Were Here |
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Start date | 8 April 1975 |
End date | 5 July 1975 |
Legs | 3 |
No. of shows | 29 |
Pink Floyd concert chronology |
The Wish You Were Here Tour, also referred to as the North American Tour, was a concert tour by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd in 1975 in support of their then-forthcoming album Wish You Were Here. The tour was divided in two legs in the United States, West Coast and East Coast, and a gig in the UK at the Knebworth Festival.
On this tour debuted the song "Have a Cigar" and the "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" suite was divided in two parts with "Have a Cigar" between.
The last gig of the tour was as the headliner of 1975 Knebworth Festival, which also featured Steve Miller Band, Captain Beefheart and Roy Harper (who joined Pink Floyd on the stage to sing "Have a Cigar").[1] Knebworth was the last time the band would perform "Echoes" and the entire The Dark Side of the Moon album with Roger Waters.[2]
Setlist
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The band performed two sets for the tour. The first set included songs from Wish You Were Here and early versions of songs from Animals under working titles. The second set consisted the entire The Dark Side of the Moon album with "Echoes" performed as an encore.[3]
First set[4]
- "Raving and Drooling" (early version of "Sheep")
- "You've Got to Be Crazy" (early version of "Dogs")
- "Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts I-V"
- "Have a Cigar"
- "Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts VI-IX"
Second set: The Dark Side of the Moon
- "Speak to Me"
- "Breathe"
- "On the Run"
- "Time/Breathe (Reprise)"
- "The Great Gig in the Sky"
- "Money"
- "Us and Them"
- "Any Colour You Like"
- "Brain Damage"
- "Eclipse"
Encore
- "Echoes"
Tour dates
[edit]Date | City | Country | Venue |
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North America – Leg 1 | |||
8 April 1975 | Vancouver | Canada | Pacific Coliseum |
10 April 1975 | Seattle | United States | Seattle Center Coliseum |
12 April 1975 | Daly City | Cow Palace | |
13 April 1975 | |||
17 April 1975 | Denver | Denver Coliseum | |
19 April 1975 | Tucson | Tucson Convention Center | |
20 April 1975 | Tempe | ASU Activity Center | |
21 April 1975 | San Diego | San Diego Sports Arena | |
23 April 1975 | Los Angeles | Los Angeles Sports Arena | |
24 April 1975 | |||
25 April 1975 | |||
26 April 1975 | |||
27 April 1975 | |||
North America – Leg 2 | |||
7 June 1975 | Atlanta | United States | Atlanta Stadium |
9 June 1975 | Landover | Capital Centre | |
10 June 1975 | |||
12 June 1975 | Philadelphia | The Spectrum | |
13 June 1975 | |||
14 June 1975 | Jersey City | Roosevelt Stadium | |
16 June 1975 | Uniondale | Nassau Coliseum | |
17 June 1975 | |||
18 June 1975 | Boston | Boston Garden | |
20 June 1975 | Pittsburgh | Three Rivers Stadium | |
22 June 1975 | Milwaukee | Milwaukee County Stadium | |
23 June 1975 | Detroit | Olympia Stadium | |
24 June 1975 | |||
26 June 1975 | Montreal | Canada | Autostade |
28 June 1975 | Hamilton | Ivor Wynne Stadium | |
Europe | |||
5 July 1975[a] | Knebworth | England | Knebworth House |
- Notes
- ^ The concert in Knebworth on 5 July 1975 ws part of the Knebworth Festival.
Personnel
[edit]Pink Floyd
- David Gilmour – vocals, guitar
- Roger Waters – bass, vocals
- Richard Wright – keyboards, vocals
- Nick Mason – drums
Additional musicians
- Dick Parry – saxophone
- The Blackberries (Venetta Fields & Carlena Williams) – backing vocals
References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ Fitch 2005, p. 132.
- ^ Shea & Floyd 2009.
- ^ Mulligan 2013.
- ^ a b Romano 2020.
- ^ "Late News: Inside Track". Billboard. Vol. 87, no. 8. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 22 February 1975. p. 74. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
Pink Floyd will play an unprecedented five-night stand at the Los Angeles Sports Arena.
Sources
[edit]- Fitch, Vernon (2005). The Pink Floyd Encyclopedia. Collector's Guide Publishing. ISBN 978-1-894959-24-7.
- Shea, Stuart; Floyd, Pink (2009). Pink Floyd FAQ: Everything Left to Know ... and More!. Backbeat Books. ISBN 978-1-61713-394-7.
- Mulligan, Stephen (2013). Were You There?: Over 300 Wonderful, Weird, and Wacky Moments from Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium. Dorrance Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4809-0502-3.
- Romano, Will (2020). Wish You Were Here: Inside Pink Floyd's Musical Milestone. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4930-5076-5.