End date 23 June 1976 No. of shows 41 Location Europe | Start date 28 April 1976 Legs 1 Dates 28 Apr 1976 – 23 Jun 1976 Leg 1 | |
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The Rolling Stones' Tour of Europe '76 was a concert tour of Europe that took place in Spring 1976.
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History
Tickets were in high demand; on 1 April the promoters announced that they had received more than one million applications in the mail for tickets for three shows at London's Earls Court; subsequently three more dates were added there. The routing also saw two dates in Yugoslavia – the Stones' second visit to a Communist country after 1967.
The tour began a few days after the 23 April release of the group's album Black and Blue, and is documented by the 1977 concert release Love You Live. Much of the material on that album is from the shows at Les Abattoirs in Paris from 4 June to 7 June. Keith Richards' 10-week-old son died of sudden infant death syndrome on 6 June, but Richards elected to keep the news secret and to play the shows as scheduled. Tony Vandeputte, played two nights at Earls Court as guest of his brother-in-law Steve Marriott (of Humble Pie and formerly Small Faces).
The Rolling Stones
Additional musicians
Typical tour set list
- "Honky Tonk Women"
- "If You Can't Rock Me"/"Get off of My Cloud"
- "Hand of Fate"
- "Hey Negrita"
- "Ain't Too Proud to Beg"
- "Fool to Cry"
- "Hot Stuff"
- "Star Star"
- "Angie" - [played some shows]
- "You Gotta Move"
- "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
- "Happy"
- "Tumbling Dice"
- "Nothing from Nothing" (sung by Billy Preston)
- "Outa-Space" (led by Billy Preston)
- "Midnight Rambler"
- "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)"
- "Brown Sugar"
- "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
- "Street Fighting Man"
"All Down the Line" was played at the Frankfurt Festhalle. "Sympathy for the Devil" was played at Earls Court on 21-23 & 27 May. "Cherry Oh Baby" was played in Paris on 7 June.
The Rolling Stones also appeared at Knebworth Fair in August 1976, where they added "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", "Around and Around", "Little Red Rooster", "Stray Cat Blues", "Let's Spend the Night Together", "Dead Flowers", "Route 66", a fragment of "Country Honk," "Wild Horses," and "Rip This Joint" to the above set list.