The Rolling Stones European Tour 1970

infobox concert tour
concert_tour_name = The Rolling Stones European Tour 1970


image_caption =
artist = The Rolling Stones
start_date = 30 August 1970
end_date = 9 October 1970
number_of_legs = 1
number_of_shows = 22
last_tour = American Tour 1969
this_tour = European Tour 1970
next_tour = UK Tour 1971

The Rolling Stones' 1970 European Tour was a concert tour of Continental Europe that commenced on August 30 and concluded on October 9, 1970.

History

This was the Stones' first tour in Europe since 1967, and became part of a pattern (not always followed) wherein the group would play North America, Continental Europe, and the United Kingdom on a three-year rotating cycle.

Shows were similar to that of the 1969 American Tour, but with the material more familiar to audiences as "Let It Bleed" had now been out for some months. The Stones continued to preview new material, however, as "Brown Sugar", "Dead Flowers", and "You Gotta Move" were set list regulars; they would not appear on record until "Sticky Fingers" was released a half year later. Unlike many of the group's tours of this era, here the group only played one show a night.

Following a tradition set since the band's earliest days, the tour was not without its altercations. The show at Råsunda stadion in Stockholm on September 4 was interrupted by police who feared that fans, provoked by Jagger, would storm the stage. The singer duly responded by pointing the microphone to the police on stage and soon after suggested the audience would sit down for the next song (the slower "Love in Vain"). [Tingvall, Ove (1999); "Rolling Stones i Sverige"] On September 14 a thousand or so forged tickets were rejected at a show at Ernst-Merck-Halle in Hamburg; two hundred policemen were needed to handle disappointed fans. Two days later at Deutschlandhalle in West Berlin, there were nasty battles between assorted youths and the police before the show, and some 50 arrests were made. Then on October 1 at Milan's Palazzo Dello Sport, two thousand youths tried to crash the gates to get into the show. Police had to use tear gas to quell the riot; there were injuries among both the policemen and the crowd, and 63 arrests were made.

Tour band

*Mick Jagger - vocals, harmonica
*Keith Richards - guitar, backing vocals
*Mick Taylor - guitar
*Bill Wyman - bass guitar
*Charlie Watts - drumsAdditional musicians
*Ian Stewart - piano
*Bobby Keys - saxophone
*Jim Price - trombone

Tour set list

The fairly typical set list for the tour was:

#"Jumpin' Jack Flash"
#"Roll Over Beethoven"
#"Sympathy for the Devil"
#"Stray Cat Blues"
#"Love in Vain"
#"Prodigal Son"
#"You Gotta Move"
#"Dead Flowers"
#"Midnight Rambler"
#"Live With Me"
#"Let It Rock"
#"Little Queenie"
#"Brown Sugar"
#"Honky Tonk Women"

Tour dates

*30/08/1970 flagicon|Sweden Baltiska Hallen - Malmö, Sweden
*02/09/1970 flagicon|Finland Olympiastadium - Helsinki, Finland
*04/09/1970 flagicon|Sweden Råsunda Stadium - Stockholm, Sweden
*06/09/1970 flagicon|Sweden Liseberg - Gothenburg, Sweden
*09/09/1970 flagicon|Denmark Vejlby-Risskov-Hallen - Aarhus, Denmark
*11/09/1970 flagicon|Denmark Forum - Copenhagen, Denmark
*12/09/1970 flagicon|Denmark Forum - Copenhagen, Denmark
*14/09/1970 flagicon|Germany Ernst-Merck-Halle - Hamburg, Germany
*16/09/1970 flagicon|Germany Deutschlandhalle - Berlin, Germany
*18/09/1970 flagicon|Germany Sporthalle - Cologne, Germany
*20/09/1970 flagicon|Germany Killesberg - Stuttgart, Germany
*22/09/1970 flagicon|France Palais Des Sports - Paris, France
*23/09/1970 flagicon|France Palais Des Sports - Paris, France
*24/09/1970 flagicon|France Palais Des Sports - Paris, France
*27/09/1970 flagicon|Austria Stadthalle - Vienna, Austria
*29/09/1970 flagicon|Italy Palazzo Dello Sport - Rome, Italy
*01/10/1970 flagicon|Italy Palalido Palazzo Dello Sport - Milan, Italy
*03/10/1970 flagicon|France Palais Des Sports - Lyon, France
*05/10/1970 flagicon|Germany Festhalle - Frankfurt, Germany
*06/10/1970 flagicon|Germany Festhalle - Frankfurt, Germany
*07/10/1970 flagicon|Germany Grugahalle - Essen, Germany
*09/10/1970 flagicon|Netherlands RAI Amstelhal - Amsterdam, Netherlands

References

* Carr, Roy. "The Rolling Stones: An Illustrated Record". Harmony Books, 1976. ISBN 0-517-52641-7

External links

* [http://rocksoff.org/1970.htm 'Rocks Off' 1970 tour setlists]
* [http://www.frayed.org/1970.html 'Frayed' 1970 tour pages]