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Local History

Adam Ant (3/11/1984)

A Wings Stadium Concert Scrapbook Page

Artist(s): Adam Ant w/ The Romantics
Date: 11 March 1984
Tickets: $11.50 (reserved seating and general admission) + 25¢ surcharge per ticket for parking
Attendance: 4,200
Notes: The third appearance at Wings Stadium for The Romantics.
Setlist (Adam Ant*): Intro, Scorpios, Baby, Let Me Scream at You, Dog Eat Dog, Puss ‘n Boots, Navel to Neck, Ants Invasion, Antmusic, Friend or Foe, Strip, Playboy, Desperate but Not Serious, Beat My Guest, Stand and Deliver, Vanity, Goody Two Shoes, Fall-In, Physical (You’re So).
Setlist (The Romantics*): Talking in Your Sleep, One in a Million, What I Like About You, Around and Around, others.

*Unconfirmed, but likely similar based on reviewer’s comments and other shows around the same time (e.g., Cleveland, OH; Lansing, MI)

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (top left) 17 February 1984, (bottom left) 23 February 1984, (right) 12 March 1984. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 26 February 1984, (right) 4 March 1984. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 11 March 1984. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 12 March 1984. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 18 March 1984, (center) 19 March 1984, (right) 22 March 1984. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 23 March 1984, (right) 26 March 1984. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 25 March 1984. Kalamazoo Public Library

Sources

Articles

“Ant tickets on sale”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 17 February 1984, page 20

“We stand corrected”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 23 February 1984, page 24

Display ad
Kalamazoo Gazette, 26 February 1984, page 61

Display ad
Kalamazoo Gazette, 4 March 1984, page 63

“Adam Ant has come long way”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 9 March 1984, page 14

“Renewed Romantics”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 11 March 1984, page 65

“Romantics’ antics make Adam’s show anticlimactic”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 12 March 1984, page 20

“Concert reviewer had to be kidding” (letter to the editor)
Kalamazoo Gazette, 18 March 1984, page 11

“Gazette reviewer unfair to rocker Adam Ant” (letter to the editor)
Kalamazoo Gazette, 19 March 1984, page 7

“Rock fan thought both acts were good” (letter to the editor)
Kalamazoo Gazette, 22 March 1984, page 11

“Adam Ant review ‘removed from reality’” (letter to the editor)
Kalamazoo Gazette, 23 March 1984, page 7

“Area concert action starting to heat up”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 25 March 1984, page 62

“Adam Ant fan irked by Gazette review’” (letter to the editor)
Kalamazoo Gazette, 26 March 1984, page 7