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Local History

Alice Cooper (3/5/1979)

A Wings Stadium Concert Scrapbook Page

Artist(s): Alice Cooper w/ The Babys
Date: 5 March 1979
Tickets: $8.50 (general admission)
Attendance: 8,000
Notes: Cooper’s third appearance at Wings Stadium.
Setlist: From the Inside, Serious, Nurse Rozetta, The Quiet Room, I Never Cry, Devil’s Food (Instrumental Excerpt), Welcome to My Nightmare, Billion Dollar Babies, Only Women Bleed, No More Mr. Nice Guy, I’m Eighteen, Black Widow Jam, Wish I Were Born in Beverly Hills, Dead Babies, Ballad of Dwight Fry, All Strapped Up, It’s Hot Tonight (Instrumental Excerpt), Go to Hell, Wish You Were Here (instrumental), How You Gonna See Me Now. Encore: Inmates (We’re All Crazy), School’s Out

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (top) 10 January 1979, (bottom center) 30 January 1979. (bottom right) 15 February 1979, Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 18 February 1979, (right) 25 February 1979. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (top left) 4 March 1979, (bottom left) 1 March 1979, (center) 4 March 1979, (right) 5 March 1979. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 6 March 1979. Kalamazoo Public Library

 

 

Sources

Articles

“‘Alice’ no longer drunk but still crazy”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 10 January 1979, page 40

“Cooper returning”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 30 January 1979, page 27

“Opening act”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 15 February 1979, page 24

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 18 February 1979, page 43

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 25 February 1979, page 55

“‘Lucille’ man booked”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 1 March 1979, page 23

“Pop, rock, folk and jazz”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 4 March 1979, page 39

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 4 March 1979, page 43

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 5 March 1979, page 12

“Alice Cooper returns to his old antics at Wings”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 6 March 1979, page 33