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Beach Boys (8/22/1975)

A Wings Stadium Concert Scrapbook


Artist(s): Beach Boys w/ Ambrosia
Date: 22 August 1975
Tickets: $6.50/$7.50 (general admission)
Attendance: 8,000
Notes: First advance sellout concert

Setlist (Beach Boys*): Sloop John B, Do It Again, Help Me, Rhonda, In My Room, The Trader, Sail On Sailor, California Saga: California, Surfer Girl, Little Deuce Coupe, California Girls, Wouldn’t It Be Nice, I Get Around, Good Vibrations, You Are So Beautiful, Barbara Ann, Surfin’ U.S.A., Fun, Fun, Fun.

Setlist (Ambrosia): Holdin’ On to Yesterday, Duke of Earl, (others)

*unconfirmed, but likely similar based on performances around the same time (Pittsburgh, PA).

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 10 August 1975, p.A-23, (right top) 3 August 1975, p.C-12, (right middle) 7 August 1975, p.D-2, (right lower) 14 August 1975, p.D-3, (right bottom) 20 August 1975, p.B-14. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (top left) 23 August 1975, (lower right) 3 November 1975. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 22 August 1975, p.B-10, (inset left) 10 August 1975, p.A-24. Kalamazoo Public Library

Articles

“Stadium show”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 3 August 1975, page C-12

“Biggest sale”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 7 August 1975, page D-2

“Beach Boys span the generation gap”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 10 August 1975, page A-23

“Sell-out looms”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 14 August 1975, page D-3

“Concert sold out”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 20 August 1975, page B-14

“15 years—and still packing them in”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 22 August 1975, page B-10

“Beach Boys’ old magic charms a new generation”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 23 August 1975, page A-7

“Didn’t pay for ‘pot party’”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 3 November 1975, page A-7