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Blue Öyster Cult (10/7/1980)

A Wings Stadium Concert Scrapbook Page


Artist(s): Blue Öyster Cult w/ Saxon
Date: 7 October 1980
Tickets: $8.75 (general admission and reserved seating) + 25¢ surcharge per ticket for parking
Attendance: 5,000
Notes: Blue Öyster Cult’s fifth appearance at Wings Stadium, the first for opening act Saxon.
Setlist (Blue Öyster Cult*): Dr. Music, E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence), The Marshall Plan, Cities on Flame With Rock and Roll, Unknown Tongue, Divine Wind, ME 262, Hot Rails to Hell, Black Blade, Godzilla, 5 Guitars (The Golden Age of Leather), Born to Be Wild, Roadhouse Blues, (Don’t Fear) The Reaper.
Setlist (Saxon*): Motorcycle Man, Still Fit to Boogie, Freeway Mad, Wheels of Steel, Frozen Rainbow, 747 (Strangers in the Night), Bap Shoo Ap, Stallions of the Highway, Machine Gun.

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

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (top left) 18 September 1980, (bottom left) 5 October 1980, (right) 21 September 1980. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 5 October 1980, (right) 7 October 1980. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 8 October 1980. Kalamazoo Public Library

 

Sources

Articles

“Two more Wings attractions”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 18 September 1980, page 35

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 21 September 1980, page 17

“Pop, rock, jazz and folk”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 5 October 1980, page 17

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 5 October 1980, page 25

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 7 October 1980, page 24

“Cult gave crowd what it came for”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 8 October 1980, page 25