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Local History

Cheap Trick (2/10/1981)

A Wings Stadium Concert Scrapbook Page

Artist(s): Cheap Trick w/ UFO, and New England
Date: 10 February 1981
Tickets: $8.75 (general admission and reserved seating) + 25¢ surcharge per ticket for parking
Attendance: 5,500
Notes: Cheap Trick’s second appearance at Wings Stadium, second also for UFO.
Setlist (Cheap Trick*): Hello There, Stop This Game, I Want You to Want Me, Reach Out, On Top of the World, Baby Loves to Rock, Gonna Raise Hell, Dream Police, Ain’t That a Shame, Surrender, Just Got Back, Day Tripper, Goodnight.
Setlist (UFO*): Long Gone, Chains Chains, Lonely Heart, Cherry, No Place to Run, The Wild, the Willing and the Innocent, Only You Can Rock Me, Love to Love, Mystery Train, Lights Out, Rock Bottom.
Setlist (New England*): P.U.N.K., Shoot, L5, Holdin’ Out on Me, Don’t Ever Let Me Go, Explorer Suite, Walking Wild, Seal It With a Kiss, She’s Gonna Tear You Apart, DDT, Don’t Ever Wanna Lose Ya.

*unconfirmed, but likely similar based on reviewer’s comments and other performances around the same time (Columbus, OH).

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 8 January 1981, (right) 8 February 1981. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 25 January 1981, (right) 1 February 1981. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 8 February 1981. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 8 February 1981, (right) 10 February 1981. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 11 February 1981. Kalamazoo Public Library

 

Sources

Articles

“Cheap Trick returning”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 8 January 1981, page 36

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 25 January 1981, page 28

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 1 February 1981, page 24

“Pop, rock, folk and jazz”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 8 February 1981, page 20

“And then there is Cheap Trick”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 8 February 1981, page 23

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 8 February 1981, page 25

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 10 February 1981, page 25

“5,500 defy weather for Trick concert”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 11 February 1981, page 18