Heart (9/4/1982)
A Wings Stadium Concert Scrapbook Page
Artist(s): Heart w/ John Cougar Mellencamp
Date: 4 September 1982
Tickets: $9.75 (general admission and reserved seating) + 25¢ surcharge per ticket for parking
Attendance: 7,500 (sellout)
Notes: Heart’s third appearance at Wings Stadium, the first for John Cougar Mellencamp (billed then as “John Cougar”).
Setlist (Heart*): City’s Burning, Crazy on You, Bebe Le Strange, This Man Is Mine, Magic Man, Straight On, Love Alive, Dog & Butterfly, Guitar Solo, Mistral Wind, Raised on You, The Situation, Fast Times, Even It Up, Barracuda, Rock and Roll, Born to Be Wild, Sweet Darlin’.
Setlist (John Cougar Mellencamp*): 30 Days in the Hole, Ain’t Even Done with the Night, Hand to Hold on To, Jack & Diane, I Need a Lover, This Time, You Can’t Always Get What You Want, Hurts So Good.
*unconfirmed, but likely similar based on reviewer’s comments and other shows around the same time (e.g., Evansville, IN; Worcester, MA).
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Kalamazoo Gazette, 15 August 1982. Kalamazoo Public Library
Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 15 August 1982, (right) 22 August 1982. Kalamazoo Public Library
Kalamazoo Gazette, (top right) 1 September 1982, (bottom left) 29 August 1982, (middle right) 29 August 1982, (bottom right) 2 September 1982. Kalamazoo Public Library
Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 3 September 1982, (right) 6 September 1982. Kalamazoo Public Library
Sources
Articles
“Who’s really headlining the show?”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 15 August 1982, page 28 (C-3)
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Kalamazoo Gazette, 15 August 1982, page 29 (C-4)
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Kalamazoo Gazette, 22 August 1982, page 31
“Pop, rock, folk and jazz”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 29 August 1982, page 25
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Kalamazoo Gazette, 29 August 1982, page 33
“Cougar turns reflective on his first bad review”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 1 September 1982, page 16
“No snapshots Saturday”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 2 September 1982, page 33
“Cougar’s LP No.1 on Billboard’s list”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 3 September 1982, page 15
“Heart, Cougar a double dose of rock”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 6 September 1982, page 8