NOTICE: Kalamazoo Public Library is currently experiencing an interruption with our YouTube channel. We are working to resolve the issue and hope to have access restored soon. We appreciate your patience.

Local History

John Denver (6/1/1984)

A Wings Stadium Concert Scrapbook Page

Artist(s): John Denver
Date: 1 June 1984
Tickets: $13.25 and $15.25 (reserved seating)
Attendance: 7,426
Notes: Denver’s fifth appearance (sixth performance) at Wings Stadium.
Setlist*: Boy From the Country, Rocky Mountain High, Sunshine on My Shoulders, Saturday Night In Toledo, Ohio, High Flight (poem), Leaving on a Jet Plane, Goodbye Again, Follow Me, Baby You Look Good To Me Tonight, Matthew, Catch Another Butterfly, Grandma’s Feather Bed, Lord’s Prayer (spoken), Rhymes and Reasons, The Eagle And The Hawk, The Golden Beyond, Wild Montana Skies, Country Roads, Seasons of the Heart, A Wild Heart Looking For A Home, Shanghai Breezes, Fly Away, Poems, Prayers and Promises, Heart to Heart, Love Again, I Want to Live, The Higher We Fly, Annie’s Song, I’m Sorry, Calypso, It’s About Time, Perhaps Love.

*Unconfirmed, but likely similar based on reviewer’s comments and a documented but incomplete setlist.

Return to the Wings Stadium Concert History page >

John-Denver-Gazette-6-14-May-1984.jpg
Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 6 May 1984, (center) 14 May 1984, (right) 14 May 1984. Kalamazoo Public Library

John-Denver-Gazette-6-13-May-1984.jpg
Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 6 May 1984, (right) 13 May 1984. Kalamazoo Public Library

John-Denver-Gazette-20-27-May-1984.jpg
Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 20 May 1984, (right) 27 May 1984. Kalamazoo Public Library

John-Denver-Gazette-27-May-1984.jpg
Kalamazoo Gazette, 27 May 1984. Kalamazoo Public Library

John-Denver-Gazette-1-June-1984.jpg
Kalamazoo Gazette, 1 June 1984. Kalamazoo Public Library

John-Denver-Gazette-2-June-1984.jpg
Kalamazoo Gazette, 2 June 1984. Kalamazoo Public Library

Sources

Articles

“Upcoming”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 6 May 1984, page 67

Display ad
Kalamazoo Gazette, 6 May 1984, page 61

Display ad
Kalamazoo Gazette, 13 May 1984, page 71

“Pop concert fan feels he’s left with back seat” (letter to the editor)
Kalamazoo Gazette, 14 May 1984, page 7

“New group?”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 14 May 1984, page 28

Display ad
Kalamazoo Gazette, 20 May 1984, page 81

“It’s a different John Denver now”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 27 May 1984, page 43 (E-1), 44 (E-2)

Display ad
Kalamazoo Gazette, 27 May 1984, page 45

“It’s Kalamazoo high for John Denver”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 1 June 1984, page 2 (A-2)

“Denver still has his magic touch”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 2 June 1984, page 9 (A-8)

Websites

Setlist.fm setlist wiki: John Denver setlist, 1 June 1984, Wings Stadium, Kalamazoo, MI (incomplete)