John Denver (8/4/1981)
A Wings Stadium Concert Scrapbook Page
Artist(s): John Denver
Date: 4 August 1981
Tickets: $8.75/$10.25/$12.75 (reserved seating) + 25¢ surcharge per ticket for parking
Attendance: 7,600 (advance sellout)
Notes: Denver’s third appearance (fourth performance) at Wings Stadium. Advance sellout, center stage in the round.
Setlist*: Boy From The Country, Ricky Mountain High, Tradewinds, How Can I Leave You Again, Sleeping Alone, Shanghai Breezes, Annie’s Song, Baby You Look Good To Me Tonight, To The Wild Country (Where I Belong), Downhill Stuff, Memphis, Forest Lawn, Do Re Me, Home On The Range, Grandma’s Feather Bed, Thank God I’m A Country Boy, Hard Times (Come Again No More), Take Me Home, Country Roads, Some Days Are Diamonds, Some Days Are Stone, Paradise, Spanish Pipedream, I Want To Live, others.
*based on reviewer’s comments.
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Kalamazoo Gazette, (top left) 8 July 1981, (bottom left) 13 July 1981, (right) 12 July 1981. Kalamazoo Public Library
Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 16 July 1981, (center) 19 July 1981, (right) 18 July 1981. Kalamazoo Public Library
Kalamazoo Gazette, 2 August 1981. Kalamazoo Public Library
Kalamazoo Gazette, 5 August 1981. Kalamazoo Public Library
Sources
Articles
“John Denver returning for August concert”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 8 July 1981, page 30 (C-2)
Display ad
Kalamazoo Gazette, 12 July 1981, page 20
“Rainy days and Mondays don’t dampen spirit of John Denver fans”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 13 July 1981, page 1
“Tickets going fast”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 16 July 1981, page 26
Display ad
Kalamazoo Gazette, 18 July 1981, page 32
“He’s not suspicious”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 19 July 1981, page 24
“Still high on Denver”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 2 August 1981, page 19
“Denver picks up Chapin’s hunger crusade in show here”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 5 August 1981, page 29