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Local History

REO Speedwagon (3/21/1987)

A Wings Stadium Concert Scrapbook Page

Artist(s): REO Speedwagon w/ Georgia Satellites
Date: 21 March 1987
Tickets: $16.00 (reserved seating and general admission)
Attendance: 7,987
Notes: Advance sellout. Opening night of the 100-city “Life as We Know It” tour. A few days of rehearsal at the stadium preceded the public performance.

Setlist (REO Speedwagon*): That Ain’t Love, I Do’ Wanna Know, Tough Guys, One Too Many Girlfriends, Variety Tonight, Keep Pushin’, Take It on the Run, New Way to Love, Golden Country, Can’t Fight This Feeling, Screams and Whispers, Back on the Road Again, Keep On Loving You, Roll With the Changes, Ridin’ the Storm Out, Don’t Let Him Go, Shakin’ It Loose, Say You Love Me or Say Goodnight, Time for Me to Fly

Setlist (Georgia Satellites*): I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water, The Myth of Love, School Day (Ring Ring Goes the Bell), Battleship Chains, Nights of Mystery, Can’t Stand the Pain, Keep Your Hands to Yourself, Railroad Steel.

*unconfirmed, but likely similar based on reviewers’ comments and other shows around the same time (Des Moines, IA; Nashville, TN)

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(left) Kalamazoo Gazette, 11 January 1987, (top right) Kalamazoo Gazette, 18 February 1987, (bottom right) Battle Creek Enquirer, 1 March 1987. Kalamazoo Public Library / Willard Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 15 March 1987. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 15 March 1987. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 18 March 1987. Kalamazoo Public Library

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(top left) Battle Creek Enquirer, 21 March 1987, (bottom left) Kalamazoo Gazette, 20 March 1987, (center) Kalamazoo Gazette, 20 March 1987, (top right) Kalamazoo Gazette, 22 March 1987, (bottom right) Kalamazoo Gazette, 21 March 1987. Kalamazoo Public Library / Willard Library

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Battle Creek Enquirer, 22 March 1987. Willard Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 23 March 1987. Kalamazoo Public Library

Sources

Articles

“Pop …and all that jazz”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 11 January 1987, page 73

“REO tickets on sale Friday”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 18 February 1987, page 25

“REO Speedwagon and The Georgia Satellites…”
Battle Creek Enquirer, 1 March 1987, page 27

“Spring breaks with a crush of concerts”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 15 March 1987, page 81,82 (G1-G2)

“Patience pays off: The Satellites fly with a Southern-rock hit”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 18 March 1987, page 19,20 (C1-C2)

“REO opens…”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 18 March 1987, page 23

“Saturday”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 18 March 1987, page 25

“Coming today”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 21 March 1987, page 1

“Tour begins; no fans on stage”
Battle Creek Enquirer, 21 March 1987, page 6

“Rockin’ REO”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 22 March 1987, page 25

“Wings crowd roars for REO Speedwagon”
Battle Creek Enquirer, 22 March 1987, page 29

“REO Speedwagon already in overdrive”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 23 March 1987, page 21,22 (D1,D2)