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Local History

Scorpions (5/24/1984)

A Wings Stadium Concert Scrapbook Page

Artist(s): Scorpions w/ Bon Jovi
Date: 24 May 1984
Tickets: $10.75 (reserved seating and general admission) + 25¢ surcharge per ticket for parking
Attendance: 6,500
Notes: Scorpions’ third appearance at Wings Stadium (the group’s second as a headline act).
Setlist (Scorpions*): Countdown (walk-on), Coming Home, Blackout, Bad Boys Running Wild, Loving You Sunday Morning, Make It Real, Big City Nights, Coast to Coast, Holiday, Still Loving You, Rock You Like a Hurricane, Can’t Live Without You, Drum Solo, Another Piece of Meat, Dynamite, The Zoo, No One Like You, Can’t Get Enough, Six String Sting, Can’t Get Enough (Reprise).
Setlist (Bon Jovi): Breakout, Come Back, Roulette, Shot Through the Heart, Guitar Solo, Get Ready, Runaway.

*Unconfirmed, but likely similar based on reviewer’s comments and other shows around the same time (e.g., Rosemont, IL)

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 21 March 1984. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 25 March 1984. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 25 March 1984, (right) 1 April 1984. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 23 May 1984. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 25 May 1984. Kalamazoo Public Library

Sources

Articles

“Scorpions plan May 24 concert in Wings”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 21 March 1984, page 30

“Scorpions, Nugent on sale today”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 24 March 1984, page 6

“Area concert action starting to heat up”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 25 March 1984, page 62

“Scorpions sales sizzling”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 1 April 1984, page 71

“Scorpions stinging U.S. record charts”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 23 May 1984, page 27

“Scorpions impressive, but predictable”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 25 May 1984, page 22 (C-6)

Websites

Setlist.fm setlist wiki: Bon Jovi setlist, 24 May 1984, Wings Stadium, Kalamazoo, MI