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Local History

Styx (10/6/1979)

A Wings Stadium Concert Scrapbook Page

Artist(s): Styx w/ Morningstar
Date: 6 October 1979 (rescheduled from September 1)
Tickets: $8.75 (general admission)
Attendance: 7,200 (advance sellout)
Notes: The second Wings Stadium appearance for Styx, the band’s first as a headline act. Originally scheduled for 1 September 1979 but postponed due to an injured bandmember. (Singer Denis DeYoung was hit in the head with a wooden shoe thrown during the previous night’s performance in Detroit). Scheduled opening act New England was replaced by Morningstar.
Setlist (Styx*): Great White Hope, I’m O.K., The Grand Illusion, Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man), Queen of Spades, Crystal Ball, Suite Madame Blue, Renegade, Lady, Blue Collar Man (Long Nights), Come Sail Away, Miss America, The Grand Finale

*unconfirmed, but likely similar based on performances around the same time (Falcon Heights, MN).

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (top left) 11 August 1979, (top left center) 18 August 1979, (top right center) 19 August 1979, (top right) 25 August 1979, (bottom left) 30 August 1979, (bottom right) 26 August 1979. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 19 August 1979, (right) 26 August 1979. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (top right) 26 August 1979, (lower left) 1 September 1979. Kalamazoo Public Library

 

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 1 September 1979, (right) 2 September 1979. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (top left) 8 October 1979, (bottom center left) 30 September 1979, (bottom center right) 8 October 1979, (right) 8 October 1979, (center) 22 September 1979. Kalamazoo Public Library

Sources

Articles

“Schedule of events”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 11 August 1979, page 34

“Schedule of events”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 18 August 1979, page 48

“Styx is coming”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 19 August 1979, page 18

Display ad
Kalamazoo Gazette, 19 August 1979, page 22

“Schedule of events”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 25 August 1979, page 48

“Pop, rock, jazz and folk”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 26 August 1979, page 21

Display ad
Kalamazoo Gazette, 26 August 1979, page 23

“Styx’s days as a warm-up band over”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 26 August 1979, page 26 (B-6)

“Word from Wings”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 30 August 1979, page 29

“Schedule of events”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 1 September 1979, page 34

“Star hurt; Styx concert postponed”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 1 September 1979, page 1 (A-1)

“Some Styx fans hear of postponement late”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 2 September 1979, page 72

“Schedule of events”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 22 September 1979, page 43

“Folk, jazz, pop and rock”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 30 September 1979, page 17

“Arts”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 8 October 1979, page 1

“Styx aims to dazzle its fans”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 8 October 1979, page 19 (B-11)

“19 cars involved in I-94 accidents”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 8 October 1979, page 31