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Local History

The Scorpions (6/30/1982)

A Wings Stadium Concert Scrapbook Page

Artist(s): The Scorpions w/ Girlschool
Date: 30 June 1982
Tickets: $9.75 (general admission and reserved seating) + 25¢ surcharge per ticket for parking
Attendance: (unknown)
Notes: The second appearance at Wings Stadium for The Scorpions, their first as a headline act. The first US date of the tour for Girlschool.
Setlist (The Scorpions): Blackout, No One Like You, When the Smoke Is Going Down, Always Somewhere, Lovedrive, Arizona, Now!, Dynamite, others (17-song set).

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (top left) 22 June 1982, (top right) 13 June 1982, (middle right) 18 June 1982, (bottom right) 27 June 1982. Kalamazoo Public Library

Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 20 June 1982, (middle) 27 June 1982, (right) 30 June 1982. Kalamazoo Public Library

Kalamazoo Gazette, 27 June 1982. Kalamazoo Public Library

Kalamazoo Gazette, 1 July 1982. Kalamazoo Public Library

Sources

Articles

“Heavy metal from Germany”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 27 May 1982, page 41

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 13 June 1982, page 36

“More heavy metal”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 18 June 1982, page 16

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 20 June 1982, page 30

“No English ladies”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 22 June 1982, page 24

“Pop, rock, folk and jazz”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 27 June 1982, page 25

“Ladies in leather no longer a phenomenon”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 27 June 1982, page 26

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 27 June 1982, page 29

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 30 June 1982, page 17

“Wings serves up another dose of heavy metal”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 1 July 1982, page 49

Websites

Setlist.fm setlist wiki: The Scorpions setlist, 30 June 1982, Wings Stadium, Kalamazoo, MI