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Every Good Boy Deserves Favour Tour continues |
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VENUES |
SET LIST |
NOTES |
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March 3, 1972 |
Concertgebouw,
Amsterdam, Holland |
Are You Sitting
Comfortably? |
Show date and venue noted at 3voor12.vpro.nl/3voor12/maps/programs/episodes/ and reported by Yvonne Bouten |
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General Tour Notes: Tour dates and venues noted in an advertisement in "Rolling Stone", April 13, 1972 reported by Doug Hinman of www.rocknrollresearchpress.com Set list from an audio boot of the March 30 Boston show, reported by Eric Powell. An incomplete audio boot from March 25 show in Detroit confirms "Our Guessing Game" and "One More Time to Live". |
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March 22, 1972 |
International Amphitheatre, Chicago, IL |
Gypsy
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March 23, 1972 |
University of Illinois Assembley Hall, Champagne, IL |
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March 24, 1972 |
off |
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March 25, 1972 |
Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI |
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March 26, 1972 |
Onondago Memorial Auditorium, Syracuse, NY |
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March 27, 1972 |
Baltimore Civic
Center, Baltimore, MD |
Opening act Fat City, a man and woman who did the backing vocals for John Denver's "Country Roads", reported by Bill Clifford. |
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March 28, 1972 |
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON |
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March 29, 1972 |
off |
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March 30, 1972 |
Boston Garden, Boston, MA |
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March 31, 1972 |
Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo, NY |
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April 1, 1972 |
off |
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April 2, 1972 |
Convention Center Arena, San Antonio, TX |
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April 3, 1972 |
Tarrant County Convention Center, Fort Worth, TX |
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April 4, 1972 |
Oklahoma
Fairgrounds Arena, Oklahoma City, OK |
Opening act Fat City, a man and woman who did the backing vocals for John Denver's "Country Roads", reported by George Harris. |
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April 5, 1972 |
Sam Houston Coliseum, Houston, TX |
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April 6, 1972 |
off |
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April 7, 1972 |
Orlando Sports Stadium Arena, Orlando, FL |
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April 8, 1972 |
Hollywood Sportatorium, Hollywood, FL |
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April 20, 1972 |
Single Isn't Life Strange / After You Came is released in U.S. and U.K. |
Single release noted in first "discography issue" of "Higher and Higher" #4, Winter/Spring 1985, p. 4 for U.S. as "April" and "May" for the U.K.. However, I have superceded that info using the Official Fan Club Newsletter April/June 1972, which says: "ISN'T LIFE STRANGE the Moodies new single released on the 20th. April, is doing great. It at first seemed a slow mover and we weren't getting very much airplay on the B.B.C. then suddenly everything started looking up and we hav (sic) since had two B.B.C. Top of the Pops and another one to follow and we find ourselves Number 8 in the Melody Maker charts this week. A.B.B.C. location team (cameramen and crew) came down to Cobham last week and went with the Moodies to Oxshott Woods to film a sequence there for T.O.P. to be televised in a couple of weeks." |
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April 21, 1972 |
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April 22, 1972 |
Empire Pool,
Wembley (London) |
The Moodies shared the bill with John Denver. A note in the tour program says, "The group have just returned from their eighth American tour on which they have shattered world attendance records, from the Chicago Ampa Theatre [sic] to the Miami Sportatorium ... travelling over 40,000 miles and playing to more than 180,000 people." reported in "Higher and Higher" #23, Fall 1994 p.30. Venue now known as Wembley Arena. |
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May 27, 1972 |
John and Kirsten Lodge's second child, Kristian is born. |
"John has had a very exciting month. A record in the top ten and last Saturday the 27th. May his wife Kirsten gave birth to their first son. He weighed 6lbs. 6ozs and they have decided to call him Kristian.", reported in the Official Fan Club Newsletter April/June 1972. |
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Seventh Sojourn Tour |
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General Tour Notes: Tour dates and venues noted in the Official Fan Club Newsletter, May/June/July 1972. Set list from an audio boot of the Baltimore show on October 22, reported by Eric Powell. |
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DATES |
VENUES |
SET LIST |
NOTES |
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October 21, 1972 |
Hampton
Coliseum,
Hampton, VA |
The Story in
Your Eyes |
Corrected from "Hampton Rhodes, Virginia" by Linda Bangert |
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October 22, 1972 |
Civic Center, Baltimore, MD |
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October 23, 1972 |
Madison Square
Garden, New York, NY |
Second show reported by Bill Clifford. These shows are noted in the book Brightly Over the Threshold by Georgiana Spoon (1993) - "In October 1972, the group sold out two performances during a one-day appearance at Madison Square Garden, that's 50,000 people, in less than five hours." Their promoter Jerry Weintraub said, "...the Moody Blues are the only group in the world who can do it purely on the basis of their music - the kind of music you will probably still be buying in 50 years time." Therefore, these are probably the shows for which the Moody Blues were awarded the "Golden Ticket". Album release noted in first "discography issue" of "Higher and Higher" #4, Winter/Spring 1985, p. 6 |
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October 24, 1972 |
The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA |
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October 25, 1972 |
Boston Garden, Boston, MA |
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October 26, 1972 |
off |
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October 27, 1972 |
Missouri Arena, St. Louis, MO |
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October 28, 1972 |
Arena, Milwaukee, WI |
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October 29, 1972 |
Metropolitan Sports Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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October 30, 1972 |
off |
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October 31, 1972 |
Salt Palace, Salt Lake City, UT |
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November 1, 1972 |
Los Angeles Forum, Inglewood, CA |
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November 2, 1972 |
off |
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November 3, 1972 |
Sports Arena, San Diego, CA |
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November 4, 1972 |
Auditorium, Long Beach, CA |
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December 3, 1972 |
Justin and Marie Hayward's first (and only) child, Doremi, is born. |
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Updated December 1, 2006 |
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