Louder Than Concorde Tour


The Louder Than Concorde Tour was a concert tour by English musician and composer Elton John, in support of his 10th studio album Rock of the Westies. the tour included two legs and a total of 62 shows.

Tour

and his band recorded the Blue Moves album in Toronto in March 1976, and began touring the UK on 29 April in Leeds. This leg of the tour, which included a midnight show in Glasgow, ended on 4 June in Cardiff. Then on 29 June 1976 in Landover, Maryland, the eastern half of the US got the newly named "Louder Than Concorde " tour… a testament to the onslaught Elton and his ferocious band were delivering to a country in the midst of its Bicentennial celebration.
On 4 July 1976, Elton played Schaefer Stadium near Boston. Billie Jean King sang backing vocals and Elton slipped Holiday Inn in to the 20-song set list, a unique event on this tour. Part-way through this leg of the tour, Ray Cooper fell ill and was forced to miss roughly a dozen shows. Ever the punsmith, Elton declared that the missing percussionist was "Ray Cooper-ating from surgery."
The tour concluded in mid-August with a record-breaking seven sold-out nights at Madison Square Garden. For these shows, Elton and the band shared the stage with the New York Community Choir and performed encores with Kiki Dee, Alice Cooper and the drag queen, Divine. As this week was winding down, Elton notified the band that he was taking a break from touring and the group soon disbanded.

Tour dates

Set list

  1. Grow Some Funk of Your Own
  2. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
  3. Island Girl
  4. Rocket Man
  5. Hercules
  6. Bennie and the Jets
  7. Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
  8. Love Song
  9. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
  10. Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
  11. Empty Sky
  12. Someone Saved My Life Tonight
  13. Don't Go Breaking My Heart
  14. I've Got the Music in Me
  15. Philadelphia Freedom
  16. We All Fall in Love Sometimes
  17. Curtains
  18. Tell Me When the Whistle Blows
Encore:
  1. Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting
  2. Your Song
  3. Pinball Wizard

    Tour band