Shake the Cage Tour


The Shake the Cage Tour, by the Anglo-American rock group Fleetwood Mac, began on September 30, 1987 in Kansas City, Missouri, and ended on June 28, 1988 in Manchester, England. It was their first tour since 1974 without Lindsey Buckingham, who left the band in August 1987.

History of the tour

Although the album Tango in the Night included Lindsey Buckingham, the guitarist quit at a band meeting to discuss the tour. "We'd signed the contracts," Stevie Nicks noted. "We couldn't call in and say, 'Oh, we can't do the tour.' We had to do it, or Fleetwood Mac would have been sued forever."
Buckingham was replaced by rockabilly singer and guitarist Billy Burnette and lead guitarist and session musician Rick Vito. The former contributed to Mick Fleetwood's solo album I'm Not Me, as a member of Mick Fleetwood's Zoo. Nicks, recently recovered from cocaine addiction, was prescribed a heavy duty tranquilizer, to which she became addicted until the mid 90s.
The band played at the Rock am Ring Festival in Nürburg, Germany, on June 4, 1988. The crowd in attendance was 80.000.
This tour was filmed during the San Francisco shows and released on VHS as Fleetwood Mac:Tango in the Night. Cruzados and The Adventures were the opening act of the tour.

Set list

  1. Say You Love Me
  2. The Chain
  3. Dreams
  4. Isn't It Midnight
  5. Everywhere
  6. Oh Well
  7. Seven Wonders
  8. Rattlesnake Shake
  9. Over My Head
  10. Gold Dust Woman
  11. Don't Let Me Down Again
  12. Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You?
  13. I Loved Another Woman
  14. Brown Eyes
  15. World Turning
  16. Little Lies
  17. Stand Back
  18. You Make Loving Fun
  19. Go Your Own Way
Encore:
  1. Blue Letter
  2. Don't Stop
  3. Songbird

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