99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1985!
That year PLR presented Dio at New Haven Coliseum. Ronnie James Dio hit the road in ’85 to support his third studio album, “Sacred Heart,” which featured such singles as Rock ‘n’ Roll Children, Hungry for Heaven and King of Rock and Roll. Joining Dio at the Coliseum was special guest Rough Cutt.
Today we look back when Dio rocked New Haven in 1985…
Dio
Tour: Sacred Heart
Special Guest: Rough Cutt
Saturday September 14, 1985
New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Ticket Price: $13.50
Band Lineup: Ronnie James Dio, Vivian Campbell, Jimmy Bain, Claude Schnell, Vinny Appice
Setlist*
- King of Rock and Roll
- Like the Beat of a Heart
- Don’t Talk to Strangers
- Hungry for Heaven
- The Last In Line
- Holy Diver
- Drum Solo
- Heaven and Hell (Black Sabbath cover)
- Guitar Solo
- Keyboard Solo
- Sacred Heart
- Rock ‘n’ Roll Children
- Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll (Rainbow cover)
- Man on the Silver Mountain (Rainbow cover)
- Sand Up and Shout
- Rainbow in the Dark (encore)
- We Rock (encore)
*source: setlist.fm
PLR Backstage Meet and Greet with Dio
Check out these live clips of Dio in 1985