99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1987!

That year PLR welcomed Pink Floyd to Hartford’s XL Center (which was called Hartford Civic Center at the time) for two shows on back-to-back nights. Pink Floyd hit the road in 1987 to support their thirteenth studio album “A Momentary Lapse of Reason,” which featured singles like Learning To Fly, On The Turning Away and One Slip. It was Pink Floyd’s first album recorded without founding member Roger Waters, who left the band in 1985, and their first full tour since 1981’s “The Wall” Tour.

Pink Floyd

Tour: A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour

Wednesday October 14 and Thursday October 15, 1987

The XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut

Ticket Price: $22.50

Band Lineup: David Gilmour (vocals/guitar), Nick Mason (drums), Richard Wright (keyboards)

Setlists*

Night 1 – Wednesday October 14, 1987

1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)
2. Signs of Life
3. Learning To Fly
4. Yet Another Movie
5. Round and Around
6. A New Machine (Part 1)
7. Terminal Frost
8. A New Machine (Part 2)
9. Sorrow
10. The Dogs of War
11. On the Turning Away
12. One of These Days
13. Time
14. On the Run
15. Wish You Were Here
16. Welcome To The Machine
17. Us and Them
18. Money
19. Another Brick in the Wall Part 2
20. Comfortably Numb
21. One Slip (encore)
22. Run Like Hell (encore)

Night 2 – Thursday October 15, 1987

1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)
2. Signs of Life
3. Learning To Fly
4. Yet Another Movie
5. Round and Around
6. A New Machine (Part 1)
7. Terminal Frost
8. A New Machine (Part 2)
9. Sorrow
10. The Dogs of War
11. On the Turning Away
12. One of These Days
13. Time
14. On the Run
15. Wish You Were Here
16. Welcome To The Machine
17. Us and Them
18. Money
19. Another Brick in the Wall Part 2
20. Comfortably Numb
21. One Slip (encore)
22. Run Like Hell (encore)

*source: setlist.fm

Check out these live clips of Pink Floyd in Hartford in 1987

99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1987!

That year PLR welcomed R.E.M. to New Haven Coliseum. R.E.M. hit the road in 1987 to support their fifth studio album “Document,” which featured such hit songs as The One I Love, It’s The End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) and Finest Worksong. Joining R.E.M. at the Coliseum were special guests 10,000 Maniacs.

R.E.M.

Tour: Work

Special Guest: 10,000 Maniacs

Saturday October 17, 1987

New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Ticket Price: $13.50

Band Lineup: Michael Stipe (vocals), Bill Berry (drums), Peter Buck (guitar), Mike Mills (bass)

Setlist*

1. Finest Worksong
2. These Days
3. Welcome To The Occupation
4. Pilgrimage
5. Exhuming McCarthy
6. Orange Crush
7. Feeling Gravity Pulls
8. King of Birds
9. Sitting Still
10. I Believe
11. Drive 8
12. Superman (The Clique cover)
13. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
14. Oddfellows Local 151
15. It’s The End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
16. Begin The Begin
17. Stranger (Wire cover) – Encore 1
18. Cuyahoga – Encore 1
19. Fall on Me – Encore 1
20. The One I Love – Encore 1
21. Wolves, Lower – Encore 2
22. Crazy (Pylon cover) – Encore 2
23. 1,000,000 – Encore 2
24. Singing Cage (with Natalie Merchant) – Encore 3
25. Harpers (Hugo Largo cover) – Encore 3
26. So. Central Rain – Encore 3

*source: setlist.fm

Check out these live clips of R.E.M. in 1987

99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1987!

That year PLR welcomed Def Leppard to Hartford’s XL Center (which was called Hartford Civic Center at the time). Def Leppard hit the road in 1987 to support their fourth studio album “Hysteria,” which featured major hits like Animal, Pour Some Sugar on Me, Armageddon It, Hysteria and Love Bites and Rocket. It was Def Leppard’s best selling album, selling over 20 million copies worldwide.

Joining Def Leppard in Hartford was special guest Tesla, who opened the show.

Def Leppard

Tour: Hysteria

Special Guest: Tesla

Sunday October 11, 1987

The XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut

Ticket Price: $16.50

Band Lineup: Joe Elliott (vocals), Steve Clark (guitar), Phil Collen (guitar), Rick Savage (bass), Rick Allen (drums)

Setlist*

1. Stagefright
2. Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop)
3. Women
4. Another Hit and Run
5. Too Late For Love
6. Hysteria
7. Guitar Solo
8. Gods of War
9. Die Hard The Hunter
10. Bringin’ On The Heartbreak
11. Foolin’
12. Animal
13. Pour Some Sugar On Me
14. Let It Go
15. Rock of Ages
16. Photograph (encore)

*source: setlist.fm

Check out these live clips of Def Leppard in 1987