99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1987!
That year PLR welcomed U2 to New Haven Coliseum. U2 hit the road in 1987 to support their fifth studio album “The Joshua Tree,” which featured major hits like With or Without You, I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For, Where The Streets Have No Name and In God’s Country. Joining them at the Coliseum was special guest Mason Ruffner.
U2’s New Haven show occurred between two stadium shows. The night before they played in front of 55,000+ in Foxborough and two nights later over 86,000 at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. At the time U2 was perhaps the biggest rock band in the world. New Haven Coliseum’s 10,500 capacity was one of the smaller venues on their North American Tour. It’s believed that their stop in New Haven was U2’s way of saying “thank you” to the city that first welcomed them with open arms on their very first tour in the United States in 1980.
U2
Tour: The Joshua Tree
Special Guest: Mason Ruffner
Wednesday September 23, 1987
New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Ticket Price: $14.50
Band Lineup: Bono (vocals), The Edge (guitar), Adam Clayton (bass), Larry Mullen Jr. (drums)
This is the third debut album in our Hall of Fame. Guns ‘N Roses Appetite for Destruction. Released in July of 1987 when hair metal bands were dominating rock station charts, we all thought that this was just another hair band out of L.A. That’s until you dropped the needle on cut one, side one and got your head blown off by “Welcome to the Jungle.” No, this was not another hair band out of L.A. but a straight-ahead hard rocking band. It wasn’t until the following year that this album became a massive commercial success with songs like the aforementioned “Mr. Brownstone” to the showstopper “Paradise City” and the classic “Sweet Child O’ Mine.” Add along “Rocket Queen,” Nightrain” and “My Michelle,” you have the best-selling debut album of all time, as well the 11th best-selling album of all time in the United States. At this time, we would like to induct Guns ‘N Roses’ Appetite for Destruction into the WPLR Hall of Fame.
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Jimmy Koplik of Live Nation had an update on concerts in Connecticut, and the last hurdles the state needs to clear before he can start selling tickets again. Then, Chaz and AJ had him finish his list of the greatest albums from the 1980’s. (35:16)
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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
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)
Signs of Life
Learning To Fly
Yet Another Movie
Round and Around
A New Machine (Part 1)
Terminal Frost
A New Machine (Part 2)
Sorrow
The Dogs of War
On the Turning Away
One of These Days
Time
On the Run
Wish You Were Here
Welcome To The Machine
Us and Them
Money
Another Brick in the Wall Part 2
Comfortably Numb
One Slip (encore)
Run Like Hell (encore)
Night 2 – Thursday October 15, 1987
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)
Signs of Life
Learning To Fly
Yet Another Movie
Round and Around
A New Machine (Part 1)
Terminal Frost
A New Machine (Part 2)
Sorrow
The Dogs of War
On the Turning Away
One of These Days
Time
On the Run
Wish You Were Here
Welcome To The Machine
Us and Them
Money
Another Brick in the Wall Part 2
Comfortably Numb
One Slip (encore)
Run Like Hell (encore)
*source: setlist.fm
Check out these live clips of Pink Floyd in Hartford in 1987
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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*
Finest Worksong
These Days
Welcome To The Occupation
Pilgrimage
Exhuming McCarthy
Orange Crush
Feeling Gravity Pulls
King of Birds
Sitting Still
I Believe
Drive 8
Superman (The Clique cover)
Auctioneer (Another Engine)
Oddfellows Local 151
It’s The End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
