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99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1976!
WPLR’s studio at the time was on Chapel Street, which was a short drive to New Haven Coliseum. WPLR and The Coliseum had a long history of welcoming some of the biggest rock acts to New Haven. In 1976 WPLR welcomed David Bowie back to the Coliseum. Bowie came to New Haven on March 22nd to support his tenth studio album, “Station To Station,” which featured the hit single Golden Years.
Interesting note about this show: Just two nights earlier in Rochester, Bowie and a few of his friends were arrested on marijuana charges. He paid the bond and hit the road and headed to Springfield and New Haven to play his scheduled gigs before his scheduled arraignment back in Rochester later that week. Long story short, Bowie pleaded innocent and eventually the charges were dismissed.
Today we look back at David Bowie’s show in New Haven…
David Bowie
Tour: Isolar
Monday March 22, 1976
New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Band Lineup: David Bowie, Carlos Alomar, Stacy Heydon, George Murray, Dennis Davis, Tony Kaye
Setlist*
Station To Station
Suffragette City
Fame
Word on a Wing
Stay
I’m Waiting for the Man (The Velvet Underground cover)
Queen Bitch
Life on Mars?
Five Years
Panic in Detroit
Changes
TVC15
Diamond Dogs
Rebel Rebel (encore)
The Jean Genie (encore)
*source: setlist.fm
Check out these David Bowie performances from 1976
There are very few albums where every song on it has become a recognizable hit, especially a debut album! This is true for Boston’s first LP behind the genius of Tom Scholz, an MIT graduate with a Master’s degree from that esteemed university. When first signed to a record label (Epic) they wanted him to record in L.A. with their record producer, instead Tom decided that he would do the project in his basement studio in Watertown, Mass. where it eventually became Scholz Research & Development, Inc. This is where he developed electronic inventions he used on this album. Long story short, this album has been referred to as a landmark record of the 1970s and has sold over 25 million copies worldwide! We are proud to welcome Boston’s debut album into the WPLR Hall of Fame.
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99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1976!
That year Queen kicked off its “A Night At The Opera” North American Tour at Waterbury’s Palace Theater. Queen had performed twice before at The Palace: 1974 and 1975. This show in ’76 was their final show at The Palace, but first time ever Queen had performed the song Bohemian Rhapsody live on American soil. How cool is that?
Today we take a trip back to 1976 and revisit this historic Queen concert
Queen
Tour: A Night At The Opera
Tuesday January 27, 1976
The Palace Theater in Waterbury, Connecticut
Ticket Price: $6.50
Band Lineup: John Deacon, Brian May, Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor
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