The Wild Heart Tour

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The Wild Heart Tour
Tour by Stevie Nicks
Associated album The Wild Heart
Start dateMay 27, 1983
End dateNovember 24, 1983
Legs4
No. of shows60
Stevie Nicks concert chronology

The Wild Heart Tour was a North America-only solo concert tour by Fleetwood Mac vocalist Stevie Nicks in support of her second studio album The Wild Heart . The tour began on May 27, 1983, in Las Vegas, Nevada and ended on November 24, 1983, in Columbia, South Carolina. Three weeks before the tour, Stevie performed on “Rock Day” at the US Festival in San Bernardino, California. Approximately 670,000 people attended the four-day music festival.

Contents

Joe Walsh was the support act.

On December 10, Stevie appeared on Season 9 of Saturday Night Live, performing “Stand Back” and a rare live performance of “Nightbird.” [1]

Setlist

  1. "Gold Dust Woman"
  2. "Outside the Rain"
  3. "Dreams"
  4. "I Need to Know" (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers cover)
  5. "Sara"
  6. "If Anyone Falls"
  7. "Leather and Lace"
  8. "Stand Back"
  9. "Beauty and the Beast"
  10. "Gypsy
  11. "How Still My Love"
  12. "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around"
  13. "Edge Of Seventeen"
Encore
  1. "Rhiannon (piano version)
  2. "Rhiannon" (full rock version)

Tour dates [2] [3]

DateCityCountryVenueTickets sold / AvailableRevenue
First Leg
May 27, 1983 Las Vegas United States Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts 5,374 / 7,500$83,297
May 30, 1983 San Bernardino Glen Helen Regional Park (US Festival)
Second Leg
June 21, 1983 Knoxville United States Knoxville Civic Coliseum 7,208 / 7,208$83,964
June 23, 1983 Norfolk Norfolk Scope
June 24, 1983 East Rutherford Brendan Byrne Arena 20,037 / 20,037$247,348
June 27, 1983 Philadelphia The Spectrum 14,949 / 14,949$189,340
June 28, 1983 Pittsburgh Civic Arena
July 2, 1983 Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
July 3, 1983 Hartford Hartford Civic Center 13,720 / 16,069$168,772
July 6, 1983 Worcester The Centrum 12,383 / 12,383$151,758
July 7, 1983 Largo Capital Centre
July 10, 1983 Greensboro Greensboro Coliseum
July 11, 1983 Atlanta Omni Coliseum
July 14, 1983 Kansas City Kemper Arena
July 15, 1983 Minneapolis Met Center
July 17, 1983 Chicago Rosemont Horizon
July 18, 1983
July 19, 1983 Toronto Canada Canadian National Exhibition
July 21, 1983 Cleveland United States Blossom Music Center
July 22, 1983
July 23, 1983 Detroit Joe Louis Arena 10,378 / 13,124$129,712
July 26, 1983 St. Louis Checkerdome
July 27, 1983 Indianapolis Market Square Arena
July 30, 1983 East Troy Alpine Valley Music Theatre
July 31, 1983 Cincinnati Riverfront Coliseum 8,163 / 16,000
Third Leg
August 27, 1983 Biloxi United States Mississippi Coast Coliseum 14,000 / 14,000$169,737
August 28, 1983 Baton Rouge LSU Assembly Center
August 31, 1983 Austin Frank Erwin Center 11,202 / 12,708$145,798
September 1, 1983 Houston The Summit 16,177 / 16,177$217,827
September 4, 1983 Memphis Mid-South Coliseum 11,999 / 11,999$127,988
September 5, 1983 Dallas Reunion Arena 14,772 / 16,300$193,171
September 8, 1983 Portland, ME Cumberland County Civic Center 9,415 / 9,415$117,687
September 9, 1983 Bristol Colt State Park 9,015 / 9,015$123,781
September 12, 1983New York City Radio City Music Hall 11,748 / 11,748$242,955
September 13, 1983
September 16, 1983 Valley Center Kansas Coliseum
September 17, 1983 Oklahoma City The Myriad
September 20, 1983 Casper Casper Events Center 8,487 / 9,989$101,167
September 21, 1983 Denver McNichols Arena 15,977 / 18,622$209,989
September 24, 1983 Irvine Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre
September 25, 1983 Phoenix Compton Terrace
September 28, 1983 Seattle Seattle Center Coliseum 8,818 / 14,687$118,840
September 29, 1983 Portland, OR Portland Memorial Coliseum
October 2, 1983 Inglewood The Forum 12,321 / 14,000$169,441
October 4, 1983 Oakland Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum Arena 13,506 / 13,506$175,025
Fourth Leg
October 25, 1983 Charleston United States Charleston Civic Center
October 26, 1983 Roanoke Roanoke Civic Center
October 29, 1983 Tuscaloosa Memorial Coliseum
October 30, 1983 Jackson Mississippi Coliseum 7,768 / 10,000$97,100
November 2, 1983 Jacksonville Jacksonville Coliseum 9,172 / 9,500$121,851
November 4, 1983 Lakeland Lakeland Civic Center 8,450 / 8,450$117,165
November 5, 1983 Pembroke Pines Hollywood Sportatorium
November 8, 1983 Columbia Hearnes Center
November 9, 1983 Starkville Humphrey Coliseum
November 12, 1983 Tulsa Tulsa Convention Center 8,695 / 8,992$117,382
November 13, 1983 Little Rock Barton Coliseum 9,210 / 9,210$108,705
November 16, 1983 Madison Dane County Coliseum 6,936 / 9,934$91,408
November 19, 1983 Iowa City Carver–Hawkeye Arena 11,855 / 15,000$155,620
November 20, 1983 Ames Hilton Coliseum 9,298 / 14,000$122,985
November 23, 1983 Charlotte Charlotte Coliseum 10,281 / 10,281$128,512
November 24, 1983 Columbia Carolina Coliseum

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References

  1. http://stevienicks.info/tours/1983-the-wild-heart-tour/
  2. "1983 The Wild Heart Tour ~ STEVIE NICKS.INFO". STEVIE NICKS.INFO. Retrieved 2017-06-28.
  3. waddywachtelinfo.com. "Stevie Nicks - The Wild Heart Album and Tour 1983". waddywachtelinfo.com. Retrieved 2017-06-28.