Voodoo Lounge Tour

Summary

The Voodoo Lounge Tour was a worldwide concert tour by the Rolling Stones to promote their 1994 album Voodoo Lounge. This was their first tour without bassist Bill Wyman, and their first with touring bassist Darryl Jones, as an additional musician. The tour grossed $320 million, replacing The Division Bell Tour by Pink Floyd as the highest grossing of any artist at that time.[2] This was subsequently overtaken by a few other tours, but it remains the Rolling Stones' third highest grossing tour behind their 2005–07 A Bigger Bang Tour and their 2017–21 No Filter Tour.[3]

Voodoo Lounge World Tour
Tour by The Rolling Stones
Associated albumVoodoo Lounge
Start date1 August 1994
End date30 August 1995
Legs4
No. of shows134
Box officeUS$320 million (US$657,817,692 in 2023 dollars[1])
The Rolling Stones concert chronology

"There were lots of hacks out there who said we couldn't do it anymore", remarked Mick Jagger. "But maybe what they meant was they couldn't do it anymore. Anyway, once we started playing, all that died down. You can talk about it and talk about it – but, once we're onstage, the question is answered."[4]

Production design was by Mark Fisher, Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger and Patrick Woodroffe. Graphic design and video animation was by Mark Norton. Total attendance 6.5 million.

Personnel edit

The Rolling Stones edit

Additional musicians edit

Set list edit

The band's set list at the first show at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C.:

  1. "Not Fade Away"
  2. "Undercover of the Night"
  3. "Tumbling Dice"
  4. "Live with Me"
  5. "You Got Me Rocking"
  6. "Rocks Off"
  7. "Sparks Will Fly"
  8. "Shattered"
  9. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
  10. "Beast of Burden"
  11. "Memory Motel"
  12. "Out of Tears"
  13. "All Down the Line"
  14. "Hot Stuff"
  15. "I Can't Get Next to You"
  16. "Brand New Car"
  17. "Honky Tonk Women"
  18. "Before They Make Me Run"
  19. "The Worst"
  20. "Love Is Strong"
  21. "Monkey Man"
  22. "I Go Wild"
  23. "Start Me Up"
  24. "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll"
  25. "Street Fighting Man"
  26. "Brown Sugar"
  27. "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
  28. "Farafina" (tape)
Other songs performed
  • No Expectations
  • All Down the Line
  • Wild Horses
  • It's All Over Now
  • Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
  • Angie
  • Stop Breaking Down
  • Who Do You Love? (with Bo Diddley)
  • You Can't Always Get What You Want
  • Sad Sad Sad
  • Rock and a Hard Place
  • Just My Imagination
  • Love in Vain
  • Let it Bleed
  • The Spider and the Fly
  • Shine a Light
  • Rip This Joint
  • Sweet Virginia
  • Respectable
  • Still a Fool
  • Down in the Bottom
  • Jump on Top of Me
  • Fool to Cry
  • Black Limousine
  • Connection
  • Like a Rolling Stone

Tour dates edit

 
The concert stage at River Plate Stadium
Date City Country Venue Opening act(s) Tickets sold / available Revenue
North America
1 August 1994 Washington, D.C. United States Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium Counting Crows 108,960 / 108,960 $3,990,966
3 August 1994
6 August 1994 Birmingham Legion Field 19,893 / 50,000
10 August 1994 Indianapolis RCA Dome 25,000 / 50,000
12 August 1994 East Rutherford Giants Stadium 201,547 / 201,547 $9,531,214
14 August 1994
15 August 1994
17 August 1994
19 August 1994 Toronto Canada CNE Stadium Stone Temple Pilots 97,197 / 97,197 $3,281,367
20 August 1994
23 August 1994 Winnipeg Winnipeg Stadium Colin James 50,397 / 50,397 $1,720,849
26 August 1994 Madison United States Camp Randall Stadium Lenny Kravitz 51,201 / 51,201 $2,420,485
28 August 1994 Cleveland Cleveland Stadium
30 August 1994 Cincinnati Riverfront Stadium 34,137 / 55,000
4 September 1994 Foxborough Foxboro Stadium 97,923 / 97,923 $4,633,901
5 September 1994
7 September 1994 Raleigh Carter–Finley Stadium 38,738 / 38,738 $1,797,502
9 September 1994 East Lansing Spartan Stadium 47,797 / 47,797 $2,128,825
11 September 1994 Chicago Soldier Field 90,303 / 90,303 $4,194,320
12 September 1994
15 September 1994 Denver Mile High Stadium Blind Melon 48,981 / 48,981 $2,570,574
18 September 1994 Columbia Faurot Field 39,363 / 39,363 $1,789,824
22 September 1994 Philadelphia Veterans Stadium 80,976 / 80,976 $3,818,719
23 September 1994
25 September 1994 Columbia Williams-Brice Stadium 42,223 / 42,223 $1,919,442
27 September 1994 Memphis Liberty Bowl 41,079 / 41,079 $1,955,284
29 September 1994 Pittsburgh Three Rivers Stadium 49,332 / 49,332 $2,311,297
1 October 1994 Ames Cyclone Field 30,029 / 30,029 $1,234,605
4 October 1994 Edmonton Canada Commonwealth Stadium Colin James 121,604 / 121,604 $4,327,764
5 October 1994
10 October 1994 New Orleans United States Louisiana Superdome Bryan Adams 32,687 / 40,000 $1,464,250
14 October 1994 Las Vegas MGM Grand Garden Arena Buddy Guy 21,674 / 21,674 $4,184,050
15 October 1994
17 October 1994 San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium Seal 49,139 / 49,139 $2,331,250
19 October 1994 Pasadena Rose Bowl Red Hot Chili Peppers
Buddy Guy
119,140 / 119,140 $6,153,301
21 October 1994
23 October 1994 Salt Lake City Rice Stadium Seal 33,478 / 33,478 $1,678,855
26 October 1994 Oakland Oakland Coliseum 199,285 / 199,285 $9,431,700
28 October 1994
29 October 1994
31 October 1994
3 November 1994 El Paso Sun Bowl Bryan Adams 38,732 / 42,000 $1,996,710
5 November 1994 San Antonio Alamodome 42,687 / 42,687 $2,231,085
11 November 1994 Little Rock War Memorial Stadium 39,844 / 39,844 $2,020,770
13 November 1994 Houston Astrodome Bryan Adams
Ian Moore
38,737 / 38,737 $1,996,745
15 November 1994 Atlanta Georgia Dome 81,160 / 81,160 $4,185,425
16 November 1994
18 November 1994 Dallas Cotton Bowl 47,372 / 47,372 $2,530,185
22 November 1994 Tampa Tampa Stadium Spin Doctors 46,628 / 46,628 $2,204,750
25 November 1994 Miami Joe Robbie Stadium 55,935 / 55,935 $2,574,810
27 November 1994 Gainesville Ben Hill Griffin Stadium 35,149 / 40,000 $1,678,114
1 December 1994 Pontiac Pontiac Silverdome 38,274 / 38,274 $1,815,325
3 December 1994 Toronto Canada SkyDome 49,129 / 49,129 $1,744,279
5 December 1994 Montreal Olympic Stadium 82,089 / 82,089 $2,879,798
6 December 1994
8 December 1994 Syracuse United States Carrier Dome 36,038 / 36,038 $1,662,825
11 December 1994 Minneapolis Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome 46,519 / 46,519 $2,176,400
15 December 1994 Seattle Kingdome 49,303 / 49,303 $2,311,900
17 December 1994 Vancouver Canada BC Place 93,273 / 93,273 $3,176,009
18 December 1994
14 January 1995 Mexico City Mexico Foro Sol Caifanes 204,020 / 204,020 $11,784,755
16 January 1995
18 January 1995
20 January 1995
South America
27 January 1995 São Paulo Brazil Estádio do Pacaembu Spin Doctors
Barao Vermelho
Rita Lee
131,253 / 131,253 $4,527,556
28 January 1995
30 January 1995
2 February 1995 Rio de Janeiro Estádio do Maracanã 141,053 / 141,053 $3,067,410
4 February 1995
9 February 1995 Buenos Aires Argentina River Plate Stadium Las Pelotas
Ratones Paranoicos
Pappo
344,144 / 344,144 $19,796,750
11 February 1995
12 February 1995
14 February 1995
16 February 1995
19 February 1995 Santiago Chile Estadio Nacional de Chile 45,945 / 45,945 $1,386,195
Africa
24 February 1995 Johannesburg South Africa Ellis Park 86,209 / 86,209 $4,588,405
25 February 1995
Asia
6 March 1995 Tokyo Japan Tokyo Dome 285,294 / 285,294 $27,613,380
8 March 1995
9 March 1995
12 March 1995
14 March 1995
16 March 1995
17 March 1995
22 March 1995 Fukuoka Fukuoka Dome 42,483 / 42,483 $4,234,300
23 March 1995
Oceania
27 March 1995 Melbourne Australia Melbourne Cricket Ground Cruel Sea 87,609 / 87,609 $5,879,683
28 March 1995
1 April 1995 Sydney Sydney Cricket Ground 78,187 / 78,187 $5,237,710
2 April 1995
5 April 1995 Adelaide Adelaide Football Park 29,148 / 29,148 $1,888,537
8 April 1995 Perth Perry Lakes Stadium 35,144 / 35,144 $2,335,502
12 April 1995 Brisbane ANZ Stadium 36,388 / 36,388 $2,335,541
16 April 1995 Auckland New Zealand Western Springs Stadium 70,533 / 70,533 $3,277,067
17 April 1995
Europe
26 May 1995 Amsterdam Netherlands Paradiso
27 May 1995
3 June 1995 Stockholm Sweden Stockholm Olympic Stadium 34,590 / 34,590 $1,583,176
6 June 1995 Helsinki Finland Helsinki Olympic Stadium Robert Cray Band 52,607 / 52,607 $2,957,269
9 June 1995 Oslo Norway Valle Hovin 39,690 / 39,690 $2,080,123
11 June 1995 Copenhagen Denmark Idraetsparken 46,521 / 46,521 $2,790,481
13 June 1995 Nijmegen Netherlands Stadspark de Goffert 124,665 / 124,665 $5,152,429
14 June 1995
18 June 1995 Landgraaf Draf en Renbaan 72,000 / 72,000 $2,975,774
20 June 1995 Cologne Germany Müngersdorfer Stadion The Tragically Hip 62,733 / 62,733 $2,938,005
22 June 1995 Hanover Niedersachsenstadion 62,592 / 62,592 $2,930,504
24 June 1995 Werchter Belgium Rock Werchter 140,000 / 140,000 $8,222,222
25 June 1995
30 June 1995 Paris France Hippodrome de Longchamp Bon Jovi
Éric Lapointe
160,605 / 160,605 $8,612,247
1 July 1995
3 July 1995 Olympia ("club show")
9 July 1995 Sheffield England Don Valley Stadium Del Amitri 49,308 / 49,308 $2,020,211
11 July 1995 London Wembley Stadium The Black Crowes 207,340 / 207,340 $8,666,640
15 July 1995
16 July 1995
19 July 1995 Brixton Academy
22 July 1995 Gijón Spain Estadio Municipal El Molinón The Black Crowes
24 July 1995 Lisbon Portugal Estádio José Alvalade
27 July 1995 Montpellier France Espace Grammont The Black Crowes
Bob Dylan
70,360 / 70,360 $3,782,797
29 July 1995 Basel Switzerland St. Jakob Stadium The Black Crowes 98,955 / 98,955 $5,561,673
30 July 1995
1 August 1995 Zeltweg Austria Österreich-Ring Andrew Strong 86,470 / 86,470 $3,651,768
3 August 1995 Munich Germany Olympiastadion München Andrew Strong 67,509 / 67,509 $3,161,077
5 August 1995 Prague Czech Republic Strahov Stadium Andrew Strong
Lucie
126,742 / 126,742 $3,152,637
8 August 1995 Budapest Hungary Népstadion Takacs Tamas Dirty Blues Band 46,598 / 55,000 $1,470,023
12 August 1995 Schüttorf Germany Schüttorf Open Air Big Country
Runrig
Action Directe[citation needed]
Rüdiger Hoffmann
Jimmy Barnes
84,896 / 84,896 $4,584,171
15 August 1995 Leipzig Leipziger Festwiese Big Country 83,105 / 83,105 $3,894,202
17 August 1995 Berlin Olympiastadion 76,689 / 76,689 $3,588,645
19 August 1995 Hockenheim Hockenheimring 90,871 / 90,871 $4,251,518
22 August 1995 Mannheim Maimarktgelände 78,034 / 78,034 $3,671,769
25 August 1995 Wolfsburg VW-Werksgelände/Parkplatz 90,000 / 90,000 $4,210,752
27 August 1995 Luxembourg City Luxembourg Kirchberg 58,634 / 58,634 $2,936,166
29 August 1995 Rotterdam Netherlands Feijenoord Stadion 93,959 / 93,959 $4,372,814
30 August 1995
Total

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Retrieved 29 February 2024.
  2. ^ "Virgin Act Ends Highest Grossing Tour Ever". Billboard. 10 December 1994. p. 45
  3. ^ Dinka (6 October 2007). "Rolling Stones' Tour Breaks Attendance Records". huliq.com.
  4. ^ Cohen, Rich (3 November 1994). "Tour de force". Rolling Stone: 26.

External links edit

  • Mark Fisher's "Voodoo Lounge" gallery