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Music for the Masses Tour Concert tour by Depeche Mode Associated album Music for the Masses Start date 22 October 1987 End date 18 June 1988 Legs 6 Shows 101
4 in Asia
55 in Europe
42 in North AmericaDepeche Mode tour chronology Black Celebration Tour
(1986)Music for the Masses Tour
(1987–1988)World Violation Tour
(1990)Music for the Masses Tour was a 1987/1988 concert tour by English electronic group Depeche Mode in support of the band's sixth studio album, Music for the Masses, which was released in September 1987.[1]
The tour began in October 1987 with a European leg, starting in Madrid and finishing mid-November in Paris. In early December, a North American run commenced in San Francisco and culminated three weeks later in New York City.
In January 1988, the group played an eleven-date U.K. tour, which was followed by further dates in Europe beginning in Hamburg, West Germany in early February. The leg wrapped up in Vienna in late March.
In April 1988, the group played four dates in Japan. This was followed later in the month by the start of a second North American leg, which began in Mountain View, California. The entire tour concluded mid-June with a concert at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.
The Rose Bowl show was recorded and later released as a live album and video release entitled 101, issued in March 1989. The video included footage documenting the second North American leg of the tour and was re-released on DVD in 2003.
Contents
Setlist
Europe Leg #1, North America Leg #1, Europe Leg #2, Europe Leg #3
- "Pimpf" (Intro)
- "Behind the Wheel"
- "Strangelove"
- "Sacred"
- "Something to Do"
- "Blasphemous Rumours"
- "Stripped"
- Song performed by Martin Gore
- "Pipeline"
- Song performed by Martin Gore
- "The Things You Said"
- "It Doesn't Matter" (only played in venues with multiple nights)
- "Black Celebration"
- "Shake the Disease"
- "Nothing"
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- "Pleasure, Little Treasure"
- "Just Can't Get Enough" (only played in venues with multiple nights)
- "People Are People"
- "A Question of Time"
- "Never Let Me Down Again"
- encore 1
- Song performed by Martin Gore
- "Master and Servant"
- encore 2
- "Everything Counts"
Japan, North America Leg #2- "Pimpf" (Intro)
- "Behind the Wheel"
- "Strangelove"
- "Sacred"
- "Something to Do"
- "Blasphemous Rumours"
- "Stripped"
- Song performed by Martin Gore
- "Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth"
- "Somebody"
- Song performed by Martin Gore
- "The Things You Said"
- "It Doesn't Matter" (only played in venues with multiple nights)
- "Black Celebration"
- "Shake the Disease"
- "Nothing"
- "Pleasure, Little Treasure"
- "A Question of Time"
- "Never Let Me Down Again"
- encore 1
- Song performed by Martin Gore
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- "Just Can't Get Enough" (moved to 2nd encore before Everything Counts on the last show)
- "Master and Servant" (played here when People Are People is in the main set)
- encore 2
- "Everything Counts"
Note:
Setlist additions featuring multiple songs are options which were rotated between dates.
Tour dates
Date City Country Venue Europe, Leg #1
22 October 1987 
Madrid Spain Pabellón de la Ciudad Deportiva 23 October 1987 Barcelona Palau Blaugrana 25 October 1987 
Munich West Germany Olympiahalle 26 October 1987 
Bologna Italy Palasport 27 October 1987 Rome PalaEUR 29 October 1987 Turin Palasport Ruffini 30 October 1987 Milan Palatrussardi 2 November 1987 Stuttgart West Germany Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle 3 November 1987 Frankfurt Festhalle 4 November 1987 Essen Grugahalle 6 November 1987 Cologne Sporthalle 7 November 1987 Hannover Messehalle 9 November 1987 West Berlin Deutschlandhalle 11 November 1987 Ludwigshafen Friedrich-Ebert-Halle 12 November 1987 
Zürich Switzerland Hallenstadion 13 November 1987 Lausanne Halle des Fêtes 16 November 1987 
Paris France Palais Omnisports Bercy 17 November 1987 18 November 1987 North America, Leg #1
1 December 1987 
Daly City, CA United States Cow Palace 4 December 1987 Inglewood, CA The Forum 5 December 1987 7 December 1987 San Diego, CA Sports Arena 8 December 1987 Phoenix, AZ Compton Terrace 10 December 1987 Dallas, TX Reunion Arena 12 December 1987 Chicago, IL UIC Pavilion 14 December 1987 
Toronto, ON Canada Maple Leaf Gardens 15 December 1987 Montreal, QC Montreal Forum 17 December 1987 Fairfax, VA United States Patriot Center 18 December 1987 New York City, NY Madison Square Garden Europe, Leg #2
9 January 1988 
Newport United Kingdom Newport Centre 11 January 1988 London Wembley Arena 12 January 1988 15 January 1988 Birmingham National Exhibition Centre 16 January 1988 Whitley Bay Ice Rink 17 January 1988 Edinburgh Playhouse 19 January 1988 Manchester GMEX Centre 20 January 1988 Sheffield City Hall 21 January 1988 Bradford St. George's Hall 23 January 1988 Bournemouth International Centre 24 January 1988 Brighton Brighton Centre Europe, Leg #3
6 February 1988 Hamburg West Germany Alsterdorfer Sporthalle 7 February 1988 9 February 1988 Dortmund Westfalenhalle 10 February 1988 Oldenburg Weser-EMS-Halle 12 February 1988 
Stockholm Sweden Johanneshovs Isstadion 13 February 1988 Gothenburg Scandinavium 15 February 1988 
Oslo Norway Drammenshallen 17 February 1988 
Copenhagen Denmark Valby-Hallen 18 February 1988 19 February 1988 Kiel West Germany Ostseehalle 21 February 1988 
Brussels Belgium Forest National 23 February 1988 Lille France Espace Fiore 25 February 1988 Brest Parc du Penfield 26 February 1988 Nantes Palais de la Beaujoire 27 February 1988 Bordeaux Patinoire de Mériadeck 29 February 1988 Toulouse Palais des Sports 1 March 1988 Montpellier Le Zénith 2 March 1988 Lyon Palais des Sports de Gerland 4 March 1988 Besançon Palais des Sports 5 March 1988 Strasbourg Rhenus Sport 7 March 1988 
East Berlin East Germany Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle 9 March 1988 
Budapest Hungary Budapest Sportcsarnok 10 March 1988 11 March 1988 
Prague Czechoslovakia Sportovní Hala 13 March 1988 
Vienna Austria Stadthalle Japan
18 April 1988 
Osaka Japan Festival Hall (フェスティバルホール) 19 April 1988 Nagoya Koseinenkin Hall (厚生年金ホール) 21 April 1988 Tokyo NHK Hall (NHKホール) 22 April 1988 North America, Leg #2
29 April 1988 Mountain View, CA United States Shoreline Amphitheatre 30 April 1988 Sacramento, CA California Exposition & State Fair 2 May 1988 Seattle, WA Seattle Center Coliseum 4 May 1988 Vancouver, BC Canada Pacific Coliseum 5 May 1988 Portland, OR United States Civic Auditorium 6 May 1988 8 May 1988 Salt Lake City, UT Salt Palace Convention Center 9 May 1988 Denver, CO McNichols Sports Arena 11 May 1988 Austin, TX Frank Erwin Center 13 May 1988 Arlington, TX Music Mill Amphitheater 14 May 1988 Houston, TX Southern Star Amphitheater 15 May 1988 New Orleans, LA Lakefront Arena 17 May 1988 Cedar Rapids, IA Five Seasons Center 18 May 1988 Minneapolis, MN Northrop Auditorium 20 May 1988 Chicago, IL Poplar Creek Music Theater 21 May 1988 Clarkston, MI Pine Knob Music Theater 22 May 1988 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center 24 May 1988 Nashville, TN Starwood Amphitheatre 25 May 1988 Austell, GA Southern Star Amphitheatre 27 May 1988 Philadelphia, PA Spectrum 28 May 1988 Columbia, MD Merriweather Post Pavilion 30 May 1988 Cuyahoga Falls, OH Blossom Music Center 1 June 1988 East Rutherford, NJ Brendan Byrne Arena 3 June 1988 Wantagh, NY Jones Beach Amphitheatre 4 June 1988 7 June 1988 Mansfield, MA Great Woods Amphitheatre 8 June 1988 Montreal, QC Canada Montreal Forum 9 June 1988 Toronto, ON CNE Grandstand 11 June 1988 Pittsburgh, PA United States A.J. Palumbo Center 15 June 1988 Phoenix, AZ Compton Terrace 18 June 1988 Pasadena, CA Rose Bowl Personnel
- Dave Gahan – lead vocals
- Martin Gore – keyboards, guitar, melodica, percussion pads, lead and backing vocals
- Alan Wilder – keyboards, percussion pads, backing vocals
- Andrew Fletcher – keyboards, percussion pads
References
External links
Categories:- Depeche Mode concert tours
- 1987 concert tours
- 1988 concert tours
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