The European tour that broke all records: 14 countries, 45 cities, 96 sold out shows, 1.7 million people!
This tour was billed as Tina’s farewell tour, sponsored by Pepsi-Cola. It broke box office records in 13 countries and was the biggest tour by attendance for a female artist with over 4 million visitors, until Tina broke her own record in 1996 with her Wildest Dreams Tour.
During the first few shows, Tina’s signature song Proud Mary wasn’t on the setlist. Tina avoided it because she had done it so many times for so many years and was a little bit tired of it. Finally in Rotterdam she agreed to try it, just to see how it would work. As the crowd erupted and sang the whole song, Tina realized that 'Mary' is still rollin' on the river.
On January 16, Tina broke the world record for the largest paying audience for a solo concert with a crowd over 182,000 people at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro. Parts of this concert were later released on the Rio '88 home video.
Opening Night: March 4, 1987 / Munich, Olympiahalle (Germany)
Closing Night: March 27, 1988 / Osaka (Japan)
Regions: Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Australia
Concerts: 200+
Visitors: 4 Mio.
Home Video: Live In Rio '88
The Band: Guitar, Vocals: James Ralston / Drums: Jack Bruno / Base Guitar, Vocals: Bob Feit / Guitar: Laurie Wisefield / Keyboards, Sax, Vocals: Don Snow / Sax, Flute: Gary Barnacle / Percussions: Steve Scales
Setlist
- What You Get Is What You See
- Break Every Rule
- I Can’t Stand The Rain
- Typical Male
- Acid Queen
- Girl's
- Two People
- Back Where You Started
- Better Be Good To Me
- Addicted To Love
- Private Dancer
- We Don’t Need Another Hero
- What’s Love Got To Do with It
- Help
- Let’s Stay Together
- Proud Mary
- Show Some Respect
- Steel Claw
- It’s Only Love
- Overnight Sensation
- Nutbush City Limits
- Paradise Is Here
- Tearing Us Apart
- A Change Is Gonna Come
- In The Midnight Hour
- Paradise Is Here
- Honky Tonk Women
Special songs
Tour Program
The 36-page tour program was in most countries the same. The only difference were the tour dates, which changed between the regions. It contains no live pictures from the tour, only from the Break Every Rule TV-Special, which was released just in time for the tour as well as many promotional pictures and stills from the recent music videos. But at least in Argentia, an Official Book Argentina was available, including Tina’s story, infos about the tour, some promo pictures and a lot of advertising.