Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour

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Steel Wheels Tour/Urban Jungle Tour
Tour by The Rolling Stones
Start date 31 August 1989
End date 25 August 1990
Legs 3
Shows 115
The Rolling Stones tour chronology
European Tour 1982 Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour Voodoo Lounge Tour

The Rolling Stones' Steel Wheels Tour was a North American concert tour that took place starting in late August 1989, concurrent with the release of their album Steel Wheels. The Japan leg of the tour consisted solely of ten shows at the Tokyo Dome.

It ended in mid-1990 after moving to Europe and being re-branded the Urban Jungle Tour, with a wild praised logo.

The tour was an enormous financial success. Coming after a seven-year period without touring and of intra-band acrimony, it cemented The Rolling Stones' return to full commercial power.

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A Steel Wheels pre-tour 'surprise show' took place on August 12, 1989 at Toad's Place in New Haven, Connecticut with a local act, Sons of Bob, opening the show with a small crowd of only 700 people, who enjoyed the surprise of a lifetime for the price of $3.01 per person. The official Steel Wheels Tour kicked off later that month at the now demolished Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Stones returned to Vancouver, B.C. in Canada and played two sold out concerts at B.C. Place Stadium.The fans went crazy for tickets.One local radio station 99.3 The Fox even had a man (Andrew Korn) sit in front of the station in a bath tub filled with brown sugar and water for free tickets to the concert.

The stage was designed by Mark Fisher with participation of Charlie Watts as well as Mick Jagger.

Canadian promoter Michael Cohl made his name buying the concert, sponsorship, merchandising, radio, television, and film rights to the Steel Wheels Tour. It became the most financially successful rock tour in history up to that time. Rival promoter Bill Graham, who also bid on the tour, later wrote that "Losing the Stones was like watching my favourite lover become a whore."

Performances from both parts of the tour were documented on the 1991 live album Flashpoint.

For the opening night of the Steel Wheels Tour the setlist looked like this:

  1. "Start Me Up"
  2. "Bitch"
  3. "Shattered"
  4. "Sad Sad Sad"
  5. "Undercover Of The Night"
  6. "Harlem Shuffle"
  7. "Tumbling Dice"
  8. "Miss You"
  9. "Ruby Tuesday"
  10. "Play With Fire"
  11. "Dead Flowers"
  12. "One Hit (To The Body)"
  13. "Mixed Emotions"
  14. "Honky Tonk Women"
  15. "Rock And A Hard Place"
  16. "Midnight Rambler"
  17. "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
  18. "Little Red Rooster"
  19. "Before They Make Me Run"
  20. "Happy"
  21. "Paint It, Black"
  22. "2000 Light Years From Home"
  23. "Sympathy For The Devil"
  24. "Gimme Shelter"
  25. "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll"
  26. "Brown Sugar"
  27. "Satisfaction"
  28. "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (encore)

For the final night of the Urban Jungle Tour (and the last show with Bill Wyman) the band played:

  1. "Start Me Up"
  2. "Sad Sad Sad"
  3. "Harlem Shuffle"
  4. "Tumbling Dice"
  5. "Miss You"
  6. "Ruby Tuesday"
  7. "Angie"
  8. "Rock And A Hard Place"
  9. "Mixed Emotions"
  10. "Honky Tonk Women"
  11. "Midnight Rambler"
  12. "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
  13. "Little Red Rooster"
  14. "Before They Make Me Run"
  15. "Happy"
  16. "Paint It, Black"
  17. "2000 Light Years From Home"
  18. "Sympathy For The Devil"
  19. "Street Fighting Man"
  20. "Gimme Shelter"
  21. "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll"
  22. "Brown Sugar"
  23. "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
  24. "Satisfaction" (encore)

Songs played

  1. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction {Jagger/Richards}
  2. 2000 Light Years From Home {Jagger/Richards}
  3. Almost Hear Your Sigh {Jagger/Richards}
  4. Angie {Jagger/Richards}
  5. Before They Make Me Run {Jagger/Richards}
  6. Bitch {Jagger/Richards}
  7. Blinded By Love {Jagger/Richards}
  8. Boogie Chillen {Hooker}
  9. Brown Sugar {Jagger/Richards}
  10. Can't Be Seen {Jagger/Richards}
  11. Dead Flowers {Jagger/Richards}
  12. Factory Girl {Jagger/Richards}
  13. Gimme Shelter {Jagger/Richards}
  14. Happy {Jagger/Richards}
  15. Harlem Shuffle {Jagger/Richards}
  16. Honky Tonk Women {Jagger/Richards}
  17. I Just Want To Make Love To You {Dixon}
  18. It's Only Rock'N'Roll (But I Like It) {Jagger/Richards}
  19. Jumpin' Jack Flash {Jagger/Richards}
  20. Little Red Rooster {Dixon}
  21. Midnight Rambler {Jagger/Richards}
  22. Miss You {Jagger/Richards}
  23. Mixed Emotions {Jagger/Richards}
  24. One Hit (To The Body) {Jagger/Richards}
  25. Paint It Black {Jagger/Richards}
  26. Play With Fire {Jagger/Richards}
  27. Rock And A Hard Place {Jagger/Richards}
  28. Ruby Tuesday {Jagger/Richards}
  29. Sad Sad Sad {Jagger/Richards}
  30. Salt Of The Earth {Jagger/Richards}
  31. Shattered {Jagger/Richards}
  32. Start Me Up {Jagger/Richards}
  33. Street Fighting Man {Jagger/Richards}
  34. Sympathy For The Devil {Jagger/Richards}
  35. Terrifying {Jagger/Richards}
  36. Tumbling Dice {Jagger/Richards}
  37. Undercover Of The Night {Jagger/Richards}
  38. You Can't Always Get What You Want {Jagger/Richards}

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The Rolling Stones
Mick Jagger • Keith Richards • Charlie Watts • Ron Wood
Brian Jones • Bill Wyman • Mick Taylor • Ian Stewart • Dick Taylor
Chuck Leavell • Darryl Jones • Nicky Hopkins • Bobby Keys • Jimmy Miller • Jim Price • Billy Preston • Don Was
UK studio albums
1964-1967		 The Rolling Stones • The Rolling Stones No. 2 • Out of Our Heads • Aftermath • Between the Buttons
US studio albums
1964-1967		 England's Newest Hitmakers • 12 X 5 • The Rolling Stones, Now! • Out of Our Heads • December's Children (And Everybody's) • Aftermath • Between the Buttons
Studio albums
1967-present		 Their Satanic Majesties Request • Beggars Banquet • Let It Bleed • Sticky Fingers • Exile on Main St. • Goats Head Soup • It's Only Rock'n Roll • Black and Blue • Some Girls • Emotional Rescue • Tattoo You • Undercover • Dirty Work • Steel Wheels • Voodoo Lounge • Bridges to Babylon • A Bigger Bang
UK EPs The Rolling Stones • Five by Five • got LIVE if you want it!
Live albums Got Live if You Want It! • Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert • Love You Live • "Still Life" (American Concert 1981) • Flashpoint • Stripped • No Security • Live Licks
Compilations Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) • Flowers (US) • Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) • Made in the Shade • Sucking in the Seventies • Rewind (1971-1984) • Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones • Forty Licks • Rarities 1971-2003
Post-contract
ABKCO albums		 Hot Rocks 1964-1971 • More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) • Metamorphosis • Singles Collection: The London Years • The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus • Singles 1963-1965 • Singles 1965-1967 • Singles 1968-1971 • Rolled Gold+: The Very Best of the Rolling Stones
Miscellaneous
albums		 Jamming with Edward • Brussels Affair
Tours "American Tour 1969" • "European Tour '70" • "UK Tour '71" • "American Tour '72" • "Pacific Tour '73" • "European Tour '73" • "Tour of the Americas '75" • "Tour of Europe '76" • "US Tour '78" • "American Tour '81" • "European Tour '82" • "Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour" • "Voodoo Lounge Tour" • "Bridges to Babylon Tour" • "No Security Tour" • "Licks Tour" • "A Bigger Bang Tour"
Management Andrew Loog Oldham • Allen Klein
Related articles Discography • The Glimmer Twins • Jagger/Richards • Nanker Phelge • Rolling Stones Records • Rock and Roll Circus • Altamont Free Concert • Rolling Stones Mobile Studio
Categories The Rolling Stones • Members • Albums • Singles • Songs • Tours • Films
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