The Wild Heart Tour: 1983

[vivfox]

the 2nd show on The Wild Heart Tour
May 30,1983
either San Bernadino or Glen Helen, California
Venue: Us Festival 1983

Rare Professional footage of the Us Festival 1983 (Gold Dust Woman)




Rare Professional footage of the Us Festival 1983 (Gold and Braid)

[vivfox]

Jim Ladd interviews Stevie in 1983. This is a very good interview with Stevie, Lori Nicks and Sandy Stewart.
http://www.mediafire.com/?n5zwvnwxwjb

[iamnotafraid]

vivfox, did you see her on this tour?

I'm still new to the board, so if you've already posted about seeing her I missed it.

[michelej1]

PR Newswire

DATELINE: SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., April 25, 1983

BODY:
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., April 25 /PRN/ -- Stevie Nicks,
one of the headliners May 30 at the "US '83" Festival, is now in a
Hollywood recording studio working on her new album and promises to
release a single from it before her guest-starring performance,
according to Unuson, sponsor of the festival.

The "US '83" festival will be held at the Glen Helen Regional
Park in Devore, May 28-30 and June 4.

Ms. Nicks, a longtime member of the superstar group Fleetwood
Mac, will be the only headlining performer to return from last
year's first "US" festival, where Fleetwood Mac gave one of
the standout performances, say the organizers.

Her solo appearance at the "US '83" Festival marks a new phase
in her career. It was only with the release of her first
solo album, "Bella Donna," in 1981, that she began performing
as a solo superstar as well as with the group.

Both the name of the new Nicks single and that of her album
are being kept top secret. Although releasing schedules in
the record industry are notoriously imprecise, Unuson says that
present plans call for the release of the single around
May 7, and for release of the album on the last Friday in May --
just before her May 30 appearance.

Her first solo album was a long time in the making, but as
Nicks says: "It took me a great deal of time and soul searching
to go out on my own; and even though I usually write three or
four songs for each Fleetwood Mac album, I'm not the most prolific
writer in the world.

"I don't write like anybody else. I can't just sit downn
and write a song on the spur of the moment. Mine are more like
running commentaries on my life./NOTE -- Tickets for the "US '83" Festival are available nationwide. For information, call 800-222-0533. In Southern
California, tickets are on sale at all Ticketmaster outlets;
phone 213-480-3232. In Northern California, tickets are on
sale at all Bass Ticket locations; phone 415-835-4342, 916-443-2118
or 408-297-7552.

"US '83" tickets also are available by mail from "US '83"
Festival, P.O. Box 300, Phoenix, Ariz. 85001.

Tickets are priced at $20 per day, plus ticket service charge
where applicable.

[michelej1]

United Press International, June 1983

BODY:
The top 20 singles in the pop music field, based on Billboard's survey of sales and broadcast play:


1. Flashdance -- Irene Cara

2. Electric Avenue -- Eddy Grant

3. Every Breath You Take -- The Police

4. Time -- Culture Club

5. Never Gonna Let You Go -- Sergio Mendes

6. Don't Let It End -- Styx

7. Too Shy -- Kajagoogoo

8. Family Man -- Daryl Hall-John Oates

9. Wanna Be Startin' Something -- Michael Jackson

10. She's A Beauty -- The Tubes

11. Come Dancing -- The Kinks

12. Affair Of The Heart -- Rick Springfield

13. Our House -- Madness

14. I'm Still Standing -- Elton John

15. Let's Dance -- David Bowie

16. Beat It -- Michael Jackson

17. Is There Something I Should Know -- Duran Duran

18. All This Love -- Debarge

19. Stand Back -- Stevie Nicks

20. Always Something There To Remind Me -- Naked Eyes

The top 20 albums in the pop music field, based on Billboard's survey of sales and broadcast play:

1. Flashdance -- Soundtrack

2. Thriller -- Michael Jackson

3. Pyromania -- Def Leppard

4. Cargo -- Men At Work

5. Let's Dance -- David Bowie

6. Frontiers -- Journey

7. H2O -- Daryl Hall-John Oates

8. Cuts Like A Knife -- Bryan Adams

9. Kilroy Was Here -- Styx

10. 1999 -- Prince

11. Killer On The Rampage -- Eddy Grant

12. Living In Oz -- Rick Springfield

13. Lionel Richie -- Lionel Richie

14. Kissing To Be Clever -- Culture Club

15. Eliminator -- Z.Z. Top

16. The Golden Age Of Wireless -- Thomas Dolby

17. Synchronicity -- The Police

18. Outside-Inside -- The Tubes

19. Jarreau -- Al Jarreau

20. Between The Sheets -- The Isley Brothers

The top 20 country and Western singles in the pop music field, based on Billboard's survey of sales and broadcast play:

1. Love Is On A Roll -- Don Williams

2. Highway 40 Blues -- Ricky Skaggs

3. Oh Baby Mine -- Statler Brothers

4. In Times Like These -- Barbara Mandrell

5. The Closer You Get -- Alabama

6. I.O.U. -- Lee Greenwood

7. The Love She Found In Me -- Gary Morris

8. Pancho & Lefty -- Willie Nelson

9. Fool For Your Love -- Mickey Gilley

10. Snapshot -- Sylvia

11. I Always Get Lucky With You -- George Jones

12. Your Love's On The Line -- Earl Thomas Conley

13. All My Life -- Kenny Rogers

14. I Wonder Who's Holding My Baby Tonight -- The Whites

15. He's A Heartache -- Janie Fricke

16. I Love Her Mind -- The Bellamy Brothers

17. You Can't Run From Love -- Eddie Rabbitt

18. Lost In The Feeling -- Conway Twitty

19. After The Great Depression -- Razzy Bailey

20.

[David]

Originally Posted by michelej1

PR Newswire

DATELINE: SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., April 25, 1983

BODY:
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., April 25 /PRN/ -- Stevie Nicks,
one of the headliners May 30 at the "US '83" Festival, is now in a
Hollywood recording studio working on her new album and promises to
release a single from it before her guest-starring performance,
according to Unuson, sponsor of the festival.

My post disappeared! What the hell happened to it? Anyway, what I said was that US was capital U & capital S & pronounced like the accusative pronoun. It's an acronym for Unite us in Song or something.

[michelej1]

[Wish I had been there to hear Stevie sing Over My Head]

Globe and Mail (Canada) June 1, 1983

HEADLINE: Bowie's act worthy of $1.5 million tab U2 and Stevie Nicks make breakthroughs at the US Festival

BYLINE: LIAM LACEY; GAM

DATELINE: SAN BERNARDINO, CA

BODY:


SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - Until Monday, the US Festival was missing a
vital element - great performances. Except for the huge crowds and The
Clash's performance on Saturday, there was nothing to give the audience
the sense of being witness to something extraordinary. But on Monday, the
Festival's third day, there were three outstanding performances - from the
Irish group U2, from former Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks, and above
all, from David Bowie.

Traditionally, festivals have the ability to break new bands to a mass
audience, and for the US Festival, U2 was the new band that broke through.
The power of the Irish band's performance was largely a matter of lead
singer Bono's unusually beautiful voice, perhaps as clear and pitch-
perfect a male voice as exists in rock music. The stark clarity of the
music, from the mournful, liquid sounds by a guitarist known as The Edge,
to the propulsive bass and drums combination, was beautifully conveyed
through the Festival's sound system.

Bono made a point on stage of saying that songs such as Sunday Bloody
Sunday (about Belfast's infamous Bloody Sunday) were "not political,"
deliberately dissociating himself from The Clash's confrontation approach.

After the performance, Adam Clayton, the 23-year-old bassist for the
group, said the band was "pleased" by the enthusiastic response of the
crowd. "We've been making some inroads here now. This tour, we feel we're
coming to America as victors, and it feels a lot better."
The Clash, he said, "made fools of themselves. If you sign up for
$500,000 to play a date, you can't suddenly pretend you meant something
else."
The band has made a point of continuing to live in Dublin, outside the
rock music mainstream. "I imagine we're the last band Ireland will see in
a long time," Clayton said. "The kids in inner Dublin are living in a
ghetto. We've tried to do benefits and things to help them out, but they
don't really know who we are. If a kid is worrying about where to get a
slice of bread, he isn't thinking about electric guitars."

Nothing could have been more remote from U2's earnest concerns than the
second-last act of the day, Stevie Nicks. David Bowie, making his first
tour of North America since the mid-seventies, was the main draw, and it
looked as if Miss Nicks might have a hard time winning over the audience.
But she had a couple of things on her side: the California setting and
audience were ideally suited to the moody, melodic standards - Rhiannon,
Say That You Love Me, and Over My Head. Miss Nicks' band, which included E
Street Band pianist Roy Bittan, was superb.

Perhaps most important was Miss Nicks' striking good looks, and she was
the first performer of the Festival who benefited incalculably from the
huge video screens on each side of the stage. Miss Nicks, dressed in a
low-cut, black lace evening dress, had most of her audience in an erotic
reverie, but to her credit, she managed to maintain an intense aura of
vulnerability under the scrutiny of 100,000 pairs of eyes. The warmth was
obviously genuine, and Miss Nicks was the first performer of the Festival
to actually touch hands with the audience over the barrier.

By the end of her act she was almost emotionally overcome. "If you ever
think you don't matter," she told the audience, "I want you all to know
that you're the only thing that matters to me." And the audience watched
the video screen in respectful awe as tears began rolling down her cheeks.

By the end of her set, it was obvious the onus had shifted to David
Bowie to try to win the audience back. But the moment rock's Thin White
Duke sauntered out on stage, with a wan smile to the audience, the game
was up. As he has done so often in his career, Bowie gave a performance
that rewrote all the rules for rock music, and The Woz, The Clash, and
even Stevie Nicks - tears, black lace and all - receded into irrelevance.

[David]

Originally Posted by michelej1

[Wish I had been there to hear Stevie sing Over My Head]

It blew the place away. People even stopped making out.

By the end of her set, it was obvious the onus had shifted to David
Bowie to try to win the audience back. But the moment rock's Thin White
Duke sauntered out on stage, with a wan smile to the audience, the game
was up. As he has done so often in his career, Bowie gave a performance
that rewrote all the rules for rock music, and The Woz, The Clash, and
even Stevie Nicks - tears, black lace and all - receded into irrelevance.

"David Bowie? I met David Bowie [at the US Festival], & he had nothing to say to me. So, no, this isn't about David Bowie."

-- Stevie Nicks, introducing SARA at the July 30, 1983, solo concert at Alpine Valley, Wisc.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by David

-- Stevie Nicks, introducing SARA at the July 30, 1983, solo concert at Alpine Valley, Wisc.

How dare David Bowie!

Michele

[vivfox]

The article also mentions she sang her classic hit Say(that)You Love Me. The guy couln't even get that song title right.

[David]

Originally Posted by michelej1

How dare David Bowie!

And when the song started, Stevie sang "Wait a minute ... David"
(she was joking, of course)

Someone should post that audio clip. We could loop it & embed it in the Ledge page!

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by vivfox

The article also mentions she sang her classic hit Say(that)You Love Me. The guy couln't even get that song title right.

Since Stevie's background vocals on OMH are out of the ball park, she actually should put this song into her solo act. Have Sharon somewhere in the shadows singing lead and then Stevie would just come in on the ethereal chorus.

One of the things I love about SYLM is the way that it's phrased "say that you love me" in the song. It somehow emphasizes the fact that the guy is just lying to her and using her. And the title itself could be a plea: say you love me. It's really got the same message as Little Lies. I love that.

I love Think About Me and the way she and Lindsey approach the vocals from two different angles, Christine asking, Lindsey demanding.

How can it be syrup, when there's such doubt and trouble underneath the top layer?

Michele

[vivfox]

the 3rd show on The Wild Heart Tour
June 21,1983
Knoxville, Tennessee
Venue: Civic Coliseum



from BILLBOARD Magazine
Boxscores
Headliner: Stevie Nicks
Opening Act: Joe Walsh
Venue: Civic Coliseum
Knoxville, Tennessee
Produced by: Sound Seventy Productions
Ticket Price: $12.00
Available Tickets: 10,000
Tickets Sold: 7,208
Concert Gross: $83,964

[vivfox]

the 4th show on The Wild Heart Tour
June 23,1983
Norfolk, Virginia
Venue: The Scope


This hand reaching her upper arm gives me the creeps.

[Sanne2]

Originally Posted by vivfox

the 3rd show on The Wild Heart Tour
June 21,1983
Knoxville, Tennessee
Venue: Civic Coliseum



from BILLBOARD Magazine
Boxscores
Headliner: Stevie Nicks
Opening Act: Joe Walsh
Venue: Civic Coliseum
Knoxville, Tennessee
Produced by: Sound Seventy Productions
Ticket Price: $12.00
Available Tickets: 10,000
Tickets Sold: 7,208
Concert Gross: $83,964

These pics are from the Knoxville show: