Sheer Heart Attack Tour

The Sheer Heart Attack Tour was the first world tour by the British rock band Queen, and supported their 1974 album Sheer Heart Attack.[1]

Sheer Heart Attack Tour
Tour by Queen
Poster for the concert at the Palace Theatre
Associated albumSheer Heart Attack
Start date30 October 1974
End date1 May 1975
Legs3
No. of shows30 in Europe
40 in North America
8 in Asia
78 Total
Queen concert chronology

Background

The year 1974 had started with their first trip outside of Europe and an appearance at the Sunbury Music Festival in Australia. Although the band headlined the event on 2 February, their appearance the next day was canceled. In March, the band commenced on a UK tour to promote their new album Queen II, and then embark on their first trip to the USA. Once again, they supported Mott The Hoople on a four-week tour beginning in April. The band paid more attention to their look on stage and employed the services of Zandra Rhodes to design some of their costumes. Queen's slot came to an abrupt halt, however, when May collapsed from hepatitis after the New York show on 11 May, and they all had to fly home so that he could recover.

The band were soon back on the road and commenced their second tour as the headlining act, with nineteen concerts at eighteen different venues around the UK. The band Hustler was the support band, and the setlist contained much of the material from the new album 'Sheer Heart Attack'. With more money to invest in a new stage show, the band wore new costumes for this tour and added an additional lighting rig, complete with state of the art stage effects. To conclude Queen's touring for the year, they embarked on a European tour consisting of ten shows in six countries, performing over a two-and-a-half-week period. The year 1975 started with the American leg of the tour, before transferring to Japan. The tour would have been longer, but an accident involving the truck that transported their equipment meant it was not able to reach the remaining scheduled venues, which would have been a second American leg for the tour.[2]

There were slight differences between the UK, US and Japanese tour. The Japanese shows were a bit longer (Queen even played Doing All Right and See What A Fool I've Been sometimes as well as Hangman on the final night of the tour), possibly due to the warm welcome they received from the Japanese fans.[3]

Opening acts

Setlist
Europe
North America
Japan

Tour dates
Date City Country Venue
Europe[4]
30 October 1974 Manchester England Palace Theatre
31 October 1974 Hanley Victoria Hall
1 November 1974 Liverpool Liverpool Empire Theatre
2 November 1974 Leeds University of Leeds Refectory
3 November 1974 Coventry Coventry Theatre
5 November 1974 Sheffield Sheffield City Hall
6 November 1974 Bradford St George's Hall
7 November 1974 Newcastle Newcastle City Hall
8 November 1974 Glasgow Scotland The Apollo
9 November 1974 Lancaster England The Great Hall
10 November 1974 Preston Preston Guild Hall
12 November 1974 Bristol Colston Hall
13 November 1974 Bournemouth Winter Gardens
14 November 1974 Southampton Gaumont Theatre
15 November 1974 Swansea Wales Brangwyn Hall
16 November 1974 Birmingham England Birmingham Town Hall
18 November 1974 Oxford New Theatre
19 November 1974 London Rainbow Theatre
20 November 1974
23 November 1974 Gothenburg Sweden Gothenburg Concert Hall
25 November 1974 Helsinki Finland Kulttuuritalo
27 November 1974 Lund Sweden Olympen
2 December 1974 Munich West Germany Theater an der Brienner Straße
4 December 1974 Frankfurt Palmengarten
5 December 1974 Hamburg Musikhalle
6 December 1974 Cologne Sartory-Saal
7 December 1974 Singen Scheffelhalle
8 December 1974 The Hague Netherlands Nederlands Congresgebouw
10 December 1974 Schaerbeek Belgium Théâtre 140
13 December 1974 Barcelona Spain Palau dels Esports
North America[4]
5 February 1975 Columbus United States Agora Ballroom
7 February 1975 Dayton Palace Theatre
8 February 1975[A] Cleveland Music Hall
9 February 1975 South Bend Morris Civic Auditorium
10 February 1975 Detroit Ford Auditorium
11 February 1975 Toledo Student Union Auditorium
14 February 1975 Waterbury Palace Theater
15 February 1975[A] Boston Orpheum Theatre
16 February 1975[A] New York City Avery Fisher Hall
17 February 1975 Trenton Trenton War Memorial Theater
19 February 1975 Lewiston Lewiston Armory
21 February 1975 Passaic Capitol Theatre
22 February 1975 Harrisburg State Farm Show Arena
23 February 1975[A] Philadelphia Erlanger Theatre
24 February 1975 Washington, D.C. Kennedy Center Concert Hall
5 March 1975 La Crosse Sawyer Auditorium
6 March 1975 Madison Dane County Coliseum
7 March 1975 Milwaukee Uptown Theatre
8 March 1975 Chicago Aragon Ballroom
9 March 1975 St. Louis Convention Hall
10 March 1975 Fort Wayne Allen County War Memorial Coliseum
12 March 1975 Atlanta Municipal Auditorium
13 March 1975 Charleston Charleston Coliseum
17 March 1975 Miami Miami Marine Stadium
18 March 1975 Chalmette St. Bernard Parish Civic Auditorium
20 March 1975 San Antonio San Antonio Municipal Auditorium
21 March 1975 Houston Houston Music Hall
22 March 1975 Dallas McFarlin Memorial Auditorium
23 March 1975
25 March 1975 Tulsa Tulsa Municipal Theater
29 March 1975[A] Santa Monica Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
30 March 1975 San Francisco Winterland Ballroom
2 April 1975 Edmonton Canada Kinsmen Field House
3 April 1975 Calgary Stampede Corral
6 April 1975 Seattle United States Paramount Northwest Theatre
Asia[4]
19 April 1975 Tokyo Japan Nippon Budokan
22 April 1975 Nagoya Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium
23 April 1975 Kobe Kokusai Kaikan Hall
25 April 1975 Fukuoka Fukuoka Kyuden Kinen Gymnasium
28 April 1975 Okayama Kenritsu Taiikukan
29 April 1975 Shizuoka Yamaha Tsumagoi Hall
30 April 1975 Yokohama Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium
1 May 1975 Tokyo Nippon Budokan
Notes
A This tour date includes a matinee performance
Cancellations and rescheduled shows
28 November 1974 Copenhagen, Denmark Tivoli Gardens Cancelled
29 November 1974 Oslo, Norway Chateau Neuf Cancelled
4 December 1974 Frankfurt, Germany Jahrhunderthalle Moved to the Palmengarten
10 December 1974 Brussels, Belgium Ancienne Belgique Moved to Théâtre 140 in Schaerbeek, Belgium
6 February 1975 Cincinnati, Ohio Reflections Cancelled
25 February 1975 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Stanley Theatre Cancelled[5]
26 February 1975 Kutztown, Pennsylvania Keystone Hall Cancelled[5]
27 February 1975 Buffalo, New York Kleinhans Music Hall Cancelled[5]
28 February 1975 Toronto, Canada Massey Hall Cancelled[5]
1 March 1975 Kitchener, Canada Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Cancelled[5]
2 March 1975 London, Canada London Gardens Cancelled[5]
4 March 1975 Davenport, Iowa RKO Orpheum Theater Cancelled[5]
14 March 1975 St. Petersburg, Florida Sunshine Speedway Cancelled
15 March 1975 Miami, Florida Miami Marine Stadium Rescheduled to 17 March 1975
16 March 1975 Winter Haven, Florida Florida Citrus Showcase Cancelled
22 March 1975 Austin, Texas Armadillo World Headquarters Cancelled[5]
26 March 1975 Kansas City, Missouri Municipal Auditorium Cancelled
28 March 1975 San Diego, California Open Air Theatre Cancelled
5 April 1975 Vancouver, Canada Orpheum Theatre Cancelled
7 April 1975 Portland, Oregon Paramount Theatre Cancelled[5]
12 August 1975 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Spectrum Cancelled[6]
13 August 1975 New York City, New York Felt Forum Cancelled[6]
14 August 1975 Landover, Maryland Capital Centre Cancelled[6]
15 August 1975 Hartford, Connecticut Hartford Civic Center Cancelled[6]
16 August 1975 Boston, Massachusetts Boston Garden Cancelled[6]
17 August 1975 Providence, Rhode Island Providence Civic Center Cancelled[6]
19 August 1975 Henrietta, New York Dome Arena Cancelled[6]
20 August 1975 Buffalo, New York Buffalo Memorial Auditorium Cancelled[6]
21 August 1975 Detroit, Michigan Cobo Arena Cancelled[6]
22 August 1975 Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati Gardens Cancelled[6]
23 August 1975 Richfield Township, Ohio The Coliseum at Richfield Cancelled[6]
24 August 1975 Toledo, Ohio Toledo Sports Arena Cancelled[6]
26 August 1975 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Syria Mosque Cancelled[6]
27 August 1975 Saginaw, Michigan Saginaw County Event Center Cancelled[6]
28 August 1975 Kalamazoo, Michigan Wings Stadium Cancelled[6]
29 August 1975 Chicago, Illinois International Amphitheatre Cancelled[6]
30 August 1975 Saint Paul, Minnesota St. Paul Auditorium Cancelled[6]
31 August 1975 Duluth, Minnesota Duluth Auditorium Cancelled[6]
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References
  1. "Queen – Sheer Heart Attack Tour 74'-75'". NME. IPC Magazines Ltd. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
  2. "Live 1974". Queen Official Website. February 2016. Archived from the original on 21 February 2016. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
  3. "Queen live on tour: Sheer Heart Attack". Queen Concerts. January 2005. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
  4. Brooks, Greg (9 May 2005). "Queen" Live!: A Concert Documentary. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9781844496600.
  5. "Cancelled and rescheduled concerts". Queen - Live Recordings. January 2005. Archived from the original on 20 July 2012. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
  6. "Queen American Tour Dates - August 1975". International Queen Fan Club. July 1975. Archived from the original on 20 February 2012. Retrieved 20 May 2019 – via Queen Concerts.
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