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2 unusual facts about The 'US' Tour


I'll Follow the Sun

McCartney performed the song live during The 'US' Tour; he did too at the Paris Olympia on 22 October 2007, in Kyev for the Independence Concert on 14 June 2008, in Quebec City for the free outdoor concert on 20 July 2008, that was the 400th anniversary of the city, and at Tel Aviv, Israel, on 25 September 2008.

The Space Within US

It is composed of footage taken during his fall 2005 'US' Tour in the United States in conjunction with his Chaos and Creation in the Backyard album release, though some of his Beatles songs and songs from his previous albums are also performed.


11/30/93 – Las Vegas, Nevada

The show, which took place on November 30, 1993 at the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts in Paradise, Nevada, is from the first leg of the band's tour for its second album, Vs., but also features some material off of the band's third album, Vitalogy, including the live premiere of "Tremor Christ".

1817 in poetry

"Mont Blanc", published in History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland, a book written with his wife, Mary, who wrote most of the prose (Percy Shelley wrote the poem)

A Day Without Me

"Things to Make and Do" was the only instrumental ever played live by U2 until the U2 360° Tour ("Return of the Stingray Guitar"), and it regularly followed "The Electric Co." on the Boy Tour.

Adriana Live! Tour

Adriana Live! was the two-day concert tour by the American singer-songwriter Adriana Evans, and featured special guest soul singer, Hilz.

Alone I Break

The song was played during a few shows on the Pop Sux! Tour supporting the release of Untouchables in 2002, but was quickly scrapped due to difficulties in performing it live.

Atatürk Olympic Stadium

On 6 September 2010, the renowned Irish rock band U2 gave a concert at the stadium which reportedly attracted 54,278 fans, as a part of their U2 360° Tour, the opening act of which was performed by the group Snow Patrol.

B-stage

Beyoncé used a B-Stage on her I Am... Tour, during the middle of her show she appears from under the stage wrapped in a harness and taken up and over the audience where she performs "Baby Boy", She is then lowered to the B-Stage where she finishes "Baby Boy".

Boston Road Railway Station

Boston Road Railway Station was on the Western Line of the Auckland Suburban Railway Network, near St Peter's College and Auckland Grammar School.

Children's Craniofacial Association

During her Love Hurts, Believe and Farewell Tours, Cher often invited children with craniofacial conditions back stage to visit.

Classic TV Game Show Themes

# The $25,000 Pyramid (Opening Theme From 1982 to 1988) "Tuning Up" remake - Bob Cobert (1:14)

Devonshire Downs

Devonshire Downs is most widely known for hosting the three-day Newport Pop Festival in June 1969, featuring Jethro Tull, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker and nearly thirty other top acts.

Estádio Cidade de Coimbra

In 2010, U2 played two sold-out shows in the stadium during their U2 360° Tour.

Federal Reserve Bank

the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit stated that: "The Reserve Banks are not federal instrumentalities for purposes of the FTCA the Federal Tort Claims Act, but are independent, privately owned and locally controlled corporations."

Gottlob Berger

The sentence was reduced to 10 years in 1951 because of his refusal to kill The Prominente in Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle, despite direct orders from Adolf Hitler.

Hefa Leone Tuita

He was one of Chris Brown's back up dancers on the F.A.M.E. Tour and appeared in Brown's "Look At Me Now", "I Can Transform Ya", and "She Ain't You" videos.

I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate

David Bowie used to team this song with an updated version of the Flares 1960 doo-wop song "Foot Stompin'" during the (1974) Diamond Dogs tour, as heard on the compliation Rarest One Bowie.

Impericon Never Say Die! Tour

The tour played in many well-known venues around Europe like SO36, Große Freiheit, Dürer Kert and Arena Wien.

Architects and Despised Icon were the headling acts for the second Tour together with As Blood Runs Black, Horse the Band, Iwrestledabearonce, The Ghost Inside and Oceano.

Inge Johansson

Inge Johansson (born May 10, 1977) is the bass player of the politically charged punk/rock band The (International) Noise Conspiracy, which he formed in Umeå, Sweden in 1998 together with Dennis Lyxzén, Sara Almgren, Ludwig Dahlberg and Lars Strömberg.

International Boy Scouts, Troop 1

On December 12, 1911, Clarence Griffin and the Scouts, mostly British and all students of Saint Joseph College, the primary and secondary school for foreign boys located on the "Bluff" in Yokohama, gathered at the Gaiety Theater on the Bluff to demonstrate Scouting skills and to officially celebrate the beginning of the troop.

Joe Craft Center

The Joe Craft Center, opened in January 2007, is a basketball practice facility and athletics office building attached to Memorial Coliseum on the "Avenue of Champions" at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky.

Kerrang! Tour

Jettblack were added for two dates at the London Roundhouse at the end of the tour.

KPXO-TV

Due to limited feed abilities, KPXO is not available over-the-air or on cable in many other areas of the state; as a result, the "Big Island" of Hawaii at one point received Ion and its predecessor networks via KLEI (channel 6), even though the entire state of Hawaii is a single television market.

Massari Arena

Outside of sports, the arena is perhaps most noted as the site of a 1980 Van Halen concert that provided the backdrop for an enduring urban legend surrounding the band.

Max Wielen

Wielen is significant in that he was directly implicated in the Stalag Luft III murders, in which members of the RAF who were involved in the "Great Escape" were killed.

Midtown Madness

The city is modeled after Chicago, including many of its landmarks, such as The 'L', Willis Tower (then known as Sears Tower), Wrigley Field, and Soldier Field.

MV Doña Paz

President Corazon Aquino described the accident as "a national tragedy of harrowing proportions...the Filipino people's sadness is all the more painful because the tragedy struck with the approach of Christmas".

My Hometown

The music video for "My Hometown" was a straightforward video filming of a performance of the song at a Springsteen and E Street Band concert late in the Born in the U.S.A. Tour, eschewing fast-paced cutting for slower montages of Springsteen and various band members.

No Place to Hide

"No Place to Hide" made a return in 2011 during The Path of Totality Tour.

One Nite Alone... Tour

Other saxophonists who played with the band on selected dates were Najee, Candy Dulfer and Eric Leeds.

Rosemary Willis

Immediately after the upright-sitting President John F. Kennedy is first hidden at frame 207 by the "Stemmons Freeway" traffic sign in the Zapruder film, Willis suddenly, and beginning at Z-214, snaps her head very rapidly 90 to 100 degrees westward (completely away from the Depository southwest corner) within 0.16 second to then face Abraham Zapruder and the grassy knoll by Z-217.

Runaway GO

The gig was streamed online in HD, the first of its kind in Ireland to have done so since the U2 360° Tour.

Tempelhof

After Pope Clement V officially abolished the Order of the Temple in 1312, the knights of Saint John (the Johanniter), backed by Margrave Waldemar of Brandenburg, took over the villages of Tempelhof, Mariendorf, and Marienfelde.

The '59 Sound

Absolutepunk.net raved about the album, saying that it's "Packed full of vivid imagery and storytelling that resembles "Born to Run"/"Darkness on the Edge of Town"-era Springsteen, "The '59 Sound" is an impeccable work of punk-rock art where each listen offers something new, never taking any hint of imagination or personal effect away from the listener; this is the album The Killers wanted to make with "Sam's Town" but were unsuccessful at."

The '90s Suck and So Do You

The '90s Suck and So Do You is an album by punk band Angry Samoans released in 1999 (see 1999 in music).

The '92 Demos

At the time this was recorded, the band was a three-piece, with Scott Lucas on vocals and guitar, Matt Garcia on bass and Joe Daniels on drums.

The 'Nam

Vietnam veteran Don Lomax, creator of the independent title Vietnam Journal, took over writing duties for The 'Nam in the early 1990s.

Marine Corps veteran and former Newsweek editor William Broyles, Jr., praised the comic for having "a certain gritty reality," but Jan Scruggs, President of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, questioned if the Vietnam War should be the subject of a comic book and if it might trivialize it.

The 'W' Files

The 'W' Files (衛斯理) is a 2003 Hong Kong fantasy-adventure-mystery television period drama serial based on Ni Kuang's novel series Wisely, starring Gallen Lo as Wisely.

In the 1930s, Wisely returns to China from his overseas studies and runs a detective agency in Shanghai to investigate paranormal events.

The $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime

Marc Summers was the show's announcer for its first few weeks and Johnny Gilbert announced the remainder of the series.

For the second season, the top prize consisted of two cars, ten pairs of round-trip Delta Air Lines tickets to anywhere in the continental United States, an outdoor spa, a new kitchen, living room, and dining room, and over $900,000 paid in annual installments of $36,000 for 25 years.

The $128,000 Question

The theme music was an updated version of the original composition by Norman Leyden and performed by Charles Randolph Grean, the show's musical director during its first season.

Twins of Evil Tour

Marilyn Manson continued on their Hey Cruel World... tour at the conclusion of the Twins of Evil tour, playing in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on December 15, 2012 and December 16, 2012.

Unearthed Films

Unearthed has imported, amongst others, Rubber's Lover, Pinocchio 964, Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre, Aftermath, City of Rott, ICHI-1, Bone Sickness, Frankenhooker, Philosophy of a Knife and its sequel, Dead Fury, Flexing with Monty, Junk and the Guinea Pig series.

Wendell J. Ashton

As director of LDS Public Affairs, Ashton dealt with the issue of the Howard Hughes "Mormon Will".

Wet the Bed

The song has been performed live at the album's listening party, as well as on Brown's F.A.M.E. Tour.

Your Blue Room

"Your Blue Room" made its live debut on 13 September 2009 at Soldier Field in Chicago, during the U2 360° Tour.


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