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The Bee Gees' concerts in 1967 and 1968

The 1967–68 Tours (also known as The Bee Gees in Concert, Spring Tour '68, North American Tour) are a series of concerts held in 1967 and 1968 by the Bee Gees. The tours promoted their third, fourth and fifth studio albums: Bee Gees' 1st (1967), Horizontal (1968) and Idea (1968). The band's line-up at that time was the Gibb brothers with Colin Petersen and Vince Melouney. Before the tours began, the group were the opening act for Fats Domino in London and Manchester.[1]

1967–68 Tours
Tour by The Bee Gees
Associated album
Start date13 May 1967 (1967-05-13)
End date19 November 1968 (1968-11-19)
Legs4
No. of shows
  • 97 in Europe
  • 16 in North America
  • 113 total
The Bee Gees concert chronology
  • 1967–68 Tours
  • 2 Years On Tour
    (1971)

The concert in Bern, 10 March 1968, was illegally recorded and is available in a bootleg entitled Live in Bern 1968.[2]

Tour band

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Opening acts

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Setlist

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The following setlist was obtained from the concert held on 10 August 1968, at the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in New York City, New York. It does not represent all concerts for the duration of the tours.[8]

  1. "New York Mining Disaster 1941"
  2. "And the Sun Will Shine"
  3. "To Love Somebody"
  4. "Jumbo"
  5. "The Singer Sang His Song"
  6. "I Have Decided to Join the Airforce"
  7. "I Started a Joke"
  8. "Let There Be Love"
  9. "Words"
  10. "I Can't See Nobody"
  11. "Holiday" 
  12. "In the Morning"
  13. "Really and Sincerely" 
  14. "Massachusetts"
  15. "I've Gotta Get a Message to You"
Encore
  2. "Spicks and Specks"
  3. "World"

Tour dates

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Date City Country Venue
Europe[9][10]
13 May 1967 Northampton England Maple Ballroom
14 May 1967 Nottingham Britannia Rowing Club
Beachcomber Club
25 May 1967 Liverpool Student Auditorium
26 May 1967 Galashiels Scotland Galashiels Town Hall
Selkirk Victoria Hall
27 May 1967 Carlisle England Carlisle Market Hall
28 May 1967 Oldham Thing Club
19 June 1967 Wishaw The Belfry
21 June 1967 Gorleston-on-Sea Floral Hall
23 June 1967 Leicester Scraptoft Hall
24 June 1967 Manchester New Century Hall
21 July 1967 Stockholm Sweden Palladium
4 August 1967 London England Tiles Club
5 August 1967 Dunstable California Ballroom
6 August 1967 Greenford Starlite Ballroom
17 August 1967 London 33 Portland Place
21 August 1967 Bath Bath Pavilion
26 August 1967 London Upper Cuts
27 August 1967[A] Woburn Woburn Abbey
9 September 1967 Chester Clockwork Orange
22 September 1967 Wolverhampton Wolverhampton Civic Hall
27 September 1967 Newport Wales University of Wales Auditorium
7 October 1967 Manchester England Main Debating Hall
13 October 1967 Rugby Benn Hall
27 October 1967 Rosewell Scotland Rosewell Institute
28 October 1967 Coatbridge Coatbridge Town Hall
29 October 1967 Dundee Top Ten Club
1 November 1967 Stevenage England Locarno Ballroom
11 November 1967[B] Rotterdam Netherlands Ahoy Hallen Heliport
17 November 1967 London England Lewisham Odeon
18 November 1967 St. Mary's Hall
19 November 1967 Saville Theatre
19 November 1967 Salisbury Salisbury City Hall
North America[11]
27 January 1968 Anaheim United States Anaheim Convention Center
Europe[9][12]
9 February 1968 Stockholm Sweden Stockholm Concert Hall
10 February 1968
11 February 1968 Gothenburg Gothenburg Concert Hall
12 February 1968 Oslo Norway Sentrum kino
14 February 1968 Copenhagen Denmark Falkoner Teatret
15 February 1968
27 February 1968 Hamburg West Germany Musikhalle
28 February 1968 Bremen Stadthalle
29 February 1968 Hanover Niedersachsenhalle
1 March 1968 Stuttgart Liederhalle
2 March 1968 Munich Kongressaal
3 March 1968 Nuremberg Meistersingerhalle
4 March 1968 Frankfurt Jahrhunderthalle
5 March 1968 Münster Münsterlandhalle
6 March 1968 Cologne Kölner Messehalle
7 March 1968 West Berlin Sportpalast
8 March 1968 Braunschweig Stadthalle
10 March 1968 Bern Switzerland Festhalle
27 March 1968 London England Royal Albert Hall
29 March 1968 Leeds Queens Hall
30 March 1968 Chester ABC Theatre
31 March 1968 Manchester Palace Theatre
1 April 1968 Leicester De Montfort Hall
4 April 1968 Cambridge Cambridge Corn Exchange
5 April 1968 Slough Adelphi Cinema
6 April 1968 Sheffield Sheffield City Hall
7 April 1968 Birmingham Birmingham Hippodrome
10 April 1968 Carlisle ABC Theatre
11 April 1968 Glasgow Scotland Green's Playhouse
12 April 1968 Edinburgh ABC Theatre
13 April 1968 Stockton-on-Tees England
14 April 1968 Liverpool Empire Theatre
17 April 1968 Portsmouth Portsmouth Guildhall
18 April 1968 London The Castle
19 April 1968 Hanley Gaumont Cinema
20 April 1968 Bolton Odeon Theatre
21 April 1968 Hull ABC Theatre
22 April 1968 Lincoln
24 April 1968 Salisbury Odeon Theatre
25 April 1968 Romford
26 April 1968 Exeter
27 April 1968 Cardiff Wales Capitol Theatre
28 April 1968 London England Granada Theatre
1 May 1968 Cork Ireland Savoy
2 May 1968 Dublin Adelphi Cinema
3 May 1968 Belfast Northern Ireland ABC Theatre
North America[9][13]
1 August 1968 Phoenix United States Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum
2 August 1968 Los Angeles Hollywood Bowl
3 August 1968 Daly City Cow Palace
4 August 1968 San Diego San Diego International Sports Center
10 August 1968[C] New York City Forest Hills Tennis Stadium
14 August 1968 Providence Rhode Island Auditorium
15 August 1968 Boston Music Hall
17 August 1968[D] Bridgeport Kennedy Stadium
24 August 1968 Detroit Olympia Stadium
25 August 1968 Chicago Auditorium Theatre
26 August 1968 Columbus Ohio State Fair Fairgrounds Grandstand
27 August 1968
29 August 1968 Saratoga Springs Saratoga Performing Arts Center
31 August 1968[E] Philadelphia John F. Kennedy Stadium
1 September 1968 Columbia Merriweather Post Pavilion
Europe[9][14]
6 October 1968 The Hague The Netherlands Houtrusthallen
12 October 1968 Stockholm Sweden Johanneshovs Isstadion
13 October 1968 Copenhagen Denmark K.B. Hallen
31 October 1968 Bremen West Germany Stadthalle
1 November 1968 Kiel Opernhaus
2 November 1968 Hamburg Ernst-Merck-Halle
4 November 1968 Münster Münsterlandhalle
5 November 1968 Cologne Kölner Sporthalle
6 November 1968 Essen Grugahalle
8 November 1968 Stuttgart Messehalle Killesberg
10 November 1968 Vienna Austria Wiener Stadthalle
11 November 1968 Insbruck Messehalle
13 November 1968 Bochum West Germany Ruhrlandhalle
14 November 1968 Düsseldorf Messehalle
16 November 1968 Braunschweig Stadthalle
18 November 1968 Munich Kongressaal
19 November 1968 Nuremberg Meistersingerhalle
Festivals and other miscellaneous performances
A Festival of the Flower Children[15]
B Hippy-Happy Festival[16]
C Forest Hills Festival[17]
D Bridgeport Music Festival
E Philadelphia Music Festival[18]

References

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  1. ^ Bilyeu, Melinda; Cook, Hector; Môn Hughes, Andrew (January 1, 2011). The Ultimate Biography Of The Bee Gees: Tales Of The Brothers Gibb. London, England: Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857128942.
  2. ^ "Bee Gees, The* - Live In Bern 1968". Discogs.
  3. ^ a b Southall, Brian (August 2011). Treasures of the Bee Gees. Carlton Books.
  4. ^ "THE BEE GEES, DAVE DEE DOZY BEAKY MICK & TICH ORIGINAL 1968 UK TOUR PROGRAMME". eBay. November 2020. Archived from the original on 27 December 2020. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  5. ^ "Bee Gees ABC Chester Concert Window Card (UK, 1968)". Heritage Auctions. November 2016. Archived from the original on 27 December 2020. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  6. ^ a b c "World + Ticket - 19/11/67". 991. June 2017. Archived from the original on 27 December 2020. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  7. ^ "KRLA presents The Bee Gees". Los Angeles Free Press. Los Angeles, California. 12 January 1968. Archived from the original on 27 December 2020. Retrieved 26 December 2020 – via Collectors Universe.
  8. ^ Sources for NYC Setlist:
  9. ^ a b c d Sandoval, Andrew (15 October 2012). Bee Gees: The Day-By-Day Story, 1945-1972. Retrofuture Products LLC. ISBN 9780943249087.
  10. ^ Sources for tour dates in 1967:
  11. ^ "Rhino Factoids: The Bee Gees Make Their Live Debut in America". Rhino Entertainment. 27 January 2016. Archived from the original on 26 December 2020. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  12. ^ Sources for tour dates in Europe, Spring 1968
  13. ^ Sources for tour dates in North America, Summer 1968:
  14. ^ "On Tour" [On Tour]. Spicks & Specks (in German). January 2012. Archived from the original on 26 December 2020. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  15. ^ "Fifty years since Woburn's Festival of the Flower Children". BBC News. British Broadcasting Corporation. 28 August 2017. Archived from the original on 26 December 2020. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  16. ^ "Jimi Hendrix in Nederland: 'Het was magisch, echt geweldig'" [Jimi Hendrix in the Netherlands: 'It was magical, really great']. Reporters Online (in Norwegian). 24 April 2020. Archived from the original on 26 December 2020. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  17. ^ "FLASHBACK: 1968 FOREST HILLS MUSIC FESTIVAL LINEUP...(MAY 1968)". WNEW-FM. Entercom. April 2020. Archived from the original on 26 December 2020. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  18. ^ Kirby, Fred (6 April 1968). "17 Concerts for Philly Stadium, Play Centers". Billboard. Vol. 80, no. 14. New York City, New York: Billboard Publications, Inc. p. 16. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
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