Van Halen World Invasion Tour

World Invasion Tour
Tour by Van Halen
Location
  • North America
  • Europe
Associated albumWomen and Children First
Start dateMarch 19, 1980 (1980-03-19)
End dateNovember 15, 1980 (1980-11-15)
Legs3
No. of shows124
Van Halen concert chronology

The World Invasion Tour was a concert tour by hard rock band Van Halen in support of their third studio album, Women and Children First.

Background

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The tour was dubbed the "Party 'til You Die Tour" by the band.[1] The tour is notable for being the first time the band played keyboards live during their shows, which would later play a role on the band's next three studio albums. The band skipped Japan on the tour, focused on playing in other smaller cities in North America, with a month of performances in Europe.[2] Unlike the previous tours, this tour had ended up more successful.[3] During the performance in Cincinnati, Roth was accused of inciting others to violate the fire code when he told the crowd to "light 'em up!", urging them to smoke with the audience lighting both matches and lighters during the song "Light Up the Sky". He was written up and later charged for violating fire codes.[4] He would later break his nose during a television appearance in Italy when he did his famous leap, hitting a light fixture.[5]

During the tour, the band had carried 50 tons of equipment, and 850,000 watts of lighting which Alex Van Halen stated would be in the Guinness Book of World Records.[6] The extensive stage itself featured a plane of multi-colored lights, choreographed with each song performed, with multi-platform stage to the right side where Eddie Van Halen would perform a guitar solo with seven lights pointing at him from behind to create a silhouette effect.[7] Before every show, Van Halen demanded that in their dressing rooms that they'd have two pounds of M&M's with all the brown ones removed.[8]

Set list

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Tour dates

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List of concerts, showing date, city, country and venue
Date[9] City Country Venue
North America
March 19, 1980 Victoria Canada Victoria Memorial Arena
March 21, 1980 Central Point United States Compton Arena
March 22, 1980 Eugene McArthur Court
March 24, 1980 Spokane Spokane Coliseum
March 25, 1980 Great Falls Four Seasons Arena
March 26, 1980 Missoula Adams Field House
March 29, 1980 Fort Collins Moby Gym
March 30, 1980 Pueblo Massari Gym
April 2, 1980 Vancouver Canada Pacific Coliseum
April 3, 1980 Portland United States Portland Memorial Coliseum
April 4, 1980 Seattle Seattle Center Coliseum
April 5, 1980
April 7, 1980 Calgary Canada Stampede Corral
April 8, 1980 Edmonton Northlands Coliseum
April 11, 1980 Winnipeg Winnipeg Arena
April 13, 1980 Saint Paul United States St. Paul Civic Center
April 14, 1980 Milwaukee MECCA Arena
April 15, 1980 Madison Dane County Veterans Memorial Coliseum
April 24, 1980 Cincinnati Riverfront Coliseum
April 26, 1980 Detroit Cobo Arena
April 27, 1980
April 29, 1980 Richfield Richfield Coliseum
April 30, 1980 Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Civic Arena
May 1, 1980 Landover Capital Centre
May 2, 1980 Binghamton Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena
May 3, 1980 South Yarmouth Cape Cod Coliseum
May 5, 1980 Buffalo Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
May 6, 1980 Rochester Rochester Community War Memorial Arena
May 7, 1980 Philadelphia Spectrum
May 8, 1980
May 9, 1980 New Haven New Haven Coliseum
Europe
May 26, 1980 Geleen Netherlands Burgemeester Damen Sportpark
(Pinkpop Festival)[10]
May 27, 1980 Ludwigshafen West Germany Friedrich-Ebert-Halle
May 29, 1980 Essen Grugahalle
May 30, 1980 Hamburg Ernst-Merck-Halle
May 31, 1980 Cambrai France Grottos Palace
June 1, 1980 Caen Caen Expo Hall
June 3, 1980 Paris Palais des Sports
June 4, 1980 Lyon Palais des Sports de Gerland
June 6, 1980 Reims Reims Sports Palace
June 7, 1980 Würzburg West Germany Carl Diem Hall
June 8, 1980 Neunkirchen Hemmerleinhalle
June 10, 1980 Düsseldorf Philips Hall
June 11, 1980 Sindelfingen Messehalle
June 14, 1980 Munich Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle
June 17, 1980 Newcastle England Newcastle City Hall
June 18, 1980 Glasgow Scotland The Apollo
June 19, 1980 Manchester England Manchester Apollo
June 20, 1980 Leicester De Montfort Hall
June 22, 1980 Birmingham Birmingham Odeon
June 23, 1980 London Rainbow Theatre
June 24, 1980
North America
July 10, 1980 Kalamazoo United States Wings Stadium
July 11, 1980 Toledo Toledo Sports Arena
July 12, 1980 Fort Wayne Allen County War Memorial Coliseum
July 13, 1980 Huntington Huntington Civic Center
July 15, 1980 Montreal Canada Montreal Forum
July 16, 1980 Ottawa Ottawa Civic Center
July 17, 1980 London London Gardens
July 18, 1980 Toronto Maple Leaf Gardens
July 21, 1980 Hampton United States Hampton Coliseum
July 22, 1980 Baltimore Baltimore Civic Center
July 24, 1980 Hartford Hartford Civic Center
July 25, 1980 Boston Boston Garden
July 26, 1980 Hempstead Nassau Coliseum
July 28, 1980 Louisville Freedom Hall
July 29, 1980 Chicago International Amphitheatre
July 30, 1980 Indianapolis Market Square Arena
July 31, 1980 St. Louis Checkerdome
August 1, 1980 Memphis Mid-South Coliseum
August 2, 1980 Little Rock Barton Coliseum
August 4, 1980 Birmingham Jefferson Civic Center
August 5, 1980 Nashville Nashville Municipal Auditorium
August 6, 1980 Atlanta Omni Coliseum
August 8, 1980 Lakeland Lakeland Civic Center
August 9, 1980 Pembroke Pines Hollywood Sportatorium
August 10, 1980 Jacksonville Jacksonville Coliseum
August 11, 1980 North Fort Myers Lee County Civic Center
August 15, 1980 San Juan Puerto Rico Roberto Clemente Coliseum
August 16, 1980
August 22, 1980 Kansas City United States Kemper Arena
August 23, 1980 Omaha Omaha Civic Auditorium
August 24, 1980 Salina Bicentennial Center
August 26, 1980 Corpus Christi Corpus Christi Memorial Coliseum
August 27, 1980 San Antonio San Antonio Convention Center
August 28, 1980 Houston Sam Houston Coliseum
August 29, 1980 Shreveport Hirsch Memorial Coliseum
August 30, 1980 Baton Rouge Riverside Centroplex
September 1, 1980 Mobile Mobile Municipal Auditorium
September 2, 1980 Jackson Mississippi Coliseum
September 3, 1980 Beaumont Fair Park Coliseum
September 4, 1980 Dallas Reunion Arena
September 6, 1980 Norman Owen Field
(Roklahoma)
September 7, 1980 Amarillo Amarillo Civic Center
September 8, 1980
September 9, 1980 Lubbock Lubbock Municipal Coliseum
September 10, 1980 Albuquerque University of New Mexico Arena
September 12, 1980 Denver McNichols Sports Arena
September 13, 1980
September 15, 1980 Phoenix Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum
September 16, 1980 Tucson Tucson Community Center
September 18, 1980 Fresno Selland Arena
September 19, 1980 Los Angeles Los Angeles Sports Arena
September 20, 1980
October 3, 1980 Rapid City Rushmore Plaza Civic Center
October 4, 1980 Bismarck Bismarck Civic Center
October 6, 1980 Salt Lake City Salt Palace
October 9, 1980 Oakland Oakland Arena
October 10, 1980
October 12, 1980 San Diego San Diego Sports Arena
October 15, 1980 Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Arena
October 16, 1980 Des Moines Des Moines Veterans Memorial Auditorium
October 17, 1980 Lincoln Pershing Memorial Auditorium
October 19, 1980 Macomb Western Hall
October 21, 1980 Terre Haute Hulman Arena
October 22, 1980 Lexington Rupp Arena
October 24, 1980 Knoxville Knoxville Civic Coliseum
October 25, 1980 Johnson City Freedom Hall
October 31, 1980 Macon Macon Coliseum
November 1, 1980 Augusta Augusta Civic Center
November 2, 1980 Asheville Asheville Civic Center
November 5, 1980 Champaign Assembly Hall
November 6, 1980 Notre Dame Notre Dame Athletics and Convocation Center
November 7, 1980 Evansville Roberts Municipal Stadium
November 8, 1980 Huntsville Von Braun Civic Center
November 11, 1980 Winston-Salem Winston-Salem Memorial Coliseum
November 12, 1980 Savannah Savannah Civic Center
November 14, 1980 St. Petersburg Bayfront Center
November 15, 1980 Lakeland Lakeland Civic Center

Box office score data

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List of box office score data with date, city, venue, attendance, gross, references
Date
(1980) 		City Venue Attendance Gross Ref(s)
July 18 Toronto, Canada Maple Leaf Gardens 14,955 $150,706 [11]
July 24 Hartford, United States Civic Center 13,300 $119,151 [12]
July 25 Boston, United States Boston Gardens 12,000 $118,104 [13]
July 28 Louisville, United States Freedom Hall 13,436 $105,038 [12]
July 30 Indianapolis, United States Market Square Arena 14,000 $104,209 [13]
July 31 St. Louis, United States Checkerdome Theatre 13,320 $117,451
August 1 Memphis, United States South Coliseum 10,154 $83,608
August 4 Birmingham, United States Jefferson Civic Center 11,146 $93,790
September 4 Dallas, United States Reunion Arena 14,177 $127,593 [14]
September 6 Norman, United States Owen Field 31,611 $410,652
September 18 Fresno, United States Selland Arena 7,030 $61,161 [15]
October 9–10 Oakland, United States Coliseum 23,178 $210,669 [16]

Personnel

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References

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Citations

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  1. ^ Christopher 2021, p. 59.
  2. ^ Tolinski 2021.
  3. ^ Gulla 2009, p. 215.
  4. ^ "Lit matches, hot water". Spokane, Washington: The Spokesman-Review. April 26, 1980. p. 5. Retrieved March 14, 2022.
  5. ^ "Van Halen's Singer Breaks Nose in Leap". Reading, Pennsylvania: Reading Eagle. June 8, 1980. p. 80. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
  6. ^ Greer, Jonathan (August 11, 1980). "Big equipment and "Best Rock Guitarist" make up that big Van Halen sound". St. Petersburg Times. p. 2D. Retrieved March 14, 2022.
  7. ^ Yagle, Timothy (June 5, 1980). "Van Halen: Hard rock that won't go away". Ann Arbor, Michigan: The Michigan Daily. p. 6. Retrieved March 14, 2022.
  8. ^ Harrington, Richard (September 20, 1980). "Bands' demands are stranger than fiction". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. p. 6-C. Retrieved March 14, 2022.
  9. ^ "Van Halen Tour Dates". Archived from the original on 2007-08-24. Retrieved 2007-09-01.
  10. ^ Panter, Horace (2009). Ska'd for Life: A Personal Journey with The Specials. London: Pan Macmillan. p. 197. ISBN 9780330508216.
  11. ^ "Top Box Office". Billboard. Vol. 92, no. 31. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. August 2, 1980. p. 36. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
  12. ^ a b "Top Box Office". Billboard. Vol. 92, no. 32. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. August 9, 1980. p. 34. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
  13. ^ a b "Top Box Office". Billboard. Vol. 92, no. 32. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. August 16, 1980. p. 27. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
  14. ^ "Top Box Office". Billboard. Vol. 92, no. 38. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. September 20, 1980. p. 57. ISSN 0006-2510.
  15. ^ "Top Box Office". Billboard. Vol. 92, no. 40. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. October 4, 1980. p. 37. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
  16. ^ "Top Box Office". Billboard. Vol. 92, no. 43. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. October 25, 1980. p. 30. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved March 15, 2022.

General sources

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  • Gulla, Bob (2009). Guitar Gods: The 25 Players Who Made Rock History. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313358067.
  • Tolinski, Brad; Gill, Chris (2021). Eruption: Conversations with Eddie Van Halen (First ed.). New York, New York: Hachette Books. ISBN 9780306826672.
  • Christopher, Michael (2021). Van Halen: The Eruption and the Aftershock. Lanham, Maryland: Backbeat. ISBN 9781493062102.
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