Sheer Heart Attack Tour

Sheer Heart Attack Tour
Concert tour by Queen
Associated album	Sheer Heart Attack
Start date	10 October 1974
End date	19 November 1975
Legs	3
Shows	77
Queen tour chronology
Queen II Tour (1974) Sheer Heart Attack Tour (1974–75) A Night At The Opera Tour (1975–76)

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

Background

There were slight differences between the UK, US and Japanese tour. The Japanese shows were a bit longer (Queen even played Hangman and See What A Fool I've Been a couple of times), perhaps it's due to the warm welcome they received from the Japanese fans.

The year starts with their first trip outside of Europe and an appearance at the Sunbury Music Festival in Australia. Although the band headline the event on 2nd February, their appearance the next day is cancelled. In March the band commence a UK tour to promote their new album 'Queen II', and then embark on their first trip to the USA. Once again they play support band to Mott The Hoople on a four week tour beginning in April. The band pay more attention to their look on stage and employ the services of Zandra Rhodes to design some of their costumes. Queen's slot comes to an abrupt halt when Brian collapses from hepatitis after the New York show on 11th May, and fly home for Brian to recover. The band are soon back on the road and commence their second tour as the headlining act, with nineteen concerts at eighteen different venues around the UK. The band ‘Hustler’ are the support band, and the setlist contains much of the material from the new album 'Sheer Heart Attack'. With more money to invest in a new stage show, the band wear new costumes for this tour and add an additional lighting rig complete with state of the art stage effects. To conclude Queen’s touring for the year they embark on a European tour consisting of ten shows in six countries, performed over a two and a half week period. The tour would have been longer had it not been for the truck transporting their equipment being involved in an accident, and not being able to reach the remaining scheduled venues.

Setlist

1. "Procession"
2. "Now I'm Here"
3. "Ogre Battle"
4. "Father to Son"
5. "White Queen (As It Began)"
6. "Flick of the Wrist"
7. "In the Lap of the Gods"
8. "Killer Queen"
9. "March of the Black Queen"
10. "Bring Back that Leroy Brown"
11. "Son and Daughter"
12. "Keep Yourself Alive"
13. "Seven Seas of Rhye"
14. "Stone Cold Crazy"
15. "Liar"
16. "In the Lap of the Gods… Revisited"
    Encore
17. "Big Spender"
18. "Modern Times Rock 'N' Roll"
    Encore
19. "Jailhouse Rock"
20. "God Save the Queen"

Support acts

• Nutz
• Styx
• Kansas
• Hustler
• Mahogany Rush

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue
Europe
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
3 November 1974	Coventry		Belgrade 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	Apollo Theatre
9 November 1974	Lancaster	England	Lancaster University
10 November 1974	Preston		Preston Guildhall
12 November 1974	Bristol		Colston Hall
13 November 1974	Bournemouth		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 Oxford
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	Lund Olympen
2 December 1974	Munich	Germany	Brienner Theater
4 December 1974	Frankfurt		Palmengarten
5 December 1974	Hamburg		Hamburg Musikhalle
6 December 1974	Cologne		Sartory Saal
8 December 1974	The Hague	Netherlands	Congresgebouw
10 December 1974	Brussels	Belgium	Theatre 140
12 December 1974	Barcelona	Spain	Palau dels Esports de Barcelona
North America
5 February 1975	Columbus	United States	Agora
6 February 1975	Cincinnati		Reflections
7 February 1975	Dayton		Palace Theatre
8 February 1975	Cleveland		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	Boston		Orpheum Theatre
16 February 1975	New York City		Avery Fisher Hall
17 February 1975	Trenton		County War Memorial Building
19 February 1975	Lewiston		Lewiston Armory
21 February 1975	Passaic		Capitol Theatre
22 February 1975	Harrisburg		Farm Arena
23 February 1975	Philadelphia		Erlinger Theatre
24 February 1975	Washington, D.C.		Kennedy Center
5 March 1975	La Crosse		Mary E 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		Kiel Auditorium
10 March 1975	Fort Wayne		Allen County War Memorial Coliseum
12 March 1975	Atlanta		Atlanta Municipal Auditorium
13 March 1975	Charleston		Charleston Civic Center
14 March 1975	Miami		Miami Marine Stadium
18 March 1975	New Orleans		Bernard Parish Civic Auditorium
20 March 1975	San Antonio		San Antonio Municipal Hall
22 March 1975	Dallas		McFarlin Memorial Auditorium
25 March 1975	Tulsa		Tulsa Municipal Theatre
29 March 1975	Santa Monica		Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
30 March 1975	San Francisco		San Francisco Winterland
2 April 1975	Edmonton	Canada	Kinsmen Field House
3 April 1975	Calgary		Stampede Corral
6 April 1975	Seattle	United States	Paramount Theatre
Asia
19 April 1975	Tokyo	Japan	Nippon Budokan
22 April 1975	Nagoya		Aichi Taikukan
23 April 1975	Kobe		Kokusai Kaikan
25 April 1975	Fukuoka		Kyuden Kinen Taikukan
28 April 1975	Okayama		Okayama Kenritsu Taikukan
29 April 1975	Shizuoka		Yamaha Tsumagoi Hall
30 April 1975	Yokohama		Yokohama Bunka Taikukan
1 May 1975	Tokyo		Nippon Budokan

Trivia

Queen played two concerts at the same venue on the following dates:

• February 8, 1975 – Cleveland, Ohio
• February 15, 1975 – Boston, Massachusetts
• February 16, 1975 – New York City, New York
• February 23, 1975 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• March 29, 1975 – Santa Monica, California

External links

• QueenConcerts.com – Sheer Heart Attack Tour