U2 The Unforgettable Fire Tour Spring Tour USA 1985

In October 2012, 27 years after the Unforgettable Fire Tour hit America I knew about the existance of itinerary books for that amazing tour. It was awesome to find this out......but not a big surprise after having discovered months earlier that U2 had already issued in 1983 itinerary books for WAR tour.

As I said on previous entries, if there were itineraries for War tour...it was more than possible that there were Unforgettable Fire tour itineraries also. And here they are......

This is the only book I have found from this tour right now but we can expect at least five other books in order to cover the different legs of the 1984-85 tour (a total of 6 including 1985 european summer festivals).

Under a transparent plastic cover,  the red and black cover shows, starting at the top, a big U2 logo, the name of the album The Unforgettable Fire, a picture of the band (the same used on Pride (in the name of love) single) and the text Spring Tour USA 1985. The book comes with a thick black plastic spiral bound.

The book belongs to the 5th leg of The Unforgettable Fire tour, which travelled across North America for almost 2 months and a half on Spring 1985. U2 played a total of 40 shows starting in Dallas on February 25th and closing with 2 shows in Fort Lauderdale on May 3rd and 4th.

If we check the shows listed on the book, just a few differences can be found versus the final list of concerts.

A 2nd show in Honolulu on March 3rd was on the schedule but actually never happened. On the opposite U2 played three shows in East Rutherford, so March 15th concert was a last minute addition. Those three shows were scheduled at Brendan Byrne Arena but they were finally held at Meadowlads Arena.

The last curiosity in terms of shows list is that close to the Forth Lauderdale Sportatorium name we can read the word "Possibly" in reference to the May 5th show so it seems that this 2nd show at the sunny city was not confirmed when the book was printed.

This leg not only included shows in the United States but also 3 shows in Canada (Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa).

Regarding the shows, this leg saw U2 playing at Madison Square Garden for the first time. Same happened for San Francisco's Cow Palace or The Spectrum at Philly.

It's also nice to see that tour personnel was still quite limited if we compare it with later tours. U2 and close personnel were a total of 11 people only while Crew were a total of 27 people. All in all a total of 38 people that now seems a tiny group of people for U2. It's curious to find Greg Carrol listed among the Crew members. The band met him on the Aussie leg and he joined the Crew for the rest of the tour.

As usual the book also includes Hotel master pages for band and crew, a contact sheet page with information about the companies involved in the tour and a specific page to cover every single day on the road.





That's all.... let's see if we can see itineraries for the rest of the legs of this tour.
Enjoy !


UPDATE: I got Bono and Adam Clayton to sign this rare book in Barcelona when the i+e tour arrived to the city in the beginning of October 2015.










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