Heaven & Hell Tour

Heaven & Hell Tour
Promotional tour by Black Sabbath
Location North America
Europe
Associated album Heaven and Hell
Start date April 17, 1980 (1980-04-17)
End date February 2, 1981 (1981-02-02)
Legs 5
No. of shows 113
Black Sabbath concert chronology

The Heaven & Hell Tour was the ninth world concert tour by Black Sabbath between April 1980 and February 1981 to promote their 1980 studio album, Heaven and Hell.[1][2] The tour marked the band's first live shows with vocalist Ronnie James Dio, who replaced original vocalist Ozzy Osbourne the previous year;[2] drummer Vinny Appice, who replaced original drummer Bill Ward in the middle of the tour's North American leg after Ward suddenly left the band due to personal issues;[3] and keyboardist Geoff Nicholls, who played keyboards on the Heaven and Hell album and accompanied the band on this tour as a sideman.[4] For a portion of the North American tour, which was popularly known as the "Black and Blue Tour", Black Sabbath co-headlined with Blue Öyster Cult,[4] with whom they shared a manager, Sandy Pearlman. The arrangement reportedly set attendance records but caused friction between the two bands as well as between Black Sabbath and Pearlman.[5]

Overview

Background

In April 1980, Black Sabbath released Heaven and Hell, the band's ninth studio album and first with former Rainbow and Elf lead singer, Ronnie James Dio, who was hired to replace original lead singer, Ozzy Osbourne.[6] The band began the Heaven and Hell Tour in Europe to promote their new album, which was released shortly after the tour started. The response from fans and critics was generally positive.[2] According to Black Sabbath lead-guitarist, Tony Iommi, some audience members were initially displeased that Osbourne was no longer in the band, but "eventually Ronnie won them over." The band's stage setup for the tour included an electronic cross that flashed lights and burst into flames, which Iommi said "hardly ever worked."[7]

Europe (first leg)

The band first toured Europe, where according to David Konow, "they knew the audience would still be there for them" despite the change in lead singers.[8] The initial shows were intended to "break the band in while out of the spotlight" (according to Garry Sharpe-Young) before taking on larger shows in Vienna, Landshut and the United Kingdom.[4] Almost all the dates on this first leg of the tour were either in Germany or the United Kingdom, where the band had a four-night sell-out run at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, supported by Girlschool.[4] Support bands for other dates included Angel Witch and Shakin' Street, who later supported some U.S. tour dates.[1][9] The American heavy metal band Manowar traces its origins to this time, when Ross the Boss, who was then the guitarist in Shakin' Street, met Sabbath's bass tech Joey DeMaio at a United Kingdom show. The two became friends during the tour, and later founded Manowar.[5][10]

North America (Black and Blue Tour)

During the North American leg of the tour, Black Sabbath co-headlined most of their shows with Blue Öyster Cult at the suggestion of Sandy Pearlman, who at that time was managing both bands. This became known as the Black & Blue Tour. The two co-headliners were supported by opening acts including Sammy Hagar, Saxon, Riot, Molly Hatchet and Shakin' Street.[1][5][9] The shows were a financial success, drawing high attendance and frequently placing in Billboard's weekly "Top Boxoffice" surveys.[4][11][12] However, Sabbath was unhappy with the arrangement since Pearlman had a close relationship with Blue Öyster Cult after having founded the band and being involved with their career for over a decade as both a manager and record producer, while he had started managing Sabbath in 1979. Sabbath felt that Pearlman was favoring Blue Öyster Cult and that Blue Öyster Cult was also appropriating elements of Sabbath's musical style and performance. Friction erupted between the two bands over which band would close the show as well as the logistics of dealing with each band's stage set (which for Blue Öyster Cult included a huge Godzilla structure that took time to remove from the stage). Pearlman has said that Sabbath resented having to share the tour proceeds with Blue Öyster Cult.[5][7] Iommi has indicated that this situation contributed to the band's decision to fire Pearlman shortly thereafter.[7]

Bill Ward's departure

During this time, Bill Ward was increasingly suffering from substance abuse issues,[5][8] saying in a later interview, "Alcohol had become more important than Black Sabbath, our audience, my family, everything, and that included me." Ward added, "Also, I was absolutely missing [Osbourne]; really missing him and I wasn't coping with my grief that well because I was so drunk. My mother had died and I wasn't coping with the grief for my mother and I was feeling overwhelmed with loss. Lastly, as much as I loved Ronnie James Dio, it [the new band lineup] didn't work for me."[13] On August 19, 1980, Bill Ward performed his last show with Sabbath at Met Center and like his former bandmate, Ozzy Osbourne, would not perform with Sabbath again until July 13, 1985 at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia for Live Aid. The following night, Sabbath were forced to cancel their appearance at a sold-out show at McNichols Sports Arena in Denver when Ward either arrived late or failed to go on. Blue Öyster Cult did perform and received the sizable proceeds of the show, while Sabbath were not paid for this show or for several subsequent shows that they cancelled due to Ward's unavailability.[5] Ward departed,[3] and the band, after being turned down by Cozy Powell, replaced Ward with Vinny Appice.[4][5] Appice played his first show with Black Sabbath on August 31, 1980 at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu for The Summer Blowout.[1][4][8]

Milwaukee riot

On October 9, 1980, Black Sabbath and Blue Öyster Cult co-headlined a show at the MECCA Arena in Milwaukee, where Sabbath was scheduled to play last. As Butler was about to play his bass solo intro to "N.I.B.", someone in the audience threw a projectile (either a bottle or a large metal cross, depending on the source) and hit Butler in the head, knocking him out cold.[4][7][14] The show was stopped and Butler was taken to the hospital, where he received stitches and was later released.[14] Dio came back onstage, told the audience what had happened, and told off whoever threw the projectile. Sabbath's road manager then announced that the show was cancelled and berated the audience, which angered them.[7] When the audience of approximately 7,000[15] to 9,000[14] saw the crew beginning to remove the band's equipment from the stage, they began destroying windows, doors and furniture inside the venue, doing $10,000 worth of damage.[5][7][14][15] After the venue was cleared by police, fighting continued outside the venue and up to two blocks away, and it took police over an hour to clear the area. According to an October 1980 article in Billboard magazine, "Every available officer in the city was called out" and "two policemen and dozens of concertgoers were injured."[14] Butler has recalled injured fans being brought into the hospital alongside him while he was being treated.[5] A 2014 retrospective article in the Milwaukee Record said that three police officers were injured and roughly 100 arrests were made.[15] Following the riot, MECCA's management enacted restrictions designed to prevent attendees from bringing alcohol into the venue, and placed an indefinite ban on "hard rock concerts" there, with MECCA's president stating that the venue would now only consider booking "middle-of-the-road performers" such as Billy Joel and Barry Manilow.[14] Blue Öyster Cult bassist Joe Bouchard said that the band was "banned from Milwaukee for years" after the incident, despite having nothing to do with the riot.[5]

Black and Blue concert video

On October 17, 1980, Black Sabbath and Blue Öyster Cult performed at Nassau Coliseum in Hempstead, New York. The performances from that show were filmed and, after the tour, released as the concert film Black and Blue. The film was shown on the midnight movie circuit in the United States. In the 1980s, the film was also released on VHS and laserdisc for the home video market.[3][16] The film has never been officially released on DVD and DVDs on the market are generally bootlegs. Official DVD releases were announced and cancelled two separate times in 2002 by Castle Pictures and in 2004 by Universal Video, although some shops in Europe did sell a few copies of the 2004 DVD.[16] Members of Blue Öyster Cult, as well as Castle Pictures, have indicated that a DVD was not released because Tony Iommi objected to the film's distribution.[3][5][16]

Asia and Australia legs

After finishing the North American leg of the tour, Black Sabbath toured Asia and Australia. On November 18, 1980, at Nakano Sun Plaza in Tokyo, Tony Iommi became ill from food poisoning and was then taken to the hospital, thus cancelling the rest of the show after playing for 70 minutes along with the following night's show.[1][7][9] Near the end of the band's time in Japan, Butler broke one of his fingers.[7] According to Butler, the doctor he saw in Japan did not think the finger was broken, so he continued to play several more shows until severe pain forced him to seek additional treatment in Australia, at which time the fracture was diagnosed and the remaining Australian tour dates were cancelled.[1][17] Rose Tattoo supported Sabbath on the few Australian dates that were played.[1][9]

Europe (2nd leg)

The final leg of the tour, which took place in the United Kingdom, had originally been scheduled to take place in late December 1980 go throughout early January 1981, but was postponed to late January to early February 1981 due to Butler's finger injury. Black Sabbath was supported by A II Z and Max Webster for some shows. The final show of the tour took place on February 2, 1981 at Cornwall Coliseum in St Austell.[1][9]

Personnel

Heaven and Hell line-up
Mob Rules line-up
  • Ronnie James Dio – Vocals
  • Tony Iommi – Guitar
  • Geezer Butler – Bass
  • Vinny Appice – Drums [1][4]
  • Geoff Nicholls – Keyboards [4]

Setlist

Overall Songs Played

"Supertzar" [Audio Introduction]

  1. "War Pigs"
  2. "Neon Knights"
  3. Geezer Butler bass solo ["Bassically"]
  4. "N.I.B."
  5. "Lonely is the Word"
  6. "Lady Evil"
  7. "Sweet Leaf" [and Bill Ward/Vinny Appice drum solo]
  8. "Children of the Sea"
  9. "Black Sabbath"
  10. "Heaven and Hell"
  11. "Iron Man" [and Tony Iommi guitar solo ("Embryo", "Orchid" and "Don't Start Too Late") and Black Sabbath instrumental band jam "Hole in the Sky" and "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath")]
  12. "Die Young"
  13. "Paranoid" [1st encore]
  14. "Children of the Grave" [Final encore]
Typical setlist

"Supertzar" [Audio introduction]

  1. "War Pigs"
  2. "Neon Knights"
  3. "Geezer Butler Bass Solo" ["Bassically"]
  4. "N.I.B."
  5. "Lady Evil"
  6. "Sweet Leaf" [and Bill Ward/Vinny Appice drum solo]
  7. "Children of the Sea"
  8. "Black Sabbath"
  9. "Heaven & Hell"
  10. "Iron Man" [and Tony Iommi guitar solo ("Embryo", "Orchid" and "Don't Start Too Late") and Black Sabbath instrumental band jam "Hole in the Sky" and "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath")]
  11. "Die Young"
  12. "Paranoid" [1st encore]
  13. "Children of the Grave" [Final encore]

Tour dates

Date[1][9] City Country Venue
Europe (1st leg)
April 17, 1980 Aurich Germany Aurich City Hall (Ronnie James Dio's first show)
April 18, 1980 Oldenburg Weser-Ems Halle
April 19, 1980 Verl East Westphalia Hall
April 21, 1980 Fallingbostel Heathland Hall
April 22, 1980 Rendsburg Northland Hall
April 24, 1980 Vienna Austria Sofiensaal
April 26, 1980 Landshut Germany Landshut Sports Hall
April 29, 1980 Portsmouth England Portsmouth Guildhall
April 30, 1980
May 1, 1980
May 2, 1980 Bristol Colston Hall
May 3, 1980 Poole Poole Arts Centre
May 4, 1980 Brighton Brighton Arena
May 7, 1980 London Hammersmith Odeon
May 8, 1980
May 9, 1980
May 10, 1980
May 14, 1980 Glasgow Scotland The Apollo
May 15, 1980
May 16, 1980 Edinburgh Edinburgh Odeon
May 18, 1980 Newcastle England Newcastle City Hall
May 19, 1980
May 20, 1980 Queensferry Wales Deeside Ice Arena
May 22, 1980 Manchester England Manchester Apollo
May 23, 1980
May 24, 1980 Birmingham Birmingham Odeon
May 25, 1980
May 26, 1980 Leicester De Montfort Hall
June 2, 1980 Offenbach Germany Stadthalle Offenbach
June 3, 1980 Munich Circus Krone Building
June 5, 1980 Eppelheim Rhein-Neckar-Halle
June 6, 1980 Neunkirchen Hemmerleinhalle
June 7, 1980 Uhingen Haldenberg Hall
June 8, 1980 Würzburg Franconia Hall
June 10, 1980
June 11, 1980 Siegen Siegerland Hall
June 12, 1980 Düsseldorf Philips Hall
June 14, 1980 Bremen Bremen City Hall
June 15, 1980 Hamburg Messehallen
June 21, 1980 Zürich Switzerland Hardening Club
June 24, 1980 St. Austell England Cornwall Coliseum
June 25, 1980 Southampton Southampton Gaumont Theatre
June 26, 1980 Brighton Brighton Arena
North America
July 2, 1980 El Paso United States El Paso County Coliseum
July 5, 1980 Dallas Dallas Convention Center
July 7, 1980 Corpus Christi Memorial Coliseum
July 8, 1980 ? Tulsa ? Tulsa Assembly Center Arena ?
July 9, 1980 Norman Lloyd Noble Center
July 11, 1980 Houston Robertson Stadium (Houston Rocks)
July 12, 1980 San Antonio San Antonio Convention Center Arena (San Antonio Summer Jam)
July 13, 1980 Houston Robertson Stadium (Houston Rocks)
July 14, 1980 San Antonio San Antonio Convention Center (San Antonio Summer Jam)
July 17, 1980 ? Billings ? Yellowstone Metra ?
July 18, 1980 Spokane Spokane Coliseum
July 19, 1980 Seattle Memorial Stadium (Seattle Summer Rock Jam)
July 20, 1980 Salem Oregon State Fair (Oregon Jam)
July 23, 1980 Ventura Pacific Arena
July 24, 1980 Fresno Selland Arena
July 25, 1980 Phoenix Phoenix Municipal Stadium (Arizona Jam)
July 26, 1980 Los Angeles Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles Summer Blowout)
July 27, 1980 Oakland Oakland Coliseum (Day on the Green (#2))
August 1, 1980 Wichita Century II Concert Hall
August 5, 1980 Lexington Rupp Arena
August 6, 1980 Wheeling Wheeling Civic Arena
August 8, 1980 New Lebanon Lebanon Valley Speedway
August 9, 1980 Philadelphia Spectrum
August 10, 1980 Hartford Hartford Civic Arena
August 12, 1980 Providence Providence Civic Arena
August 14, 1980 Trotwood Hara Arena
August 15, 1980 Evansville Mesker Amphitheatre
August 16, 1980 Kalamazoo Wings Stadium
August 17, 1980 Rockford Rockford Speedway (Rockford Speedway Jam)
August 19, 1980 Bloomington Met Center (Bill's last show until Live Aid (7/13/1985))[4]
August 21, 1980 Denver McNichols Sports Arena
August 22, 1980 West Valley City Rocky Mountain Raceway
August 23, 1980 Las Vegas Rotunda
August 24, 1980 San Diego San Diego Sports Arena
August 25, 1980 Fresno Selland Arena
August 26, 1980 Albuquerque Tingley Coliseum
August 31, 1980 Honolulu Aloha Stadium (Honolulu Summer Blowout) (Vinny Appice's first show)[4]
September 5, 1980 Lakeland Lakeland Center
September 6, 1980 Jacksonville Jacksonville Coliseum
September 7, 1980 Miami Miami Jai-Alai Fronton
September 10, 1980 Memphis Mid-South Coliseum
September 12, 1980 Atlanta Omni Coliseum
September 14, 1980 Fayetteville Cumberland County Memorial Arena
September 19, 1980 New Haven New Haven Coliseum
September 20, 1980 Boston Boston Garden
September 21, 1980 Springfield Springfield Civic Arena
September 23, 1980 Lexington Rupp Arena
September 25, 1980 Greenville Greenville Memorial Auditorium
September 26, 1980 Charlotte Charlotte Coliseum
September 27, 1980 Charleston Charleston Civic Center
September 29, 1980 Kansas City Kansas City Municipal Arena
September 30, 1980 St. Louis Checkerdome
October 1, 1980 Chicago International Amphitheatre
October 3, 1980 Pittsburgh Civic Arena
October 4, 1980 Toledo Toledo Sports Arena
October 5, 1980 Detroit Joe Louis Arena
October 7, 1980 Columbus St. John Arena
October 8, 1980 Indianapolis Market Square Arena
October 9, 1980 Milwaukee MECCA Arena (Cancelled after Geezer's head injury that led to a riot)[5]
October 10, 1980 Louisville Freedom Hall
October 12, 1980 Richfield Richfield Coliseum
October 13, 1980 Buffalo Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
October 14, 1980 Landover Capital Centre
October 16, 1980 Rochester Rochester Community War Memorial
October 17, 1980 Hempstead Nassau Coliseum
October 18, 1980 New York City Madison Square Garden
October 19, 1980 Erie Erie County Field House
October 21, 1980 Binghamton Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena
October 22, 1980 Wheeling Wheeling Civic Center
October 23, 1980 Fort Wayne Allen County War Memorial Coliseum
October 25, 1980 Cincinnati Riverfront Coliseum
November 1, 1980 Boise Idaho State Fair Grandstand ?
November 3, 1980 Salt Lake City Salt Palace
November 4, 1980 Colorado Springs Colorado Springs City Auditorium
November 7, 1980 Wichita Levitt Arena
November 8, 1980 Omaha Omaha Civic Arena
Asia
November 16, 1980 Tokyo Japan Nakano Sun Plaza (2 Shows)
November 17, 1980 Nippon Seinenkan
November 18, 1980 Nakano Sun Plaza Hall (Cancelled 70 minutes into set due to Tony's illness (11/18))
November 19, 1980
November 20, 1980 Kyoto Kyoto Kaikan
November 21, 1980 Osaka Festival Hall
Oceania
November 24, 1980 Sydney Australia Capitol Theatre
November 25, 1980
November 26, 1980
November 27, 1980 Newcastle Newcastle Civic Theatre
November 29, 1980 Brisbane Brisbane Festival Hall
December 1, 1980 Melbourne ?
December 5, 1980 Adelaide
December 6, 1980 Perth
Europe (2nd leg)
December 27, 1980 London England Hammersmith Odeon
December 28, 1980
December 29, 1980
December 30, 1980
1981
January 1981 Bridlington England Bridlington Royal Hall
Bristol Colston Hall
Crawley Starlight Ballroom
Poole Poole Arts Centre
St. Austell Cornwall Coliseum
January 3, 1981 Leeds Queen's Hall
January 4, 1981 Stafford New Bingley Hall
January 5, 1981 Cardiff Wales Sophia Gardens Pavilion
January 9, 1981 Southampton England Southampton Gaumont Theatre
January 18, 1981 London Hammersmith Odeon
January 19, 1981
January 20, 1981
January 21, 1981
January 23, 1981 Bridlington Bridlington Royal Hall
January 24, 1981 Leeds Queens Hall
January 25, 1981 Stafford New Bingley Hall
January 27, 1981 Bristol Colston Hall
January 28, 1981 Cardiff Wales Sophia Gardens Pavilion (2 shows)
January 30, 1981 Southampton England Southampton Gaumont Theatre
January 31, 1981 Crawley Starlight Ballroom
February 1, 1981 Poole Poole Arts Centre
February 2, 1981 St Austell Cornwall Coliseum

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