Piano_&_a_Microphone_Tour

Piano & a Microphone Tour

Piano & a Microphone Tour

2016 concert tour by Prince


The Piano & a Microphone Tour was the final concert tour by American recording artist Prince.[1][2] In a December 2015 interview in anticipation of the tour, he said that "I'm doing it to challenge myself, I won't know what songs I'm going to do when I go on stage. I won't have to, because I won't have a band".[3] It was ultimately Prince's final tour due to his sudden death from a fentanyl overdose on April 21, 2016, one week after the last tour date.

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Personnel

Set list

Setlist of show in Melbourne:[4]

Early show[5]

  1. "Big City"
  2. "Ruff Enuff"
  3. "Little Red Corvette" / "Dirty Mind"
  4. "The Dawn"
  5. "Money Don't Matter 2 Night"
  6. "Waiting in Vain" / "If I Was Your Girlfriend"
  7. "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?"
  8. "The Ladder"
  9. "1000 X's & O's"
  10. "When She Comes"
  11. "Satisfied"
  12. "I Love U in Me"
  13. "Automatic"
  14. "Sometimes It Snows in April" (contains elements of "Purple Rain")
  15. "The Beautiful Ones"
  16. "Raspberry Beret"
  17. "Starfish and Coffee"
  18. "Paisley Park"
    Encore
  19. "Adore"

Late show[6]

  1. "The Love We Make"
  2. "Over the Rainbow"
  3. "Batman Theme"
  4. "Big City"
  5. "Ruff Enuff"
  6. "Little Red Corvette" / "Dirty Mind"
  7. "The Ballad of Dorothy Parker" (contains elements of "Four")
  8. "The Max"
  9. "I Wanna Be Your Lover"
  10. "Do Me, Baby"
  11. "Sweet Thing"
  12. "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore"
  13. "Waiting in Vain" / "If I Was Your Girlfriend"
  14. "The Ladder"
  15. "The Beautiful Ones"
  16. "1000 X's & O's"
  17. "Black Muse"
  18. "Raspberry Beret"
    Encore
  19. "Starfish and Coffee"
  20. "Paisley Park"
  21. "Purple Rain"
Notes
  • The first show on February 16, in Melbourne, Australia, Prince dedicated performances of "Little Red Corvette", "Dirty Mind", "The Ladder", "The Beautiful Ones" and "Adore" in special tribute to Vanity, who died on February 15, 2016.[7] He also shared memorable heart-felt stories when they were together.[8][9] Prince also performed "The Dawn", an unreleased track from 1984 seemingly in connection with the passing of Vanity.

Shows

A makeshift memorial for Prince at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, April 24. The theater was the site of Prince's last performance before his death on April 21.
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Cancellations and/or rescheduled shows
April 7, 2016 Atlanta Fox Theatre Rescheduled to April 14, 2016[10]
December 11, 2015 Paris, France Opéra Garnier Deprogramming for the November 2015 Paris attacks

Prince was also scheduled to perform in the UK, including the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London, Glasgow and Birmingham, however these were cancelled due to ticket touts and the Paris attacks.[11]

Box office score data

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References

  1. "Prince 'Piano & a Microphone' tour 2016 - Dainty Group". Dainty Group. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
  2. Petridis, Alexis (November 12, 2015). "Prince: 'Transcendence. That's what you want. When that happens – Oh, boy'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved May 1, 2016.
  3. Todd, Nathan (February 18, 2016). "Prince pays tribute to Vanity at his concert in Melbourne". AXS. Retrieved May 23, 2016.
  4. Adams, Cameron (February 17, 2016). "Prince's Private Purple Party". AU News. Retrieved February 14, 2017.
  5. Stutz, Colin (February 16, 2016). "Prince Pays Tribute to Vanity at Piano and a Microphone Tour Opener". Billboard. Retrieved April 10, 2017.
  6. Kreps, Daniel (February 17, 2016). "Prince pays tribute to Vanity at Australia concert". Rolling Stone. Retrieved May 19, 2016.[permanent dead link]
  7. Stinchcomb, La-Keya (March 29, 2016). "Prince concert rescheduled for April 14". CBS46. WGCL-TV Atlanta. Retrieved May 23, 2016.

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