The Division Bell Tour

The Division Bell tour

Tour by Pink Floyd
Associated album	The Division Bell
Start date	30 March 1994
End date	29 October 1994
Legs	2
Number of shows	112 (2 canceled)
Pink Floyd concert chronology

The Division Bell Tour was a concert tour by the English rock band Pink Floyd in 1994 to support their album The Division Bell. It turned out to be the final Pink Floyd tour, although members of the band have continued to perform the band's songs on solo tours.

In 1995 the band released the live album Pulse to commemorate the tour.

History

The Division Bell Tour in 1994 was promoted by Canadian concert impresario Michael Cohl and became the highest-grossing tour in rock music history to that date, with the band playing the entirety of The Dark Side of the Moon in some shows, for the first time since 1975. While preparing for the tour, Pink Floyd spent most of March rehearsing in a hangar at Norton Air Force Base in California.^[1]

The concerts featured even more impressive special effects than the previous tour, including two custom designed airships.^[2] Three stages leapfrogged around North America and Europe, each 180 feet (55 m) long and featuring a 130-foot (40 m) arch resembling the Hollywood Bowl venue. All in all, the tour required 700 tons of steel carried by 53 articulated trucks, a crew of 161 people and an initial investment of US$ 4 million plus US$ 25 million of running costs just to stage. This tour played to 5.5 million people in 68 cities; each concert gathered an average 45,000 audience. At the end of the year, the Division Bell Tour was announced as the biggest tour ever, with worldwide gross of over £150 million (about US$ 250 million). In the U.S. alone, it grossed US$103.5 million from 59 concerts. However, this record was short-lived; less than a year later, The Rolling Stones' Voodoo Lounge Tour (like the Division Bell Tour, also sponsored in part by Volkswagen) finished with a worldwide gross of over US$ 300 million. The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Metallica, U2, The Police, Bon Jovi, Roger Waters and Madonna remain the only acts ever to achieve a higher worldwide gross from a tour, even when adjusting for inflation.

A Volkswagen Golf Pink Floyd Edition

The tour was sponsored in Europe by Volkswagen, which also issued a commemorative version of its top-selling car, the "Golf Pink Floyd", one of which was given as a prize at each concert. It was a standard Golf with Pink Floyd decals and a premium stereo, and had Volkswagen's most environmentally friendly engine, at Gilmour's insistence.^[3]

These shows are documented by the Pulse album, video and DVD.

The final concert of the tour on 29 October 1994 turned out to be the final full-length Pink Floyd performance, and the last time Pink Floyd played live before their one-off 18-minute reunion with Roger Waters at Live 8 on 2 July 2005. Their performance at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on July 18th 1994 would also go on to be the last ever Pink Floyd concert in North America.

Tour band

• David Gilmour – guitars, lead vocals, lap steel guitar
• Nick Mason – drums, percussion
• Richard Wright – keyboards, secondary vocals, backing vocals

Additional musicians:

• Jon Carin – keyboards, secondary vocals, backing vocals
• Guy Pratt – bass, secondary vocals, backing vocals
• Gary Wallis – percussion, additional drums (played and programmed)
• Tim Renwick – guitars, backing vocals
• Dick Parry – saxophones
• Sam Brown – backing vocals
• Claudia Fontaine – backing vocals
• Durga McBroom – backing vocals

Set list

There were two typical set lists used throughout the tour. The first was used all tour, and the second was introduced on 15 July at the Pontiac Silverdome, and rotated with the first typical set list for the remainder of the tour.

Typical set list one:

First set:

1. "Astronomy Domine" (in Europe would sometimes open the second set)
2. "Learning to Fly"
3. "What Do You Want from Me?"
4. "On the Turning Away"
5. Song(s) from The Division Bell
   (Any one, or occasionally two, of "A Great Day for Freedom" [39x], "Poles Apart" [24x], "Coming Back to Life" [43x], and "Lost for Words" [8x])
6. "Sorrow"
7. "Take It Back"
8. "Keep Talking"
9. "One of These Days"

Second set:

1. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (Parts 1-5 & 7) (in Europe would sometimes open the first set)
2. "Speak to Me"
3. "Breathe"
4. "Time"
5. "High Hopes"
6. "Wish You Were Here"
7. "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)"
8. "The Great Gig in the Sky"
9. "Us and Them"
10. "Money"
11. "Comfortably Numb"

Encore:

1. "Hey You"
2. "Run Like Hell"

Typical set list two:

First set:

1. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (Parts 1-5 & 7)
2. "Learning to Fly"
3. "High Hopes" (replaced by "Wish You Were Here" for 4 September performance)
4. "Take It Back" (replaced by "Lost for Words" for 19 October performance)
5. "Coming Back to Life" (replaced by "A Great Day for Freedom" for 19 October performance)
6. "Sorrow"
7. "Keep Talking"
8. "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)"
9. "One of These Days"

Second set:

1. "Speak to Me"
2. "Breathe"
3. "On the Run"
4. "Time"
5. "The Great Gig in the Sky"
6. "Money"
7. "Us and Them"
8. "Any Colour You Like"
9. "Brain Damage"
10. "Eclipse"

Encore:

1. "Wish You Were Here" (replaced by "High Hopes" for 4 September performance)
2. "Comfortably Numb"
3. "Run Like Hell"

Songs rarely played during this tour were:

• "One Slip" (only played 1 time [Oakland 22]) - between "The Great Gig in the Sky" and "Us and Them" ("Wish You Were Here" was instead played after "Us and Them" at this show)
• "Marooned" (only played in Oslo, Norway [2 times]) - before "Run Like Hell"

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue	Tickets sold/Available	Box office
Rehearsals
3 March 1994	San Bernardino	United States	Norton Air Force Base
23 March 1994	Orlando		Universal Studios
North America
30 March 1994	Miami	United States	Joe Robbie Stadium	54,738 / 54,738 (100%)	$1,975,665
3 April 1994	San Antonio		Alamodome	44,331 / 44,331 (100%)	$1,499,188
5 April 1994	Houston		Rice Stadium	45,021 / 47,000 (96%)	$1,502,047
9 April 1994	Mexico City	Mexico	Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez	90,476 / 90,476 (100%)	$5,235,862
10 April 1994
14 April 1994	San Diego	United States	Jack Murphy Stadium	51,610 / 51,610 (100%)	$1,594,069
16 April 1994	Pasadena		Rose Bowl	129,060 / 129,060 (100%)	$4,703,290
17 April 1994
20 April 1994	Oakland		Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum	155,662 / 155,662 (100%)	$5,249,778
21 April 1994
22 April 1994
24 April 1994	Tempe		Sun Devil Stadium	63,827 / 63,827 (100%)	$2,259,833
26 April 1994	El Paso		Sun Bowl Stadium	34,945 / 37,000 (94%)	$1,148,228
28 April 1994	Irving		Texas Stadium	87,400 / 87,400 (100%)	$2,944,618
29 April 1994
1 May 1994	Birmingham		Legion Field	55,169 / 55,169 (100%)	$2,944,618
3 May 1994	Atlanta		Bobby Dodd Stadium	71,272 / 80,000 (89%)	$2,426,720
4 May 1994
6 May 1994	Tampa		Tampa Stadium	55,987 / 55,987 (100%)	$2,038,815
8 May 1994	Nashville		Vanderbilt Stadium	41,169 / 41,169 (100%)	$1,348,505
10 May 1994	Raleigh		Carter–Finley Stadium
12 May 1994	Clemson		Memorial Stadium
14 May 1994	New Orleans		Louisiana Superdome
18 May 1994	Foxborough		Foxboro Stadium	137,175 / 137,175 (100%)	$4,975,365
19 May 1994
20 May 1994
22 May 1994	Montreal	Canada	Olympic Stadium	187,302 / 187,302 (100%)	$5,301,117
23 May 1994
24 May 1994
26 May 1994	Cleveland	United States	Cleveland Stadium	108,205 / 110,000 (98%)	$3,807,153
27 May 1994
29 May 1994	Columbus		Ohio Stadium	75,250 / 75,250 (100%)	$2,406,920
31 May 1994	Pittsburgh		Three Rivers Stadium	55,054 / 55,054 (100%)	$1,879,330
2 June 1994	Philadelphia		Veterans Stadium	152,264 / 152,264 (100%)	$5,091,120
3 June 1994
4 June 1994
6 June 1994	Syracuse		Carrier Dome	38,901 / 38,901 (100%)	$1,338,073
10 June 1994	New York City		Yankee Stadium	103,690 / 103,690 (100%)	$3,765,090
11 June 1994
14 June 1994	Indianapolis		RCA Dome	44,762 / 44,762 (100%)	$1,487,448
16 June 1994	Ames		Cyclone Stadium	46,273 / 46,273 (100%)	$1,514,838
18 June 1994	Denver		Mile High Stadium	69,788 / 69,788 (100%)	$2,375,714
20 June 1994	Kansas City		Arrowhead Stadium	57,003 / 57,003 (100%)	$1,914,318
22 June 1994	Minneapolis		Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome
25 June 1994	Vancouver	Canada	BC Place
26 June 1994
28 June 1994	Edmonton		Commonwealth Stadium	57,701 / 57,701 (100%)	$1,834,004
1 July 1994	Winnipeg		Winnipeg Stadium	42,616 / 42,616 (100%)	$1,234,117
3 July 1994	Madison	United States	Camp Randall Stadium	60,960 / 60,960 (100%)	$1,942,780
5 July 1994	Toronto	Canada	Exhibition Stadium	158,593 / 158,593 (100%)	$4,431,108
6 July 1994
7 July 1994
9 July 1994	Washington, D.C.	United States	Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium	98,570 / 98,570 (100%)	$3,313,378
10 July 1994
12 July 1994	Chicago		Soldier Field	51,981 / 51,981 (100%)	$2,056,105
14 July 1994	Pontiac		Pontiac Silverdome
15 July 1994
17 July 1994	East Rutherford		Giants Stadium
18 July 1994
Europe
22 July 1994	Lisbon	Portugal	Estádio José Alvalade
23 July 1994
25 July 1994	San Sebastián	Spain	Velódromo de Anoeta
27 July 1994	Barcelona		Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys
30 July 1994	Chantilly	France	Château de Chantilly
31 July 1994
2 August 1994	Cologne	Germany	Mungersdorfer Stadion
4 August 1994	Munich		Olympiastadion
6 August 1994	Basel	Switzerland	Fussballstadion St. Jakob
7 August 1994
9 August 1994	Montpellier	France	Amphitheatre du Chateau de Grammont
11 August 1994	Bordeaux		Esplanade des Quinconces
13 August 1994	Hockenheim	Germany	Hockenheimring
16 August 1994	Hanover		Niedersachsenstadion
17 August 1994
19 August 1994	Vienna	Austria	Flughafen, Wiener Neustadt
21 August 1994	Berlin	Germany	Olympiastadion
23 August 1994	Gelsenkirchen		Parkstadion
25 August 1994	Copenhagen	Denmark	Parken Stadium
27 August 1994	Gothenburg	Sweden	Ullevi
29 August 1994	Oslo	Norway	Valle Hovin
30 August 1994
2 September 1994	Werchter	Belgium	Rock Werchter
3 September 1994	Rotterdam	Netherlands	Stadion Feijenoord
4 September 1994
5 September 1994
7 September 1994	Prague	Czech Republic	Strahov Stadium
9 September 1994	Strasbourg	France	Stade de la Meinau
11 September 1994	Lyon		Stade de Gerland
13 September 1994	Turin	Italy	Stadio delle Alpi
15 September 1994	Udine		Stadio Friuli
17 September 1994	Modena		Festa de l'Unità
19 September 1994	Rome		Cinecittà
20 September 1994
21 September 1994
23 September 1994	Lyon	France	Stade de Gerland
25 September 1994	Lausanne	Switzerland	Stade Olympique de la Pontaise
13 October 1994	London	England	Earls Court
14 October 1994
15 October 1994
16 October 1994
17 October 1994
19 October 1994
20 October 1994
21 October 1994
22 October 1994
23 October 1994
26 October 1994
27 October 1994
28 October 1994
29 October 1994

There was going to be a concert on 1 September in Olympiastadium, Helsinki, Finland but was canceled for some reason and 12 October in Earls Court, London, but due to a lot of stands collapsing and injuries, it had to be canceled.

External links

• Pink Floyd Drums: The Division Bell Tour Drums

References

1. Pink Floyd Official Site timeline
2. VOLA Archive. Retrieved 22 March 2006
3. The Spiegel-Translation