Rock a Little Tour

Stevie Nicks supported the release of her third album Rock a Little with a world tour, which included shows in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. The tour started on April 11, 1986 in Houston, Texas and ended on October 6, 1986, in Sydney, Australia.

Rock a Little Tour
Tour by Stevie Nicks
Associated albumRock a Little
Start dateApril 11, 1986
End dateOctober 6, 1986
Legs4
No. of shows57
Stevie Nicks concert chronology

For the tour, Stevie performed four songs from Rock a Little: “Talk to Me,” “No Spoken Word,” “I Can’t Wait,” and “Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You.”

The August 20 Red Rocks Amphitheatre show in Morrison, Colorado was taped and subsequently released on video in 1987. The September 16 Cayuga County Fairgrounds show in Weedsport, New York was recorded and later rebroadcast for the Westwood One Radio Networks Superstar Concert Series.

The Austrian band Opus and Peter Frampton were the support acts.[1]

Set list
  1. Gold Dust Woman*
  2. Outside the Rain
  3. Dreams
  4. Talk to Me
  5. I Need to Know (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers cover)
  6. No Spoken Word
  7. Sara*
  8. Beauty and the Beast
  9. I Can't Wait
  10. Leather and Lace
  11. Stand Back
  12. Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
  13. Edge of Seventeen

Encore

  1. Rhiannon
  2. Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You?

*Performed at some shows early on the tour.

Tour dates
Sources[1][2][3]
Date City Country Venue Tickets sold / Available Revenue
North America, First Leg
April 11, 1986 Houston United States The Summit 13,890 / 17,050 $210,816
April 12, 1986 Austin Frank Erwin Center 12,538 / 17,617 $178,882
April 15, 1986 Dallas Reunion Arena 13,529 / 19,000 $207,488
April 16, 1986 Oklahoma City Myriad Convention Center 9,484 / 15,000 $136,440
April 19, 1986 Iowa City Carver-Hawkeye Arena
April 20, 1986 Lincoln Bob Devaney Sports Center
April 22, 1986 Lexington Rupp Arena
April 25, 1986 Baton Rouge Maravich Assembly Center
April 26, 1986 Biloxi Mississippi Coast Coliseum
April 30, 1986 Knoxville Stokely Athletic Center
May 2, 1986 Hartford Hartford Civic Center 14,941 / 14,941 $229,102
May 3, 1986 Providence Providence Civic Center 12,296 / 12,296 $187,550
May 6, 1986 Philadelphia The Spectrum 17,220 / 17,220 $275,054
May 7, 1986 Baltimore Baltimore Civic Center 12,029 / 13,845 $181,536
May 11, 1986 Tampa USF Sun Dome 8,947 / 10,608 $143,152
North America, Second Leg
May 30, 1986 Indianapolis United States Sports and Music Center 7,531 / 8,708 $123,573
May 31, 1986 East Troy Alpine Valley Music Theatre
June 3, 1986 Worcester The Centrum 24,112 / 24,800 $357,237
June 4, 1986
June 8, 1986 Wantagh Jones Beach Marine Theater
June 9, 1986
June 11, 1986 Pittsburgh Civic Arena 12,475 / 13,257 $185,008
June 13, 1986 Cuyahoga Falls Blossom Music Center
June 17, 1986 Holmdel Garden State Arts Center
June 18, 1986
June 21, 1986 Hoffman Estates Poplar Creek Music Theater
June 22, 1986 Clarkston Pine Knob Music Theatre
June 28, 1986 Phoenix Compton Terrace Amphitheatre
June 29, 1986 Costa Mesa Pacific Amphitheatre 15,473 / 18,764 $240,593
North America, Third Leg
July 13, 1986 San Diego United States San Diego Sports Arena
July 14, 1986 Mountain View Shoreline Amphitheatre 11,146 / 18,000 $186,360
July 17, 1986 Sacramento Cal Expo Amphitheatre 6,572 / 8,000 $108,438
July 18, 1986 Inglewood The Forum
July 21, 1986 Bonner Springs Sandstone Amphitheater
July 23, 1986 Philadelphia The Spectrum 12,574 / 17,220 $205,639
July 27, 1986 Portland Cumberland County Civic Center 7,418 / 8,758 $122,397
July 29, 1986 New Haven New Haven Coliseum
July 30, 1986 Mansfield Great Woods Performing Arts Center 11,457 / 15,260 $180,143
August 2, 1986 Landover Capital Centre 10,670 / 15,000 $170,720
August 5, 1986 New York City Madison Square Garden
August 7, 1986 Atlanta Six Flags Park
August 8, 1986 Daytona Beach Ocean Center 8,837 / 8,837 $141,392
August 11, 1986 Canandaigua Finger Lakes Performing Arts Center
August 12, 1986 Saratoga Springs Saratoga Springs Performing Arts Center
August 14, 1986 Toronto Canada CNE Grandstand
August 17, 1986 Middletown United States Orange County Fairgrounds
August 20, 1986 Morrison Red Rocks Amphitheatre 7,007 / 9,000 $132,009
August 28, 1986 Long Beach Long Beach Arena
September 16, 1986 Weedsport Cayuga County Fair Speedway
Oceania
September 24, 1986 Sydney Australia Sydney Entertainment Centre
September 25, 1986
September 27, 1986 Brisbane Brisbane Festival Hall
September 29, 1986 Melbourne Melbourne Festival Hall
September 30, 1986
October 1, 1986
October 4, 1986
October 6, 1986 Sydney Sydney Entertainment Centre

Personnel

Sources[4][3]

References
  1. "1986 Rock a Little Tour ~ STEVIE NICKS.INFO". STEVIE NICKS.INFO. Retrieved June 28, 2017.
  2. "STEVIE NICKS. HER MUSIC: Tour Archive 1986". Retrieved June 28, 2017.
  3. waddywachtelinfo.com. "Stevie Nicks – Rock a Little 1985 Album and 1986 Tour". www.waddywachtelinfo.com. Retrieved June 28, 2017.
  4. "1986 Rock a Little Tour ~ STEVIE NICKS.INFO". STEVIE NICKS.INFO. Retrieved June 28, 2017.
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