Music for the Masses Tour


Music for the Masses Tour was a 1987/1988 concert tour by English electronic group Depeche Mode in support of the band's sixth studio album, Music for the Masses, released September 1987. This was the second time the band traveled behind the Iron Curtain.
The tour began in October 1987 with a European leg, starting in Madrid and finishing mid-November in Paris. In early December, a North American run commenced in San Francisco and culminated three weeks later in New York City.
In January 1988, the group played an eleven-date U.K. tour, which was followed by further dates in Europe beginning in Hamburg, West Germany in early February. The leg wrapped up in Vienna in late March.
In April 1988, the group played four dates in Japan. This was followed later in the month by the start of a second North American leg, which began in Mountain View, California. The entire tour concluded mid-June with a concert at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, where the band performed in front of a sold out crowd of 60,453 people.
The Rose Bowl show was recorded and later released as a live album and video release entitled 101, issued in March 1989. The video included footage documenting the second North American leg of the tour and was re-released on DVD in 2003.

Setlist

Europe Leg #1, North America Leg #1, Europe Leg #2, Europe Leg #3
  1. "Pimpf"
  2. "Behind the Wheel"
  3. "Strangelove"
  4. "Sacred"
  5. "Something to Do"
  6. "Blasphemous Rumours"
  7. "Stripped"
  8. Song performed by Martin Gore
  9. *"Pipeline"
  10. Song performed by Martin Gore
  11. *"The Things You Said"
  12. *"It Doesn't Matter"
  13. "Black Celebration"
  14. "Shake the Disease"
  15. "Nothing"
  16. *"Pleasure, Little Treasure"
  17. *"Just Can't Get Enough"
  18. "People Are People"
  19. "A Question of Time"
  20. "Never Let Me Down Again"
  21. ; encore 1
  22. Song performed by Martin Gore
  23. *"A Question of Lust"
  24. "Master and Servant"
  25. ; encore 2
  26. "Everything Counts"
Japan, North America Leg #2
  1. "Pimpf"
  2. "Behind the Wheel"
  3. "Strangelove"
  4. "Sacred"
  5. "Something to Do"
  6. "Blasphemous Rumours"
  7. "Stripped"
  8. Song performed by Martin Gore
  9. *"Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth"
  10. *"Somebody"
  11. Song performed by Martin Gore
  12. *"The Things You Said"
  13. *"It Doesn't Matter"
  14. "Black Celebration"
  15. "Shake the Disease"
  16. "Nothing"
  17. "Pleasure, Little Treasure"
  18. *"Master and Servant"
  19. *"People Are People"
  20. "A Question of Time"
  21. "Never Let Me Down Again"
  22. ; encore 1
  23. Song performed by Martin Gore
  24. *"A Question of Lust"
  25. *"Just Can't Get Enough"
  26. *"Master and Servant"
  27. ; encore 2
  28. "Everything Counts"

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