99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1987!
That year PLR welcomed Pink Floyd to Hartford’s XL Center (which was called Hartford Civic Center at the time) for two shows on back-to-back nights. Pink Floyd hit the road in 1987 to support their thirteenth studio album “A Momentary Lapse of Reason,” which featured singles like Learning To Fly, On The Turning Away and One Slip. It was Pink Floyd’s first album recorded without founding member Roger Waters, who left the band in 1985, and their first full tour since 1981’s “The Wall” Tour.
Pink Floyd
Tour: A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour
Wednesday October 14 and Thursday October 15, 1987
The XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut
Ticket Price: $22.50
Band Lineup: David Gilmour (vocals/guitar), Nick Mason (drums), Richard Wright (keyboards)
Setlists*
Night 1 – Wednesday October 14, 1987
- Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)
- Signs of Life
- Learning To Fly
- Yet Another Movie
- Round and Around
- A New Machine (Part 1)
- Terminal Frost
- A New Machine (Part 2)
- Sorrow
- The Dogs of War
- On the Turning Away
- One of These Days
- Time
- On the Run
- Wish You Were Here
- Welcome To The Machine
- Us and Them
- Money
- Another Brick in the Wall Part 2
- Comfortably Numb
- One Slip (encore)
- Run Like Hell (encore)
Night 2 – Thursday October 15, 1987
- Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)
- Signs of Life
- Learning To Fly
- Yet Another Movie
- Round and Around
- A New Machine (Part 1)
- Terminal Frost
- A New Machine (Part 2)
- Sorrow
- The Dogs of War
- On the Turning Away
- One of These Days
- Time
- On the Run
- Wish You Were Here
- Welcome To The Machine
- Us and Them
- Money
- Another Brick in the Wall Part 2
- Comfortably Numb
- One Slip (encore)
- Run Like Hell (encore)
*source: setlist.fm
Check out these live clips of Pink Floyd in Hartford in 1987