English progressive rock icons Sure have introduced a brand new fall tour which can see them play their 1971 album Fragile in full.
Formally dubbed The Fragile Tour 2025, The Album Collection, the newly-announced run of exhibits will launch on Oct. 1 and sees the band performing a complete of 31 dates till Nov. 16. Per a press launch, the tour setlist will embrace Fragile full together with plenty of different “basic cuts.”
Launched in November 1971, Fragile was the fourth album from the group, and their third to be launched in a 16-month span. It additionally turned their most profitable launch as much as that time. Increasing upon the preliminary chart success that The Sure Album introduced earlier within the yr (reaching No. 40 on the Billboard 200), Fragile would peak at No. 4, solely being bested by one place because of Near the Edge the next yr.
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The album’s lone single, “Roundabout,” could be issued in January 1972 and would attain No. 13 on the Scorching 100. It remained their highest-charting single till “Proprietor of a Lonely Coronary heart” hit No. 1 in 1983.
Fragile would even be supported by a 115-date album tour, with the group returning to the U.S. in November 1971 – mere months after wrapping up their debut go to to the nation. As a press launch for the brand new run of dates explains, the file’s preliminary tour was a significant a part of the band’s historical past, and marked the second when Sure “turned a headline act within the US.”
“All of the band’s albums had a novel really feel and method,” defined guitarist Steve Howe. “After The Sure Album, so many issues got here collectively, with [co-producer] Eddie Offord steering the proceedings.
“Whereas the band centered on solely 4 primary songs with full preparations, every of us wrote and designed a solo piece, which was Invoice [Bruford]’s nice thought. It’s pretty ‘odd-ball,’ however we have been on the top of our creativity, decided for achievement.
“It gave us confidence, additional than our personal in-stock perception, we’d crafted this uncommon however noticeable musical twist to rock and what later turned prog,” he added.
Of the unique lineup which recorded Fragile in 1971, solely Howe stays an energetic member. Drummer Invoice Bruford would depart the group in 1992, whereas each vocalist Jon Anderson and keyboardist Rick Wakeman would depart in 2004. Bassist Chris Squire would stay with the band by way of all iterations till his passing in 2015.
Sure – The Fragile Tour 2025, The Album Collection
Oct. 1 – Toyota Oakdale Theatre, Wallingford, CT
Oct. 2 – Mayo Performing Arts Heart, Morristown, NJ
Oct. 4 – Onerous Rock Stay at Etess Enviornment, Atlantic Metropolis, NJ
Oct. 5 – The Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY
Oct. 7 – The Paramount, Huntington, NY
Oct. 8 – Keswick Theatre, Glenside, PA
Oct. 9 – Keswick Theatre, Glenside, PA
Oct. 11 – Appell Heart for the Performing Arts, York, PA
Oct. 12 – Penn’s Peak, Jim Thorpe, PA
Oct. 14 – Warner Theatre, Washington, D.C.
Oct. 16 – Carolina Theatre, Durham, NC
Oct. 18 – Ruth Eckerd Corridor, Clearwater, FL
Oct. 19 – Broward Heart, Au-Rene Theater, Ft Lauderdale, FL
Oct. 21 – Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Heart, The Villages, FL
Oct. 22 – Charleston Music Corridor, Charleston, SC
Oct. 24 – Coca-Cola Roxy, Atlanta, GA
Oct. 25 – Graceland Soundstage, Memphis, TN
Oct. 27 – The Louisville Palace, Louisville, KY
Oct. 28 – Taft Theatre, Cincinnati, OH
Oct. 30 – Murat Theatre at Outdated Nationwide Centre, Indianapolis, IN
Oct. 31 – Des Plaines Theatre, Des Plaines, IL
Nov. 1 – The Arcada Theatre, St. Charles, IL
Nov. 3 – The Orpheum Theater, Madison, WI
Nov. 4 – The Riverside Theater, Milwaukee, WI
Nov. 6 – Stifel Theatre, St. Louis, MO
Nov. 7 – Steelhouse Omaha, Omaha, NE
Nov. 9 – Paramount Theatre, Denver, CO
Nov. 11 – Mesa Arts Heart, Mesa, AZ
Nov. 13 – YouTube Theater, Inglewood, CA
Nov. 14 – Viejas On line casino, Alpine, CA
Nov. 16 – Grand Theatre at The Grand Sierra Resort, Reno, NV
