Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour

Steel Wheels Tour/Urban Jungle Tour
Tour by The Rolling Stones
Associated albumSteel Wheels
Start date31 August 1989
End date25 August 1990
Legs3
No. of shows115
Box officeUS$175 million (US$408,125,318 in 2023 dollars[1])
The Rolling Stones concert chronology
  • European Tour 1982
    (1982)
  • Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour
    (1989–90)
  • Voodoo Lounge Tour
    (1994–95)

The Rolling Stones' Steel Wheels Tour was a concert tour which was launched in North America in August 1989 to promote the band's album Steel Wheels; it continued to Japan in February 1990, with ten shows at the Tokyo Dome.[2] The European leg of the tour, which featured a different stage and logo, was called the Urban Jungle Tour; it ran from May to August 1990. These would be the last live concerts for the band with original member Bill Wyman on bass guitar. This tour would also be the longest the band had ever done up to that point, playing over twice as many shows as their standard tour length from the 1960s and 1970s.[2]

The tour was a financial success, cementing the Rolling Stones' return to full commercial power after a seven-year hiatus in touring marked by well publicized acrimony among band members.[3]

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  3. ^ Goldberg, Michael (4 May 1989). "Stones Tour: Money Talks". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 20 September 2024.