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All 4 Love Tour

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All 4 Love Tour
Tour by New Edition
LocationNorth America
Associated albumsNew Edition
Start dateMarch 10, 1986
End dateDecember 15, 1986
Legs1
Supporting actsWhodini
Fat Boys
UTFO
Attendanceunknown
Box officeunknown
New Edition concert chronology

The All 4 Love Tour is a 1986 concert tour by R&B group New Edition supporting their third studio album All for Love. It was the first time they toured as a quartet as Bobby Brown had left the group.

Overview

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After Bobby Brown left the group in the fall of 1985, Ralph, Ricky, Michael and Ronnie continued to promote their third album as a quartet with a 85-city tour of the United States including the US Virgin Islands and Canada. A trip to Japan was initially planned.[1]

It was their most elaborate tour, with a $350,000 stage set resembling a 48 ft wide, 17 ft Deep, 10 ft high medieval castle and four towers in which each members simultaneously disappeared.[2]

The show started with a voice speaking introduction story before a spaceship dropped the group members on stage, it incorporated illusions and lasers. The production cost $500.000 in total and affordable dueto their sponsorship. The Tour was sponsored by Coca-Cola, who also organized community events coordinated with local bottlers such as pre-show reception, radio promo, school high-attendance and essay contest winners invitations to backstage tours, assembly programs and basketball games with the members of New Edition. The price of the ticket stayed low due to the fact that 90% of the fans were still students.

During the first four weeks, they sold out venues such as Washington DC's Convention Center, Richmond Coliseum and Atlanta's Omni. It was estimated that a total of 1.5 million people seen the group perform onstage.[3]

In New york City , where they gave 2 sold-out shows at them Madison Square Garden on June 8, Dozens of youth robbed and mugged people in a two-hour crime spree. 33 mugging peruse and chain snatchings were reported. There were 12 minor injuries and 26 arrests of suspects ranging in age from 13 to 28, one of whom was armed with a gun. a woman's earring was torn off her ear. There were also two bomb threats.[4]

During the Summer New edition was on the bill of Budweiser Fest and Carefree Curl Summer Fest appearing with acts such as, Ready for the World, Atlantic Star, Midnight Star and Morri Day and the Time.

Setlists

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New Haven Coliseum - April 27, 1986[5]

  1. (Spaceship Introduction)
  2. "All for Love"
  3. "School"
  4. "My Secret (Didja Gitit Yet?)"
  5. "Baby Love
  6. "Let's Be Friends"
  7. "Mr. Telephone Man"
  8. "Lost in Love"
  9. "Count Me Out"
  10. "Cool It Now"
  11. "With You All The Way"
  12. "Kickback"
  13. "Candy Girl"
  14. "A Little Bit of Love (Is All It Takes)

Supporting acts

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Tour dates

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Date (1986) City Country Venue No. of performances
North America
March 6 Los Angeles United States Cocoanut Grove[6] 1
March 12 Coumbus Municipal Auditorium 1
March 14 Savannah Savannah Civic Center 1
March 15 Mobile Mobile Municipal Auditorium 1
March 16 Tallahassee Civic Center 1
March 21 Memphis Mid-South Coliseum 1
March 22 New Orleans Louisiana Superdome 1
March 23 Nashville Nashville Municial Auditorium 1
March 26 Beaumont Civic Center 1
March 27 Monroe Monnroe Civic Center 1
March 29 Birmingham Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center Arena 1
March 30 Greensboro Greensboro Coliseum 1
April 1 Chicago UIC Pavilion 1
April 2 Richmond Richmond Coliseum 1
April 5 Tampa USF Dome 1
April 13 Washington, DC Convention Center 1
April 17 Chattanooga UTC Arena 1
April 19 Dayton Hara Arena 1
April 20 Detroit Joe Louis Arena 1
April 24 Providence Civic Center 1
April 25 Baltimore Civic Center 1
April 26 Philadelphia Spectrum 1
April 27 New Haven New Haven Coliseum 1
May 1 Saginaw Civic Center 1
April 2 Indianapolis Market Square Arena 1
May 7 Albuquerque Tingley Coliseum 1
May 8 Tucson Tucson Convention Center 1
May 9 San Diego San Diego Sports Arena 1
May 10 Oakland Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena 1
May 11 Long Beach Long Beach Arena 1
May 15 Little Rock Barton Coliseum 1
May 16 Lafayette CajunDome 1
May 18 San Antonio Freeman Coliseum 1
May 22 Oklahoma City Myriad Convention Center 1
May 23 Kansas City Kemper Arena 1
May 24 Dallas Reunion Arena 1
May 25 Houston Southern Star Amphitheater 1
May 30 Charlotte Charlotte Coliseum 1
May 31 Hampton Hampton Coliseum 1
June 1 Columbia Carolina Coliseum 1
June 4 Milwaukee MECCA Arena 1
June 6 Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Civic Arena 1
June 7 Cleveland Public Auditorium 1
June 8 New York City Madison Square Garden 2
June 14 Washington, D.C. RFK Stadium 1
June 20 San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium 1
June 22 Santa Clara Great America's Redwood Amphitheater 2
July 3 Austell Six Flags Over Georgia - Southern Star Amphitheater 2
July 5 2
July 6 Doswell Kings Dominion 2
July 11 Vaughan Canada Kingswood Music Theater 1
July 12 Philadelphia United States Veterans Stadium 1
July 13 Greenville Greenville Memorial Auditorium 1
July 19 Pensacola Pansacola Civic Center 1
July 20 Greensboro Greensboro Coliseum 1
July 2? Knoxville Civic Center 1
July 26 Louisville Gardens 1
July 20 St. Louis St. Louis Arena 1
August 1 Cincinnati Riverfront Stadium 1
August 8 New Orleans Superdome 1
August 9 Albany Albany Civic Center 1
August 10 Miami Miami Stadium 1
August 14 Uniondale Nassau Coliseum 1
August 15 Detroit Joe Louis Arena 1
August 16 Cleveland Richfield Coliseum 1
August 17 Chicago Rosemont Horizon 1
August 20 Montgomery Garrett Coliseum 1
August 23 Fort Worth Tarrant County Convention Center 1
August 24 Jackson Mississippi Coliseum 1
August 29 Oakland Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum 1
August 30 Santa Clara Great America's Redwood Amphitheater 1
August 31 Inglewood Inglewood Forum 1
September 1 Phoenix Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum 1
September 4 Las Vegas Thomas & Mack Center 2
September 6 Portland Veterans Memorial Coliseum 1
September 7 Tacoma Tacoma Dome 1
November 1 Albany Albany State College 1
December 15 Philadelphia Spectrum 1

Personnel

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Vocalists/dancers

References

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  1. ^ "Bell v. Streetwise Records, Ltd., 640 F. Supp. 575 (D. Mass. 1986)", Law.justia.com, 1986-06-11
  2. ^ "New Edition mixes theatrics with music", Google.Books, 1986-06-05
  3. ^ "New Edition Hits Big With Little Notice", Google.Books, 1986-05-03
  4. ^ "33 mugged during concert", Google.Books, 1986-06-10
  5. ^ "New Edition Fulfills Fantasies", newspapers.com, 1986-04-28
  6. ^ "Mar 22, 1986, page 42 - Carroll County Times at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2025-07-23.