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Concerts in 1981

MetroCentre

· Rockford, United States

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Concert figures

Estimated attendance: About 8,800

Venue capacity: 9,000

Sources & context

Estimated attendance ·

WROK 1440 AM / 96.1 FM · Riley O'Neil

1981 concert and October 1 anniversary account followed by the approximately 8800 sellout crowd

Local retrospective explicitly gives an approximate crowd. The station's sister station helped bring the concert to Rockford; this relationship is retained as context.

The citing Wikipedia table reports 8000/8000 and the prior book review reports 9000. The checked article's 8800 estimate is selected without averaging or overwriting those observations.

Venue capacity ·

Ian M. Rusten, The Rolling Stones in Concert, 1962–1982: A Show-by-Show History (McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2018), p. 282.

Book-reported seating capacity for 1981. Stage and standing configuration not specified.

Setlist

Source: setlist.fm — view this concert's original setlist.

As recorded in the source archive. Completeness has not been verified; playback is labelled separately.

Main set

  1. 01
    Take the "A" TrainRecording by Duke Ellington and His OrchestraTape playback · excluded from song appearance counts
  2. 02
  3. 03
  4. 04
  5. 05
  6. 06
  7. 07
  8. 08
  9. 09
    Twenty Flight RockEddie Cochran cover
  10. 10
  11. 11
    Time Is on My SideKai Winding & His Orchestra cover
  12. 12
  13. 13
  14. 14
  15. 15
  16. 16
  17. 17
  18. 18
  19. 19
  20. 20
  21. 21
  22. 22
  23. 23
  24. 24

About this record

This is one source concert record. Stage duration, attendance and ticket prices are not established by this setlist.

Source checked by the original importer: 2026-10-03. Source version: gbf63126.

Original setlist on setlist.fmMore concerts in United States
Sources & coverage

About these numbers

Concert figures describe 2,181 distinct archive record IDs from 1962-07-12 to 2024-07-21. Separate same-day record IDs remain separate; they have not all been reviewed as unique performed concerts.

1,506 records have stored song entries; 675 do not. Complete-setlist coverage is not established. Missing entries do not establish that a song was not played.

Song observations count distinct record IDs with a matching title after playback entries are excluded. These are documented appearances, not verified full-song performances. Tour groupings can include warm-up dates.

Snapshot: 2026-10-03T21:42:51Z. Original database supplied and factually approved by the editor; normalized and calculated by Glimmer Wire. Counts can change when records or identities are corrected.

Calculation record

Concert records: distinct concert.setlist_id. Country groups: concert.country_code. Stored entries: records with non-playback setlist_song rows. Song appearances: distinct concert_song.setlist_id matched to setlist_song by record ID, position and exact raw title, excluding tape = 1. This does not use a complete-setlist percentage denominator.

Snapshot SHA-256: 7e86a3e2d0670574fd1e8bf42cd9e4dc99d3325db8db1b471707805387b00e5a

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