Destiny World Tour

Destiny World Tour
World tour by The Jacksons
Location	Europe, Africa, North America.
Associated album	Destiny & Off the Wall (*)
Start date	January 22, 1979
End date	September 26, 1980
Legs	3
Shows	30 in Europe 13 in Africa 81 in North America 124 in Total (*) Only in the second and third leg of the tour
The Jacksons tour chronology
Destiny World Tour (1979-80) Triumph Tour (1981)

The Destiny Tour was a concert tour by The Jacksons that began a world tour to promote the Destiny album on January 22, 1979 with their opening concert in Bremen. Countries that were visited included Britain, Holland, France, and Kenya. During the spring of 1979 The Jacksons performed some concerts in Britain. April 14, 1979 The Jacksons began their U.S tour in Cleveland, Ohio and finished in Los Angeles after visiting 80 U.S. cities.

Overview

Starting the tour on January 22, 1979 in Bremen shortly after releasing the platinum-certified Destiny album the previous December. The tour performed in three continents including a tour in Kenya and several headlining tours in Great Britain before taking on an 80-city tour in the United States, before ending the tour in Washington, D.C. near the end of the year. The first leg of the tour saw the Jacksons doing moderate sized arenas. While on tour Michael released his multi-platinum album Off the Wall, forcing the brothers to revamp their show and to start playing higher profile arenas/stadiums. As example originally on the first leg the Jacksons played the Valley Forge Music Fair in Philadelphia to an audience of 3,000 compared to the second leg later in the year when they played the Philadelphia Spectrum which seats 16,000. They changed drummers and added a horn section, also they designed a brand new stage which featured a huge hanging light fixture that said, "The Jacksons". During "Ben", Michael would now be moved across the stage on a floating platform with lights. Lastly, a new setlist was created and additional songs from the Jacksons Destiny album were added ([Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)]) and songs from Michael's blockbuster album Off the Wall. The opening act in the Second Leg was LTD. The entire Destiny tour (First and Second leg) grossed an estimated 7.5 million dollars.

Set list

First Leg (1979)

• 1. "Intro"
• 2. "Dancing Machine"
• 3. "Things I Do for You"
• 4. "Ben"
• 5. "I Am Love" _{only in Amsterdan}
• 6. "Keep on Dancing"
• 7. Jackson 5 Medley
  • "I Want You Back"
  • "ABC"
  • "The Love You Save"
• 8. "I'll Be There"
• 9. "Band Introduction"
• 10. "Enjoy Yourself"
• 11. "Destiny"
• 12. "Show You the Way to Go"
• 13. "All Night Dancin'"
• 14. "Blame It on the Boogie"

Second / Third Leg (1979 - 1980)

• 1. "Intro"
• 2. "Dancing Machine"
• 3. "Things I Do for You"
• 4. "Get It Together" only in New Orleans
• 5. "Ben
• 6. "I Am Love" only in New Orleans
• 7. "Keep on Dancing"
• 8. "Off the Wall"
• 9. "I Wanna Be Where You Are" only in New Orleans
• 10. "Daddy's Home" only in New Orleans
• 11. Jackson 5 Medley
  • "I Want You Back"
  • "ABC"
  • "The Love You Save"
• 12. "I'll Be There"
• 13. "Rock With You"
• 14. "Enjoy Yourself" only in New Orleans
• 15. "Blame It On The Boogie"
• 16. "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"
• 17. "Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)"

• The London concert was filmed by BBC and leaked on the Internet. It is in High Quality of sound and video.
• The full video of the New Orleans concert was leaked on YouTube for nearly two weeks, but the user removed almost all the songs. The video was in Standart Quality and the audio is in High Quality (now it's leaked on the Internet).
• They performed songs like "I Wanna Be Where You Are" & "Get It Together" in New Orleans. Later those songs were taken out.
• A live version of "Off the Wall" was released as a promo video in 1979. The same footage was used in 2007, however the live music was removed and the video was overdubbed with the album version of "Off the Wall" and album version of The Jacksons Live!, as alternate version.
• Another live performance of "Off the Wall" was used as a promo video in 1979, however the album version of "Off the Wall" was used and overdubbed over the concert footage until the final few seconds. Pictures from this particular concert are in the Michael Jackson book titled, "Before He Was King".
• Part of a Destiny Tour concert was filmed at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale on November 8, 1979 and was used in the 20/20 profile of Michael Jackson.
• There's a possibility that The Jacksons performed "Get It Together" at the Nassau Coliseum. While "Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough" was on there was a snippet of video of them doing the moves that they usually do in Get It Together with no audio of that song with a different outfit. The one that they wore most of the show.

Tour dates

#	Date	City	Country
First Leg
Europe
1	January 22, 1979	Bremen	Germany
2	January 24, 1979
3	January 26, 1979
4	January 27, 1979	Frankfurt
5	January 28, 1979	Madrid	Spain
6	January 29, 1979
7	January 30, 1979
8	February 1, 1979	Amsterdam	Netherlands
9	February 2, 1979
10	February 6, 1979	London	United Kingdom
11	February 7, 1979
12	February 8, 1979
13	February 9, 1979
14	February 10, 1979	Brighton
15	February 11, 1979	Preston
16	February 12, 1979	Wakefield
17	February 13, 1979	Sheffield
18	February 14, 1979	Geneva	Switzerland
19	February 15, 1979
20	February 16, 1979	Glasgow	United Kingdom
21	February 17, 1979	Manchester
22	February 18, 1979
23	February 19, 1979	Leeds
24	February 20, 1979
25	February 23, 1979	London
26	February 24, 1979
27	February 25, 1979	Bournemouth
28	February 26, 1979	Amsterdam	Netherlands
29	February 29, 1979	Avignon	France
30	March 2, 1979	Paris
Africa
31	March 6, 1979	Johannesburg	South Africa
32	March 7, 1979
33	March 8, 1979
34	March 9, 1979
35	March 10, 1979
36	March 12, 1979	Dakar	Senegal
37	March 13, 1979
38	March 14, 1979
39	March 15, 1979
40	March 16, 1979	Nairobi	Kenya
41	March 19, 1979	Johannesburg	South Africa
42	March 20, 1979
43	March 21, 1979
North America
44	April 14, 1979	Cleveland	United States
45	April 15, 1979
46	April 19, 1979	Valley Forge
47	April 22, 1979
48	April 25, 1979	Chicago
49	April 26, 1979
50	April 27, 1979
51	April 29, 1979
52	May 3, 1979	St. Petersburg
53	May 6, 1979	Jacksonville
54	May 10, 1979	Houston
55	May 11, 1979
56	May 12, 1979
57	May 16, 1979	Birmingham
58	May 17, 1979	Columbus
59	May 18, 1979	Nashville
60	May 19, 1979	Atlanta
61	May 20, 1979	Memphis
62	May 24, 1979	Pine Bluff
63	May 26, 1979	Kansas City
64	May 27, 1979	Oklahoma City
65	May 30, 1979	Shreveport
66	June 1, 1979	Norfolk
67	June 3, 1979	Columbia
68	June 8, 1979	Charlotte
69	June 9, 1979	Washington, D.C.
Second leg
North America
70	October 2, 1979	New Orleans	United States
71	October 3, 1979
72	October 4, 1979	Shreveport
73	October 5, 1979	Mobile
74	October 6, 1979	Huntsville
75	October 7, 1979	Louisville
76	October 12, 1979	Philadelphia
77	October 13, 1979	Rochester
78	October 14, 1979	Pittsburgh
79	October 15, 1979	Saginaw
80	October 19, 1979	Indianapolis
81	October 20, 1979	St. Louis
82	October 21, 1979	Dayton
83	October 25, 1979	Columbus
84	October 26, 1979	Syracuse
85	October 27, 1979	Buffalo
86	October 28, 1979	Springfield
87	November 1, 1979	Kalamazoo
88	November 2, 1979	Chicago
89	November 3, 1979	Cleveland
90	November 4, 1979	Detroit
91	November 5, 1979
92	November 6, 1979	Baltimore
93	November 8, 1979	Uniondale
94	November 9, 1979	Hampton
95	November 10, 1979
96	November 11, 1979	Fayetteville
97	November 14, 1979	Fort Worth
98	November 15, 1979	Baton Rouge
99	November 16, 1979	Jackson
100	November 17, 1979	Lake Charles
101	November 18, 1979	Houston
102	November 20, 1979	Columbus
103	November 21, 1979	Greenville
104	November 22, 1979	Savannah
105	November 23, 1979	Macon
106	November 24, 1979	Nashville
107	November 25, 1979	Atlanta
108	November 29, 1979	Albuquerque
109	November 30, 1979	Denver
110	December 2, 1979	Honolulu
111	December 6, 1979	Portland
112	December 8, 1979	Seattle
113	December 9, 1979	Vancouver	Canada
114	December 13, 1979	San Bernadino	United States
115	December 14, 1979	Phoenix
116	December 15, 1979	San Diego
117	December 16, 1979	Oakland
118	December 18, 1979	Los Angeles
Third leg
North America
119	September 5, 1980	Honolulu	United States
120	September 17, 1980	Los Angeles
121	September 18, 1980
122	September 19, 1980
123	September 25, 1980
124	September 26, 1980

Band members

First leg

• Bass: Michael McKinney
• Additional Guitar: Bud Rizzo
• Keyboards: James Macfield
• Drums: Tony Lewis

Second leg

• Drums: Jonathan Moffett
• Additional Guitar: Bud Rizzo
• Bass: Michael McKinney
• Keyboards: James Macfield
• Horns: (East Coast Horns): Wesley Phillips, Cloris Grimes, Alan (Funt) Prater, Roderick (Mac) McMorris

Personnel

• Jackie Jackson: vocals
• Tito Jackson: guitar, vocals
• Marlon Jackson: vocals
• Michael Jackson: vocals
• Randy Jackson: vocals, congas, percussion, piano, keyboards

References