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It occurred to me that most of the concerts linked to an album start with the first track from that album:

La Concorde, linked to the Equinoxe album: Equinoxe 1
China (at least on the album), linked to Magnetic Fields: Overture, which is a slowed down Magnetic Fields 1
Houston: this is an odd one, since Rendez-Vous was the obvious album it was linked to, but the album was not out when the concert was in preparation. So Zoolook is the last released album. First track: Ethnicolor
Docklands, linked to Revolutions: Industrial Revolutions
La Defense: here this rule doesn't work, it's linked to Waiting for Cousteau.
Europe in Concert: Chronologie 1
Oxygene 7-13 tour: Oxygene 7
12 Dreams of the Sun: doesn't work either: Bells was the opening track and not Je Me Souviens (which was the 2nd track though). And Metamorphoses wasn't even out yet.
Oxygene anniversary tour: Oxygene 1 was preceded by an overture track... Which counts as an official track. That same overture track is on the Live in Your Livingroom DVD.
Electronica Tour: (Electronica 2 was the last album out): The Heart of Noise.

Paris La Defense does fit this pattern if you consider the Waiting For Cousteau title track was played across the city in the hours before the concert officially started.

What was the opening track in Lyon in 1986?

Ethnicolor, but Rendez-Vous was out already by then...

Richard-Eastham wrote: Tue Nov 24, 2020 11:08 pm Paris La Defense does fit this pattern if you consider the Waiting For Cousteau title track was played across the city in the hours before the concert officially started.

Waiting for Cousteau was not the opening track of that album though, Calypso is, but Calypso Latino Mix was the opening track on the official video release if that counts !

Yeah, good point. Missed the bit about opening track of the album!