{"id":29655,"date":"2024-06-04T18:02:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T18:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-4-1986-a-conspiracy-of-hope-tour-featuring-u2-sting-more-kicked-off-in-california\/"},"modified":"2024-06-04T18:02:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T18:02:50","slug":"on-this-day-june-4-1986-a-conspiracy-of-hope-tour-featuring-u2-sting-more-kicked-off-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-4-1986-a-conspiracy-of-hope-tour-featuring-u2-sting-more-kicked-off-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, June 4, 1986: A Conspiracy of Hope tour, featuring U2, Sting &amp; more, kicked off in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-04\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, June 4, 1986\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The six-show A Conspiracy of Hope tour, benefiting Amnesty International, kicked off at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, California.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The tour\u2019s lineup included <strong>U2<\/strong>, <strong>Sting,<\/strong> <strong>Bryan Adams<\/strong>, <strong>Peter Gabriel<\/strong>, <strong>Lou Reed<\/strong>, <strong>Joan Baez<\/strong> and the <strong>Neville Brothers.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The final three shows, in Atlanta, Chicago and East Rutherford, New Jersey, featured a reunion of <strong>The Police<\/strong>, who had been on hiatus since 1984. The final show, on June 15 at Giants Stadium in New Jersey, was their last performance before their breakup.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Unlike the first five shows, the Giants Stadium concert was an all-day outdoor event, with additional artists including <strong>Jackson Browne<\/strong>, <strong>Little Steven<\/strong>, the <strong>Hooters,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Darlene Love<\/strong>, <strong>Howard Jones<\/strong>, <strong>Bob Geldof<\/strong> and others. The full concert aired on MTV, with the final three hours airing on syndicated television.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, June 4, 1986\u2026 The six-show A Conspiracy of Hope tour, benefiting Amnesty International, kicked off at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, California.\u00a0 The tour\u2019s lineup included U2, Sting, Bryan Adams, Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed, Joan Baez and the Neville Brothers. The final three shows, in Atlanta,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-4-1986-a-conspiracy-of-hope-tour-featuring-u2-sting-more-kicked-off-in-california\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}