45-626: Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall , formerly known as the Historic Atlantic City Convention Hall , is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Atlantic City, New Jersey . It was Atlantic City's primary convention center until the opening of the Atlantic City Convention Center in 1997. Boardwalk Hall was declared a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1987 as one of the few surviving buildings from the city's early heyday as
90-481: A disco song, while Richards said, "'Miss You' was a damn good disco record; it was calculated to be one." In any case, what was going on in discotheques did make it to the recording. Charlie Watts said, "A lot of those songs like 'Miss You' on 'Some Girls' ... were heavily influenced by going to the discos. You can hear it in a lot of those four-to-the-floor and the Philadelphia-style drumming." For
135-612: A location, often with the specific intent of comparing an idea to a sporting event. Such examples of these would be terms such as "the arena of war", "the arena of love" or "the political arena". Miss You (Rolling Stones song) " Miss You " is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones , released on Rolling Stones Records in May 1978. It was released as the first single one month in advance of their album Some Girls . "Miss You"
180-496: A roof. The key feature of an arena is that the event space is the lowest point, allowing maximum visibility. Arenas are usually designed to accommodate a multitude of spectators. The word derives from Latin harena , a particularly fine-grained sand that covered the floor of ancient arenas such as the Colosseum in Rome , Italy, to absorb blood. The term arena is sometimes used as
225-498: A seaside resort. The venue seats 10,500 people for ice hockey , and at maximum capacity can accommodate 14,770 for concerts . Boardwalk Hall is the home of the Miss America Pageant . Boardwalk Hall contains the world's largest musical instrument, a pipe organ with over 33,000 pipes, eight chambers, the world's largest console with seven manuals and over 1000 stops, and one of two 64-foot (20 m) stops (the other found in
270-619: A single season in the National Indoor Football League . They finished the regular season in second place for their division with a 9–5 record and lost in the wild card round of the playoffs to the Lexington Horsemen 54–25. On May 30, 2015, the venue hosted the Philadelphia Soul and Las Vegas Outlaws for the venue's first Arena Football League (AFL) game. The Soul won 51–43 with an attendance of 6,514. In 2019,
315-544: A sold-out show in December 2001, and again for her Femme Fatale Tour on August 6, 2011. Lady Gaga was scheduled to perform here on March 2, 2013, for her Born This Way Ball , but the show was later cancelled due to a hip injury which required surgery. She has previously performed at the arena on July 4, 2010, and February 19, 2011, as a part of her Monster Ball Tour . She performed a sold-out show on June 28, 2014, for her Artrave: The Artpop Ball Tour. Beyoncé performed at
360-661: A sold-out show in front of 11,220 people during her Dance Again World Tour on July 29, 2012, American pop star Madonna performed at the venue four times, with the first sold-out show at arena in front of 12,322 people during her Confessions Tour on July 16, 2006, she performed the second show in front of 13,293 people during her Sticky & Sweet Tour on November 22, 2008, and the third show in front of 12,207 people during her MDNA Tour on September 15, 2012, The fourth and last time in front of 9,498 people during her Rebel Heart Tour on October 3, 2015. Britney Spears performed
405-629: A solo show on his Devils & Dust Tour on November 13, 2005. On August 16, 2003, Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera were supposed to perform at the Boardwalk Hall, but due to a major stage collapse, the show (and later tour) was postponed. On February 4, 2006, Bon Jovi from New Jersey performed for the Have a Nice Day Tour . Celine Dion performed a sold-out show on September 20, 2008 as part of her Taking Chances World Tour . Dion returned to
450-430: A synonym for a very large venue such as Pasadena's Rose Bowl , but such a facility is typically called a stadium . The use of one term over the other has mostly to do with the type of event. Football (be it association , rugby , gridiron , Australian rules , or Gaelic ) is typically played in a stadium, while basketball , volleyball , handball , and ice hockey are typically played in an arena, although many of
495-476: Is also the sport of indoor American football (one variant of which is explicitly known as arena football), a variant of the outdoor game that is designed for the usual smaller playing surface of most arenas; variants of other traditionally outdoor sports, including box lacrosse as well as futsal and indoor soccer , also exist. The term "arena" is also used loosely to refer to any event or type of event which either literally or metaphorically takes place in such
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#1732844359335540-651: The Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies , an ice-hockey team, from 2001 to 2005. From 2011 to 2013, ECAC Hockey held its men's ice hockey championship at Boardwalk Hall. During the 2010–2011 season, Boardwalk Hall hosted four home games for the Albany Devils and one home game for the Trenton Devils both affiliated with the New Jersey Devils . The Albany Devils returned to play four home games during
585-468: The New Jersey Senate approved legislation to dedicate Atlantic City's Boardwalk Hall in honor of Senator Jim Whelan , the former mayor and state lawmaker who died earlier in the year. Edward L. Bader , mayor of Atlantic City from 1924 to 1927, led the initiative to acquire the land for Convention Hall, now Boardwalk Hall, and construction was underway at the time of his death. The hall, designed by
630-955: The Philadelphia Eagles and the Washington Redskins . From 2007 through 2012, the Atlantic 10 Conference held its men's basketball championship at Boardwalk Hall. The 2013 tournament was held at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York . The Brooklyn Nets and the Philadelphia 76ers played a preseason game at the arena on October 13, 2012. In 2018, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference announced its men's and women's basketball tournaments will be held at Boardwalk Hall from 2020 through 2022. It played host to
675-553: The Sydney Town Hall ). Also included in this organ are pipes operating on 100 inches of pressure , the Grand Ophicleide being the loudest and also most famous. The Guinness Book of World Records noted "a pure trumpet note of ear-splitting volume, six times louder than the loudest train whistle ." However, these stops are actually well-refined and are not overpowering in Boardwalk Hall due to its huge interior. In October 2017,
720-580: The Utah Utes rout the West Virginia Mountaineers , 32–6. Dudley was paid $ 25,000 from Atlantic City businessmen, $ 60,000 from ticket sales, and $ 95,000 from television revenues, for a $ 10,000 net profit. This would be the only time the game was played in Atlantic City, as Dudley moved it the following year to Memphis, Tennessee , where it remains to this day. Boardwalk Hall was also the venue of
765-404: The architectural firm Lockwood Greene , was built in 1926. The main hall measures 456 by 310 feet (139 by 94 m). The barrel vault ceiling is 137 feet (42 m) high. Ten pairs of three-hinged steel trusses support this unusually large clear span; there are no supporting columns. Each pair of trusses spans 350 feet (110 m) and weighs 220 short tons (200 t). The trusses are tied to
810-449: The tenor saxophone solo for the instrumental break. The 12-inch single version of the song runs over eight minutes and features additional instrumentation and solos, particularly on guitar. It was remixed by Bob Clearmountain , then an up-and-coming mixer and engineer. This song, the first edit the Stones did for a 12-inch single, also contains tape repeats and an additional set of lyrics in
855-508: The 2004 version. "Miss You" was written by Mick Jagger jamming with keyboardist Billy Preston during rehearsals for the March 1977 El Mocambo club gigs, recordings from which appeared on side three of the double live album Love You Live (1977). Keith Richards is credited as co-writer, as was the case for all Rolling Stones originals written by either partner or in tandem. Jagger and Ronnie Wood insist that "Miss You" wasn't conceived as
900-520: The 2012–13 and 2013–14 seasons. Despite not having a team in Atlantic City, the American Hockey League hosted the 2012 All-Star Classic at Boardwalk Hall. Arena An arena is a large enclosed platform, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theatre , musical performances , and/or sporting events . It is composed of a large open space surrounded on most or all sides by tiered seating for spectators, and may be covered by
945-600: The AFL added the Atlantic City Blackjacks with home games at Boardwalk Hall. They finished their inaugural season 4–8 and the entire AFL ceased operations at the end of the season. The Syracuse Nationals and the Philadelphia Warriors played a regular season game at the arena on December 29, 1949. The game was part of a double header. The opening game was an exhibition basketball game between selected players of
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#1732844359335990-584: The NCAA was divided into two divisions, University and College. Boardwalk Hall hosted bowl games in both divisions; the University Division later became NCAA Division I , while the College Division was subdivided into Division II and Division III . The nation's first-ever indoor American football field was constructed within the hall in 1930, and hosted one to three games a year through the 1930s, before
1035-541: The Rolling Stones' eighth and final number-one single in the United States on its initial release in 1978. It hit the top on 5 August 1978, ending the seven-week reign of " Shadow Dancing " by Andy Gibb . It also reached number three in the United Kingdom. The song was originally nine minutes long but was edited to almost five minutes for the album version and three-and-a-half minutes for the radio single. To properly edit
1080-478: The bass part, Bill Wyman started from Preston's bass guitar on the song demo. Chris Kimsey , who engineered the recording, said Wyman went "to quite a few clubs before he got that bass line sorted out", which Kimsey said "made that song". Wyman recalled: "When I did the riff for 'Miss You' – which made the song, and every band in the world copied it for the next year: Rod Stewart , all of them – it still said Jagger/Richard. When I wrote
1125-467: The bowl was in 1973, as a Division II quarterfinal; Grambling defeated Delaware. The Knute Rockne Bowl , a College Division game for smaller eastern schools, was held in Boardwalk Hall from 1970 through 1972. Montclair State (1970) and Bridgeport (1971, 1972) were the victors. In 2004 , it was the home of the Atlantic City CardSharks , a professional indoor football team that played
1170-524: The former Boardwalk Bowl post-season game from 1961 to 1973. From 1961 through 1967, the games were known as the "Little Army-Navy Game", featuring the College Division's Pennsylvania Military College and the Merchant Marine Academy . From 1968 through 1972, the bowl was the East regional championship for the College Division; Delaware won four times, and Massachusetts won once. The final playing of
1215-423: The frame columns to allow the building to flex slightly with wind and ground pressure. The barrel ceiling consists of painted aluminum tiles. It is decorated to resemble Roman bath tiles, and extends over 196,000 square feet (18,200 m). The building's forward section is slightly rotated to align with the boardwalk, while the hall itself is aligned to the street grid. It takes sound roughly 0.4 seconds to travel
1260-551: The hall for their Bandito Tour . On June 9, 2023 Gavin DeGraw headlined with Colbie Caillat for a spectacular show with North2Shore. Stockton University utilizes Boardwalk Hall for undergraduate degree recipient ceremonies each year in May. This theater at Boardwalk Hall is named for a pageant official. Mike Tyson fought in Boardwalk Hall several times as Heavyweight champion including four of his seven defenses as Undisputed Champion . Among his title defenses in Boardwalk Hall
1305-622: The hall in 2013 and was last used for Miss America 2019 . It was also the venue for the August 1964 Democratic National Convention that nominated U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson as the Democratic Party 's candidate for the 1964 U.S. presidential election , nine months after the assassination of his predecessor, John F. Kennedy , in November 1963. The following weekend, The Beatles held one of their largest concerts on their first U.S. tour at
1350-406: The hall. Judy Garland gave a concert at Convention Hall on August 4, 1961. Garland returned for a second engagement on September 3, 1961. The hall was also the venue for the concert by The Rolling Stones on their Steel Wheels Tour in 1989. The concert, which was shown on pay-per-view television, is widely remembered by fans for a mishap where viewers were cut off from the performance during
1395-574: The larger arenas hold more spectators than do the stadiums of smaller colleges or high schools. There are exceptions. The home of the Duke University men's and women's basketball teams would qualify as an arena, but the facility is called Cameron Indoor Stadium . Domed stadiums, which, like arenas, are enclosed but have the larger playing surfaces and seating capacities found in stadiums, are generally not referred to as arenas in North America. There
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1440-450: The length of the hall; because of this, the pipe organ chambers could not be built more than halfway back from the stage or a noticeable delay would occur. This led to two of the organ's chambers being placed in the upper shell of the building, in the space between the outer roof and the ceiling. The Miss America Pageant , founded in 1921 in Atlantic City, used Boardwalk Hall from the hall's opening in 1940 until 2004. The Pageant returned to
1485-428: The only cold-weather bowl game, it was plagued by poor attendance. A group of Atlantic City businessmen convinced Dudley to move his game from Philadelphia to Boardwalk Hall for 1964 and guaranteed Dudley $ 25,000. The 1964 Liberty Bowl was the first major (University Division) collegiate bowl game played indoors and was also the first indoor football game broadcast nationwide on U.S. television. Since artificial turf
1530-490: The practice was halted due to World War II and not resumed until 1961. The first game was a 7–0 victory by Washington & Jefferson over Lafayette on October 25, 1930. In 1959, A. F. "Bud" Dudley, a former Villanova University athletic director, created the Liberty Bowl , an annual post-season college-football bowl game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . The game was played at Philadelphia Municipal Stadium , but as
1575-421: The radio single without audible bumps and glitches, a separate mix was constructed and then edited for continuity. Cash Box said that a "strong, driving, funky backbeat" is suitable for dancing and that "Keith [Richards] provides a wrangling guitar line." Record World said that it was "a rather hushed soul-rocker that is one of their best records in some time" and praised Jagger's vocals. The B-side of
1620-426: The riff for ' Jumpin' Jack Flash ', it became Jagger/Richard, and that's the way it was. It just became part and parcel of the way the band functioned." Unlike most of Some Girls , "Miss You" features several studio musicians. In addition to Sugar Blue who, according to Wood, was found by Jagger busking on the streets of Paris, Ian McLagan plays understated Wurlitzer electric piano , and Mel Collins provides
1665-426: The second verse, after the line "Hey, let's go mess and fool around you know, like we used to". The extended version can be found on The Singles 1971–2006 , on the "Don't Stop" CD single and in edited form on the album Rarities 1971–2003 and on the 1990 CD single version of " Angie ". The single version is available on Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones , Forty Licks and GRRR! . "Miss You" became
1710-545: The single was another album track, " Far Away Eyes ", a tongue-in-cheek country tune sung by Jagger in a pronounced drawl. A live recording was captured during the Rolling Stones' 1989-1990 Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour and released on the 1991 live album Flashpoint . Other live versions have been recorded and filmed, including a November 1981 performance included on Let's Spend the Night Together (1983), July 1995 performances released on Totally Stripped (2016),
1755-410: The song " (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction ", as well as the performance of " Miss You " in some countries. This concert was remastered, remixed and released on DVD, Blu-Ray, CD and Vinyl on 2 October 2020, as Steel Wheels Live Atlantic City, New Jersey '89. On March 7, 2003, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed. Tickets for the event were immediately sold-out. Springsteen returned to perform
1800-439: The venue for another sold-out show with her Courage World Tour on February 22, 2020. Phish played three nights at Boardwalk Hall for Halloween in both 2010 and 2013. The 2010 Halloween concert featured a performance of Little Feat 's Waiting For Columbus album in its entirety. The 2013 show included the debut of Phish's unrecorded album Wingsuit , which would later become the album Fuego . Jennifer Lopez performed
1845-470: The venue for the first time on The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour . The show sold out within its first few days of sales and took place on July 26, 2013. Journey and Rascal Flatts made a stop at the hall for one-night shows, performing separately. On May 22, 2015, The Who stopped at the Hall to celebrate their 50th anniversary on their tour, The Who Hits 50! On June 8, 2019, Twenty One Pilots performed at
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1890-722: Was a Fourth Round TKO over former champion Larry Holmes on January 22, 1988. His most famous bout at the venue was the 91-second Knockout of former champion and previously undefeated Michael Spinks on June 27, 1988. On April 19, 1991, Undisputed Heavyweight Champion Evander Holyfield defeated former champion George Foreman in his first title defense. Other fighters who have had boxing matches (many of which were title fights) in Boardwalk Hall include Sugar Ray Leonard , Oscar De La Hoya , Roberto Durán , Lennox Lewis , Roy Jones Jr. , Floyd Mayweather Jr. , Bernard Hopkins , Riddick Bowe , Julio César Chávez , Héctor Camacho , Micky Ward , and Arturo Gatti . In September 2007, it
1935-421: Was still in its developmental stages and was unavailable for the game, the hall was equipped with a four-inch-thick grass surface with two inches of burlap underneath it (as padding) on top of concrete . To keep the grass growing, artificial lighting was installed and kept on 24 hours a day. The entire process cost about $ 16,000. End zones were only eight yards long instead of the usual ten yards. 6,059 fans saw
1980-691: Was the venue for the Kelly Pavlik – Jermain Taylor boxing match for the World Boxing Council , World Boxing Organization and The Ring magazine's middleweight championships. On December 12, 1965, the New York Ukrainians defeated Philadelphia Ukrainian Nationals 3–2 in the first regulation indoor soccer match at the Convention Hall before more than 3,000 spectators. Prior to 1973 ,
2025-548: Was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards . It peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and number three on the UK Singles Chart . An extended version, called the "Special Disco Version", was released as the band's first dance remix on a 12-inch single . In 2010, Rolling Stone magazine rated "Miss You" number 498 in its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time , dropping down two spots from number 496 in
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