"The Colour of My Love" Tour - Official Topic

[CelinesDIVO5]

7 hours ago, LukeD said:

Incredible how 'The Power Of Love' carried this album in the United States. Just one hit and the album went 6 X Platinum. Imagine if there was another top 10 hit. 

I am thinking a love anthem like 'Love Doesn't Ask Why' was their best option. It has some really healthy streams despite never been released/performed. 

“Misled” being a number 1 dance hit I’m sure helped with some traction as well.

[Unison Addict]

6 hours ago, diogohilton said:

Does anyone else think the order of the songs in the report about the NYC show isn't accurate? Why would she swap the order of ETMBD and WDMHBN when the show's intro was clearly attatched to ETMBD

She also swapped the order of WDMHBN and Des mots qui sonnent in her Toronto show back in August 1992 for unknown reason when the latter had always been the intro for that tour except for that one show.

Edited February 16, 2026 at 01:20 AM by Unison Addict

[diogohilton]

4 hours ago, Unison Addict said:

She also swapped the order of WDMHBN and Des mots qui sonnent in her Toronto show back in August 1992 for unknown reason when the latter had always been the intro for that tour except for that one show.

Do we have definitive proof of that tho? I just find it extremely hard to believe she would start with the same song for 50+ shows and swap the order of the first and second songs on one random date just because lol. I think it's easier to believe it was a typo made by whoever reviewed the concert

[Unison Addict]

45 minutes ago, diogohilton said:

Do we have definitive proof of that tho? I just find it extremely hard to believe she would start with the same song for 50+ shows and swap the order of the first and second songs on one random date just because lol. I think it's easier to believe it was a typo made by whoever reviewed the concert

I’m a friend of a Celine fan under the name Celine Dion Performances. They gathered lots of newspapers page that reviews Celine’s concerts. There’s a newspaper published by Toronto Star in August 1992 that said that Celine started the set with WDMHBN and i think a newspaper review is something we can’t deny as the reviewer was actually attended the concert and we can’t prove if they’re wrong unless we have a recording and there’s no way they would make a typo unless a minor typo of a song name (such as the one review of Celine’s March 1993 Massey Hall that wrote “Nothing Broken But My Heart” as “Nothing Is Broken But My Heart”)

Also two newspapers that reviewed the Boston show and NYC show of TCOML tour stated that WDMHBN indeed performed as an opening set, that makes two valid sources. Celine had a habit of randomly modifying the setlist back in the 90s by adding and removing songs for a certain show, or even swapped the order just like the cases we mentioned. 

Edited February 16, 2026 at 06:45 AM by Unison Addict

[Shopiach]

I pretty love this album.  My fav song is Misled

[comingback]

Yes, she was in the  A. Hall Show in March 1994. According to setlist.fm.

And Celine was at the MTV Music Awards 1994? This must be wrong.

[Unison Addict]

1 hour ago, comingback said:

Yes, she was in the  A. Hall Show in March 1994. According to setlist.fm.

And Celine was at the MTV Music Awards 1994? This must be wrong.

A bit off topic but i got slightly distracted by the setlist of her show at O’Keefe Centre (above the Arsenio Hall) that included Refuse to Dance, i’d love to see a footage of her performing that song in 1994

[diogohilton]

1 hour ago, comingback said:

Yes, she was in the  A. Hall Show in March 1994. According to setlist.fm.

And Celine was at the MTV Music Awards 1994? This must be wrong.

well I'm the one who edited it and changed it to March 3, 1994 lol. It used to say August 3, 1994 but that would be impossible. Also the VMAs performance is not real and I reported it to setlist fm last night.

[diogohilton]

9 hours ago, Unison Addict said:

I’m a friend of a Celine fan under the name Celine Dion Performances. They gathered lots of newspapers page that reviews Celine’s concerts. There’s a newspaper published by Toronto Star in August 1992 that said that Celine started the set with WDMHBN and i think a newspaper review is something we can’t deny as the reviewer was actually attended the concert and we can’t prove if they’re wrong unless we have a recording and there’s no way they would make a typo unless a minor typo of a song name (such as the one review of Celine’s March 1993 Massey Hall that wrote “Nothing Broken But My Heart” as “Nothing Is Broken But My Heart”)

Also two newspapers that reviewed the Boston show and NYC show of TCOML tour stated that WDMHBN indeed performed as an opening set, that makes two valid sources. Celine had a habit of randomly modifying the setlist back in the 90s by adding and removing songs for a certain show, or even swapped the order just like the cases we mentioned. 

I wonder if she opened the entire first North American leg of the tour with WDMHBN followed by ETMBD and swapped them for the March shows in Canada and kept it that way for the remainder of the tour.

[comingback]

Celine is not listed for the A. Hall Show in early 1994.

Strange

https://m.imdb.com/de/title/tt0096537/episodes/?year=1994&ref_=ttep_ep_yr_nx

 

Edited February 16, 2026 at 07:33 PM by comingback

[LukeD]

My favourite tracks of this album are some of the deep-cuts, like 'I Remember LA', 'Love Doesn't Ask Why', 'The Colour of My Love', 'Refuse To Dance'.

I like all the singles too, especially 'Only One Road' and 'Just Walk Away'. Such gems in her catalogue!

The only songs I dislike are 'Real Emotion', 'No Living Without Loving You', and maybe 'Loving Proof'. They are also the least streamed. I think the album would be a lot stronger without Diane Warren's contributions. Unpopular opinion, but I also find 'Next Plane Out' to be the weakest ballad of the album. Not a bad song, but definitely not great either. 

To me, the exact opposite applies to 'Celine Dion'. This album was carried by Diane Warren's songs, no coincidence 4 out of 5 were released as singles.

[PuraVida]

I listened to this album a lot in January... "I Remember LA" can make you feel really sad and wistful if you listen to it, I wish we had a live performance of that song.

I wonder if the songwriter of "Refuse to Dance" every discussed the origins of the song. Also "No Living Without Loving You" will randomly pop up in my head haha, so catchy -- but I agree about "Loving Proof" and "Real Emotion" being forgettable.

[CelinesDIVO5]

I love Adult Contemporary cheese, so NLWLY and LP live rent free in my head. 

[Unison Addict]

8 hours ago, diogohilton said:

I wonder if she opened the entire first North American leg of the tour with WDMHBN followed by ETMBD and swapped them for the March shows in Canada and kept it that way for the remainder of the tour.

I think that’s the case. The March shows might be the first time she opened the show with ETMBD (outside of the TCOML concert special). She also did plenty of concerts between September and November 1993 and she opened the shows with Des mots qui sonnent and then followed by ETMBD.

[Unison Addict]

Just now, Unison Addict said:

I think that’s the case. The March shows might be the first time she opened the show with ETMBD (outside of the TCOML concert special). She also did plenty of concerts between September and November 1993 and she opened the shows with Des mots qui sonnent and then followed by ETMBD (the order was swapped by March in Montréal where she performed ETMBD first then DMQS, similar to the North American case)

 

[diogohilton]

1 hour ago, Unison Addict said:

 

I wonder why she ditched ETMBD during the shows at the Olympia and went back to opening with DMQS.

Actually, the entire Paris setlist doesn't even seem part of the same tour, quite frankly. Her adding Ziggy, Elle, the Starmania medley from the Incognito tour (???), LFDS, QONQL and Oxygène for those 3 shows only, while cutting CNQR (a French song she was already doing) and most TCOML songs seems so odd to me. Especially the fact that it seems she went back to the old formula after Paris.

[LukeD]

1 hour ago, diogohilton said:

I wonder why she ditched ETMBD during the shows at the Olympia and went back to opening with DMQS.

Actually, the entire Paris setlist doesn't even seem part of the same tour, quite frankly. Her adding Ziggy, Elle, the Starmania medley from the Incognito tour (???), LFDS, QONQL and Oxygène for those 3 shows only, while cutting CNQR (a French song she was already doing) and most TCOML songs seems so odd to me. Especially the fact that it seems she went back to the old formula after Paris.

Celine released the album 'Des Mots Qui Sonnent' in France in early 1992 but it failed to chart. It only became a success in 1993 when she released 'Ziggy' as a single which became a smash hit and really carried the album in France. Therefore, when Celine visited the country to promote TCOML she also promoted DMQS. This was her best chance to hit two birds with one stone. 'Ziggy' had to be performed and also several songs from Starmania which were already included in DMQS. Really epic concert and the accompanying live album was a big success - it warmed francophone audiences for what would follow the next year with 'D'eux'. 

[diogohilton]

1 hour ago, LukeD said:

Celine released the album 'Des Mots Qui Sonnent' in France in early 1992 but it failed to chart. It only became a success in 1993 when she released 'Ziggy' as a single which became a smash hit and really carried the album in France. Therefore, when Celine visited the country to promote TCOML she also promoted DMQS. This was her best chance to hit two birds with one stone. 'Ziggy' had to be performed and also several songs from Starmania which were already included in DMQS. Really epic concert and the accompanying live album was a big success - it warmed francophone audiences for what would follow the next year with 'D'eux'. 

That makes sense. I really wish we had official footage from those concerts. I still think the inclusion of Elle and the omission of CNQR and literally all songs from TCOML apart from POL and Misled are a bit odd though.

[LukeD]

3 minutes ago, diogohilton said:

That makes sense. I really wish we had official footage from those concerts. I still think the inclusion of Elle and the omission of CNQR and literally all songs from TCOML apart from POL and Misled are a bit odd though.

I am under the impression that only TPOL was released as a single in France from TCOML. No other song from this album charted there and the album just sold 300k.

By contrast, DMQS sold 1m copies in France, so it makes sense to me she would promote this album more. But yes, 'Elle' was a random addition, albeit beautiful.

Wish we had footage from this tour too - it is without a doubt her best vocal live album.

 

[comingback]

Report with rehearsal of Elle and Ziggy

and

TV ad Olympia 

Edited February 17, 2026 at 06:43 AM by comingback

[Unison Addict]

4 hours ago, diogohilton said:

I wonder why she ditched ETMBD during the shows at the Olympia and went back to opening with DMQS.

Actually, the entire Paris setlist doesn't even seem part of the same tour, quite frankly. Her adding Ziggy, Elle, the Starmania medley from the Incognito tour (???), LFDS, QONQL and Oxygène for those 3 shows only, while cutting CNQR (a French song she was already doing) and most TCOML songs seems so odd to me. Especially the fact that it seems she went back to the old formula after Paris.

She added the DCP songs because she was still heavily focused on promoting the album in France. Also, LFDS wasn’t originally included when she performed the first show at Olympia. She included the song because the audience wanted her to as she was about to leave the stage, hence the song was performed as the final song for the first night at the Olympia. By the second show, it was moved to the middle part of the setlist.

[Unison Addict]

1 hour ago, LukeD said:

 

Wish we had footage from this tour too - it is without a doubt her best vocal live album.

 

The fact that a professional audio recording of ETMBD performance from the tour was leaked recently makes me believe that someone might have the full professional audio recording.

[Davey84]

3 hours ago, Unison Addict said:

She added the DCP songs because she was still heavily focused on promoting the album in France. Also, LFDS wasn’t originally included when she performed the first show at Olympia. She included the song because the audience wanted her to as she was about to leave the stage, hence the song was performed as the final song for the first night at the Olympia. By the second show, it was moved to the middle part of the setlist.

Do we have the full setlists of those nights? Because it could well be that songs like CNQR, BATB and Misled were performed, but just cut from the setlist for the album tracklist.

[Unison Addict]

2 minutes ago, Davey84 said:

Do we have the full setlists of those nights? Because it could well be that songs like CNQR, BATB and Misled were performed, but just cut from the setlist for the album tracklist.

Yes there’s a full setlist for the Olympia show. Indeed she performed BATB and Misled. Here’s the setlist of the first night.

1. Des mots qui sonnent

2. Where Does My Heart Beat Now

3. L’amour existe encore

4. Je danse dans ma tête 

5. Beauty and the Beast

6. Misled

7. Calling You

8. Elle

9. Oxygène

10. Medley Starmania: Quand on arrive en ville / Les uns contre les autres / Le monde est stone / Ce soir on danse a Naziland

11. Le blues du businessman 

12. River Deep, Mountain High

13. Love Can Move Mountains

14. Ziggy

15. The Power of Love

16. Quand on n’a que l’amour

Encore:

17. Le fils de Superman 

[Davey84]

33 minutes ago, Unison Addict said:

Yes there’s a full setlist for the Olympia show. Indeed she performed BATB and Misled. Here’s the setlist of the first night.

1. Des mots qui sonnent

2. Where Does My Heart Beat Now

3. L’amour existe encore

4. Je danse dans ma tête 

5. Beauty and the Beast

6. Misled

7. Calling You

8. Elle

9. Oxygène

10. Medley Starmania: Quand on arrive en ville / Les uns contre les autres / Le monde est stone / Ce soir on danse a Naziland

11. Le blues du businessman 

12. River Deep, Mountain High

13. Love Can Move Mountains

14. Ziggy

15. The Power of Love

16. Quand on n’a que l’amour

Encore:

17. Le fils de Superman 

It would have been so cool to have had a full home video (VHS) of this concert! To have a live version of Oxygène would be heaven! And an early live version of River Deep, Mountain High would also be very cool to hear! Terry Bradfort was her back up singer then, so I guess he did BATB with her.  Interesting to see Le fils de Superman as an encore... doesn't quite fit, so I understand they moved it upwards.

Listening to Live À L'Olympia now

[Unison Addict]

1 hour ago, Davey84 said:

Interesting to see Le fils de Superman as an encore... doesn't quite fit, so I understand they moved it upwards.

Listening to Live À L'Olympia now

Yes, as i wrote before, the song wasn’t initially included on the setlist. After she sang “Quand on n’a que l’amour” and about to leave the stage, the audience chanted the song’s title. Hence, she returned to the stage and sang the song. I don’t know if she sang it in full or just partly considering that she and the band might not rehearse the song before but if she sang it in full then it’s cool that she and her band managed to pull it without rehearsing the song. I learned this story from a discussion forum years ago and it was written by someone who was there.

Edited February 17, 2026 at 12:58 PM by Unison Addict

[Alex_Incognito]

To me, having this tour and a show from her CD-era shows would be the holy grail for me.   

[diogohilton]

5 hours ago, Unison Addict said:

Yes there’s a full setlist for the Olympia show. Indeed she performed BATB and Misled. Here’s the setlist of the first night.

1. Des mots qui sonnent

2. Where Does My Heart Beat Now

3. L’amour existe encore

4. Je danse dans ma tête 

5. Beauty and the Beast

6. Misled

7. Calling You

8. Elle

9. Oxygène

10. Medley Starmania: Quand on arrive en ville / Les uns contre les autres / Le monde est stone / Ce soir on danse a Naziland

11. Le blues du businessman 

12. River Deep, Mountain High

13. Love Can Move Mountains

14. Ziggy

15. The Power of Love

16. Quand on n’a que l’amour

Encore:

17. Le fils de Superman 

I neeeeeeed the performance of Oxygène. I hope someday Team Céline releases an extended version of À l'Olympia with the songs they originally cut + concert footage.

[isurrender]

I only listened to "No living without loving you" in full for the first time a few weeks ago. 😐

I love it so much right now... the ending with a mix of growls and sexy/soft vocals is so cool. 

"Loving Proof"has however too much growls for my taste...I would listen to Beyonce if I liked it that much lol 

 

[Celine Fan 77]

On 2/16/2026 at 7:43 AM, Unison Addict said:

I’m a friend of a Celine fan under the name Celine Dion Performances. They gathered lots of newspapers page that reviews Celine’s concerts. There’s a newspaper published by Toronto Star in August 1992 that said that Celine started the set with WDMHBN and i think a newspaper review is something we can’t deny as the reviewer was actually attended the concert and we can’t prove if they’re wrong unless we have a recording and there’s no way they would make a typo unless a minor typo of a song name (such as the one review of Celine’s March 1993 Massey Hall that wrote “Nothing Broken But My Heart” as “Nothing Is Broken But My Heart”)

Also two newspapers that reviewed the Boston show and NYC show of TCOML tour stated that WDMHBN indeed performed as an opening set, that makes two valid sources. Celine had a habit of randomly modifying the setlist back in the 90s by adding and removing songs for a certain show, or even swapped the order just like the cases we mentioned. 

Do we know why that Instagram account disappeared? It was amazing.