Denver-area fans came out strong, however, and produced the highest single-show attendance with 44,928 tickets sold at Coors Field for a sellout on July 21. San Francisco’s Oracle Park (then named AT&T Park) claimed the top gross on the Def Leppard/Journey tour with a $3.9 million total from 35,617 sold seats at a Sept. and Canada that year with support on select dates by Cheap Trick, The Pretenders, Foreigner and Peter Frampton. It played amphitheaters, stadiums and arenas at 58 cities in the U.S. The co-headlining tour grossed more than $97.8 million with attendance stretching just over 1 million during the run. ![]() One of the more recent examples was a Def Leppard trek from May through October 2018 when the band teamed up with Journey for a 60-show run. ![]() Their joint tours – this year’s trek which also features Poison and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts and the earlier 2011 arena tour that averaged over 8,500 sold seats and a $600k gross per show – are among the successful pairings of rock & roll headliners chronicled in Pollstar over the last 40 years.īoth Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe have hit the road with other bands in previous years as a joint draw. It comes almost 11 years after the bands first toured together in 2011 on a brief arena trek booked in six U.K. With stadium-sized box-office results, it stands to rank highly among the tours booked at concert venues in outdoor environments this year. ![]() Photo by Larry Hulst / Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Imagesĭef Leppardand Mötley Crüe’s “The Stadium Tour,” set to finally launch on June 16 after postponements in both 20, is primed to impact the North American summer touring season with 36 shows planned in 35 cities. The band is gearing up to hit the road in June on “The Stadium Tour” co-bill with Def Leppard, joined by special guests Poison and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. Mötley Crüe is pictured performing at the Civic Auditorium in San Jose, Calif., on April 26, 1982.
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