Def Leppard will spend next spring and summer doing what they have done for four decades: filling arenas.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers have announced a 45-date North American tour for 2027, joined by the Goo Goo Dolls and The Struts. The run opens March 2 at the PPL Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and wraps July 2 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, taking in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto and Vancouver along the way.
Tickets go on general sale October 16 at 10 a.m. local time, with fan-club and credit-card presales beginning October 12. One dollar from every ticket sold will be donated to City of Hope, the cancer research and treatment organisation.
The tour arrives with a film attached. Def Leppard are also set to release a feature-length documentary, “Long Live Def Leppard,” in theaters next year — a title that doubles as a statement of intent from a band whose commercial peak came in the 1980s and whose touring business has never really left the top tier.
It is a well-worn formula because it works: pair a heritage headliner with a hit-heavy support act and a credible younger opener, price the nostalgia fairly, and let songs like “Pour Some Sugar on Me” do the rest. Forty-five arena dates suggest promoters see no softening in demand. On the evidence of the last decade of classic-rock grosses, neither should anyone else.
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