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Def Leppard hits the road with Poison, Cheap Trick
Def Leppard has unveiled a lengthy itinerary of North American dates that has the British rock icons sharing the stage with Poison and Cheap Trick . The 40-city trek gets underway June 23 in Camden, NJ, and will canvas the US before finishing up Sept. 6 in Southern California.
With more than three decades of material from which to pull, the arena rockers have a four-hour interactive show planned that will "begin the moment the doors open," according to a press release, using Bluetooth technology and text messaging to infiltrate the crowd. Tickets for the epic tour go on sale March 6 with Citi cardmembers getting a presale advantage beginning March 4.
Bret Michaels, frontman of tour mates Poison and star of his own VH1 reality dating show, said, "There is nothing better than an epic summer concert and this tour is a dream come true for rock 'n' roll fans. It will be a night of a thousand hits with three hard-charging rock bands on the road together."
Michaels is right about the hard-hitting trio: the three bands have combined sales of 100 million albums, with 65 million of those attributed to Def Leppard. The rockers' latest album, 2008's "Songs From The Sparkle Lounge," debuted at No. 5 on The Billboard 200.
