Def Leppard World Tour 2019

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Def Leppard World Tour 2019
Concert by Def Leppard
Start dateJune 6, 2019 (2019-06-06)
End dateJuly 31, 2019 (2019-07-31)
Legs2
No. of shows26
Def Leppard tour chronology
Hysteria & More Tour
(2018)
World Tour 2019
(2019)

The Def Leppard World Tour 2019 is an upcoming concert tour by British rock band Def Leppard. The tour will begin on June 6, 2019 in Sweden at the Sweden Rock Festival in Solvesborg, Sweden.

Def Leppard British band

Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1977 in Sheffield as part of the new wave of British heavy metal movement. Since 1992, the band has consisted of Joe Elliott, Rick Savage, Rick Allen, Phil Collen, and Vivian Campbell. This is the band's longest lasting line-up.

Sweden Rock Festival heavy metal music festival in Sweden

Sweden Rock Festival is an annual rock/metal festival held in Sweden since 6 June 1992. While having a clear rock/metal focus, the festival is noted for its diversity across these genres, having featured southern rock bands such as Molly Hatchet to death metal legends like Obituary.

Sölvesborg Place in Blekinge, Sweden

Sölvesborg is a locality and the seat of Sölvesborg Municipality in Blekinge County, Sweden with 10,024 inhabitants in 2013.

Contents

Bon Jovi will also be appearing on the Sonderborg, Düsseldorf and Munich shows. [1] Whitesnake will appear at the Milan show. [2]

Bon Jovi Rock band from the United States

Bon Jovi is an American rock band formed in 1983 in Sayreville, New Jersey. It consists of singer Jon Bon Jovi, keyboardist David Bryan, drummer Tico Torres, guitarist Phil X, and bassist Hugh McDonald. Previous bassist Alec John Such was dismissed in 1994, and longtime guitarist and co-songwriter Richie Sambora left in 2013.

Sønderborg Place in Southern Denmark, Denmark

Sønderborg (Danish pronunciation: [ˈsønɐˌbɒːˀ] - is a Danish town in the Region of Southern Denmark. It is the main town and the administrative seat of Sønderborg Municipality. The town has a population of 27,434, in a municipality of 75,264.

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Düsseldorf is the capital and second-largest city of the most populous German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, as well as the seventh-largest city in Germany. with a population of 617,280. At the confluence of the Rhine and its tributary Düssel, the city lies in the centre of both the Rhine-Ruhr and the Rhineland Metropolitan Regions with the Cologne Bonn region to its south and the Ruhr to its north. Most of the city lies on the right bank of the Rhine. The city is the largest in the German Low Franconian dialect area. "Dorf" meaning "village" in German, the "-dorf" suffix is unusual in the German-speaking area for a settlement of Düsseldorf's size.

Background

The band was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on March 29, 2019 in Brooklyn, New York. In late 2018 the band announced a world tour in celebration of the induction which followed the December 2018 UK and Ireland tour.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Hall of fame located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, recognizes and archives the history of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers, and other notable figures who have had some major influence on the development of rock and roll. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation was established on April 20, 1983, by Atlantic Records founder and chairman Ahmet Ertegun. In 1986, Cleveland was chosen as the Hall of Fame's permanent home.

Brooklyn Borough in New York City and county in New York state, United States

Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with an estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017. Named after the Dutch village of Breukelen, it borders the borough of Queens at the western end of Long Island. Brooklyn has several bridge and tunnel connections to the borough of Manhattan across the East River, and the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge connects Staten Island. Since 1896, Brooklyn has been coterminous with Kings County, the most populous county in the U.S. state of New York and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, after New York County.

New York (state) State of the United States of America

New York is a state in the Northeastern United States. New York was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that formed the United States. With an estimated 19.54 million residents in 2018, it is the fourth most populous state. To distinguish the state from the city in the state with the same name, it is sometimes called New York State.

Tour dates

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, tickets sold, amount of available tickets and gross revenue
DateCityCountryVenueAttendanceRevenue
Europe
June 6, 2019 Solvesborg Sweden Sweden Rock Festival
June 9, 2019 Hyvinkää Finland Hyvinkää Airfield (Rockfest)
June 11, 2019 Sonderborg Denmark Slagmarken [3]
June 14, 2019 Derby England Download Festival
June 17, 2019 Prague Czech Republic O2 Arena
June 19, 2019 Milan Italy Mediolanum Forum [4]
June 20, 2019 Hinwil Switzerland Rock the Ring [5]
June 22, 2019 Clisson France Hellfest
June 23, 2019 Dessel Belgium Graspop Metal Meeting [6] [7]
June 27, 2019 Trondheim Norway Dahls Arena (Trondheim Rocks) [8]
June 29, 2019 Oslo Ekebergsletta (Tons of Rock)
July 2, 2019 Berlin Germany Spandau Citadel [9]
July 3, 2019 Düsseldorf Merkur Spiel Arena
July 5, 2019 Munich Olympiastadion
July 7, 2019 Barcelona Spain Rock Fest Barcelona [10]
Canada
July 12, 2019 Halifax Canada Scotiabank Centre
July 13, 2019 Moncton Avenir Centre
July 15, 2019 Quebec City Centre Videotron
July 17, 2019 Montreal Bell Centre
July 19, 2019 Ottawa Canadian Tire Centre
July 20, 2019 Hamilton FirstOntario Centre
July 22, 2019 London Budweiser Gardens
July 25, 2019 Winnipeg Bell MTS Place
July 27, 2019 Saskatoon SaskTel Centre
July 29, 2019 Edmonton Rogers Place
July 31, 2019 Calgary Scotiabank Saddledome
Total

Personnel

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