The Stadium Tour
Def Leppard & Mötley Crüe
with Poison and Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
June 25 at Busch Stadium
Tickets go on sale Friday, January 10 at 10am at Cardinals.com
December 18, 2019 – With over 700,000 tickets sold and gross box office receipts of
over $90 million in the first weekend of sales, The Stadium Tour featuring Def Leppard
and Motley Crue with Poison and Joan Jett & The Blackhearts will be the biggest rock
tour of 2020. The tour saw the fastest sell out in Miller Park history in Milwaukee
with additional shows selling out instantly in Atlanta, Seattle, Charlotte, Dallas,
Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chicago and Denver. The bands responded to the
unprecedented fan demand by announcing SEVEN new shows will be added in all new
cities: San Antonio, Kansas City, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Nashville, Cincinnati and
Cleveland. Produced by Live Nation, the added tour dates will begin pre-sales January
6th, check local venue listings for timing and more details.
“The word on the street was that fans were overly excited about this stadium tour even
before it was announced ... well it’s out there now & it keeps getting bigger & bigger ...
this is going to be a MONSTER of a tour!” says Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott.
Added Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx “Little did we know that making The Dirt movie
would lead us to this exciting new place touring stadiums with our friends in Def
Leppard. We are beyond excited for this tour to begin”.
Poison’s Bret Michaels also added “There are not enough words to thank the three
generations of fans for making this such an exciting, record breaking, historical tour with
the fastest sell outs in history at these stadiums”.
ABOUT DEF LEPPARD
With more than 100 million albums sold worldwide, THE 2019 ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME
INDUCTEES with two prestigious Diamond Awards in the U.S., Def Leppard-Joe Elliott(vocals),Phil
Collen (guitar), Rick "Sav" Savage (bass),Vivian Campbell (guitar)and Rick Allen(drums) - are one of the
most important forces in rock music. The band have amassed a staggering 2.5 billion streams since
releasing their music digitally only one year ago. As they did with the original release of their records, Def
Leppard dominated the worldwide charts again. Chart stats saw their albums charting in the iTunes Top 10
in more than 30 countries, including Hysteria at #3 in the US, and #5 in the UK. Def Leppard had the #1,
#2 and #3 records on the US catalog albums chart.
Over the course of their career the band has produced a series of classic ground-breaking albums that set
the bar for generations of music fans and artists alike. The group’s spectacular live shows and arsenal of
hits have become synonymous with their name, leading Def Leppard to be heralded as an institution in both
the music and touring industry. Def Leppard’s influential career includes numerous hit singles and groundbreaking multi-platinum albums—including two of the best-selling albums of all time, Pyromania and
Hysteria, capturing the group’s legendary tracks, bringing together classic Leppard hits such as “Rock of
Ages”, “Pour Some Sugar on Me” and “Foolin.” The band’s 2015 self-titled studio album debuted at #1 on
Billboard’s Top Rock Albums and Top Independent Albums charts. The album also took the #5 spot on
Billboard’s Top Current Albums and #10 spot on the Top 200, as well as claiming 15 top 10 debuts around
the world.
ABOUT MÖTLEY CRÜE
Hailing from Los Angeles, CA, the quartet—Vince Neil (vocals), Mick Mars (guitars), Nikki Sixx (bass),
and Tommy Lee (drums)— has commandeered the rock pantheon for 38 years. They've accumulated
worldwide album sales exceeding 100m, 7 platinum and multi-platinum albums, 22 Top 40 mainstream
rock hits, 6 Top 20 pop singles, 3 GRAMMY nominations, 4 New York Times best-sellers and even
landed a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. With utmost success from their biopic, The Dirt on Netflix
and its soundtrack, the band landed another #1 album on iTunes and Top 10 worldwide with 22 charttopping singles and 7 albums on the charts. Its massive global success saw Mötley Crüe's popularity rush
to new highs, catapulting the band's music back to the top of the worldwide charts with the younger 18-44
demographic now representing 64% of the band's fanbase. Moreover, in the six months following the
release of THE DIRT, Mötley Crüe has celebrated a meteoric rise of almost 350% increase in streams of
their music across all streaming platforms. Known for their iconic live performances, they've sold-out
countless tours across the globe in front of millions of fans with groundbreaking production highlights
such as Tommy Lee's, Crüecifly-Drum-Rollercoaster and Nikki Sixx's Flame-Throwing-Bass. The
band concluded their extensive two-year final tour in 2015 after 165 shows across 5 continents, grossing
over $100m. Mötley Crüe's music is frequently licensed by major household brands such as KIA Motors,
Dodge, Coldwell Banker, NASCAR, Carl's Jr. and many more.
ABOUT POISON
In its all original line up POISON (Bret Michaels, C.C. DeVille, Bobby Dall, Rikki Rockett) has kept it
rocking, real and relevant and promises they will bring their own style, unbelievable live energy and big hit
songs to the stage this summer. Relentless from the ground up and forged in the hell fires of the
Pennsylvania and Los Angeles club scenes, they smashed their way up as an independent band who bet
on themselves. Selling over 3 million copies of an independent album which included the big hits “Talk
Dirty To Me”, “I Won’t Forget You”, “Cry Tough”, “I Want Action” and the underground smash “Look What
The Cat Dragged In” they were soon picked up by Capitol Records and beat the sophomore jinx by
releasing the #1 smash “Every Rose Has Its Thorn”. Written out of emotion by singer/songwriter and
frontman Bret Michaels, the song blasted into the charts remaining a top the pop, rock and country
genres for 3 months consecutively. The album “Open Up and Say...Ahh!” sold 8 million copies out of the
gate and spawned other hit singles, “Fallen Angel”, “Nothin’ But A Good Time” and “Your Mama Don’t
Dance”. Followed up by the multi-platinum album “Flesh & Blood” Poison again lit up the charts with
several more smash hit singles including “Unskinny Bop, “Something To Believe In” and more! Friday the
13th will be a historic date for two reasons, the Stadium Tour tickets will go on sale plus POISON frontman
Bret Michaels, a lifelong Type 1 juvenile diabetic will receive his recently awarded Humanitarian Of The
Year award for his philanthropic work on The CW. Bret Michaels continues to celebrate our veterans and
first responders on-stage nightly keeping all politics aside, just respect for these heroes. With a long list of
big hit TV shows including multiple seasons of Vh1’s highest rated show “Rock Of Love," which brought
all the Poison hits to a new generation of fans, and NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice , Michaels vows on
behalf of his band that they will bring the live, raw and real energy that is synonymous with POISON to
the stage with all their biggest hits this summer along with an incredible VIP meet and greet and photo
experience that all their fans have come to know.
ABOUT JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS
Joan Jett is an originator, an innovator, and a visionary. As the leader of the hard- rocking Blackhearts,
with whom she has become a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, she’s had eight platinum and gold
albums and nine Top 40 singles, including the classics "Bad Reputation," "I Love Rock 'N' Roll," "I Hate
Myself For Loving You," and "Crimson and Clover." Her independent record label, Blackheart, was
founded in 1980 after she was rejected by no less than 23 labels. Blackheart is one of the longest running
indie labels and continues to give voice to new bands. As a producer, she has overseen albums by Bikini
Kill, Circus Lupus, as well as the Germs' LA punk masterpiece, GI. Jett’s music has become a permanent
force in mainstream culture. Jett and the Blackhearts released their latest record, 'Unvarnished,' in 2013
and continue touring the globe with headline shows alongside fellow rock icons like The Who, Green Day
and the Foo Fighters. Additionally, Jett has acted and appeared in movies & television, including the film
Light Of Day. Jett was also able to see her story told in The Runaways, the film based on (lead singer of
The Runaways) Cherie Currie's book Neon Angel, starring Kristen Stewart as Jett, and Dakota Fanning
as Currie. Jett was close to the project, serving as executive producer. In January 2018, the documentary
film based on Jett’s life, “Bad Reputation,” – produced by Blackheart’s SVP Carianne Brinkman and
directed by Kevin Kerslake – premiered to critical acclaim at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, with the
New York Post hailing that “‘Bad Reputation’ does it right, tracing Jett’s trailblazing path as one of the
first, and still the hardest-rocking, woman.”
