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Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard Going Global with 2023 World Tour
Fresh off a 2022 North American stadium tour, iconic rockers Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard announced a 2023 of Europe and South America.
The co-headlined Live Nation tour begins Feb. 18 at Foro Sol in Mexico City and includes stops in Colombia, Peru, Chile and Brazil before crossing the Atlantic. The European leg begins with a show at Brammall Lane in Def Leppard’s hometown of Sheffield, England, and continues with festival, arena and stadium stops in the UK, Germany, Hungary, Poland and elsewhere on the continent. The tour wraps with four dates in the UK and Ireland, beginning with a July 1 Wembley Stadium show in London and finishing July 6 at Glasgow’s Hampden Park. Additional dates are forthcoming, according to a press release. See the full routing below.
According to Pollstar Boxoffice reports the bands’ summer-long Stadium Tour, which included support from Poison and Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, grossed $176,542,805 on 1,341,035 tickets. The shows averaged 37,250 tickets for an average gross of $4,903,966.
The tour’s top-grossing date was Aug. 25 at Glendale, Ariz.’s State Farm Stadium at nearly $6.4 million. Two days later, the tour brought in nearly $6.2 million at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif.
Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard The World Tour 2023
Feb. 18 – Mexico City, Mexico – Foro Sol
Feb. 21 – Monterrey, Mexico – Estadio Banorte
Feb. 25 – Bogota, Colombia – Parque Simon Bolivar
Feb. 28 – Lima, Peru – Estadio Nacional
Mar. 03 – Santiago, Chile – Estadio Bicentenario de La Florida
Mar. 07 – Sao Paulo, Brazil – Allianz Parque
Mar. 09 – Curitiba, Brazil – Estádio Couto Pereira
Mar. 11 – Porto Alegre, Brazil – Arena do Grêmio
May 22 – Sheffield, UK – Bramall Lane
May 25 – Mönchengladbach, Germany – SparkassenPark
May 27 – Munich, Germany – Koenigsplatz
May 29 – Budapest, Hungary – MVM Dome
May 31 – Krakow, Poland – Tauron Arena Kraków
Jun. 02 – Prague, Czech Republic – Prague Rocks
Jun. 03 – Hannover, Germany – Expo Plaza
Jun. 07 – Solvesborg, Sweden – Sweden Rock Festival
Jun. 09 – Hyvinkää, Finland – RockFest
Jun. 11 – Trondheim, Norway – Trondheim Rocks
Jun. 14 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Copenhell
Jun. 18 – Dessel, Belgium – Graspop Metal Meeting
Jun. 20 – Milan, Italy – Ippodromo SNAI San Siro
Jun. 23 – Lisbon, Portugal – Passeio Maritimo de Alges
Jun. 24 – Rivas-Vaciamadrid, Spain – Auditorio Miguel Ríos
June 27 – Thun, Switzerland – Stockhorn Arena
Jul. 01 – London, UK – Wembley Stadium
Jul. 02 – Lytham, UK – Lytham Festival
Jul. 04 – Dublin, Ireland – Marlay Park
Jul. 06 – Glasgow, UK – Hampden Park