The Stadium Tour was a co-headlining concert tour by English rock band

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and American rock band Mötley Crüe, taking place in the summer and fall of 2022 in venues across North America. Poison and

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served as the tour's special guests, while Classless Act was the opening band. It was Mötley Crüe's first major tour in seven years (following their final world tour in 2014–2015), and Def Leppard's first in three years, with the latter touring in support of their twelfth studio album ''

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''. The Stadium Tour was announced on December 4, 2019, and was set to take place in the summer of 2020. It was later announced that the tour would be rescheduled for 2021 due to the

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. The tour was once again pushed back to 2022 due to the same circumstances. The tour began on June 16, 2022 in

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and concluded on September 9, 2022 in

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. The members of Def Leppard indicated that a European version of The Stadium Tour would take place in 2023. Tour dates for the Latin American and European tour were later announced on October 20, 2022; this tour was advertised as

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and will once again be a co-headlining tour of Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe.

Support acts

Special guests

* Poison *

Opening act

* Classless Act

Setlists

Tour dates

Personnel

Def Leppard *

Rick Savage Richard Savage (born 2 December 1960) is an English musician best known for being the bass guitarist and one of the founding members of the English rock band Def Leppard. Savage and lead singer Joe Elliott are the only two remaining original ...

– bass, backing vocals *

Joe Elliott Joseph Thomas "Joe" Elliott (born 1 August 1959) is an English–Irish rock singer, best known as the lead singer and one of the founding members of the hard rock band Def Leppard. He has also been the lead singer of the David Bowie tribute ba ...

– lead vocals, occasional acoustic guitar * Rick Allen – drums, percussion *

Phil Collen Philip Kenneth Collen (born 8 December 1957) is an English musician who is best known as the co-lead guitarist for the rock band Def Leppard, joining the band in 1982 during the recording of the ''Pyromania'' album. Prior to joining Def Leppa ...

– guitar, backing vocals *

Vivian Campbell Vivian Patrick Campbell (born 25 August 1962) is a Northern Irish guitarist. He came to prominence in the early 1980s as a member of Dio, and has been a member of Def Leppard since 1992 (replacing Steve Clark after his death). Campbell has al ...

– guitar, backing vocals Mötley Crüe *

Nikki Sixx Nikki Sixx (born Frank Carlton Serafino Feranna Jr.; December 11, 1958) is an American musician, best known as the co-founder, bassist, and primary songwriter of the heavy metal band Mötley Crüe. Prior to forming Mötley Crüe, Sixx was a me ...

– bass, piano, backing vocals * Vince Neil – lead vocals *

Tommy Lee Thomas Lee Bass (born October 3, 1962) is an American musician and founding member of the heavy metal band Mötley Crüe. As well as being the band's long-term drummer, Lee founded rap metal band Methods of Mayhem and has pursued solo musical ...

– drums, piano, backing vocals * Mick Mars – guitar, backing vocals :Additional personnel: :*

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– drums :*"Nasty Habits": :**Laura "Lolo" D'Anzieri – backing vocals, dancer :**Bailey Swift – backing vocals, dancer :**Hannah Sutton – backing vocals, dancer

References

Notes

Citations

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