The Def Leppard World Tour was a tour by English rock band Def Leppard in support of their self-titled album. The tour started with 13 dates in Canada through April and May. The end of May and beginning of June was spent playing 12 dates in Europe before Def Leppard returned to the United States for 48 dates with Styx and Tesla from June to October.
History Announcements of the first dates of the tour began in December 2014 when Def Leppard announced a 13 date tour of Canada in the April and May 2015. It will be the band's first tour of Canada since their 2008 Songs from the Sparkle Lounge Tour. The Canadian tour is to be followed by 12 dates and festivals in Europe from May to June. On February 12, 2015, Def Leppard announced 48 dates touring the US with Styx and Tesla. Joe Elliott and other members of the band have stated that the North American Tour would extend to a full world tour to follow through December 2015, with a cruise and second Las Vegas residency planned for early 2016. On March 27, 2015, Def Leppard announced the "Let's Get Rocked in the Still of the Night II" tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland with Whitesnake in December 2015.
Setlist Canadian leg setlist. Most of the songs performed are standards that the band performs on most or all of their tours, however there were two less commonly performed songs from the Euphoria album that were pulled out for this tour. The song "Promises" was included along with "Paper Sun", which was played for the first time since its initial airings during the Euphoria Tour in 2000.
"Let's Go" "Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop)" "Animal" "Dangerous" "Let It Go" "Foolin'" "Promises" "Paper Sun" "Love Bites" "Armageddon It" "Rock On" "Two Steps Behind" "Rocket" "Bringin' On the Heartbreak" "Switch 625" "Hysteria" "Let's Get Rocked" "Pour Some Sugar on Me" Encore "Rock of Ages" "Photograph"
Tour dates Date City Country Venue Canada 15 April 2015 Penticton Canada South Okanagan Events Center 17 April 2015 Victoria Save on Foods Memorial Center 18 April 2015 Vancouver Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena 20 April 2015 Dawson Creek EnCana Events Centre 22 April 2015 Calgary Scotiabank Saddledome 23 April 2015 Edmonton Rexall Place 25 April 2015 Lethbridge Enmax Centre 26 April 2015 Regina Brandt Centre 28 April 2015 Saskatoon SaskTel Centre 29 April 2015 Winnipeg MTS Centre 2 May 2015 Montreal Bell Centre 4 May 2015 Ottawa TD Place Arena 5 May 2015 London Budweiser Gardens Europe 15 May 2015 Minsk Belarus Minsk Sports Palace 17 May 2015 Vilnius Lithuania Siemens Arena 19 May 2015 Warsaw Poland Torwar Hall 22 May 2015 Ostrava Czech Republic ČEZ Aréna 23 May 2015 Prague O2 Arena 25 May 2015 Stuttgart Germany Porsche-Arena 27 May 2015 Frankfurt Stadthalle Offenbach 28 May 2015 Cologne Palladium 30 May 2015 Esbjerg Denmark Esjberg Rock Festival 2 June 2015 Oslo Norway Oslo Spektrum 4 June 2015 Sölvesborg Sweden Sweden Rock Festival 6 June 2015 Tampere Finland Tampere South Park FestivalNorth America with Styx & Tesla 20 June 2015 San Juan Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum 23 June 2015 Tampa United States MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre 25 June 2015 West Palm Beach Coral Sky Amphitheater 27 June 2015 Birmingham Oak Mountain Amphitheatre 28 June 2015 Atlanta Aaron's Amphitheatre 30 June 2015 Charlotte PNC Music Pavilion 2 July 2015 Bristow Jiffy Lube Live 3 July 2015 Virginia Beach Farm Bureau Live 5 July 2015 Uncasville Mohegan Sun Arena 7 July 2015 Gilford Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion at Meadowbrook 9 July 2015 Mansfield Xfinity Center 11 July 2015 Bethel Bethel Woods Center for the Arts 12 July 2015 Darien Darien Lake Performing Arts Center 14 July 2015 Toronto Canada Molson Canadian Amphitheatre 15 July 2015 Youngstown United States Covelli Centre 17 July 2015 Clarkston DTE Energy Music Theatre 18 July 2015 Oshkosh Rock USA 21 July 2015 Mt. Pleasant Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort 23 July 2015 Wantagh Nikon at Jones Beach Theater 24 July 2015 Saratoga Springs Saratoga Performing Arts Center 25 July 2015 Holmdel PNC Bank Arts Center 27 July 2015 Paso Robles Midstate Fair 7 August 2015 Sturgis Buffalo Chip Campground 8 August 2015 Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Arena 10 August 2015 Oklahoma City Chesapeake Energy Arena 11 August 2015 Kansas City Starlight Theatre 14 August 2015 Sedalia Missouri State Fair 15 August 2015 Des Moines Iowa State Fair 17 August 2015 Cincinnati Riverbend Music Center 18 August 2015 Nashville Bridgestone Arena 21 August 2015 Dallas Gexa Energy Pavilion 22 August 2015 The Woodlands Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion 23 August 2015 Austin Austin360 Amphitheater 27 August 2015 Saint Paul Minnesota State Fair 28 August 2015 Grand Forks Alerus Center 30 August 2015 Noblesville Klipsch Music Center 1 September 2015 Allentown Great Allentown Fair 3 September 2015 Louisville KFC Yum! Center 4 September 2015 Maryland Heights Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre 5 September 2015 Tinley Park First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre 16 September 2015 Auburn White River Amphitheatre 17 September 2015 Ridgefield Sleep Country Amphitheater 19 September 2015 Mountain View Shoreline Amphitheatre 20 September 2015 Inglewood The Forum 22 September 2015 Chula Vista Sleep Train Amphitheatre 23 September 2015 Phoenix Ak-Chin Pavilion 25 September 2015 Albuquerque Isleta Amphitheater 26 September 2015 Denver Pepsi Center 28 September 2015 West Valley City USANA Amphitheatre 30 September 2015 Spokane Spokane Arena 2 October 2015 Bozeman Brick Breeden Fieldhouse 4 October 2015 Bismarck Bismarck Civic CenterNorth America with Foreigner & Night Ranger / Tesla 5 October 2015 Saint Paul United States Xcel Energy Center 7 October 2015 Moline iWireless Center 9 October 2015 Tulsa BOK Center 10 October 2015 Wichita Intrust Bank Arena 11 October 2015 Lincoln Pinnacle Bank Arena 14 October 2015 Columbus The Schottenstein Center 16 October 2015 Columbia Colonial Life Arena 17 October 2015 Jacksonville Veterans Memorial ArenaAsia & Australia 9 November 2015 Tokyo Japan Nippon Budokan 10 November 2015 Osaka Orix Theater 12 November 2015 Nagoya Zepp 13 November 2015 Sendai Sun Plaza Hall 17 November 2015 Sydney Australia Sydney Entertainment Centre 18 November 2015 Melbourne Rod Laver Arena 21 November 2015 Perth Red Hill Auditorium24 November 2015SingaporeSingaporeSuntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition CentreU.K. & Ireland with Whitesnake 6 December 2015 Dublin Ireland 3Arena 7 December 2015 Belfast Northern Ireland Odyssey Arena 8 December 2015 Newcastle upon Tyne England Metro Radio Arena 10 December 2015 Glasgow Scotland The SSE Hydro 12 December 2015 Birmingham England Genting Arena 13 December 2015 Nottingham Capital FM Arena 15 December 2015 Manchester Manchester Arena 16 December 2015 Cardiff Wales Motorpoint Arena Cardiff 18 December 2015 London England SSE Arena, Wembley 19 December 2015 Sheffield Motorpoint Arena Sheffield
Gross
The tour grossed US$54 million, with 992,099 tickets sold at 96 concerts.
Personnel Def Leppard Rick Savage – bass, backing vocals Joe Elliott – lead vocals Rick Allen – drums, percussion, backing vocals Phil Collen – guitar, backing vocals Vivian Campbell – guitar, backing vocals
Touring members Steve Brown – guitar, backing vocals (filled-in for Vivian Campbell on June 23, June 25 and June 27, 2015)
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