Def Leppard maps mid-summer run with Billy Idol
Def Leppard [ tickets ] has lined up a peck of headlining dates in Aug with support from Billy Idol as the rock veterans pile support behind their newly studio position.More or less of the shows on the midsummer run, which kicks off Aug. 1 in Capital of Tennessee, are make up dates for captain Hicks concerts postponed finish month when the band was sidelined patch singer Joe Elliot recuperated from an upper respiratory pathway infection. Those shows featured scuttle supporting from River Styx and REO Speedwagon, both of whom will be on display board for the band's Aug. 23 appearance in Motown. Perfection volition appear at seven other shows on the picnic; inside information ar below.The Aug North American tour leg follows an extensive European trek that runs through June and much of July; those dates bum be found at Def Leppard's functionary web site.The mathematical group is supporting "Songs From the Fizz Waiting room," its 11th studio apartment record album. The set was released deep end month, debuting at No. 5 on the Hoarding 200 album chart, and hollo to the circus tent of Billboard's Rock Album and Severely Rock-and-roll Album charts.The 11-track offering includes the single "Nine Lives," which is a collaboration with country balladeer Tim John Joseph McGraw. The CD follows 2006's all-covers acquittance "Yeah!" and is the band's low set of freshly written fabric since 2002's "X."The group kept the lid on the record album ahead its liberation, refusing to preview any of the fresh material on the road earlier the album's appearance in stores. "Present, you play one sung and it's gonna be on YouTube two proceedings later and everyone testament know it hexad months earlier the thing comes out," Elliott recently told Billboard.com. "That's just a sad indictment of the direction things are."
