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<b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Great Britain’s Arena Rock Legends Announce Massive US Tour</span></u></b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Set to Hit the Road This Summer with Rockers Poison & <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Lita Ford<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<b><i><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Tour set to kick off in Salt Lake City, UT on June 20<sup>th</sup>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Great Britain’s premiere arena rock band
<b>Def Leppard</b> have announced that they will make a return to the United States this June with a massive summer tour. Dates for the first leg were announced today (see below) with the tour scheduled to kick off on
<b>June 20<sup>th</sup></b> in <b>Salt Lake City, UT</b>. Joining Def Leppard for this highly anticipated summer tour are rockers
<b>Poison</b> and <b>Lita Ford</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Def Leppard’s influential career includes numerous hit singles and ground-breaking multi-platinum albums—including two of the best selling albums of all time,
<b><u>Pyromania</u></b> and <b><u>Hysteria</u></b>. Most recently, the band released their first live album
<b><u>Mirror Ball: Live & More</u></b> last summer, which rose to the <b>top 20</b> on the Billboard Top 200 album chart. The album captures the group’s legendary concert experience, bringing together live versions of classic Leppard hits such as “<b>Rock of
Ages</b>,” <b>Pour Some Sugar</b> <b>on</b> <b>Me</b>” and “<b>Foolin</b>” and will feature their soon to be released single, “<b>It’s All About Believin’</b>.”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">“<i>We had such a good time going out with Poison in 2009 that we thought it only right to do it again</i>!” says singer Joe Elliott.
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<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">With 100 million records sold worldwide and
<b>two</b> prestigious <b>Diamond Awards </b>to their credit, Def Leppard--<b>Joe Elliott</b> (vocals),
<b>Vivian Campbell</b> (guitar), <b>Phil Collen</b> (guitar), <b>Rick "Sav" Savage</b> (bass) and
<b>Rick Allen</b> (drums)—continues to be one of the most important forces in rock music. Over the course of their career, the band has produced a series of classic groundbreaking albums that set the sound for generations of music fans and artists alike. The
group’s spectacular live shows, filled with powerful melodic rock anthems, have become synonymous with their name. For the past thirty years the band’s concerts have become must-see events and have quickly made them an institution in the touring industry,
as they continue to sell out arenas worldwide<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Def Leppard's US tour dates with Poison are as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">June 20 Salt Lake City, UT USANA Amphitheater<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">June 22 Irvine, CA Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">June 23 Las Vegas, NV Red Rock Amphitheatre<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">June 25 Denver, CO Pepsi Center<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">June 27 Kansas City, MO Sprint Center<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">June 29 Atlanta, GA Aaron’s Amphitheatre at Lakewood<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">June 30 Tampa, FL Tampa Bay Times Forum<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">July 2 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">July 3 Nashville, TN Bridgestone Arena<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">July 6 Cleveland, OH Quicken Loans Arena<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">July 7 Detroit, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">July 10 Baltimore, MD Merriweather Pavilion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">July 11 Newark, NJ Prudential Center<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">July 13 Wantagh, NY Nikon at Jones Beach Pavilion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">July 16 Montreal, QC Bell Centre<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">July 17 Hamilton, ON Copps Coliseum<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">July 19 Chicago, IL Allstate Arena<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">July 22 Cadott, WI Rock Fest 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Poison, one of rock’s most iconic and enduring bands, has been one of the music industry’s top acts, with multi-platinum album sales and sold out tours
since first bursting onto the scene in 1986. The success of the band’s recent album releases and tours shows that Poison is as potent 26 years after the release of their debut album,
<u>Look What The Cat Dragged In</u>, as ever. Poison's Bret Michaels (lead vocals, guitar), C.C. Deville (lead guitar, vocals), Bobby Dall (bass) and Rikki Rockett (drums), have sold more than 30 million albums worldwide and charted twelve Top 10 hits. Throughout
Poison's career, the band's members have enjoyed collaborative and solo successes from the stage to screen. Bret has branched out as a solo artist, a successful run as a reality star, businessman, and activist. His most recent solo release, "Custom Built"
shot to Number One on the Billboard Top Hard Rock Album chart. A lifelong diabetic with a serious commitment to the cause, Bret donated his $250,000 “Celebrity Apprentice” prize to diabetes research, earning him the honor of being a spokesperson for the American
Diabetes Association.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Def</b> <b>Leppard</b>’s US tour and tickets please visit the band’s web site at
<a href="http://www.defleppard.com">www.defleppard.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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