Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard’s joint 2022 “Stadium Tour” received ‘Rock Tour of the 12 months’ on the 2023 Pollstar Awards this week (Feb. 22). Additionally on the ceremony, the Eagles took dwelling the Pollstar Milestone Award and Dave Grohl honored his supervisor.
The annual Pollstar Awards, organized by the stay music commerce publication Pollstar, have acknowledged and celebrated the stay leisure companies’ most modern artists, venues, excursions, corporations and executives over the past 34 years.
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The Stadium Tour — Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard’s twice-postponed North American trek collectively — was additionally one of many highest-grossing excursions of 2022 and earned over $173 million on the highway.
“The World Tour,” one other joint tour from Crue and Leppard, is now traversing the globe with Motley Crue’s alternative guitarist John 5 in for a retired Mick Mars. It continues by way of Europe this summer time.
Half from scooping ‘Rock Tour Of The 12 months’, ‘The Stadium Tour’ received at Pollstar in additional methods than one — Joan Jett acquired Assist/Particular Visitor Act of the 12 months for her assist on the tour alongside fellow opening acts Poison and Classless Act.
Rock and Roll Corridor of Famers the Eagles acquired the Milestone Award in recognition of greater than 50 years as a band. Accepting it the Eagles’ Don Henley stated, “I simply wish to say how grateful I’m for the truth that we’ve been ready to do that for over 50 years now.”
Grohl was at Pollstar to provide the Private Supervisor of the 12 months award to his longtime supervisor, John Silva of Silva Artist Administration.
In the course of the present, Grohl got here to the stage calling it “the one f_king awards ceremony that’s truly enjoyable,” in keeping with a press launch.
The Foo Fighter added, “I’m right here to honor an individual that I’ve recognized for 33 years, the one supervisor I’ve ever had, Mr. John Silva…We’ve had some unimaginable triumphs, and a few devastating crises, however the one factor that has saved us collectively through the years has been love.”
The Pollstar Awards are the one “peer-voted” stay leisure trade awards, Pollstar says, that means winners are determined by different trade professionals. See the complete checklist of 2023 winners right here. Different winners included Harry Kinds (Main Tour of the 12 months), Submit Malone (Hip-Hop Tour of the 12 months), Lizzo (R&B Tour of the 12 months) and Billie Eilish (Pop Tour of the 12 months).
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