{"id":926041,"date":"2026-10-09T03:04:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T03:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/926041\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T03:04:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T03:04:22","slug":"when-is-def-leppard-coming-to-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/926041\/","title":{"rendered":"When is Def Leppard coming to Vancouver?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Def Leppard fans across the region can thank a cadre of south Florida strippers who are all seniors by now for the band\u2019s upcoming show in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>Beset by financial problems after the 1987 release of Hysteria, the track \u201cPour Some Sugar on Me\u201d was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/def-leppard-pour-some-sugar-on-me\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href, &#039;&#039;, &#039;resizable=no,status=no,location=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no,fullscreen=no,scrollbars=no,dependent=no&#039;); return false;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">requested en masse by exotic dancers in the Sunshine State<\/a> to the point that the album eventually rebounded to mythological status, selling\u00a0more than 20 million copies across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Which leads us to today\u2019s announcement of the English rockers arriving in town next spring alongside \u2014 you guessed it\u00a0\u2014\u00a0the Goo Goo Dolls.<\/p>\n<p>Slated for May 14 at Rogers Arena, the show comes on the back of Def Leppard\u2019s Greatest Hits compilation released this past summer. Two songs from the compilation entered the Top 10 of the U.K.\u2019s Top Charts, while the band\u2019s cumulative output includes more than 110 million albums sold.<\/p>\n<p>The Goo Goo Dolls, meanwhile, can thank their track \u201cIris\u201d as being the band\u2019s biggest meal ticket. It&#8217;s garnered more than six billion streams and helped push the band into rarefied air status of owning a Diamond-certified hit (10,000,000 in sales).<\/p>\n<p>Def Leppard in Vancouver<\/p>\n<p>When: May 14, 2027<\/p>\n<p>Where: Rogers Arena \u2013 800 Griffiths Way.<\/p>\n<p>Cost: TBA.\u00a0Presale starts on Monday, Oct. 12. <a class=\"noparams\" href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster.evyy.net\/c\/6269823\/264167\/4272?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.ca%2Fdef-leppard-and-goo-goo-dolls-vancouver-british-columbia-05-14-2027%2Fevent%2F11006545C3E090B1&amp;partnerpropertyid=7113143\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get tickets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you buy tickets through the Ticketmaster link, we may earn a small commission that helps support our local journalism.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Def Leppard fans across the region can thank a cadre of south Florida strippers who are all seniors&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-926041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}