{"id":302464,"date":"2026-10-08T17:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T17:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/302464\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T17:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T17:22:12","slug":"2-famous-bands-to-rock-out-at-ppl-center-next-year-entertainment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/302464\/","title":{"rendered":"2 famous bands to rock out at PPL Center next year | Entertainment News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Two famous rock bands will <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pplcenter.com\/events\/detail\/def-leppard-and-goo-goo-dolls-with-special-guest-the-struts?utm_source=hive&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=hive_email_id_684618_def-leppard-goo-goo-dolls-show-announce&amp;h_sid=978a927603-1514f65e742660083759e30c&amp;h_slt=eyJoaXZlX3VzZXJfaWQiOjg2OTQ1MTUwLCJoYXNoIjoiZDQ0YTdkYzdlY2EzZWIyIn0%3D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">take the stage at the PPL Center<\/a> next year.<\/p>\n<p>Def Leppard and the Goo Goo Dolls, with special guest The Struts, will perform March 2, 2027 at 7 p.m., the venue said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The presale begins next week. Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday, Oct. 16 at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Tour Def Leppard and the Goo Goo Dolls, with special guest The Struts.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ac7c57914122.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"250\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image from PPL Center<\/p>\n<p>Def Leppard is famous for such hits as \u201cPour Some Sugar On Me\u201d and \u201cRock of Ages.\u201d Goo Goo Dolls is known for such songs as \u201cIris\u201d and \u201cSlide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both bands have played in the Lehigh Valley before.<\/p>\n<p>Goo Goo Dolls headlined Musikfest in 2023, and Def Leppard played at the PPL Center in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Two famous rock bands will take the stage at the PPL Center next year. Def&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,153,155,154,7019,23192,41407,558,124381],"class_list":["post-302464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-allentown","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-concert","tag-def-leppard","tag-goo-goo-dolls","tag-ppl-center","tag-the-struts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}