Aerosmith plans farewell tour amid Steven Tyler sexual-assault allegations
Aerosmith is able to walk its way into the sundown.
Fifty years after releasing its self-titled debut in January 1973, the rock legends announced their upcoming farewell tour, Peace Out, Monday.
“It’s not goodbye it’s PEACE OUT! Prepare and stroll this manner, you’re going to get one of the best present of our lives,” the band mentioned in a joint assertion.
The 40-date North American tour will kick off Sept. 2 in Philadelphia earlier than hitting New York’s Madison Sq. Backyard on Jan. 19, whereas additionally making a cease at Prudential Heart in Newark, NJ, on Dec. 28. And the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers will play a particular hometown present at Boston’s TD Backyard on New Yr’s Eve.
“Shake Your Moneymaker” band the Black Crowes will heat issues up as Aerosmith’s opening act on the tour.
The top of the highway for Aerosmith comes amid allegations that frontman Steven Tyler sexually assaulted a 16-year-old woman in 1973 and compelled her to get an abortion. The claims had been made in a December 2022 lawsuit filed by Julia Misley (previously referred to as Julia Holcomb) simply days earlier than the statute of limitations on reporting childhood sexual abuse crimes would have expired.
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However Tyler, 75, has denied the allegations, asking for the lawsuit to be dismissed in a prolonged response filed in March.
Tyler admitted to having a relationship with a then-unnamed 16-year-old woman — when he was 25 — in his 2004 memoir “Does the Noise in My Head Trouble You?” However whereas Misley mentioned that the rock star “carried out numerous acts of prison sexual conduct” upon her — Tyler claims that it was all consensual.
