This Popular Group Will Play Their Last Concert Ever In Minnesota
A venue here in Minnesota is set to be the place where this iconic music group will play their last live show... ever.
The Land of 10,000 Lakes has a rich history of producing some incredible musical talent, right? There's Prince and Bob Dylan, of course (have you heard they're both from Minnesota?!?) as well as other artists like Adam Young (known as Owl City) from Owatonna, Trample By Turtles from Duluth and Yung Gravy from Rochester.
And, of course, the Twin Cities have also given us 90s acts like Semisonic, Soul Asylum and the Replacements. And more recently, Lizzo has also claimed Minnesota as her one-time home.
So perhaps it's fitting that this iconic group is set to perform their last live show EVER here in the North Star State. Do you know which group was going to wrap up their over 50-year career here in Minnesota?
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If you said the Eagles, you're right. The longtime band responsible for hits like Take It Easy, Peaceful Easy Feeling, Take It To The Limit, Already Gone launched their The Long Goodbye - Final Tour last fall, and originally, their last two scheduled dates were right here in the Gopher State.
The Eagles' official website notes that the tour launched on September 7th, 2023 at Madison Square Garden in New York on September 7th and was scheduled to wrap up on Friday, November 17th, 2023 at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul.
We want to give all our fans a chance to see us on this final round. We hope to see as many of you as we can before we finish up. Most importantly, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for embracing this band and its music. At the end of the day, you are the reason we have been able to carry on for over five decades. This is our swan song, but the music goes on and on.
The demand for tickets was so great that the band actually added extra dates here in Minnesota, as well as in New York, Denver, Boston, Indianapolis, and Atlanta as well. But, as expected, after announcing that initial round of dates, they kept adding more shows throughout 2024, including a recently announced residency at the Sphere out in Las Vegas.
Such is par for the course, it seems, as many bands *say* a tour might be their final tour, only to come out of retirement to tour again later. The Eagles famously did this when they broke up in the 80s, saying they'd only tour again when 'hell freezes over.'
The Eagles famously did this when they got back together in 1994 for their Hell Freezes Over Tour and subsequent live album, and have continued to tour on and off since then. But for a while last year, it appeared Minnesota was going to make history as the last show ever for this classic American band.
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