One's Bad to the Bone, the second is Ironic and the third is the Man from Down Under. What do they have in common?
They're the three international artists coming to Taupo in January, with pre-sale tickets going on sale today.
Concert organisers Greenstone Entertainment Ltd have announced the 2018 Taupo Summer Concert at the Taupo Amphitheatre will feature George Thorogood & The Destroyers, Alanis Morissette and Colin Hay of Men At Work fame.
The three acts, with a huge range of hits between them, will be hitting New Zealand for a three-date national tour, with concerts in Taupo, Queenstown and Whitianga.
The 2018 Taupo Summer Concert on Saturday, January 27 follows last year's 2017 Summer Concert tour which was sold out with audiences reaching 45,000 across the three shows.
George Thorogood. Photo/Supplied
The 2018 concerts will feature the hard-driving powerful rock and blues of George Thorogood & The Destroyers, the multi-talented and one of the most influential singer-songwriter-musicians in contemporary music, Morissette, and the unmistakable voice and lead singer of one of the most successful Australian bands in Hay.
It will be seven years since George Thorogood & The Destroyers last performed in New Zealand. Their 20 albums include six gold and two platinum discs, and have sold over 15 million copies worldwide. The band has amassed a huge catalogue of hits which have been the staple of rock radio stations for years, including
Who Do You Love, I Drink Alone, One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer, Move It On Over, Get A Haircut
Morissette last performed in New Zealand in 1998 after her 1995 debut album, Jagged Little Pill, featuring hit songs
You Oughta Know, Hand In My Pocket
and
Ironic
, peaked at number one on the New Zealand charts. The album ranks at number 33 in the top 1000 bestselling albums of all time in New Zealand. Hit singles
have also reached numbers 1, 2 and 3 respectively on the New Zealand singles charts.
Morissette has sold more than 60 million albums worldwide and was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2015. She has seven Grammy Award wins, along with Rolling Stone magazine ranking Jagged Little Pill album on its Women in Rock - The 50 Essential Albums list.
Colin Hay. Photo/Supplied
Hay was frontman, guitarist and principal songwriter for '80s hit machine Men At Work, pumping out hit after hit from the Aussie band's number one selling Business As Usual album. Colin Hay is responsible for some of the most identifiable sounds in pop music, including hit songs Down Under, Be Good Johnny and Who Can It Be Now.
Greenstone Entertainment Amanda Calvert said she was excited to announce the summer concert tour line up.
"These three legendary acts have a huge list of hit songs which will be sure to have everyone on their feet in January for another spectacular Summer Concert Tour."
Summer Concert Series Queenstown - Gibbston Valley Winery, Saturday January 20 Taupo - Taupo Amphitheatre, Saturday January 27 Whitianga - Whitianga Waterways Arena, Sunday January 28
