First Shows

'Appetite for Destruction' quintet performed for the first time only two days before beginning their first tour.

Guitarist's first show with the band took place April 15, 1992.

Kiss and the former Van Halen frontman played the first of many planned shows together.

Longtime Van Halen singer plays first full solo show in 13 years.

A new era started in Branson, Mo., on July 8, 1999.

Singer made concert debut with band at MTV Europe Music Awards in 2011.

They mounted their first tour of America after two and a half years together as a band.

Abandoning the Yardbirds title for good, Jimmy Page and colleagues began their climb to world domination at a university dance.

Phil Collins began his first North American tour in eight years with a hits-packed show at the BB&T Center in Sunrise, Fla.

The band's musical transformations have been played out on stages all over the world.