The Classic Rock Show

The Classic Rock Show comes to the Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre on Friday 15 January 2027, starting at 7:30pm. It's a tribute night that pulls from a huge range of classic rock, with the set covering The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Queen, The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, The Eagles, Dire Straits, Meat Loaf, Van Halen, The Who, Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ Top and Fleetwood Mac. That's fourteen bands in one evening, so it's a broad sweep of the era rather than a deep dive into any one act.

The show is billed as 'The Classic Rock Fan's Ultimate Live Juke Box!', and the idea is to bring original recordings back to life on stage. It's backed by a multi-million dollar sound and light show, and the set is built around note-for-note anthems and riffs that build towards a guitar duel. The London Times called it 'the best rock show on the planet', and it's pitched as a night for rock fans young and old to celebrate more than three decades of the world's greatest classic rock music.

With that many bands on the bill, the set moves across a lot of ground. You've got the early British invasion of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, the psychedelic and prog leanings of Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin, the stadium rock of Queen and AC/DC, and the American sounds of The Eagles, Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top. Dire Straits, Meat Loaf, Van Halen, The Who and Fleetwood Mac round it out, so it's a wide-reaching look at the music that defined the period. Tickets start from £46.00, and the show kicks off at 7:30pm at the Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre on Westover Road.