MICHAEL Bolton will play Hull Bonus Arena on October 3 and Harrogate Convention Centre on October 13 next autumn.
The American singer, songwriter and social activist, from New Haven, Connecticut, will perform 13 shows on his Love Songs Greatest Hits Tour 2020.
Tour tickets will go on sale at 10am on Friday (December 6) at gigsandtours.com and ticketmaster.co.uk; for Hull, on 0844 858 5025 or bonusarenahull.com; Harrogate, 01423 502116 or harrogatetheatre.co.uk.
Bolton has notched up 75 million album and single sales from such hits as How Am I Supposed To Live Without You, How Can We Be Lovers, When A Man Loves A Woman and Time, Love And Tenderness.
He tours every year, along with writing, recording and taping for projects spanning music, film and television and operating his foundation, the Michael Bolton Charities, now in its 27th year.
Bolton has won two Grammys for Best Pop Male Vocal Performance, six American Music Awards and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
This year’s album, A Symphony Of Hits, celebrates Bolton’s 50 years in the entertainment industry in a collection of his biggest hits, recorded with a symphony orchestra at All Saints College Performing Arts Centre in Perth, Australia.
In his autobiography, The Soul Of It All, Bolton states he is ”just teeing off on the back nine of my career”. Now 66, so far that career has taken in writing with Bob Dylan, Kiss’s Paul Stanley, Lady Gaga, Diane Warren, and David Foster, while his songs have been recorded by Kiss, Kanye West, Jay Z, Barbra Streisand and Cher, and over the years he has performed with Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras, Renee Fleming and BB King.
Bolton’s past three British tours all sold out, so prompt booking is advised.
Charles Hutchinson