LOS ANGELES — The Eagles are touching down in Las Vegas.
The long-running rock band announced last week that it will play eight shows at Sphere, the $2 billion venue with the wraparound video screen just off the Las Vegas Strip, over four weekends this fall starting Sept. 20. Tickets for the concerts, the last of which is scheduled for Oct. 19, are now on sale.
The Sphere residency ostensibly comes as part of the Eagles’ so-called Long Goodbye, a farewell tour that launched in September — seven years after the death of co-founder Glenn Frey — and stopped at Inglewood’s Kia Forum for four nights in January.
“Welcome to whatever this is,” singer Don Henley said with a smile to greet the crowd at the first of those Forum gigs. The band has said it will keep adding dates according to audience demand.
The Eagles will become the fourth musical act to play Sphere following U2, which opened the building last year, Phish and Dead & Company, which is in the middle of a 30-show residency set to run through the middle of August.
