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Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East and the Balkans for fifteen years for The New York Times. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News , The Christian Science Monitor , and NPR. He is host of the Emmy Award­–nominated RT America show On Contact. Hedges, who holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard University, is the author of numerous books, and was a National Book Critics Circle finalist for War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning . He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University, and the University of Toronto. He has taught college credit courses through Rutgers University in the New Jersey prison system since 2013.

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“Searing portraits . . . of individuals victimized in six arenas that [Hedges] explores in detail: drug addiction, pornography, gambling, the criminal justice system, extremist groups and the search for meaningful, well-paid work. He takes the reader inside these issues in ways that are often telling and memorable.”

– Thomas Carothers, The Washington Post

“Chris Hedges wants us to face realities. Our society is unraveling, institutionally and structurally, and is being replaced by the corporate state of merging big business and government. Commercialism overwhelms civic values, impoverishes its subjects, and reaches into childhoods bypassing parental authority. Poverty, addiction, gambling, and hopelessness spread like epidemics. Only we the people can reverse the disintegration of democracy by plutocracy. In America: The Farewell Tour, Chris Hedges depicts the horrifying truths on the ground from which resistance rises to jolt us into an active, realizable culture of reconstruction.”

– Ralph Nader

"An exceedingly dark, passionate, and provocative book, certain to arouse controversy but offering a point of view that needs to be heard."

“Chris Hedges is perhaps today’s most important public intellectual, and America: the Farewell Tour is perhaps his most important book. If we as a society are able to move past our current ‘sickness unto death,’ as Kierkegaard put it, it will be in great measure thanks to books like this one.”

– Derrick Jensen, author of A Language Older Than Words and The Culture of Make Believe

“Hedges writes a requiem for the American dream. . . . [A] fiery sermon that weighs the nation and finds it wanting.”

– Kirkus Reviews

“Hedges’s latest critique of late-stage capitalist America is forceful and direct."

– Publishers Weekly

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“Searing portraits . . . of individuals victimized in six arenas that [Hedges] explores in detail: drug addiction, pornography, gambling, the criminal justice system, extremist groups and the search for meaningful, well-paid work. He takes the reader inside these issues in ways that are often telling and memorable.”

– Thomas Carothers, The Washington Post

“Chris Hedges wants us to face realities. Our society is unraveling, institutionally and structurally, and is being replaced by the corporate state of merging big business and government. Commercialism overwhelms civic values, impoverishes its subjects, and reaches into childhoods bypassing parental authority. Poverty, addiction, gambling, and hopelessness spread like epidemics. Only we the people can reverse the disintegration of democracy by plutocracy. In America: The Farewell Tour, Chris Hedges depicts the horrifying truths on the ground from which resistance rises to jolt us into an active, realizable culture of reconstruction.”

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“Chris Hedges is perhaps today’s most important public intellectual, and America: the Farewell Tour is perhaps his most important book. If we as a society are able to move past our current ‘sickness unto death,’ as Kierkegaard put it, it will be in great measure thanks to books like this one.”

– Derrick Jensen, author of A Language Older Than Words and The Culture of Make Believe

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AMERICA The Farewell Tour By Chris Hedges 388 pp. Simon & Schuster. $27.

Chris Hedges is a bundle of contradictions and so too is his new book, “America: The Farewell Tour.”

As a New York Times reporter covering the Middle East, Hedges won praise from all quarters. The conservative Christopher Caldwell wrote in a 2002 review of an earlier Hedges book, “War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning,” that Hedges “has proved a correspondent of unusual bravery, stubbornness and independence. By going AWOL from the U.S. military’s press pool during the gulf war, he became one of the few eyewitnesses to American-Iraqi gunfights. He was among the rare big-time reporters to cover the Kosovo War as a war and not a morality play. His remorseless chronicling of the criminality and thuggery of our allies in the Kosovo Liberation Army is one of the high points of post-Vietnam War journalism.”

At the same time, Caldwell was on to a problem: Hedges’ “tone is often marked by an argument-foreclosing condescension.” “Is this moral reflection,” Caldwell asked, “or moralistic preening?”

In his current book, Hedges raises provocative questions. Has the destructive aspect of capitalism reached a tipping point? Are drug abuse, pornography and gambling emblematic of a free market run amok? Are the vacant shells of cities like Scranton, Dayton, Buffalo, Youngstown and Cleveland the inevitable consequences of an economy based on greed?

Hedges’ answer consists of a grim doubling down. “The American Empire is coming to an end,” he writes. “The death spiral appears unstoppable, meaning the United States as we know it will no longer exist within a decade or, at most, two.”

Traditional institutions of liberalism, including the Democratic Party, are, in Hedges’ view, hopelessly corrupted. “The ruling elites,” he says, “bought the allegiances of the two main political parties by purging … New Deal Democrats and corporate and imperial critics. They imposed obedience to corporate capitalism and globalization within academia and the press.”

Hedges’ indictment names names: “Self-identified liberals such as Bill and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama mouthed the words of liberal democratic values while making war on these values in the service of corporate power.” Even liberal nonprofit organizations like MoveOn.org and the Sierra Club “are feeble appendages to a corporatized Democratic Party.”

Hedges is a Harvard Divinity School graduate and an ordained Presbyterian minister. His ecclesiastical immersion shows. This passage is long but revealing of his mind-set:

“The violence and commodification of human beings for profit are the quintessential expressions of global capitalism. Our corporate masters are pimps. We are all being debased and degraded, rendered impoverished and powerless, to service the cruel and lascivious demands of the corporate elite. And when they tire of us, or when we are no longer of use, we are discarded. If the United States accepts prostitution as legal and permissible in a civil society, as Germany has done, we will take one more collective step toward the global plantation being built by the powerful. The fight against prostitution is the fight against a dehumanizing corporate capitalism that begins, but will not end, with the subjugation of impoverished girls and women.”

Insofar as Hedges holds out any hope, it is through local community organizing and groups like Black Lives Matter. For the most part, however, the prospects for the country are bleak: “This moment in history marks the end of a long, sad tale of greed and murder by the white races. It is inevitable that for the final show we vomited up a figure like Trump.”

Both righteous and self-righteous, Hedges is addicted to fire and brimstone. A Jeremiah preaching eternal damnation, he is adding to the already crowded shelf of American narratives of decline. His call springs not only from Jonathan Edwards and Cotton Mather but also from spoiled preachers like Jimmy Swaggart and James Bakker, and now from Donald Trump. It’s a call that has echoed down through the ages: “Drain the Swamp.”

Thomas B. Edsall covered national politics for The Washington Post for 25 years and since 2011 has been a contributing Op-Ed writer for The Times.

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America: The Farewell Tour is a scathing indictment and a call to action.

Chris Hedges’ recently published book will not make you happy, but it is an urgently timely and impressively smart book. Hedges’ writing made me cry, but not as often as it angered me about the failures of our culture. As troubling as Hedges’ book is, it’s important we read it because our nation is facing dire problems that we cannot repair without understanding. According to Hedges, most causes are deeply embedded in the systems of our culture. So grit your teeth for his sobering exposé about what these United States have become. 

Hedges’ assessment of the sickness of our times is searing in its directness. He is a Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist, author, and activist and educated enough in the fields of sociology, anthropology, religion, and economics to dissect our present socio-political zeitgeist. His rage is palpable in his scolding of the system we take for granted, one we preserve at our own peril. With excerpts from Karl Marx, James Baldwin, Rebecca Solnit, and others, Hedges diagnoses the pathology of our culture.

America: The Farewell Tour occurs in seven chapters: “Decay,” “Heroin,” “Work,” “Sadism,” “Hate,” “Gambling,” and “Freedom.” Each provides analysis of failing systems alongside tragic stories of those affected. 

In the first chapter, “Decay,” we read about the structural reasons for collapses of prominent cultures in eras before ours. Hedges examines the progress of societal systems to show how strong cultures fail, often because encultured assumptions prove unsustainable. “Decay” hits hard as we learn about extractive corporate economies that destroy jobs, lives and communities. He ascribes contemporary tragedies like shootings, suicides, and opioid addiction to the desperation, loss of purpose, hope and self-esteem that accompanies the realization that our system is rigged for the wealth of privileged oligarchs who have a myopic lust for power and sociopathic disregard for consequences. Hedges doesn’t let gun and drug manufacturers off the hooks for the greed that drives their actions, either.

About multi-generational urban poverty he writes, “Most will live, suffer, and die within the space of a few squalid city blocks. No jobs. No hope. No help. They blunt their despair through alcohol and drugs..They never have enough money. They probably never will.”

The personal stories in this book are painful to read. These are bleak topics, but seriously important ones that are too often avoided or glossed over with inadequate, overly-simple ideas that reveal our desire for easy solutions and our attachments to the flawed customs embedded in our culture. Hedges’ stories from the fronts of human despair have saddened me deeply.

In “Hate," one comprehends the militancy with which oligarchs defend power and the dangerous deals they strike with fascists. Hedges earned a Master of Divinity from Harvard and is a Presbyterian Minister. In the book, he expresses shame for the Christians who have abandoned Christian principles in support of apocalyptic fairy tales and tribal fear of diversity. 

After introducing and characterizing our nation's present regressive influences, Hedges groups the KKK, White Supremacists, and Christian Fascists together for the rest of the book. 

America: The Farewell Tour deepened my understanding of the complexities of our plight. Hedges' comprehension of the causes of our societal strife make it clear how hard it will be to alter course. As much as I dislike it, this comes as small surprise to me: history shows that culture changes no faster than generations turn. Most adults defend culturally inculcated principles regardless of evidence and reason. It is the source of our comfort, our security, our dullness and our meanness. Change is disrespectful to culture and this is why we can’t step far enough away from our warped mirror to admit to our own roles in the causes of problems that threaten us. 

The workings of capitalism are only vaguely understood by most of us, yet its dogmas are defended like religion. It is heresy to do less. Publicly traded corporations are virtually obligated to perform psychopathically. They are machines for consolidation of wealth and exportation of liabilities. Those who perform the least labor reap the largest rewards. Economic legerdemain. The working class is catching on. But watch out. Kleptocrats are fortifying against the poor, the working class, the middle class and the future. Near the end of the book, Hedges presents a hopeful and sane vision of the world we could create if we can become clear-headed enough as a society to move beyond our destructive beliefs. At page 304 is a tight and thorough list of the ideals of a sensible and sustainable culture. After such gloom, the reader needs it. 

I can’t resist this condensation: “This is a global fight for life against corporate tyranny.. [The struggle will mean] a huge reordering of our world..that turns away from the primacy of profit to full employment and unionized workplaces, inexpensive and modernized mass transit and universal, single-payer health care. Global warming will become a national and global emergency.. We will divert our energy and resources to saving the planet through public investment in renewable energy and end our reliance on fossil fuels.. We will terminate nuclear weapons programs.. We will demilitarize the police.. We will grant full citizenship to undocumented workers.”

I can’t say I enjoyed reading this book. However, I am awed by the clarity with which Hedges writes. I yearn to live in the society he envisions. One may disagree with his understanding of causes, but few of us are well informed enough to contend his interpretation meaningfully. He is as earnest as he is brilliant. America: The Farewell Tour is an important book. Read it. Let it influence your actions. 

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The Grand Tour began after Jeremy, Richard and James all left BBC 's Top Gear in 2015.

Joined by executive producer Andy Wilman, the show is ending its run after 46 episodes.

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The Grand Tour launched on Prime Video in 2016 and quickly became one of the streamer’s biggest hits as hosts  Jeremy , 63, James , 60, and  Richard , 52, felt it was time they move on from Top Gear hit the road.

They have now brought five epic series of motoring adventures to the small screen, each taking place in different locations and even featuring celebrity guests.

• Series 1 aired from 2016 to 2017 and took the presenters to a number of foreign locales, including Jordan, Morocco and Italy.
• The series is comprised of 13 episodes, with episodes 7 and 8 making up a two-part special set in Namibia, where the trio embarked on an epic beach buggy challenge.
• Jeremy, Richard and James returned for more motoring actor in series 2, and drove their way across Europe as they tested out some of their dream vehicles like the Bugatti Chiron and the McLaren 720S.
• This series, which aired from 2017 to 2018, is made up of 11 episodes. It features regular 'studio segments' filmed in the team's permanent tent in the Cotswolds, and had regular participation from celebrities with two guests going head-to-head on timed laps every episode.
• In 2019, the presenting trio crossed continents - from North America, to South America, to Europe and Asia - putting both new vehicles and classic sports cars through their paces.
• This series was the last to feature the regular studio segments, car reviews and timed laps.
• To mark the end of this era the final episode's last segment includes a montage of scenes featuring the presenters over the course of their career as a trio, not only from this programme, but also from their time hosting Top Gear.
• This series marked a complete change in format for The Grand Tour as it consists entirely for feature-length specials which aired between 2019 and 2021.
• The first two chronicle Jeremy, Richard and James' epic adventures across Asia and Africa, while the third and fourth episodes saw them put foreign cars to the test on their home turf. And fitting American vehicles through Scottish roads is no easy feat.
• Following the same format as series 4, the fifth and final series of The Grand Tour also consists of four feature-length specials.
• The first of these hits screens in 2022 and follows the trio as they travelled through Norway, Sweden and Finland in three Rally-Inspired Sports Saloons.
• The second episode was another Euro adventure while the third took the presenters back to Africa.
• The fourth instalment of the series and final ever episode of The Grand Tour, titled One for the Road, premieres on September 13, 2024. It promises to be an emotional one as the trio set out on one epic final adventure in Zimbabwe and reflect on their 22-year-long working relationship and friendship.

While Jeremy addresses their epic final adventure in Zimbabwe, saying, “we really did save the best to last.” 

It was reported last year that  the trio had quit The Grand Tour , ending the show after eight years.

Writing in The Sunday Times, Jeremy penned: "After 36 years of talking about  cars  on  television , I’m packing it in, because I’m too old and fat to get into the cars that I like and not interested in  driving  those I don’t."

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The 10 Highest Grossing Tours of All Time

There are some names you probably wouldn’t expect on the list.

There’s nothing like the thrill of live music . The euphoria of connecting with your favorite artist in a giant room filled with like-minded people is powerful enough to make you forget about the exorbitant ticket prices, the ridiculously long bathroom lines, and even the $16 beers. In a digital world where it’s easy to feel lonely and isolated, concerts are more important than ever.

They’re also big business, as evidenced by this roundup of the 10 highest-grossing concert tours of all time (as of August 2024). The list includes some veteran rockers, a couple of pop superstars, and two very powerful women whose influence transcends music. You can probably guess their names.

10. The Rolling Stones’ No Filter Tour (2017–2021) // $547 million

It took just 58 shows in North America and Europe for the Stones to gross more than a half-billion dollars. The No Filter Tour started in 2017 and lasted until November 2021 due to COVID-19. Sadly, it marked the end of the road for drummer Charlie Watts, who died on August 24, 2021, at the age of 80.

9. The Rolling Stones’ A Bigger Bang Tour (2005–2007) // $558 million

This lucrative two-year outing for the Stones included two nights at the Beacon Theater in New York City—filmed by Martin Scorsese for the concert film Shine a Light —and the halftime performance at Super Bowl XL in Detroit. In 2006, the Stones also played one of the biggest free shows of all time, rocking 1.5 million people at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro.

8. Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour (2023) // $579 million

Queen Bey needed just 56 shows in 2023 to land herself on the list of all-time touring champs. Notably, she’s the only Black performer in the Top 10, and she’s one of only two women.

7. Guns N’ Roses’ Not in This Lifetime… Tour (2016–2019) // $584 million

At long last, classic-era GNR members Axl Rose, Slash, and Duff McKagan settled their differences and decided to go make a lot of money. The Not in This Lifetime… tour spanned more than three years, and while it wound up being a huge success, it got off to a rocky start: Axl broke his foot prior to the second show in Las Vegas and had to perform in a special throne Dave Grohl had previously used when he suffered a broken leg.

6. Harry Styles’s Love On Tour (2021–2023) // $617.3 million

Originally slated to start in 2020 but postponed due to the pandemic, Love On Tour lasted nearly two years and coincided with the promotion of two different albums: 2019’s Fine Line and 2022’s Harry House . The tour included a pair of memorable Halloween gigs at New York City’s Madison Square Garden where Harry dressed up like a clown and Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz .

5. U2’s U2 360° Tour (2009–2011) // $736 million

When you’ve been in the game as long as U2, the challenge is finding new ways to keep fans coming back for more. For U2 360°, the Irish rockers played in the round on a 164-foot structure nicknamed “The Claw.” According to Rolling Stone , it was twice as large as the stage the Stones constructed for their A Bigger Band Tour, which held the previous record for biggest stadium stage set. U2 360° became the highest-grossing tour of all time—until the next one on our list bested it.

4. Ed Sheeran’s The ÷ (Divide) Tour (2017–2019) // $776 million

In August 2019, with 12 dates remaining, The ÷ (Divide) Tour surpassed U2 360° as the highest-grossing concert tour of all time. As The Guardian reported , Sheeran brought his poppy folk-rock stylings to smaller audiences—an average attendance of 34,541, compared to U2’s 66,091—and sold tickets for 14.2 percent lower than U2 did. He made up the difference by playing more shows—255 in all.

3. Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour (2018–2020, 2022–2023) // $939 million

Sir Elton sold 6 million tickets and came this close to topping a billion dollars with his triumphant farewell tour. Along the way, John rocked the legendary Glastonbury Festival with a performance billed as his last ever in the UK.

2. Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres World Tour (2022–2024) // $945 million

Environmentally conscious rockers Coldplay worked with BMW to develop the “world’s first rechargeable show battery,” which helped to power their super-lucrative Music of the Spheres World Tour. Chris Martin and company also promised to plant one tree for every ticket sold. For a while, Music of the Spheres was parked behind Elton’s farewell on the list of highest-grossing tours, but Billboard announced on August 16, 2024, that Coldplay had moved into second place.

1. Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour (2023–2024) // $1.04 billion (and counting)

In December 2023—with plenty of dates still to come—Taylor Swift’s career-spanning Eras Tour became the first tour to top a billion dollars in gross revenue. If there had been any doubt, the tour solidified Swift’s status as the most famous person on the planet. Between the friendship bracelets and surprise song sets , the 3.5-plus-hour shows quickly became the stuff of legend, and when she released Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour on the big screen in October 2023, it naturally became the highest-grossing concert film of all time.

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Aerosmith to Kick Off Farewell Tour in Philly

On monday, the band announced a final, 40-date "peace out" tour that will begin in philadelphia on sept. 2, by jonathan landrum jr. • published may 1, 2023 • updated on may 1, 2023 at 9:05 am.

Aerosmith will be touring for the last time to celebrate the rock band's 50-plus years together.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band announced Monday the dates for their farewell tour called “Peace Out” starting Sept. 2 in Philadelphia. The 40-date run of shows, which includes a stop in the band’s hometown of Boston on New Year’s Eve, will end Jan. 26 in Montreal.

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In a statement, Aerosmith said, “It’s not goodbye it’s PEACE OUT!"

The band will play the Wells Fargo Center with special guest The Black Crowes to kick off the tour in Philly.

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“I think it’s about time,” guitarist Joe Perry said.

Perry said the group, with frontman Steven Tyler, bassist Tom Hamilton, drummer Joey Kramer and guitarist Brad Whitford, learned from the staging and production from their recent Las Vegas residency shows.

Perry believes the time to say goodbye is now, especially with every founding band member over the age of 70. Tyler, 75, is the oldest in the group.

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“It’s kind of a chance to celebrate the 50 years we’ve been out here,” Perry said. “You never know how much longer everybody’s going to be healthy to do this. … It’s been a while since we’ve actually done a real tour. We did that run in Vegas, which was great. It was fun, but (we're) kind of anxious to get back on the road.“

Tyler and Perry said the band is looking forward to digging into their lengthy catalog of the group’s rock classics including “Crazy,” “Janie’s Got a Gun” and “Livin’ on the Edge.”

Over the years, Aerosmith, which formed in 1970, has collected four Grammys. The band broke boundaries intersecting rock and hip-hop with their epic collaboration with Run-DMC for “Walk This Way.”

Aerosmith performed the Super Bowl halftime show in 2001 and even had their own theme park attraction in 1999 at Disney World in Florida and later in Paris with the launch of the “Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith" ride.

“We’re opening up Pandora’s Box one last time to present our fans with the Peace Out tour,” Tyler said in a statement to The Associated Press. His “Pandora's Box” reference calls out Aerosmith's 1991 three-disc compilation album that covered the band's output from the 1970s to the early 1980s.

“Be there or beware as we bring all the toys out of the attic. Get ready,” Tyler added.

The band said Kramer decided to not take part in the current dates on the upcoming tour. He’s still a part of the group, but the drummer has been on leave to “focus his attention on his family and health” since their Vegas residency last year. Drummer John Douglas will continue to play in his place.

Perry called Kramer their brother. The band said his “legendary presence behind the drum kit will be sorely missed.”

Before the 40-date tour wraps, Perry said other cities domestically and internationally could be added.

“It’s the final farewell tour, but I have a feeling it will go on for a while,” he said. “But I don’t know how many times we’ll be coming back to the same cities. It could very possibly be the last time.”

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Jeremy Clarkson reveals how Clarkson’s Farm saved him after ’emotional’ farewell to The Grand Tour

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JEREMY Clarkson shared how Clarkson's Farm saved him during The Grand Tour's 'emotional' ending.

The popular Prime Video motoring programme will air its finale on September 13 , having launched in 2016.

Titled "One for the Road", the epic event will also mark the ending of Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May's 22-year on-screen collaboration.

Jeremy, 64, admitted he was "surprisingly unemotional" - as he would be able to reunite with his co-stars "any time" he wants to.

The star added: "Where I would have been emotional was saying goodbye to the crew because most of them started with us.

"There's a photograph taken on Kubu Island of Russ Edwards and Casper Leaver (Camera Operator) and Andy Wilman, who were there on the original crew, and they're still with us. You can’t say that about any other show.

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"We are a dysfunctional family, and I’d miss that, except for one tiny detail.

"There I was with all these guys that I've known and worked with for twenty-four years and I said, “I’ll see you all on Monday morning” because they all work on Clarkson’s Farm.

"I'm 100 per cent convinced I would have been a lot more emotional without the farm show."

As for whether the others got misty-eyed, Jeremy shared: "I'm not saying this in a derogatory way by any means, but James has the emotions of a stone.

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"He just doesn't do emotions, so there were no tears from him. Hammond, yes."

The Grand Tour began after Jeremy, Richard and James all left BBC's Top Gear in 2015.

Joined by executive producer Andy Wilman, the show is ending its run after 46 episodes.

Ahead of the final outing, Prime Video released a trailer giving fans a sneak-peek at the group's last motoring adventure.

In the emotional clip, Richard appears to well up as he says: “I never thought that what we do together would go on as it has.” 

The Grand Tour episode guide

How many seasons of The Grand Tour are there and where do they take place?

The Grand Tour launched on Prime Video in 2016 and quickly became one of the streamer’s biggest hits as hosts Jeremy, 63, James, 60, and Richard, 52, felt it was time they move on from Top Gear hit the road.

They have now brought five epic series of motoring adventures to the small screen, each taking place in different locations and even featuring celebrity guests.

• Series 1 aired from 2016 to 2017 and took the presenters to a number of foreign locales, including Jordan, Morocco and Italy.
• The series is comprised of 13 episodes, with episodes 7 and 8 making up a two-part special set in Namibia, where the trio embarked on an epic beach buggy challenge.
• Jeremy, Richard and James returned for more motoring actor in series 2, and drove their way across Europe as they tested out some of their dream vehicles like the Bugatti Chiron and the McLaren 720S.
• This series, which aired from 2017 to 2018, is made up of 11 episodes. It features regular 'studio segments' filmed in the team's permanent tent in the Cotswolds, and had regular participation from celebrities with two guests going head-to-head on timed laps every episode.
• In 2019, the presenting trio crossed continents - from North America, to South America, to Europe and Asia - putting both new vehicles and classic sports cars through their paces.
• This series was the last to feature the regular studio segments, car reviews and timed laps.
• To mark the end of this era the final episode's last segment includes a montage of scenes featuring the presenters over the course of their career as a trio, not only from this programme, but also from their time hosting Top Gear.
• This series marked a complete change in format for The Grand Tour as it consists entirely for feature-length specials which aired between 2019 and 2021.
• The first two chronicle Jeremy, Richard and James' epic adventures across Asia and Africa, while the third and fourth episodes saw them put foreign cars to the test on their home turf. And fitting American vehicles through Scottish roads is no easy feat.
• Following the same format as series 4, the fifth and final series of The Grand Tour also consists of four feature-length specials.
• The first of these hits screens in 2022 and follows the trio as they travelled through Norway, Sweden and Finland in three Rally-Inspired Sports Saloons.
• The second episode was another Euro adventure while the third took the presenters back to Africa.
• The fourth instalment of the series and final ever episode of The Grand Tour, titled One for the Road, premieres on September 13, 2024. It promises to be an emotional one as the trio set out on one epic final adventure in Zimbabwe and reflect on their 22-year-long working relationship and friendship.

While Jeremy addresses their epic final adventure in Zimbabwe, saying, “we really did save the best to last.” 

It was reported last year that  the trio had quit The Grand Tour , ending the show after eight years.

Writing in The Sunday Times, Jeremy penned: "After 36 years of talking about cars on television, I’m packing it in, because I’m too old and fat to get into the cars that I like and not interested in driving those I don’t."

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Aerosmith Announces 2023 Farwell Tour With Date at United Center in Chicago

The 20-date tour kicks off in september, by nbc 5 staff and wire reports • published may 1, 2023 • updated on may 1, 2023 at 11:32 am.

From a mysterious countdown clock, to a video of the iconic opening to "Walk This Way" posted to the United Center's Facebook page, it seemed that legendary rock band Aerosmith would soon announce a tour with a stop in Chicago.

And at 8 a.m. Monday, the band made it official.

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" Breaking News " a video posted to the Aerosmith's website says, above the words "Peace Out" and "Aerosmith Farewell Tour with Special Guest The Black Crowes" posted underneath.

Shortly after the announcement, their website appeared to briefly crash. But a Tweet with tour and show information was posted.

"After 50 years, 10 world tours, and playing for over 100 million fans...It's time for one last go!" the band said.

PEACE OUT! After 50 years, 10 world tours, and playing for over 100 million fans... It's time for one last go! For more info visit: https://t.co/rsuutHrYmY pic.twitter.com/8HkmrQlIrn — Aerosmith (@Aerosmith) May 1, 2023

According to guitarist Joe Perry , '"It's about time."

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Perry believes the time to say goodbye is now, especially with every founding band member over the age of 70. Tyler, 75, is the oldest in the group.

“It’s kind of a chance to celebrate the 50 years we’ve been out here,” Perry said. “You never know how much longer everybody’s going to be healthy to do this. … It’s been a while since we’ve actually done a real tour. We did that run in Vegas, which was great. It was fun, but (we're) kind of anxious to get back on the road.“

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Over the years, Aerosmith, which formed in 1970, has collected four Grammys. The band broke boundaries intersecting rock and hip-hop with their epic collaboration with Run-DMC for “Walk This Way.”

Aerosmith performed the Super Bowl halftime show in 2001 and even had their own theme park attraction in 1999 at Disney World in Florida and later in Paris with the launch of the “Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith” ride.

“We’re opening up Pandora’s Box one last time to present our fans with the Peace Out tour,” Tyler said in a statement to The Associated Press. His “Pandora’s Box” reference calls out Aerosmith’s 1991 three-disc compilation album that covered the band’s output from the 1970s to the early 1980s.

“Be there or beware as we bring all the toys out of the attic. Get ready,” Tyler added.

The band said drummer Joey Kramer decided to not take part in the current dates on the upcoming tour. He’s still a part of the group, but the drummer has been on leave to “focus his attention on his family and health” since their Vegas residency last year. Drummer John Douglas will continue to play in his place.

Perry called Kramer their brother. The band said his “legendary presence behind the drum kit will be sorely missed.”

“It’s the final farewell tour, but I have a feeling it will go on for a while,” he said. “But I don’t know how many times we’ll be coming back to the same cities. It could very possibly be the last time.”

Aerosmith Tour Dates and Cities

Prior to revealing a list of tour dates, a Friday Facebook Post from the United Center gave Chicago Aerosmith fans some additional hope.

Monday, the United Center confirmed the news , saying the band was set to play at the venue Sept. 15.

According to the band, tickets to the general public go on sale via Ticketmaster Friday at 10 a.m.

The full list of 40 tour dates is below:

Sept. 2 -- Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, PA

Sept. 6 -- PPG Paints Arena, Pittsburgh, PA

Sept. 9 -- UBS Arena, Elmont, NY

Sept. 12 -- Scotiabank Arena, Toronto, ON

Sept. 15 -- United Center, Chicago, IL

Sept. 18 -- Little Caesars Arena, Detroit, MI

Sept. 21 -- Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse, Cleveland, OH

Sept. 24 -- PNC Arena, Raleigh, NC

Sept. 27 -- Capitol One Arena, Washington D.C.

Oct. 11 -- Amalie Arena, Tampa, FL

Oct. 14 -- State Farm Arena, Atlanta, GA

Oct. 17 -- Spectrum Center, Charlotte, NC

Oct. 20 -- FLA Live Arena, Sunrise, FL

Oct. 23 -- Moody Center, Austin, TX

Oct. 26 -- Enterprise Center, St. Louis, MO

Oct. 29 - Gainbridge Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, IN

Nov. 1 -- AT&T Arena, San Antonio, TX

Nov. 4 -- Bok Center, Tulsa, OK

Nov. 7 -- American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX

Nov. 10 -- Chi Health Center, Omaha, NE

Nov. 13 -- Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, MN

Nov. 16 -- T-Mobile Center, Kansas City, KS

Nov. 19 -- Ball Arena, Denver, CO

Nov. 22 -- Vivint Arena, Salt Lake City, UT

Nov. 25 -- Moda Center, Portland, OR

Nov. 28 -- Climate Pledge Arena, Seattle, WA

Dec. 1 -- Chase Center, San Francisco, CA

Dec. 4 -- Sap Center, San Jose, CA

Dec. 7 -- The Kia Forum, Los Angeles, CA

Dec. 10 -- Footprint Center, Phoenix, AZ

Dec. 28 -- Prudential Center, Newark NJ

Dec. 31 -- TD Garden, Boston, MA

Jan. 4 -- Heritage Bank Arena, Cincinnati, OH

Jan. 7 -- KFC Yum! Center, Louisville, KY

Jan. 10 -- Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, TN

Jan. 13 -- Thompson-Boling Arena, Knoxville, TN

Jan. 16 -- Keybank Center, Buffalo, NY

Jan. 19 -- Madison Square Garden, New York, NY

Jan. 23 -- Schottenstein Center, Columbus, OH

Jan. 26 -- Bell Centre, Montreal, QC

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Envelopes, Please: The ‘Other’ Awards From Highs and Lows of the 2024 PGA Tour Season

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ATLANTA — We were a country divided. It was Coke vs. Pepsi, Ford vs. Ferrari and Tastes Great vs. Less Filling all over again.

Was Scottie Scheffler your Player of the Year in 2024 or was it Xander Schauffele? 

It was too close to call until Scheffler finally tipped the scales by winning the 30-man corporate picnic known as the Tour Championship last week.

Purists favored Schauffele because he had a 2-1 edge in major championships. It was Schauffele’s PGA and British Open titles versus Scheffler’s Masters. Although Scheffler also won the Players, which ought to count as at least half a major by now. 

But the Tour Championship was win No. 7 for Scheffler. He also snagged the Olympic gold medal. He was golf’s dominant force this year. He even set the all-time Tour scoring average for a season at 68.00.

You could argue for Co-Players of the Year because of this: Would Scheffler or Schauffele trade their year for the other guy’s? Not likely.

Thankfully, a seventh Scottie win seems to end debate, which is good because if we had to come up with a combo nickname for the duo such as Bennifer (Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez), Schauffeffler edged Scander and X-Scot in staff voting. 

Crisis solved. As luminaries Peaches and Herb once noted, “Reunited and it feels so good.” Here are some other major award winners from The Year of Schauffeffler Scheffler: 

The Winston Churchill Champion Orator

Rory McIlroy discussing the Olympics and Ryder Cup: “With how much of a sh-t show the game of golf is right now, we don’t play for money (in) the two tournaments that might be the purest form of competition.”

(Second shot: We need a “sh-t show” logo on golf shirts and hats. They’ll sell like … sh-tcakes!)

Most Arresting Event 

Nobody has ever been charged with a felony during a major championship and gone on to win it but Scheffler had the chance. He was arrested for not obeying a traffic cop’s directions near the Valhalla Golf Club entrance in the early morning hours. Louisville police arrested Scheffler, booked him downtown and charged him with a felony. He somehow got back to Valhalla for his morning tee time and shot 66, the Round of the Year under the circumstances. Video evidence later exonerated Scheffler and all charges were dropped. The Scheffler Incident made this PGA Championship unforgettable but the event got even better thanks to a thrilling finish in which Schauffele holed a clutch putt on the last green to edge Bryson DeChambeau and Viktor Hovland. 

(Second shot: Great golf, great drama, great police work. Well, two outta three ain’t bad.)

Revisionist History Cup

Awarded to the PGA Tour, which said University of Alabama sophomore Nick Dunlap’s AmEx win made him the youngest amateur to win on Tour since Chick Evans at the 1910 Western Open. 

(Second shot: Geez, the PGA Tour wasn’t founded until 1968 but it’s taking credit for those old Western Opens? Is it also claiming responsibility for Portugal ending its monarchy that year?)

The Stroke of Genius Award

If the hardest shot in golf is the long bunker shot, try it from 55 yards on the 72nd hole at Pinehurst’s No. 2 Course to win the U.S. Open. Bryson DeChambeau floated a beautiful sand shot with his 55-degree wedge that trickled to a stop 4 feet below the hole. Then he holed the putt to win his second Open title. “That bunker shot was the shot of my life,” DeChambeau said.

(Second shot: It was close but that bunker shot possibly was bigger than the final-hole birdie putt holed by President Donald Trump in DeChambeau’s Internet episode of “Break 50” that gave the duo a score of 50 at Trump Bedminster.)

The Green Bib

Given to caddie Ted Scott, who has two Masters wins on Scottie Scheffler’s bag and two with Bubba Watson. That means only legendary Augusta caddies Willie Peterson (five with Jack Nicklaus) and Pappy Stokes (five with four players) have looped for more green jacket winners than Scott. “I’m pinching myself,” Scott said after Scheffler’s April win.

(Second swing: Pinch away, man. You’re aboard Secretariat. Enjoy every ride.)

The Golden Slide Rule

Beau Hossler bounced a shot off the back edge of the famed 17th green at TPC Sawgrass in the Players opening round the same day Ryan Fox made an ace there. Only one of those made history. Oddly, it was Hossler’s, whose shot was the 1,000th ball hit into the water at 17 during The Players, ShotLink reported. 

(Second shot: This is fake math, people. ShotLink didn’t start tracking water balls at 17 until 2003. Sawgrass became the Players home in 1982, so that’s another 21 years and using historical average of 46 dunks per Players week, that 966 more sunken balls. Hossler’s shot was actually closer to being No. 2,000. And that’s not counting Angelo Spagnolo’s 27 water balls en route to a 66 on that hole in Golf Digest ’s ignominious 1985 World’s Worst Avid Golfer contest.)

The Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics Trophy

Awarded to Tiger Woods. The pros and cons of his year:

Pro: He played all four majors for the first time since 2019. 

Con: He missed the cut in three; shot a cumulative 44 over par and averaged 75.6 strokes per round. 

Pro: He set a Masters record by making his 24th consecutive cut, moving ahead of Fred Couples and Gary Player.

Con: His 304 total was his highest in 26 Masters appearances.

Pro: He shot 156 at Royal Troon in the Open, tying his highest score as a professional, but it was one stroke lower than his highest score ever, 157 at Bay Hill in 1994 when he was a high school senior. Take that, kid!

Con: He played the final round with amateur Neil Shipley, who shot 73 to Tiger’s 77.  In a match of cards, Shipley wins, 2 and 1.

Pro and Con: Tiger is now a PGA Tour Policy Board player director and heavily involved in the tedious, never-ending (doomed?) negotiations with PIF (the Saudi money funding rival LIV Golf).

Pro: He got a $100 million loyalty bonus/equity share from PGA Tour Enterprises Inc., the Tour’s new for-profit venture.

Con: Figuring the highest IRS personal tax rate of 37%, he kept only $63 million of that bonus.

(Second shot: Only $63 mill? C’mon, a private jet’s gotta eat, too.)

Best Farewell Tour

Take a bow, personable club pro Michael Block. He had his 15 minutes of fame in 2023 after his star turn at the PGA Championship that featured a final-round ace while paired with Rory McIlroy. Block cashed in well. He even snagged a Charles Schwab commercial—surely a club-pro first—and three more invites to PGA Tour events this year, which ended as three more missed cuts. 

The afterglow of his fantastic, clutch up-and-down on the 72nd hole at Oak Hill that earned him a return invite to the PGA Championship didn’t last long at Valhalla last May. He made a quad on the second hole and missed the cut. Probably only Scottie Scheffler had less fun in Louisville. 

(Second shot: Looks like Blockie’s Eras Tour is over. But he’s 48 and the senior circuit is not far off. He might be able to beat a few of those guys. His more realistic long-term outlook? Social Security.)

The Pet Rock Merchandising Award (Gold Medal)

T-shirt featuring jailbird Scottie Scheffler mug shot) during PGA Championship week: “Making orange great again.”

(Second shot: Hey, it’s always been great in sherbet and Hostess cupcakes.)

The Francis Ouimet Giant-Killer Cup

This prestigious award Dunlap, the reigning U.S. Amateur champ. He shot a third-round 60 and holed a 6-foot putt on the 72nd hole to win the American Express, the tournament long known as the Bob Hope Desert Classic. Dunlap became the first amateur to win a PGA Tour event since Phil Mickelson in 1991, a special feat. 

Said Dunlap: “If you told me Wednesday night that I would have a putt to win this golf tournament, I wouldn’t believe you.”

(Second shot: Nick, what if we also told you via email how to sell your timeshare and buy life insurance in case of a robot attack? Would you believe that?)

Rookie Card of the Year

It’s another award for Dunlap, who looks like the real deal. Dunlap turned pro after winning the AmEx in January, jumped onto the PGA Tour and came from behind to win the Barracuda Championship in July—the first player in Tour history to win as an amateur and a pro in the same year. “I never thought I would have my name next to that,” Dunlap said after his victory in Truckee, Calif. The triumph was worth $720,000, nearly half as much as the $1.5 million check he couldn’t accept for winning the AmEx, money that went instead to runner-up Christiaan Bezuidenhout.

(Second shot: Pay the man, Shirley.)

The Nick Dunlap Honesty Cup

This Dunlap guy is everywhere. So let’s name an award after him for offering the Most Honest Quote of the Year. After winning the AmEx as an amateur, the Alabama sophomore was asked if he had homework from school.

“Yes,” Dunlap answered. “Probably won’t do it, though.”

(Second shot: Wait, athletes at SEC schools have homework?)

The Nick Dunlap Honesty Cup, non-Dunlap Division  

The winner is Akshay Bhatia, who left his 32-foot putt on the Rocket Mortgage Classic’s 72nd green 4 feet short, then missed the next one, handing the title to a surprised Cam Davis. Said Bhatia: “Just a little bit of nerves, honestly. I’m human.”

(Second shot: You’ve gotta respect that admission. Not to make excuses for Bhatia’s miss but we did notice some clouds moving carelessly during his backstroke.)

The Shlabotnik Cup

This award, which goes to former Ryder Cup star Anthony Kim, is named in honor of “Peanuts” character Charlie Brown’s favorite baseball player, Joe Shlabotnik, who had a career .004 batting average. Kim, 38, stepped away from golf in 2012 (when the award-winning Dunlap was 10 years old) for undisclosed reasons. Kim returned in March and joined LIV Golf.  “Eleven years is a long time,” admitted Kim. His results reflect the layoff. His average finish in 10 54-man events is 47.0. He has a 47-477-6 mark, based on how many players he finished ahead of (47), behind (477) or tied (6). That gives him a won-loss average of .094. 

(Second shot: Well, his last LIV finish was 36th so he’s trending upward. But at least his average is way better than Shlabotnik, who later tried managing, fyi, but was fired by the Waffletown Syrups.)

The Glenfiddich Award

Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre had a remarkable summer. He scored his breakthrough first PGA Tour victory at the RBC Canadian Open with his dad, Dougie, the greenskeeper at Glencruitten Golf Club, as his caddie. They shared an emotional embrace after the win. Barely a month later, he was in contention at the Scottish Open. With the vocal galleries supporting him, MacIntyre delivered his best golf and watched a 22-foot birdie putt barely topple into the cup on the final green for a one-shot win over Adam Scott. “It’s the one I wanted and the one I got,” Robert said. The ensuing celebration was reportedly also award-worthy. “I’m not a big drinker but when you get a moment like that—a childhood dream and a lifetime goal—and you’ve got family and friends that have backed you since you were a young kid, I think it was quite right to go absolutely wild.” And, he added with a smile, “I think we’ve done a good job of that.” Because of the party, he moved his Open Championship pre-tournament press conference from Monday to Wednesday.

(Second shot: Lang may yer lum reek, lad. Old Scottish toast translated, Long may your chimney smoke.)

The Van de Velde Cup

The “winner” is former Duke University star Max Greyserman, who had one hell of a week during the Wyndham Championship. Greyserman enjoyed a second-round 60 at Sedgefield Country Club and had a sizable lead in the final round until his drive caromed high off a cart path and out of bounds at the 14th hole, causing a quadruple-bogey 8. Then he four-putted for double bogey at the 16th. The double disasters set up England’s Aaron Rai to notch his first win. “Obviously, stuff happens in golf,” Greyserman said. 

(Second shot: When Double Stuf happens, you hope it comes between two Oreo wafers.)

The Pet Rock Merchandising Award (Silver Medal)

T-shirt featuring jailbird Scottie Scheffler mug shot during PGA Championship week: “Orange is the new green.”

(Second shot: Does anyone really want to see the Masters award The Orange Jacket? Anyone? Bueller?)

 The Glen Campbell Memorial “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” Award

It was 8:25 a.m. when Lucas Glover, still in his hotel room, answered his cell phone and was notified by a PGA Tour rules official that he was due to tee off in the WM Phoenix Open’s first round at 8:26, one minute later. Dangnabbit! The rules allow a player to tee off up to five minutes late, which comes with a two-stroke penalty, but Glover couldn’t make it in time for that. He withdrew and admitted he’d read his tee time wrong, a rookie mistake that a 44-year-old Tour veteran wondered how he could have made.

“I'm kicking myself but laughing at myself at the same time,” Glover told Golf Channel.

(Second shot: Glover ranks 14th in Approaching the Green stats. In Reaching the First Tee, pencil him in for DFL—that’s golfspeak for Dead Last.)

The Silver Calculator Award

Xander Schauffele won explaining how he had to factor in Denver’s mile-high altitude during the BMW Championship there to determine yardages before every shot: “I went to San Diego State, so it’s the most math I’ve done in a while.”

(Second shot: Is San Diego State in the Big Ten Conference yet?)

The Dan Rather Memorial Inquisition Chalice

This award for the most inane media question was earned at the FedEx St. Jude Championship after Scottie Scheffler talked about showing his Olympic gold medal to friends and fans before the event in Memphis and how much reacted to seeing his medal.

Media genius: “Did you use it as a ball marker at all?” 

(Second shot: What he should’ve asked as a topper follow-up—“How far can you throw it?”)

The Pet Rock Merchandising Award (Bronze medal)

T-shirt featuring jailbird Scottie Scheffler mug shot during PGA Championship week: “Straight outta Valhalla.”

(Second shot: Per the late Warren Zevon’s song: “Send lawyers, guns and money.”)

The Job Placement Trophy

Phil Mickelson has zero LIV Golf wins and only three top-10 finishes in three years.

Mickelson recently hinted that he might retire if his LIV Golf play doesn’t improve. His reported $200 million LIV deal expires after next season and his dismal average finish this year is 36.1 (out of 54 players). “I see glimpses of being able to compete but I’m also realistic,” Mickelson said. “If I’m not able to, I’ll step aside.” 

(Second shot: A legit question is, What will Phil do next? LIV broadcast commentator? Head negotiator in the PGA Tour framework agreement talks? Male model for AARP?)

The Dr. Richard Kimble Right Stuff Award

Scottie Scheffler, after video evidence revealed how the Louisville police’s description of his PGA incident didn’t match the officer’s account and charges against him were dropped: “I did not want to pursue legal action against Louisville because at the end of the day, the people of Louisville would have to pay for the mistakes of their police department. And that just doesn’t seem right.”

(Second shot: Justice prevails. Court adjourned.)

GARY VAN SICKLE

Van Sickle has covered golf since 1980, following the tours to 125 men’s major championships, 14 Ryder Cups and one sweet roundtrip flight on the late Concorde. He is likely the only active golf writer who covered Tiger Woods during his first pro victory, in Las Vegas in 1996, and his 81st, in Augusta. Van Sickle’s work appeared, in order, in The Milwaukee Journal, Golf World magazine, Sports Illustrated (20 years) and Golf.com. He is a former president of the Golf Writers Association of America. His knees are shot, but he used to be a half-decent player. He competed in two national championships (U.S. Senior Amateur, most recently in 2014); made it to U.S. Open sectional qualifying once and narrowly missed the Open by a scant 17 shots (mostly due to poor officiating); won 10 club championships; and made seven holes-in-one (though none lately). Van Sickle’s golf equipment stories usually are based on personal field-testing, not press-release rewrites. His nickname is Van Cynical. Yeah, he earned it.

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