BETHLEHEM, Pa. — A rock band that from the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s had six gold and platinum albums and 14 Top 20 Mainstream Rock chart hits is coming to Wind Creek Event Center.
Tesla, best known for its 1989 Top 10 gold hit "Love Song" and its 1991 Top 10 hit cover of Five Man Electrical Band’s “Signs,” will perform at 8 p.m. Jan. 23.
Tickets, at $49.50-$79.50, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 10 at the Wind Creek Event Center website and the box office.Wind Creek Event Center
Tickets, at $49.50-$79.50, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 10 at the Wind Creek Event Center website and the box office at 77 Wind Creek Blvd., Bethlehem.
Tesla next year will be observing the 40th anniversary of its debut album, "Mechanical Resonance." That platinum disc produced three Top 15 Mainstream Rock hits: "Modern Day Cowboy," "Gettin' Better" and "Little Suzi."
The group's second album, "The Great Radio Controversy," sold double-platinum and charted in the Top 20 overall Albums chart, with the hits "Love Song," "Hang Tough," "The Way It Is" and "Heaven's Trail (No Way Out)."
25 Top 40 Mainstream Rock hits
Tesla's 1990 live album, "Five man Acoustical Jam," produced "Signs," which peaked at No. 2 on the Mainstream Rock chart. It also went platinum.
It's 1991 third album, "Psychotic Supper," another platinum disc, was the band's highest-charting, at No. 13.
The band's last gold and platinum albums were 1994's "Bust a Nut," and the 1995 compilation disc "Time's Makin' Changes — The Best of Tesla," and it continued to have Top 40 Mainstream Rock hits through 2008's "I Wanna Live."
In all, Tesla has had 25 Top 40 Mainstream Rock hits.
Its most recent disc of new material was 2019's "Shock."
The band still has three members from its peak lineup: Singer Jeff Harper, keyboardist Brian Wheat and guitarist Frank Hannon.
The band played the event center, then called Sands Bethlehem Event Center, in 2015 and played Allentown Fair with Def Leppard and Styx that same year.
It also played Allentown's PPL Center in 2016.
