The Black Keys welcomed surprise guest and Sin City icon Wayne Newton onstage to perform Lonely Boy during the bands set at Las Vegas Life Is Beautiful.
The crooner dubbed Mr. Las Vegas Newton has performed over 30,000 gigs on the Vegas Strip, including a current residency at Caesars Palace adeptly handled the chorus of the 2011 hit.
The Newton guest appearance closed out the Black Keys Life Is Beautiful set, the official first show of the bands Lets Rock Tour, their first trek in five years; on Thursday night, the Black Keys played a fan club-only gig at Los Angeles Wiltern, a concert that found hundreds of fans being turned away at the venues door after purchasing tickets through a third-party vendor.
This happens only here. @WayneNewtonMrLV rocking it w/ @theblackkeys @lifeisbeautiful pic.twitter.com/iyfNXk6O0i
John Katsilometes (@johnnykats) September 22, 2019
The Lets Rock Tour continues Monday at Denvers Pepsi Center and followed the next night with a show at Kansas Citys Sprint Center, where the band expects to be confronted by the Westboro Baptist Church.