BETHLEHEM, Pa. — A shock-rocker who has had four gold and platinum albums and a dozen Top 40 hits on various charts but is better known for his controversial stage personality will play Wind Creek Event Center, it was announced Tuesday.
Marilyn Manson, the heavy-makeup-wearing alternative rocker whose 1996 album “Antichrist Superstar” branded him a negative influence on young people but sold double platinum, will perform at 8 p.m. May 7, the casino announced.
The Wind Creek show will be the fifth date on a tour that will kick off May 2 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and wrap up May 25 in Dallas, Texas.Marilyn Mansion news release
Tickets, at $55 for standing general admission and $85 for seated elevated wings, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 24 at the Wind Creek website.
The show will be part of Manson's first full-scale headlining U.S. tour since 2019. He played single dates last year that were his first in the United States since 2020.
The Wind Creek show will be the fifth date on a tour that will kick off May 2 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and wrap up May 25 in Dallas, Texas.
Manson is touring to support his newest album, "One Assassination Under God — Chapter 1," released in November. It peaked at No. 32 on Billboard's Albums chart.
It's his first album in over four years, since 2020's "We Are Chaos," which peaked at No. 8.
Manson's “Antichrist Superstar” peaked at No. 3 on Billboard’s albums chart, achieved platinum sales and produced the Top 30 hits “The Beautiful People” and “Tourniquet.”
But it was Manson’s 1998 album “Mechanical Animals” that topped the charts, also went platinum and gave him his biggest song, the Top 15 alternative hit “The Dope Show” and the Top 30 “I Don’t Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)” and “Rock is Dead.”
Chart success, personal problems
Manson also topped the albums chart with 2003’s “The Golden Age of Grotesque,” and the 2004 compilation album “Lest We Forget” gave him another Top 15 alternative hit, “Personal Jesus.”
In all, Manson had 10 Top 10 albums, five of which went gold or platinum, and 20 singles that hit the Top 30 on various charts.
He also was nominated for five Grammy Awards, including as a featured artist on Kanye West's 2022's "Donda" for Album of the Year.
But Manson got as much attention for more than $25,000 in backstage and hotel damages in 1998, a $24 million assault lawsuit filed by a Spin magazine editor, a civil battery suit filed by a Minneapolis concert security officer and 2001 sexual battery lawsuits and other legal problems.
Also, in a 2021 letter, California state Sen. Susan Rubio wrote to the director of the FBI and the U.S. attorney general, asking them to investigate allegations women had made against Manson.
Former fiancée Evan Rachel Wood and four other women accused Manson of abuse, and Manson was dropped by his distributing record label, talent agency and manager.
But he called the claims "horrible distortions of reality."
Manson also played the event center, then called Sands Bethlehem Event Center, in 2014. He also played at Allentown’s former club Starz in 1996.
