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Photo Gallery: Music's Coolest Joint Tours

In honor of Mac Miller and Wiz Khalifa's Under the Influence tour, we look back on 30 years of music's best co-headlining treks

July 27, 2012

Mac Miller and Wiz Khalifa

Mac Miller and Wiz Khalifa are in the midst of the Under the Influence tour—no, we won't judge you for making a "joint tour" joke—a co-headlining set from two of the most popular MCs in the game. The tour is just the latest in a long history of dual headliners, from Dylan and the Dead to Red Hot Chili Peppers and Stone Temple Pilots to the upcoming Liberation tour with Mary J. Blige and D'Angelo. Fuse looks back on some of our favorites. 

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GAINESVILLE, FL - SEPTEMBER 21: Stevie Nicks performs with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on their Highway Companion Tour at

Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks

The former Fleetwood Mac singer first linked up with Petty in 1981 for "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around." In 2006, the pair went on the Highway Companion Tour, where the mayor of Petty's home city of Gainesville, Florida introduced "Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Day'' 

Matt Stroshane

Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake

The two pop megastars first met as teenagers on the set of 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' reuniting in 2003 for the Justified & Stripped Tour 

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Sheryl Crow and Kid Rock perform at PNC Bank Arts Center on July 12, 2011 in Holmdel, New Jersey.

Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow

CrowRock (catchy, eh?) originally linked in 2002, when Crow performed on Kid Rock's "Picture" off the rapper/singer's 'Cocky' album. The duo toured together in 2011 

Kevin Mazur

D'Angelo and Mary J. Blige

Beginning August 18, reclusive R&B singer D'Angelo and Burger King-shilling soul queen Mary J. Blige start their Liberation tour. The run will (hopefully) be a return to the throne for both singers 

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Jay-Z and R. Kelly during Jay Z and R. Kelly Live at Madison Square Garden - Best of Both Worlds Tour - October 29, 2004 at M

Jay-Z and R. Kelly

The 2004 Best of Both Worlds tour to promote the duo's 'Unfinished Business' album ended in disaster, with R. Kelly claiming that two people were waving guns at him and Jay responding "I don't need that n---a!" The tour ended with each artist suing the other and proving that rap and R&B don't always peacefully coexist 

KMazur

NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 18: (L-R) Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton perform onstage at Madison Square Garden on February 18, 2010 in Ne

Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck

Dubbed by one New York newspaper as "two of the holy trinity of living axe-men" (with Jimmy Page), this is what happens when two men with more than 80 collective years of playing guitar enter the same room — epic 

Roger Kisby

Red Hot Chili Peppers and Stone Temple Pilots

In 2000, with Stone Temple Pilots coming off 'No. 4' and the Chilis just starting their "adult, poppier phase" with 'Californication,' the two bands hit the road. While RHCP remained a constant presence in rock since then, Weiland and co. would break up in 2002 until their eponymous reunion album in 2010 

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LIVERPOOL, UNITED KINGDOM - APRIL 23: Howie Dorough, Nick Carter and Brian Littrell of New Kids On The Block and the Backstre

New Kids On The Block and Backstreet Boys

It was the ultimate meeting of the boy bands when New Kids On The Block and Backstreet Boys teamed up for the NKOTBSB tour in 2011 

Jon Super

Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie

This autumn's family-friendly show will feature skee-ball, Whack-a-Mole, balloon animals and an actual three-ring circus and petting zoo. Expect Wiggles covers and Manson to shower the crowd with candy. Bring the kids! (Seriously, don't bring your kids.) 

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UNITED STATES - JANUARY 01: USA Photo of GRATEFUL DEAD and Bob DYLAN, with The Grateful Dead, performing live onstage (Pho

Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan

This imaginative pairing went down in 1987, with the seven-song album 'Dylan & the Dead' being released two years later 

Ebet Roberts

Noel Gallagher and Snow Patrol

Solo Oasis-ite Gallagher and Scotland's Snow Patrol will team this autumn. Should be very accent-y 

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OAKLAND, CA - FEBRUARY 13: Elton John (L) and Billy Joel greet their fans before the Billy Joel & Elton John "Face 2 Face To

Billy Joel and Elton John

Seen here in 2010, the piano men from opposite sides of the pond have brought out their Face 2 Face Tour a handful of times. Joel's site calls it "the most successful and longest-running concert pairing in pop history" 

John Medina

Blondie and Devo

Something smells like the '80s. (It's this tour ... happening in 2012) 

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Journey and Def Leppard

After seeing this tour, we didn't stop believing we could pour some sugar on the rock of ages from a wheel in the sky 

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Atlanta, GA - JUNE 20: Lil Wayne and Young Jeezy perform together during the Hot 107.9 Birthday Bash 14 at Philips Arena on

Lil Wayne and Young Jeezy

Of all the youthful hip-hop monikers, these two were certainly the most noteworthy pairing available in 2009  

Ben Rose

Santana and The Allman Brothers

Six-string virtuosos of very different stripes, the two are about to wrap a brief 2012 summer jaunt 

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Guns N' Roses and Metallica

Two of the biggest, heaviest acts of their era joined in 1992 for a stadium tour that was so infamous it has its own super-detailed Wikipedia page  

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Lil Wayne performs with Nicki Minaj during his "I Am Still Music" tour at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on March 28, 2011

Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj

Lil Wayne brought his Young Money protege out on the road for the I Am Still Music Tour in 2011, by which point she was basically as big as him 

Kevin Mazur

US rappers Kanye West and Jay-Z (L) perform during a concert as part of their tour "Watch the Throne" on June 1, 2012 in Pari

Jay-Z and Kanye West

11 years after first working together on "This Can't Be Life," Jay and 'Ye hit the road on their joint Watch The Throne tour, which turned out to be like a double-headliner and a joint concert rolled into one 

GUILLAUME BAPTISTE

Jennifer Lopez and Enrique Iglesias

J.Lo hit the road with fellow Latin sensation Enrique Iglesias for the Dance Again World Tour in 2012 

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HOLLYWOOD, CA - MARCH 20: (L-R) Gene Simmons, Tommy Thayer, Eric Singer and Paul Stanley of KISS and Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx,

Kiss and Motley Crue

This year's apparently an excellent one to co-headline with a peer, so these two ensembles of debauchery are, naturally, hitting the road together 

Chelsea Lauren

David Bowie and Trent Reznor (Photo by Ke.Mazur/WireImage)

David Bowie and Nine Inch Nails

Less than a decade into their career, NiN scored big by co-headlining with Bowie. Early audiences were almost entirely Reznor folks, as Bowie himself said crowds were "almost 100% Nails audience" 

K. Mazur

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