| North American tour by Hole and Marilyn Manson | |||||||||||||
 Promotional poster for the March 11, 1999 performance of the Beautiful Monsters Tour | |||||||||||||
| Location | United States and Canada | ||||||||||||
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| Associated album | Celebrity Skin and Mechanical Animals | ||||||||||||
| Start date | February 28, 1999 | ||||||||||||
| End date | March 14, 1999 | ||||||||||||
| Legs | 1 | ||||||||||||
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The Beautiful Monsters Tour was a North American concert tour co-headlined by American rock bands Hole and Marilyn Manson. Launched in support of each band's respective third full-length studio LPs, 1998's Celebrity Skin and Mechanical Animals,[N 1] the tour was planned to run from February 28, 1999, until April 27, with 37 shows confirmed. However, due to a highly publicized altercation between the bands' respective lead vocalists, the tour only visited arenas until March 14, for a total of 9 shows before Hole withdrew from the bill. The tour garnered a large amount of media attention and was billed by MTV as a "potentially volatile mix" due to the public feud between each band's outspoken vocalist.[1]
The co-headlining tour was conceived by Hole's management company, Q Prime. Hole singer Courtney Love teased the press that she aimed to launch a tour with Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette. However, Hole's management aggressively pursued Marilyn Manson's eponymous band, even amid a public feud stemming from Manson's depiction of Love in his autobiography The Long Hard Road Out of Hell. Nevertheless, the groups agreed to tour together provided that costs and revenue were split 50/50.
The tour was marred by on–and–off stage exchanges between Love and Manson, as well as private disputes over the tour's financial arrangements, which resulted in Hole unwittingly financing most of Manson's production costs which was disproportionately higher relative to their own. After Hole left, Marilyn Manson continued the tour under the name Rock Is Dead. Marilyn Manson released two recordings that documented portions of the tour: a live video album titled God Is in the T.V. and a live album titled The Last Tour on Earth. Love and Manson finally reconciled their differences in 2015, more than 15 years after the end of the tour.
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- ^ Kaufman, Gil (1999-01-27). "Marilyn Manson, Hole Schedule 'Beautiful Monsters' Tour". MTV. Viacom Media Networks. Archived from the original on 2015-07-27. Retrieved 2015-07-06.