“Weird Al” Yankovic will hit the road in 2025 for his first major tour in six years, which includes a June 28 stop at Treasure Island Casino Amphitheater. Tickets for the pop parodist are priced from $159 to $39 and go on sale at 10 a.m.
Friday through Ticketmaster . Yankovic, 64, began playing the accordion at the age of seven and grew up listening to Elton John, Spike Jones, Allan Sherman, Stan Freberg and Frank Zappa. When he was 16, radio DJ and Minneapolis native Dr.
Demento spoke at his high school and Yankovic gave him a cassette recording of a song he wrote about his family’s Plymouth Belvedere. Dr. Demento played it on his syndicated comedy show, which Yankovic credits as the launch of his musical career.
While studying architecture at California Polytechnic State University, Yankovic began writing parody songs starting with “My Bologna,” a riff on the Knack’s hit “My Sharona.” He continued to get played on Dr. Demento’s radio show and, in 1981, joined the DJ’s stage show on tour.
The following year, he signed a deal with Scotti Brothers Records. Yankovic’s self-titled debut album arrived in 1983 and featured the parody singles “Another One Rides the Bus,” “Ricky” and “I Love Rocky Road” alongside seven original songs. He broke to a wider audience with his follow-up, “ ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic in 3-D,” thanks to his hit Michael Jackson parody “Eat It.
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