Aerosmith announces farewell tour amid Steven Tyler sexual assault allegations

Aerosmith is ready to walk its way into the sunset.

Fifty years after releasing its self-titled debut in January 1973, the rock legends announced their upcoming farewell tour, Peace Out, Monday.

“It’s not goodbye it’s PEACE OUT! Get ready and walk this way, you’re going to get the best show of our lives,” the band said in a joint statement.

The 40-date North American tour will kick off Sept. 2 in Philadelphia before hitting New York’s Madison Square Garden on Jan. 19, while also making a stop at Prudential Center in Newark, NJ, on Dec. 28. And the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers will play a special hometown show at Boston’s TD Garden on New Year’s Eve.

“Shake Your Moneymaker” band the Black Crowes will warm things up as Aerosmith’s opening act on the tour.

The end of the road for Aerosmith comes amid allegations that frontman Steven Tyler sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl in 1973 and forced her to get an abortion. The claims were made in a December 2022 lawsuit filed by Julia Misley (formerly known as Julia Holcomb) just days before the statute of limitations on reporting childhood sexual abuse crimes would have expired.

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But Tyler, 75, has denied the allegations, asking for the lawsuit to be dismissed in a lengthy response filed in March.

Tyler admitted to having a relationship with a then-unnamed 16-year-old girl — when he was 25 — in his 2004 memoir “Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?” But while Misley said that the rock star “performed various acts of criminal sexual conduct” upon her — Tyler claims that it was all consensual.