Axl Rose

Guns N' Roses will return May 13 to the Lehigh Valley for a concert at the Sands Bethlehem Event Center.

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It only 27 took years, but Guns N' Roses is coming back to the Lehigh Valley.

The platinum-selling rock band -- whose hits include "Welcome to the Jungle," "Sweet Child O' Mine," "Patience" and "Paradise City" -- will kick off the U.S. leg of their upcoming winter-spring tour May 13 at the

, according to the group's website.

General admission tickets cost $65 and go on sale 10 a.m. Saturday through

or by calling 800-745-3000.

Guns N' Roses split up in 1994 before reforming in 1999 with a new lineup. Singer Axl Rose is the band's only remaining original member.

Guns N' Roses performed in 1987 at the former Airport Road Music Hall in

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The band's last studio effort was 2008's "Chinese Democracy." The album's production costs exceeded $13 million and was released to mixed reviews.

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Guns N' Roses were inducted in 2012 into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Their 1987 debut album, "Appetite for Destruction," has gone 18 times platinum in the U.S.