TheSound
An Englishman in New York
Roger Waters The Wall is going to be at Yankee Stadium in July. My sister really wants to go, but tickets are so expensive. Even the nosebleeds are $90.
You should go. I saw The Wall tour in I think May last year in Manchester, and we paid I think £85.00 each as it was a special occasion (our friends 25th Wedding Anniversary)...it was a very good show, though not especially great seats we had. But I do wonder how much he's making on this tour. I see he's playing 9 straight nights at a 75,000 seat stadium in Argentina starting tomorrow, so knock off say 15,000 seats for the stage set, but that's still 540,000 people just in one week in one city, and he still has to go around the USA and Canada for the second time yet. If they're all paying £85, well, it's mind boggling numbers.
Though it still wouldn't put him near the top of the top-grossing tours ever list, which is held by U2 with their 360' Degrees Tour, which grossed $736 million, playing to over 7.2 million people. The Wall Live tour is currently ranked 21st all time. The Stones have 4 of the top 10 grossing tours ever, Springsteen btw is in the Top 20 twice with the Magic and Rising tours.
I must be bored tonight