Saturday 12 February 2011

Tickets please


The best attended tours - ever!

10. Wildest Dreams Tour, Tina Turner
3,000,000 attendees

Wobbly, bewigged grandma of soul pulls in a crowd in 1996.


9. U2 360° Tour, U2
3,071,290 attendees

God's favourite rock band and tax avoiders sell a ticket or two in 2009.


8. Licks Tour, The Rolling Stones
3,400,000 attendees

Vintage, Seven Seas abusing, white blues fellas coin it in  2003.


7. Living Proof: The Farewell Tour, Cher
3,500,000 attendees

Gypsy, tramp, thief and semi-bionic songstress attracts attention in 2002.


6. Sticky & Sweet Tour, Madonna
3,500,000 attendees

Creepy auntie and ex-Mrs Penn, sucks up the ticket dollars in 2008.


5. PopMart Tour, U2
3,935,936 attendees

Them again. Nearly half a million people and one pair of wraparound shades.


4. Bad World Tour, Michael Jackson
4,400,000 attendees

Before the awkward questions and the overdose, Jacko does the business.



3. HIStory World Tour, Michael Jackson
4,500,000 attendees

1996 and the world was his for the taking. How wrong it went.


2. Vertigo Tour, U2
4,619,021 attendees

That's a lot of folk, so it is. 2005.


1. A Bigger Bang Tour, The Rolling Stones
4,680,000 attendees

Just goes to show, losing Bill Wyman needn't make you unpopular.