2007, The Rolling Stones set a new record for the top-grossing tour of all time with their A Bigger Bang tour. The tour, which ran from late 2005 to August 2007, earned the band $558,255,524 with The Stones playing to more than 4.5 million people at 144 shows. The previous high was set by U2’s Vertigo tour, which took place in 2005 and 2006, earning $389 million.
ROLLING STONES - GIMME SHELTER
OZZY - CRAZY TRAIN
CBS News has launched a new poll - Surprised By Who Is Still Alive? "It's quite a question when your choice of answers ranges from Osama bin Laden to the Octo-Mom! Osama wins with half of Americans saying they're surprised he's managed to evade capture and elude justice for over nine years. OZZY OSBOURNE and his sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll lifestyle is next with 19 percent, but his fellow rocker KEITH RICHARDS got only 13 percent."
Who are you most surprised is still alive?
Osama bin Laden 50%
Ozzy Osbourne 19%
Keith Richards 13%
Lindsay Lohan 2%
Abe Vigoda 15%
Mickey Rourke 2%
Octo-Mom 1%
With their new album, Come Around Sundown, just weeks from release, Kings Of Leon have plenty to crow about - and some of it's due to their last record: Only By The Night, issued in 2008, which has been named the top-selling digital album in the UK. According to official figures, the album has been downloaded 276,000 times, just ahead of Lady Gaga's The Fame with 261,000 downloads. Martin Talbot, managing director of the Official Charts Company, predicted that while it will still take time for downloads to overtake CDs, "which still account for four of every five albums sold," he predicted that the number of legal download sites and the competitive cost of digital albums will see their popularity grow.
KINGS OF LEON - RADIOACTIVE
PINK FLOYD - ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL PART 2
Roger Waters' 30th anniversary show of Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' has been accused of anti-Semitism. The allegations come from the Anti-Defamation League, who claim the stage show uses imagery associated with stereotypes about Jews and money. In particular, the claims point out that during the performance of the song 'Goodbye Blue Sky', an animated projection shows aeroplanes dropping bombs in the shapes of Jewish Stars of David followed by dollar signs, although various other religious and corporate symbols are also depicted. Fan-shot footage of the song and stage projection are online and can be seen below.
While promoting his new album Band of Joy, Robert Plant recently suggested that he may want to reunite Led Zeppelin. "I think we're probably thinking about talking," Plant said in an interview with A.V. Club. Plant went on to discuss the positive vibe he felt revisiting Led Zep's tunes at their 2007 reunion show in London and how he still has an urge to play these songs in concert. "I think everybody feels the same, really," he said. "It’s not even a talking point. I don’t know how many times Stephen Stills has been asked about whether or not he wants to go back to Buffalo Springfield. Maybe he and Neil [Young] got out in time before it actually had the same kind of effect…I’ve still got a twinkle in me."
