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Quit while you're ahead. You both have fantastic back catalogues, but face up to it, as song writers you're long past it. Learn from The Beatles and get out while they still want more (are you listening, Macca?)
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I can't imagine bowie or the stones need the money they must be well ahead.
Maybe the limelight I'm famous.
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Always been a bit half and half about Bowie, loved some of his stuff, hated others. he was on the telly with a free single the other night, not really my kind of stuff.
The Stones are simply awesome, good rocking blues with some fantastic support musicians. And showmen too. Listen to the Shine A Light album from the Beacon in 2008 and you wouldn't know their age (watch the movie and it is obvious!). From the interviews I heard before the December concerts, they basically are enjoying themselves still, so why not?
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I assume this thread has been raised because of that appalling single that Bowie released the other day.
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>> I assume this thread has been raised because of that appalling single that Bowie released
>> the other day.
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Correct.
I'm not complaining about these artists still performing, I'm a fan of both and would love to see them live. But like most artists their best songwriting days were in their relative youths, if they had to stand or fall on what they have written in recent years we'd never have heard of them. What was the last Stones song that wasn't instantly forgettable?
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>> I assume this thread has been raised because of that appalling single that Bowie released
>> the other day.
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Yes, but top marks to his record company to get the BBC to fawn over him in such an unprecedented manner, eh?
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>> Yes, but top marks to his record company to get the BBC to fawn over
>> him in such an unprecedented manner, eh?
There was no warning about it - apparently it just appeared on his website, and the word spread. A very well kept secret (and it might all have been carefully planned by the record company, I don't know).
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>> Quit while you're ahead. You both have fantastic back catalogues, but face up to it,
>> as song writers you're long past it.
They won't ever quit until it's physically impossible for them to perform. They love what they do, it's not about the money (though it doesn't stop the Rolling Stones charging a fortune for tickets).
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I've seen - and had the privilege of speaking to - the Eagles, 10cc and the Moody Blues in the past year.
All good chaps, and don't need the money - they are just enjoying a gig-a-week world tour which is paid for by somebody else.
Great concerts as well - and the lads can still get an audience on their feet for a few hours.
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>>(though it doesn't stop the Rolling Stones charging a fortune for tickets).
I doubt they care one way or another. I'd be surprised if they even knew how much a ticket cost.
However, all the "service providers" who are on a percentage are still aiming to get rich out of the Stones, the Beatles, etc. etc.
The artist does it for love and glory.
The agent/ manager/ publicist, bottle washer does it for money, and the more the better.
Which is pretty much why you see aging stars surrounded by young unknown musicians, technicians, assistants and the rest.
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"I'd be surprised if they even knew how much a ticket cost." Jagger actually made a jokey reference to the cost of the O2 tickets during the gigs.
While the ticket costs seem outrageous, their shows do cost a fair bit to stage, and there are a lot more people involved than the ones you see. Someone I know saw Pink (who she?) at the O2 and those tickets were over £100 too.
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>> Pink (who she?) at the O2 and those tickets were over £100 too.
Yeah, just like politicians these rock stars, they've lost touch with how the other nine tenths live...
I've paid to go to concerts sometimes, but it didn't cost much then and anyway I had the bread, as the young in work now have the bread for what is important to them.
Of course I've also spent a lot of time backstage in places I got into free, smoking huge amounts of drugs with bands and musicians modesty and fear of destructive envy prevent me from naming.
Huge smug smirk all the same.
:o}}}
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I once paid £7.50 to see Genesis at the Usher hall in Edinburgh. It was £5.50 a week or two later to see the Sensational Alex Harvey Band and something like a tenner to see Chris Rea a year or two later. Not sure why I specifically remember those ones as there were many more. It must have seemed like quite a lot of money at the time I suppose. It was a little while ago.
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Hammersmith Odeon, fairly early sixties, to hear Little Richard and Bo Diddley... makeweight warmup group, hitherto unheard-of Rolling Stones, even the Beatles were just starting to arrive, lots of shaking hair from my high-up cheapish seat at the front of the balcony, sang the Beatle number 'I wanna be your man', not a favourite of mine, made little impression being definitively occluded soon after by the main attractions. No, I wasn't backstage that time. But I'd be surprised if the ticket cost a tenner when a tenner really was a tenner...
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Wrexham village hall (or whatever they called it).
PJ Proby, live. 196?.
I was absolutely gob-smacked by his performance.
I want 'Somewhere' by him at my funeral. SWMBO reckons there won't be a dry eye in the house if they do - what will I care?
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David Bowie, The Rolling Stones etc - Dutchie
