Roger waters

[alframsey]

Cos he mimes in bits

Would this be easier with more words - it's more valid when it's the writer performing, but a different performer can still get it and produce a better sounding version

Elton John must do your noodle. Someone else writes the words, he writes the music and performs it - how does that fit in to the scale?

[Guest]

So it's the miming thing that has led to people accusing him of performing covers? I dunno, they aren't covers surely? He is performing his own songs, albeit miming a little.

[frostypaw]

If you want a detailed account the page numbers are just there *points*

[russycarps]

ok, which one of you is Roger McGlade on youtube?? They have replied to a comment I made on Johnny Cash's Mercy Seat a while back....coincidence??

[glasto-worker]

From brain-damage.co.uk - Billboard.com have just reported that Roger Waters, with the ticket sales now in from the final shows of the 2013 European tour, has set the solo artist ticket sales record, eclipsing Madonna and reaching third place in the overall standings (which includes groups). With $81.3 million in ticket sales reported for the final leg through 27 shows in 26 European cities, the tour as a whole totalled an impressive $459 million from 219 performances. For the 2013 show, a total of 830,123 fans attended (from a maximum possible of 915,081)

The tour originally launched in September 2010, and with the amount of equipment, staging, transportation and personnel involved in the complete production, it was never going to be a cheap enterprise to run so we'd be interested to know just how much of this amount ended up as profit. Ticket prices, in particular compared to other performers, were on the whole set at a fair level.

Billboard report that "the $459 million gross surpasses the solo record of $407 million previously set by Madonna with her Sticky & Sweet tour in 2008-09 and grants Waters with the third highest-grossing tour of all time. Only U2 and the Rolling Stones grossed more from a single tour. Sales from U2's 360° tour totalled $736 million (2009-2011) and the Rolling Stones' A Bigger Bang tour grossed $558 million from 2005-2007.