Exactly or approximately. Does anyone know? If my memory is correct, only 1978 US tour attracted more than one million (maybe 1.5). Any statistics?

Many thanks.

no way would the 1978 tour have attracted that many. They only played about 25 shows - and only 9 shows on that tour were in stadiums (Philly, Chicago, Cleveland, Boulder, Anaheim x 2, Oakland, Buffalo and New Orleans). The rest were split almost evenly between arenas and theatres

You have right Gazza. Maybe this "1.5 million", which i remember,is aimed at Europe 1982, not at North America 1978. Anyway, i'm still waiting for answers.

that would make sense for Europe in 1982. There were about 35 shows, with all but the 4 initial theatre shows in London & Scotland and the 3 arena shows in Frankfurt taking place in stadiums

Several shows on that tour took place in front of crowds well in excess of 70,000. No all seater stadiums back then to reduce the capacity!

The last 2 shows alone - Slane and Leeds - were in the grounds of a castle and a public park respectively and those 2 shows alone drew a combined crowd of about 200,000 (I've heard 125-150,000 for Leeds and Slane had pver 70,000). There were about 85,000 in Naples as well.

You might find this site of interest

[www.abo.fi]

List of biggest paying attendances here (correct as of 2001)

[www.abo.fi]

Indeed this site is of great interest. It reminds of the good old days, but after all not so far, when The Greatest Rock Band could attract audiences over 70,000 at stadiums in the US as well as Europe.

playing to 40,000 when ticket prices go up to $450.00 is pretty damn good. Tickets for JFK in 1981 were $15.00 and the place held 90,000 people. So with inflation in 25 years that 15.00 ticket would probably be about 45.00 today and if tickets for stones shows were 45.00 they could easily play to 90,000 again.

stickydion Wrote:
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> Does anyone know?

I don't think so.

Bashlets Wrote:
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> playing to 40,000 when ticket prices go up to
> $450.00 is pretty damn good. Tickets for JFK in
> 1981 were $15.00 and the place held 90,000 people.
> So with inflation in 25 years that 15.00 ticket
> would probably be about 45.00 today and if tickets
> for stones shows were 45.00 they could easily play
> to 90,000 again.


they could if there were still stadiums that held that many people.

However, there arent any in North America and only a couple in Europe capable of holding anywhere near that many

Thanks Gazza. I knew this site, but i'm still looking for total numbers about 60s and 70s tours. I hope they exist.

phd wrote: "It reminds of the good old days, but after all not so far, when The Greatest Rock Band could attract audiences over 70,000 at stadiums in the US as well as Europe."

Oh, come on phd, don't be so "nostalgic"! First of all, on this tour the Stones atrracted 89,260 people in Moncton (Sept. 3, 2005). OK, this isn't US, but still North America. U2 nowadays play ONLY arenas in US. Not even stadiums of capacity 35,000 - 60,000 as the Stones still do sometimes. But this fact doesn't mean that U2 isn't a very popular live act in the North America, i guess.

Draw a comparison between these days and the "good old" days looking at the total numbers. During 70s, when the Stones did northamerican tours every three or every two years (1972, 1975, 1978) or european tours with the same high frequency (1973, 1976), they were attracting -in every case- under 800,000 or 600,000 people. Sometimes under 500,000 on every round. On this tour they have already played to 1.5 people in North American and will add up in some months. Their upcoming "crop -tailed", dwindling (after Keith's accident) european tour will be for one million people- and it continues, as we hope, in 2007. With these @#$%& ticket prices. With so high frequency of tours in the last years. After 44 years of career. I think that's marvelous if not a miracle...