I am interested in the business that is the stones; the companies, finances and structure. Does anyone know if there is a good book or story on this. I read the one in Forbes some years ago.

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Bob C.
I am interested in the business that is the stones; the companies, finances and structure. Does anyone know if there is a good book or story on this. I read the one in Forbes some years ago.

Bob C..If there is a good book on this I wouldn't mind getting one myself.. it would be quite interesting to find out about what each Rolling Stone and the actual Band have their money invested in.

Still have never heard.

I can't imagine why the Stones would divulge such information.

What Mick Jagger knows about making money in music
Mick knows better than to hope for record sales or worry about illegal downloads, says guest blogger Douglas French. He figured out the music industry decades ago.



(L to R) Rolling Stones guitarists Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards perform together with vocalist Mick Jagger and drummer Charlie Watts during a concert of the band's "A Bigger Bang" European Tour at the Twickenham stadium in west London, 2006.

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By Douglas French, Guest blogger / January 21, 2011

In an extraordinary piece by Zoe Heller for the New York Times Style Magazine, Rolling Stones front man and financial overseer Mick Jagger talks about (among other things) the business of rock & roll.

“[Jagger's] beady oversight of the Rolling Stones’ financial affairs has, famously, helped make the band one of the richest in rock ’n’ roll history,” Heller writes.

“When he is on the road, he has been known to keep a map in his dressing room, indicating the city at which the tour will go into profit.”

And that’s how the Rollings Stones make money. The A Bigger Bang tour, from 2005 to 2007, was the highest-grossing tour of all time raking in $558 million.

“The band has also been ahead of the curve in recruiting sponsors, selling song rights and flogging merchandise. ‘The Stones carry no Woodstockesque, antibusiness baggage,’ Andy Serwer noted approvingly back in 2002 in Fortune magazine.”

Is Jagger crying about free downloads and declining CD sales? Nope. “There was a window in the 120 years of the record business where performers made loads and loads of money out of records,” Jagger says. “But it was a very small window — say, 15 years between 1975 and 1990.”

[www.csmonitor.com]

people really give a rip about this? whatever happened to my rock'n'roll?

I think Mick's shrewdness may be overrated (Klein, etc.), but hiring Prince Rupert was certainly a good move.

I agree, hiring Prince Rupert was a good move and Mick is an astute student and quick study (contrary to Mick's "quick study" quote regarding drug use on 60 minutes). I would assume prior to announcing his retirement, Prince Rupert gave Mick a "final test" on business management, perhaps the student was able to teach the teacher.

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Elmo Lewis
I think Mick's shrewdness may be overrated (Klein, etc.), but hiring Prince Rupert was certainly a good move.