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My Bruce Springsteen stub from 1992 is $25
That was considered "top dollar" at the time, which is why those $32.50 Jethro Tull tickets (see above) seemed so expensive. How much were Stones tickets in 1989? I think it was $22.50 wasn't it? Well, that very same year, I paid $35.00 (face value) to see Lou Reed and John Cale at The Brooklyn Academy Of Music. $35 was an unheard of price for a concert ticket in 1989, but I would have gladly paid much more. You have to be a VU fan to understand what this meant. It was like seeing Lennon and McCartney.
I'm sure it was more because they were charging £20 or more in Europe in 1990.
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tatters
Any boxing fans out there? (I know Gazza is one) Always wondered why boxing tickets are so expensive. In 1971, ringside seats for the Ali - Frazier fight at Madison Square Garden were $100, or maybe $150. That same year, tickets to The Concert For Bangladesh, also at Madison Square Garden, were $6.50. I never understood that.
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My Bruce Springsteen stub from 1992 is $25
That was considered "top dollar" at the time, which is why those $32.50 Jethro Tull tickets (see above) seemed so expensive. How much were Stones tickets in 1989? I think it was $22.50 wasn't it? Well, that very same year, I paid $35.00 (face value) to see Lou Reed and John Cale at The Brooklyn Academy Of Music. $35 was an unheard of price for a concert ticket in 1989, but I would have gladly paid much more. You have to be a VU fan to understand what this meant. It was like seeing Lennon and McCartney.
I'm sure it was more because they were charging £20 or more in Europe in 1990.
Who was charging that in europe in 1990?
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batcave
The first tour that I really remember people going "What!?" over ticket prices was the Jacksons "Victory" tour in 1984. Tickets were $30 each, BUT you had to buy them in blocks of four which put the price over the top for a lot of people....
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stonesnow
All those comparatively low ticket prices everyone is citing in this thread from up to 1989 are pre-internet, pre-download prices. Those were the days when people still bought CDs and artists could still make money from albums. Now--guess why--the only way to turn a profit in the music biz is by touring, so the artists make sure they turn their profit any way they can. No one buys CDs anymore, and when you download a song for 99 cents, you're buying a song for the same price a 45 rpm single went for in the 1960s. That's why a concert ticket in many cases is no longer worth the price of admission.
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GuessWho
1976 : paid £3.50 (no booking fees then!) to see The Stones in Glasgow, Scotland in a 3,500 venue (all tickets were the same price)
Just put that figure into an inflation calculator - 2012 equivalent - around £24.00
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tatters
So you see just how expensive those $35 Reed/Cale tickets seemed in 1989.
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backstreetboy1
eagles didnt start anything,steel wheels tour,atlantic city,150 dollar tix were the start.
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trainarollin
Going back through some old ticket stubs, it may have been the 1985 Jerry Garcia/David Crosby Holiday Show at Radio City.
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backstreetboy1
eagles didnt start anything,steel wheels tour,atlantic city,150 dollar tix were the start.