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buttons67
i heard they had to keep working in the 70,s just to fund the lifestyle and stay on the road. dont know exactly what level the lifestyle needing funded was, or could they have quit in the 70,s and lived off earnings, yet lived the life they wanted to, god only knows. I dont think they made mega money till the 90,s which is what the band hinted at years ago.
I think they are worth every penny they have earned, they deserve it, as they have worked hard, been shafted heavily in the early days by record companies, managers etc despite a gruelling schedule both in the studio and in concert.
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Rocky Dijon
Let's see. Never had to hold down a real job in 55 years. Never filed bankruptcy. They had to drive an old Rolls Royce or Mercedes in their mid-forties? Oh how they suffered for their art.
As for individual earnings, read STONE ALONE. Every few pages, Bill will tell you his bank balance.
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sanQ
On 25x5, you can see that they were not hard done by. Mick and Jerry Hall walking the kids on a beautiful property. I saw an ad for Mick's old early 80's Ferrari... $42,000 is its worth even now.
The main thing must have been the taxes. They had to have always been rich. Keith in the early 80's owned Redlands and at least something in New York as well.
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GasLightStreet
They never truly made the big money until 1989.
Look at their record sales from 1982-1986 (SL, U, R and DW) and they're decent for them, considering no touring, they made some money, but the incredible individual wealth, royalties aside, didn't start until STEEL WHEELS.
What Mick and Keith make in royalties per year would make anyone here well off. For M and K, it's chump change.
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Palace Revolution 2000
It's still hard to take the 'being broke' and skint descriptions from late 60's too serious, because while they probably didn't have actual money, they had credit . They were driving beautiful cars, seemingly unlimited studio time, access to houses. I think real problems would not have surfaced for the non writers of the band unless they left the Rolling Stones umbrella. We saw that with Mick Taylor who seriously miscalculated.
They left England because they were completely tapped. So they relocate to the Cote d'Azur where they each pick and choose from mansions. They have top grade Heroin delivered, employ French Chefs; there are photos of Keith and friends on yachts, Jagger on a Honda 750. It musta been tough down there in the dumps; close to the Salvation Army Mission...
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GasLightStreet
They never truly made the big money until 1989.
Look at their record sales from 1982-1986 (SL, U, R and DW) and they're decent for them, considering no touring, they made some money, but the incredible individual wealth, royalties aside, didn't start until STEEL WHEELS.
What Mick and Keith make in royalties per year would make anyone here well off. For M and K, it's chump change.
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GasLightStreet
They never truly made the big money until 1989.
Look at their record sales from 1982-1986 (SL, U, R and DW) and they're decent for them, considering no touring, they made some money, but the incredible individual wealth, royalties aside, didn't start until STEEL WHEELS.
What Mick and Keith make in royalties per year would make anyone here well off. For M and K, it's chump change.
Michael Cohl made them very rich men.
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24FPS
I think that's why Bill jumped off the bus when he did. The financial security he'd always craved had arrived. He no longer had to stay with the group. In Stone Alone he portrays him and Charlie in 1969 with almost no income while the Songwriters Mick and Keith earned hundreds of thousands of pounds. I'm assuming Brian would have been in the same boat as B and C. (I'd love to see how his group finances got untangled, and if the Brian Jones Estate continues to see income).
I hope Taylor earned a good salary with them a couple tours back. He disappeared from view, so maybe he did.