When it's all added up, album sales, tours, and the Las Vegas deal, I'm guessing Elton John is right near the top of the heap...

Gene Simmons is probably doin' alright too...

Paul MCartney...

The Glimmers, especially MJ...

Gotta think Bruce Springsteen isn't hurtin', or Bob Dylan either...

Eric Clapton for that matter...

"It's just that demon life has got me in it's sway..."

abba ( i know it is not rock )
and of course ELVIS family


for 94 in the uk
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and the latest rolling stone facts:
[www.rollingstone.com]

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I think two of the richest rock stars are

sir Paul McCartney (The guy who sang "I don't care to much for money, cause money can't buy me love" and "All You Need Is Love"


SIR Mick Jagger (The guy who wrote "I'll kill the king and rail at all his servants, but what can a poor boy do except sing for a rock'n'roll band?" )

I know sir Elton John is up in the top three as well, but don't know his lyrics that well=)

Somewhere on the Internet is the Sunday times richist Brits. From what i remember Macca is at about 800m, Bowie Stewart and Jagger around 120m, Richards, Waters and Gilmour around 80m. The members of queen were around the 60 m mark with Woody. I'll try to find it.

I thought Mick and Keith were each around 300 400 mill.

Jimmy Buffet is extremely wealthy. He owns a lot of real estate in Miami.

Yeah.... JB's loaded, no doubt.

"It's just that demon life has got me in it's sway..."

A Dutch news paper (yesterdays post by Limbostone) also said Jagger is good for 120 mil.

It seemed they are very angry because of the article, (it was published the day before yesterday) they cancelled the second concert (rumoured for 2007) yesterday ;-). Got mail from the promotor.

Jelle

a question: why is MJ any wealthier than KR? 'cuz of the HUGE SALES of goddess in the doorway?



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Being a bloomin drug addict for ten years don't help!!!!

Mick is so tight he'd never buy a round of drinks


Keith, on the other hand.....

That is a reasonable explanation. Are we in £ or € or $ . Bet Macca is on £ and Jagger on pesos.

It may have been Forbes magazine about 2 years ago. Believe it or not the wealthiest rock star was David Bowie. The usual suspects were in there, Mick, Mcartney, Simmons, etc....

Don't think Elton's up there among the very richest any longer. He's a big spender. £ 12.000 on flowers weekly. And numerous donations to his AIDS-projects. Bless him. Hes got a bigger, warmer heart than a talent for finances.

Bowie was up there because of his internet investments etc

The Sunday Times annual rich list was published a few weeks ago and McCartney was the wealthiest rock star in the UK (which probably means the world too, as I dont think there would be any stars from other countries who have earned as much over the years as the top UK born stars)

When you include music executives and entrepreneurs however, the richest people in showbusiness were Cameron Mackintosh, Robert Stigwood, Andrew Lloyd Webber, simon Fuller and Clive Calder (former head of Zomba Music)

Jagger is the 290th richest person in the UK. The Queen is 192nd, so shes only £95 million ahead of him!


The collective worth of the Stones is estimated at £540 million, which is pretty close to $1 billion ($987,207,000 to be precise at todays exchange rates) or 785,382,000 Euro


Music Name National Wealth 2006 Wealth 2005

Rank Rank 2006
2006
1 Clive Calder 36= GBP1,300m GBP1,300m
2 Sir Paul 65 GBP825m GBP800m
McCartney
3 Lord 87= GBP700m GBP700m
Lloyd-Webber
4 Sir Cameron 156= GBP400m GBP400m
Mackintosh
5 Simon Fuller 192= GBP300m GBP75m
6 Madonna and Guy 251= GBP248m GBP235m
Ritchie
7 Robert Stigwood 284 GBP212m GBP210m
8= Sir Mick Jagger 290= GBP205m GBP180m
8= Sir Elton John 290= GBP205m GBP185m
10= Sir Tom Jones 318= GBP185m GBP175m
10= Sting 318= GBP185m GBP185m
12 Keith Richards 327= GBP180m GBP165m
13 Roger Ames 357= GBP160m New entry
14= Jamie Palumbo 378= GBP150m GBP140m
14= Sir Tim Rice 378= GBP150m GBP144m
16 Olivia and 405= GBP140m GBP140m
Dhani Harrison
17= Eric Clapton 420= GBP135m GBP130m
17= Phil Collins 420= GBP135m GBP130m
19 Ringo Starr 444= GBP125m GBP125m
20= David Bowie 465= GBP120m GBP120m
20= Barry and Robin 465= GBP120m GBP100m
Gibb
22= Ozzy and Sharon 554= GBP100m GBP100m
Osbourne
22= Rod Stewart 554= GBP100m GBP80m
24 Robbie Williams 648= GBP90m GBP85m
25 David and 674= GBP87m GBP75m
Victoria
Beckham
26 Charlie Watts 680= GBP85m GBP80m
27= David Gilmour 716= GBP80m GBP75m
27= Engelbert 716= GBP80m GBP75m
Humperdinck
27= Roger Waters 716= GBP80m GBP78m
30= Judy Craymer 755= GBP78m GBP67m
30= Michael Watt 755= GBP78m GBP75m
32= Brian May 767= GBP75m GBP60m
32= Chris Wright 767= GBP75m GBP82m
34= Jimmy Page 817= GBP70m GBP65m
34= Robert Plant 817= GBP70m GBP65m
34= Ronnie Wood 817= GBP70m GBP65m
37= Mark Knopfler 888= GBP65m GBP65m
37= George Michael 888= GBP65m GBP65m
40 Simon Cowell 944= GBP60m GBP50m

If you find it hard reading this because of the way the numbers fall on the page, heres the link @

[www.prnewswire.co.uk]



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Interesting to read. Apparently, The Stones are just slightly over U2 : 540 £ vs
469 £. Coldplay earned more than The Stones in 2005 : 60 £ vs 50 £. Mick had alone the same revenue in 2005 as the 3 others combined : 25 £.

Additional comment : Ringo has a poor finance counselor.

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> Additional comment : Ringo has a poor finance
> counselor.

He sure has a poor barber... worst beard in rock & roll..

Aren t they are rather wealthy? Get real, their in it for the money, the fame, and the chicks. Whatever order you want, those are the reasons. It just depends who is great and who isn t.

I think Ringo's done rather well for himself considering he didn't write any of the Beatles songs (that I'm aware of) and his solo career isn't huge. I'm sure the majority of his wealth has come in the past 10 years or so with the release of the BBC discs as well as the Beatles 1's that came out a couple years ago.