I made a little statistic on a boring and dark day – it is raining all day and all night – somewhere in the “East part”. I counted 106 Stones Concerts In Germany 1965-2006.
Corrections and comments are very welcome!
Alphabetically:
Berlin 1965, 1970, 1973, 1976, 1982, 1990 3x, 1995, 1998 2x,
2003, 2006 = 13
Bremen 1967 2x, 1976, 1998 = 4
Cologne 1967 2x, 1970, 1973 2x, 1976 2x, 1982 2x, 1990 2x,
1995, 1999, 2006 = 14
Dortmund 1967, 1976 = 2
Dusseldorf 1998 = 1
Essen 1965 2x, 1970, 1973 3x = 6
Frankfurt 1970 2x, 1973 2x, 1976 2x, 1982 3x, 1990 2x = 11
Gelsenkirchen 1990, 1998 = 2
Hamburg 1965 2x, 1967 2x, 1970, 1973 2x, 1998, 2003 = 9
Hanover 1982 2x, 1990 2x, 1995, 1998, 2003, 2006 = 8
Hockenheim 1995, 2003 (sort of a Mannheim suburb, so they are put
together in the „charts“ below) = 2 (5)
Kiel 1976 = 1
Leipzig 1995, 1998, 2003 = 3
Mannheim 1973, 1995, 1998 (see Hockenheim) = 3 (5)
Munich 1965 2x, 1973 2x, 1976 2x, 1982 2x, 1990 2x, 1995,
1998, 2003 3x, 2006 = 16
Munster 1965 2x, 1976 2x = 4
Nuremberg 1998 = 1
Oberhausen 2003 = 1
Schuttorf festival site 1995 = 1
Stuttgart 1970, 1976, 1999, 2006 = 4
Wolfsburg 1995 = 1
= 106
The „Top Ten (or Twelve)“:
1. Munich (16)
2. Cologne (14)
3. Berlin (13)
4. Frankfurt (11)
5. Hamburg (9)
6. Hanover (8)
7. Essen (6)
8. Mannheim/ Hockenheim (5)
9. Munster (4)
Bremen (4)
Stuttgart (4)
10. Leipzig (3)
By the way:
- All towns in the "Top 10" have more than 500.000 inhabitants, except for Munster and Mannheim. The top 5 consists of - interesting but no real surprise - the five biggest towns with population 650.000 (Frankfurt) up to 3.400.000 (Berlin).
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- The only missing towns with more than 500.000 inhabitants are Dresden and Duisburg. Actually only Dresden really counts because Duisburg is located in the Ruhr area (near Essen, Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen) where multiple shows took place over the years. Just five shows since 1990 (2x East Berlin 1990, 3x Leipzig) took place in East Germany (but 42 in the former West part – incl. West Berlin – in the same time – nearly nine as much, although only five as much people live there!).
That means the Stones mainly go to where the big money is ;-) No big surprise, especially if you look to the real East part of Europe with almost no concerts at all. So thinking logically, a big show in Dresden and maybe hall concerts in Rostock (the Ostseestadion is also possible, it was renovated in 2001 and holds just 30.000 people) and Magdeburg seem (more or less) possible for 2007. All three places are quite far away (ca/ more than 100 km) from the next ever played Stones venue (Dresden – Leipzig; Magdeburg – usually Hanover/Berlin, exception was Wolfsburg in 1995; Rostock – Hamburg/Berlin). These hypothetical shows would be most probably very well selling (especially compared with the disaster in too much visited towns like Munich and Berlin this year) and a great gift to the forgotten East German fans. Okay, we will see what happens before X-mas. I hope Mr Cohl reads this thread ;-)
Another question is: is there a country in the world except the USA with more shows within the last 40 years? Maybe just the UK can stay in the bidding.
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 2006-10-04 14:44 by beast of burgk.