Top 10: 1 Rolling Stones (£55.3m) 2 Sir Paul McCartney (£40m) 3 Sir Elton John (£34m) 4 Robbie Williams (£30m) 5 Coldplay (£23.5m) 6 Sting (£25.1m) 7 Phil Collins (£25.1m) 8 Fleetwood Mac (£23.5m) 9 Iron Maiden (£17.9m) 10 Dido (£15.8 m)
what the hell did irom maiden do last year to earn them 18million quid?
wonder if the pixies will join the list next year? (thinking about it they can't, as they're not british..opps)
"I joined the Cult of Frank / I think that man deserves a DB!"
Everyone seems to be calling for the Stones to retire but I think there's something morbidly interesting about watching them, like a traffic accident or something. Or like a hitech waxmuseum. Shows perserverance for a bunch of guys to be still playing together and remain absolutely unaffected by any musical trend whatsoever in the last 35 years.
-- "You one of those right wing nut outfits?" inquired the diplomatic Metzger. Fallopian twinkled. "They accuse us of being paranoids." "They?" inquired Metzger, twinkling also. "Us?" asked Oedipa.