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- From: jjmckay@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jim McKay)
- Subject: Yay! Dead not as popular?!?
- Message-ID: <Bzo9u3.3C1@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:56:12 GMT
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- (From "USA Today", 12/22/92)
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- TOP TOURS: With 99% of box office recpeits tallied, here's the final ranking
- of 1992's top-grossing tours, according to the Jan. 8 issue of "Perfomance
- Magazine":
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- U2, $67.9 Million (M$); Metallica, M$40.4; Guns'n'Roses, M$37.2; GRATEFUL
- DEAD, M$31.9; Bruce Springsteen, M$27.9; Neil Diamond M$25.8; Elton John,
- M$23.2; Hammer, M$19.3; Lollapalooza, M$18.6; and Garth Brooks, M$18.4.
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- (MY COMMENTS:)
- Last year the Dead were first so naturally I'm elated that they appear to
- becoming less popular. Maybe concerts will return, scene-wise, to pre-1987.
- Well, it'll probably never be the same but closer would be nice.
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