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- From: mrichey@mothra.nts.uci.edu (Mike Richey)
- Subject: Re: Yay! Dead not as popular?!?
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- Date: 22 Dec 92 23:56:16 GMT
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- In article <Bzo9u3.3C1@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jjmckay@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jim McKay) writes:
- >
- >(From "USA Today", 12/22/92)
- >
- >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":
- >
- >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.
- >
- >(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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- I wonder what would have happened if Venetta and the fall tour would
- not have been cancelled due to Jerry's health?
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- Mike
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