Steve had booked tickets for the Fleetwood Mac tribute band,
who go by the name of Rumours of Fleetwood Mac,
this is the post that they were in when we went to see them live, with Fleetwood Mac in mind I was interested to see this over the last weekend,
a pricelist from Commercial Entertainments of the charges that pop groups charged for a one night performance, just think in 1969 if we had £500 we could have hired the group just for ourselves! as an aside, music industry insiders claim that Fleetwood Mac, whose members include singer
Stevie Nicks and drummer Mick Fleetwood, would today cost upwards of £250,000
per gig and could even charge into the millions because they are not currently
touring, even Rumours of Fleetwood Mac, which is the one we watched, just one of hundreds of tribute bands who
make a living by playing cover versions of the group’s most popular hits,
charge venues at least £7,000 per performance, the price list was revealed in a
1969 letter sent to Queen’s College, Oxford University, by Central London music
promoter Commercial Entertainments, and posted on Twitter last week, it is
addressed to Mr G. R. Parkes – thought to be the then entertainments officer at
Queen’s – who had wanted to know which acts could perform at the college’s
Commemoration Ball on June 24 that year. looking down the list there are so
many that I have heard of, and a few that have faded into obscurity, for the
full article have a look here.
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