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The box office gross figure, which was provided to Billboard by longtime Stones tour producer Michael Cohl, is plenty enough to make A Bigger Bang the top grossing tour in history. In fact, the tour already owned that honor after passing U2's Vertigo, which topped out at $389 million. The previous mark had been the Stones' $320 million Voodoo Lounge tour of 1994-95.
The 144 shows on A Bigger Bang drew a paid attendance of 4,680,000, according to Cohl.
The tour was certainly not without its challenges, including the now infamous fall from a tree in Fiji by guitarist Keith Richards in April 2006.
"It was a long tour, but more than anything it was fantastic," Cohl tells Billboard. "We had to overcome a lot; this was like Homer's Odyssey. There were all sorts of difficulties to overcome and it turned out to be just one amazing triumph."
Live Nation recently purchased the remaining interest in Cohl's CPI, including CPI's merchandising and marketing arms, and Cohl still sits on the Live Nation board. The final tally on the Rolling Stones A Bigger Bang tour is in and it topped a half billion -- $558,255,524 to be exact. The staggering total was accumulated between the fall of 2005 and Aug. 26, when the tour wrapped at the O2 in London after a run of European makeup dates.The box office gross figure, which was provided to Billboard by longtime Stones tour producer Michael Cohl, is plenty enough to make A Bigger Bang the top grossing tour in history. In fact, the tour already owned that honor after passing U2's Vertigo, which topped out at $389 million. The previous mark had been the Stones' $320 million Voodoo Lounge tour of 1994-95.The 144 shows on A Bigger Bang drew a paid attendance of 4,680,000, according to Cohl.The tour was certainly not without its challenges, including the now infamous fall from a tree in Fiji by guitarist Keith Richards in April 2006."It was a long tour, but more than anything it was fantastic," Cohl tells Billboard. "We had to overcome a lot; this was like Homer's Odyssey. There were all sorts of difficulties to overcome and it turned out to be just one amazing triumph."Live Nation recently purchased the remaining interest in Cohl's CPI, including CPI's merchandising and marketing arms, and Cohl still sits on the Live Nation board.
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Bild:The Rolling Stones 2005.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Live-Auftritt der „Rolling Stones“ am 26.09.2005 in Toronto

 Die Rolling-Stones-Tour „A Bigger Bang“ stellte mit Einnahmen von einer halben Milliarde Dollar einen neuen Weltrekord auf diesem Gebiet auf. Die Tour, die vom Herbst 2005 bis August 2007 dauerte, spülte 558.255.524 US-Dollar in die Kassen der Altrocker. Das berichtete die US-amerikanische Musikzeitschrift „Billboard“ in ihrer jüngsten Ausgabe. Die alte Rekordmarke hielt die britische Rockband „U2“ mit 389 Millionen US-Dollar. Davor hatten ebenfalls die Stones den Rekord von 320 Millionen US-Dollar mit ihrer Tour „Voodoo Lounge“ gehalten.

„A Bigger Bang“ sahen weltweit 4.680.000 Zuschauer bei insgesamt 144 Auftritten. Tourmanager Michael Cohl sagte der US-Zeitschrift: „Es war eine lange Tour, aber vor allem war es eine fantastische Tour. Wir mussten eine Menge durchmachen; es war wie Homers Odyssee … und am Ende war es ein überwältigender Triumph.“