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Record: 1 Title: Authors: Source: Document Type: Subject Terms: THE PRICE OF THE TICKET. Seabrook, John New Yorker; 8/10/2009, Vol. 85 Issue 24, p34-43, 8p, 1 Color Photograph Article *TICKETS *PERFORMING arts -- Ticket prices *CONCERTS Company/Entity: People: Abstract: LIVE Nation Worldwide Inc. TICKETMASTER Entertainment Inc. SPRINGSTEEN, Bruce The article discusses concert ticket sales in the U.S. The efforts of Live Nation and Ticketmaster Entertainment to sell concert tickets is discusses as is the decrease in album sales. Musician Bruce Springsteen's "Working on a Dream Tour" is discussed, particularly the decision to keep ticket prices low. Ticket scalping is discussed as is the use of the Internet to purchase concert tickets from alternative sources.
Full Text Word Count: 7048 ISSN: Accession Number: 0028792X 44286748
Database: Academic Search Complete Section: ANNALS OF ENTERTAINMENT
THE PRICE OF THE TICKET
What does it take to get to see your favorite band? The rock-concert business began on the evening of November 6, 1965, outside a loft building on Howard Street in San Francisco. Bill Graham, a thirty-four-year-old frustrated actor from the Bronx, had organized an "appeal" for the Mime Troupe, a radical theatre group he managed, whose leader, Ronnie Davis, had recently been busted for public obscenity. Graham was more hustler than hippie, but he understood the kids, and he had arranged for several local rock bands, including Jefferson Airplane and the Fugs, to perform at the benefit. Arriving on a motor scooter with Robert Scheer, the managing editor of the magazine Ramparts, Graham saw a long line stretching down Howard Street - "Huge hordes of people," as he recalled in his autobiography, "Bill Graham Presents," written with Robert Greenfield. Turning to Scheer, he said, "This is the business of the future." There had, of course, been rock-and-roll concerts before the Mime Troupe appeal; the Beatles had filled Shea
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Record: 1 Title: Authors: Source: Document Type: Subject Terms: THE PRICE OF THE TICKET. Seabrook, John New Yorker; 8/10/2009, Vol. 85 Issue 24, p34-43, 8p, 1 Color Photograph Article *TICKETS *PERFORMING arts -- Ticket prices *CONCERTS Company/Entity: People: Abstract: LIVE Nation Worldwide Inc. TICKETMASTER Entertainment Inc. SPRINGSTEEN, Bruce The article discusses concert ticket sales in the U.S. The efforts of Live Nation and Ticketmaster Entertainment to sell concert tickets is discusses as is the decrease in album sales. Musician Bruce Springsteen's "Working on a Dream Tour" is discussed, particularly the decision to keep ticket prices low. Ticket scalping is discussed as is the use of the Internet to purchase concert tickets from alternative sources.
Full Text Word Count: 7048 ISSN: Accession Number: 0028792X 44286748
Database: Academic Search Complete Section: ANNALS OF ENTERTAINMENT
THE PRICE OF THE TICKET
What does it take to get to see your favorite band? The rock-concert business began on the evening of November 6, 1965, outside a loft building on Howard Street in San Francisco. Bill Graham, a thirty-four-year-old frustrated actor from the Bronx, had organized an "appeal" for the Mime Troupe, a radical theatre group he managed, whose leader, Ronnie Davis, had recently been busted for public obscenity. Graham was more hustler than hippie, but he understood the kids, and he had arranged for several local rock bands, including Jefferson Airplane and the Fugs, to perform at the benefit. Arriving on a motor scooter with Robert Scheer, the managing editor of the magazine Ramparts, Graham saw a long line stretching down Howard Street - "Huge hordes of people," as he recalled in his autobiography, "Bill Graham Presents," written with Robert Greenfield. Turning to Scheer, he said, "This is the business of the future." There had, of course, been rock-and-roll concerts before the Mime Troupe appeal; the Beatles had filled Shea