Eagles take concert prices to limit
Best seats for New Year’s gig will cost $1,500
REUTERS
HOLLYWOOD, March 18 — Call it the “taking it to the limit” tour. The
Eagles are in talks to usher in the New Year at the Staples Center in
downtown Los Angeles, with the top ticket price expected to hit $1,500.
Show details are expected to be confirmed next month.
THE BAND could have a payday of $10 million for the one-night stand at
the 20,000-seat arena, which is still under construction but is set to
open in October.
The show would cap the arena’s three-month grand-opening period,
which will have several concerts in addition to the Lakers and Clippers
basketball and Kings hockey games.
After a bitter breakup following the release of their 1979 album
“The Long Run,” Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh, Don Felder and Timothy
B. Schmit papered over the lingering animosity to launch the successful
“Hell Freezes Over” reunion tour in 1995. The road show topped the box
office that year with a $61 million take (more than $1.2 million per
night).
Several acts are raising their ticket prices to abnormal heights
for rumored shows to cash in on the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to
party like it’s 1999.
Insiders said Barbra Streisand’s stop at the MGM Grand in Las
Vegas is expected to have a top price of more than $2,500, and Jimmy
Buffett’s New Year’s Eve show at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los
Angeles is expected to boast a $1,400 top price.
