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Rolling Stones cut $600 top seat prices for US gigs

The promoter of American leg of the Rolling Stones' 50 and Counting tour have been forced to cut ticket prices for the top seats, with the tour due to begin tomorrow.

Floor seat tickets priced at $600 (£386) were still being advertised for tomorrow's concert at the Staples Center arena in Los Angeles, but promoter AEG has begun to lower prices.

The band's last major tour was 2005's A Bigger Bang, which lasted for two years and generated sales topping $558 million (£360 million).

Read more: Rolling Stones' Hyde Park gig sells out in five minutes

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Rolling Stones add second Hyde Park concert date

The Rolling Stones have added a second date in London's Hyde Park after the first sold out in a matter of minutes.

The veteran rockers will play their extra concert on July 13 - a week after they return to play the outdoor venue 44 years on from their famed free concert.

The Rolling Stones pictured playing London's O2 arena last year
The Rolling Stones pictured playing London's O2 arena last year Credit: DPA

Read: Mick Jagger has his 'wellies and his yurt' ready for Glastonbury

Tickets for the show - part of the Barclaycard Presents British Summer Time Hyde Park series - will go on sale on Friday at 9am, although Barclaycard Unwind customers can purchase from Wednesday.

BothStones shows on July 6 and 13 are part of the band's 50 And Counting tour.

Further information is available on the Rolling Stones website.

Rolling Stones at Hyde Park sells out in minutes

(Left to right) Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones
(Left to right) Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones Credit: Yui Mok/PA Wire/Press Association Images

The Rolling Stones summer concert in Hyde Park has sold out in just five minutes, despite high prices.

AEG Live promoter Rob Hallett said the response had been "incredible".

He said: "We sold 65,000 tickets in the speed the system could handle it. If the system could handle it in seconds, we would have probably sold out in seconds."

Basic tickets cost £95, although there were hospitality packages for sale at up to £299.

The band will also headline Glastonbury and play a north American tour this year.

Rolling Stones to headline Hyde Park concert

(left to right) Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Mick Taylor and Bill Wyman before their concert at Hyde Park. Credit: PA Wire

The Rolling Stones will headline a concert in Hyde Park this summer, almost 44 years to the day that they first played there.

The event which features threestages and is formally known as Barclaycard Presents British Summer Time HydePark will be held on Saturday July 6.

Read: Mick Jagger has his 'wellies and his yurt' ready for Glastonbury

The band's first Hyde Park concert, on July 5 1969, was only two days after the death of founder member Brian Jones and marked the live debut of his replacement guitarist, Mick Taylor.

The Rolling Stones: (left to right) Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Credit: PA Wire

Frontman Mick Jagger said: "We had such a great time playing the five concerts last year, we want to keep it going. Hyde Park holds such great memories for us and we can't think of anywhere better to perform to our UK fans this summer."

Tickets for the event will go on general sale on Friday for £95.

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Four NME nominations for The Rolling Stones

Veteran rockers The Rolling Stones have been nominated for four NME Awards after staging a series of comeback shows last year.

The band are nominated in the best live band, best book, music moment of the year and best music film categories.

Frontman Mick Jagger said: "It's very nice to be nominated."

The Rolling Stones have been nominated for four NME Awards Credit: PA

David Bowie, who recently surprised fans with a new single and album is nominated in the music moment of the year category, as well as the best music video and hero of the year categories.

Read: David Bowie's surprise comeback

Ronnie Wood marries fiancée Sally Humphreys

Ronnie Wood and Sally Humphreys have married. Credit: Lewis Whyld/PA Wire

Rollng Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood has married his fiancée Sally Humphreys despite an age gap of more than three decades, it has been reported.

Earlier this year Sally said: "There's no problem with the age difference. I can understand why people would have a problem with it but it doesn't seem to cause any problems. We get on very well."

The Rolling Stones star, 65, has known the 34-year-old theatre producer for nine years.

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