The Rolling Stones will announce 32 dates for its year-long, 40th anniversary world tour today (May 7) at a press conference in New York’s Van Cortland Park, As first tipped here last October, Michael Cohl, under his Grand Entertainment Touring banner, will be the worldwide promoter for the trek, extending a relationship that began with 1989’s Steel Wheels tour. Clear Channel Entertainment will also be on board.
“My company will promote the tour and I’m the tour director, but Clear Channel are involved up to their elbows,” Cohl says. “They will provide management and expertise for me in every market.”
The worldwide touring industry will be happy to see the Stones return to the road. The group contributed $750 million to gross touring revenues in the 1990s, selling out 307 of 333 mostly stadium shows. On its last outing, the Stones grossed $337.2 million and played to 5.6 million people.
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