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Some 1.5m people stepped through the turnstiles of the UK's 10 most popular live events in 2003. The Rolling Stones and Robbie tours, plus the Reading and Leeds festivals accounted for around 80m [pounds sterling] in revenues, while the Performing Rights Society claimed that at least 10m [pounds sterling] in royalty payments was posted out in relation to shows ranging from the Isle of Wight Festival through to Kinross, Scotland.
The live music boom provided a glorious sheen to the fabric of the live sector, particularly in contrast to the ruffled surface of a recorded music industry feeling the true pinch of illegal downloading and the impact of mergers.
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