Mothers Don't Let Your Boys Grow Up To Be Rockers

At least that was the old advice you'd here. Maybe being Mick Jagger, going to London School of Economics and then being knighted isn't too bad a row to hoe. Check it out:

But any way you look at it, the Rolling Stones grossed far more than Springsteen did last year.

From start to finish, the Stones' Licks tour grossed $299,520,230 from 113 shows dating back to September 2002. We lumped the entire tour into 2003's Billboard Boxscore stats because we received them all at once from promoter Michael Cohl's office at the end of the tour. We do not estimate.

For the year, Springsteen's reported grosses totaled $181.7 million worldwide. If you take away the $90 million or so the Stones did in fall 2002, the band still easily outpaced Springsteen. The Boss' tour grossed $221.5 million from 121 shows, so tour for tour, the Stones also topped Springsteen's by more than $70 million.