Serious Numbers ? Queen`s subvention payments for Touring

In Mannheim they used their biggest stage( obviosly). The report says that it tooks 15 Trucks mit 38 tons of equipment and 60 Roadies were hired.
Sorry I` haven`t a better shot of this report ( because it`s not im my stock)
So maybe that 60 truck story on the Magic Tour could be a bit much.

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Tours were also seen as good promotion in the past though weren't they? Now, of course with lower record sales, touring is where the money is, but touring used to be used to get a band name out there when there wasn't the Internet, social media and the rest which can do a similar job now.

How many more records were sold by Queen in places like South America after they toured compared to before they toured. Of course, they went down there because they knew how popular they had become and were like The Beatles a band that had huge numbers of fans outside of North America, Ocenia, Europe and Japan.

I think all this talk by QP that The Magic Tour was the first profitable tour is just BS to be honest. I can remember an interview by Brian (done in Q magazine in the late 1990s I think) where he's asked how much royalties he gets on an annual basis and the interviewer asks if it's close to £1 million. I think Brian says something like, 'oh, it's not as much as that I think' - yeh Brian I'm sure Queen's annual record sales (even in a quite year) don't amount to £1 million each for the 4 of them (3 band members and Freddie's estate). They each had a dividend from Queen Productions of £10 million the other year and could probably take out more from there if they wanted to, but probably don't want/need to due to tax purposes!

I think that was like that:

Tax collector: So, you are the Queen guys, right?
John: Yeah
Tax collector: You toured last year in a sell out tour... let's talk about taxes :)
Roger: What are you talking about? We didn't make any money touring.
Tax collector: You sold 500.000 tickets!
Brian: See that lightring? It cost 50 pounds.
Tax collector: And the rest of millions?
Brian: See that roadie? We use all our millions of profits to pay him, the guy do a very fine job.
Tax collector: All right, i'll go talk with him.

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Freddie: Good work guys! Now that sissy is out let's party! I hired all the strippers of London!
Roger: Yeah!