Rolling in it: Stones head top earners’ list

AFTER more than 40 years on the road, The Rolling Stones are singing all the way to the bank. They lead a Forbes.com’s list of top money makers in the music industry in 2006, making $150.6 million (€116.6m).

Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and the rest of the band “don’t sell many discs these days, but they have little trouble luring fans to see them live”, the business news website said.

The group’s Bigger Bang tour grossed a whopping $138.5m (€107.3m) last year, Forbes.com said, putting them ahead of country music’s biggest acts and pop icon Madonna.