Picture - Patty Smyth and Susie Essman

"It's like this: We say we want to put a Stones tour together and people come to us with proposals. And these proposals are all basically the same. We actually did push down the prices a little bit... but it's the price of the market... I don't have much to do with it other than I would like people to get in, to be able to afford to get in, without sort of starving their babies and all." Keith Richards on the high price for tickets to see the Rolling Stones on tour. The band was forced to release a number of cut-price tickets to sell out their 50 & Counting tour opener in Los Angeles on Friday (03May13).