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1969 bands for hire price list

British tabloid Daily Mail has published a curious document — it is a price list, dated January 1969, from a London-based booking agent to hire various bands to play a function at The Queen’s College in Oxford. The most expensive band on the list is Fleetwood Mac at £500 a night, which the paper claims to be an equivalent of £8,640 in 2021 money. Deep Purple Mark 1 could have been hired for mere £125, or £2,160 (€2,538 or $2,872) in today’s money by the same arithmetic. A steal!

Thanks to metaljim for the heads up.

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Posted by Nick on Sunday, December 19th, 2021, filed under Blog. You can follow comment on this post through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a comment. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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