Of course Stings take for The Police Reunion Tour should be about 60-70 million alone. He could buy something else too like a new Lute. I wonder what his album sales are up to now because of this tour.

thanks for the high tour prices, have fun in your new appartement.

And a-haaaall would envy... the older man, and his beautiful new penthouse!

Now this is obscene.

why is it obscene? why is it not obscene if those same apartments are bought by financiers, bankers, business men and so on that work on world money disparity? They make money with money, with least care for the little people that gave them that money. At least Sting made money with his talent and none got ruined because he sometimes failed a record or a concert. Your mortgage doesn't depend from his next album selling. So I don't understand why we must judge obscene that he bought such an apartment and not that the same ones were bought by financiers.
If we talk about apartment price... well yes, it's obcene. But I find more terrible that a one-roomed flat in Campi Bisenzio (were I live) can cost 500 € of monthly rent (plus expenditures for energy and so on). If people with money want to spend it, why not? Tragedy is that today they ask common people horrible price to simply have a roof on their head and a piece of bread in their mouth. Now, this is obscene.

Well said Micra. The main problem about the super rich getting even more is rather that at the same time, the "normal" people have to live with less and less, although life becomes ever more expensive.

Also, its an amusing thought to imagine Sting standing in front of the concert hall, selling the tickets for his show and storing all of the money in his own little purse.
Just reduce ticket prices by some of these obscure ticket agency fees, taxes, etc, and what remains are maybe about 50 percent of where you started from. Then the tour management still has to pay the entire crew plus transport of team and equipment all over the world...
My vague theory is that, in spite of what I just mentioned above, even if Sting had planned to spend "only" 13 million on a new apartment, he would not have "asked" half the price for his concert tickets.

No doubt that Sting still made a hell of a lot of money with this world tour, but if some people seriously think the prices for tickets, cds, dvds of Sting & Police were too high - nobody forces you to pay them. The fact that you do and afterwards complain about them, might only show that you are short of money. Same counts for me, most of the time!
Id be happy if concert tickets or cds grew on trees, sadly they dont.
Have you ever sold one of your items on ebay, and when someone bid 50 $ you wrote them a message saying "its okay, I only need 25 for it"?
So why should Sting do that kind of thing? Hes already funding so much money to save our rainforest every year, and is involved in numerous other charity projects, so hes probably used his popularity to do a lot more for this world than most of us together.

Its not necessary to mention that all of us would like to have such a nice apartment in NYC, or at least the money to buy it, but Sting didnt steal it from anyone, he achieved it by building up his career, making good use of his talent. People spent it because they wanted to listen to his music. And hes on the radio for free, so whatever people purchased from him must have been worth the price.

For me, the really obscene and perverted fact is that Sting will now be neighbors with management chiefs who got "rewarded" a couple million dollars after ruining their company, just so they would leave, and then bought this new apartment with the money. Sting didnt ruin anyone with his work. As long as people agree to pay, he deserves all of what he earns.

amen marc