Who Will Play At Your 100th Birthday Party

It's an interesting question on so many levels, but who would you have play at your 100th birthday party! There's actually a reason this came up this morning on The Mike & Carla Morning Show. It came out that Tom Morello, of Rage Against the Machine, threw a big party for his mom who turned 100 years old.

Tom had enlisted Jack Black to play for his mom along with Jack's backup band. The band consisted of kids...kind of like the "School of Rock" type thing. Including Tom's kid who played with Jack Black. Since Morello's mom really liked Ozzy, Black and the band performed a cover of "Mr. Crowley".

That's when it turned into who would you want to play at YOUR 100th birthday? Needless to say, on The M&C Morning Show, it would have to be someone very young now right? When the question was posed to Carla Rea, she started thinking. All right, maybe someone like Taylor Swift, who would be in her 70s, 80s herself by then. Of course then you have the problem of people at the party, who are also in their late 90s celebrating wondering who this person is!

Let's think about this...if you had your choice, it couldn't be Mick Jagger or even Paul McCartney. Maybe, just maybe Billy Joel...Lady Gaga? The other factor that popped up, if Mike O'Brian is helping to plan this bash for Carla, he's 10-15 years older...uh, good luck Morty!

An interesting question this morning that got us thinking. Again, money is no object and you could have anyone there? We're sure the list would be long, but again, you have to remember, they still have to perform. Okay, maybe Keith Richards still might be able to pull it off! LOL!

Hey, listen to the segment yourself and then think about it yourself. Who would it be? Have to say, if Tom Morello got Jack Black to cover an Ozzy Osbourne song for his mom's 100th birthday, that's a pretty good start!

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Pollstar, a tour industry publication, has released a list of the artists who have sold the most concert tickets since 1980. On that list are some of rock's most iconic acts.

Topping the concert ticket sales list was U2 with over 26 million tickets sold. Pollstar noted of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame group's humble early days, "U2’s first show recorded in the archives was a performance for 1,440 patrons at Warfield Theatre in San Francisco on Nov. 29, 1981, during the band’s “October” tour supporting their second studio album. It was the fourth headlining trek in the group’s touring history and ran for about one year, wrapping in August 1982."

A number of major rock acts are scattered throughout the top 2o of the massive 150 artist ranking. Among them are Bon Jovi, the Eagles, Metallica, Paul McCartney and more.

Scroll below and see which acts made the top 20 of Pollstar's Top Touring Artists list along with their total touring grosses.

Tickets sold: 11,865,380

Tickets sold: 12,266,482

Tickets sold: 12,287,930

Tickets sold: 12,532,987

Tickets sold: 12,948,499

Tickets sold: 13,173,925

Tickets sold: 13,297,669

Tickets sold: 13,336,974

Tickets sold: 13,501,959

Tickets sold: 15,276,864

Tickets sold: 15,549,243

Tickets sold: 16,410,448

Tickets sold: 16,973,102

Tickets sold: 17,750,044

Tickets sold: 19,468,173

Tickets sold: 19,756,467

Tickets sold: 20,845,687

Tickets sold: 22,137,799

Tickets sold: 23,279,056

Tickets sold: 26,178,043

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