The Stone Roses' Heaton Park Shows Are Fastest Selling Gigs Ever

added 07 September 2012 at 14.51

Ian Brown, The Stone Roses, live 2012. Photo: PA

The band's trio of Manchester dates break the World Record - it's official!

The Stone Roses have made it into the Guinness Book Of World Records with the fastest selling set of gigs in UK history.

The reformed band's three shows at Heaton Park at the end of June and beginning of July this year managed to sell 220,000 tickets in just 68 minutes. The two inital dates went in about 14 minutes, while the final night went in just over an hour.

 

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