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Guns N’ Roses' Not In This Lifetime stadium tour has netted a miraculous $117 million plus in revenue.

The recent tour which featured classic members Slash (guitar), Duff McKagan (bass) and Axl Rose (vocals) backed by drummer Frank Ferrer, guitarist Richard Fortus, keyboardist Dizzy Reed and new second keyboardist Melissa Reese at one point looked like never happening.

Slash and Axl were at war with each other and it looked dead and buried with Axl saying to Billboard in 2009: "One of the two of us will die before a reunion." 

For fifteen years Axl toured as the only original member of Guns N' Roses. Chinese Democracy - the overproduced stadium rock album - was the only new LP he released in that time arriving fifteen years after 1993's The Spaghetti Incident.

But miraculously, Coachella 2016 and this subsequent stadium tour marks their first shows together in 23 years.

The money made from the stadium tour is a remarkable $11.6 million at MetLife Stadium, New York from 100,177 fans at two concerts. $117 million for the overall tour. This is unprecedented stuff - they sold one million tickets.

As Alex Turner said: "Rock 'n' roll wil never die!"

Below is Billboard's hot list, the highest grossing North American summer 2016 tours ( compiled 30 Aug - 5 Sep):

1.    Guns N’ Roses – $116,835,698
2.    Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band – $33,632,390
3.    Barbra Streisand – $26,638,090
4.    Celine Dion – $24,689,892
5.    Kenny Chesney – $17,926,699
6.    Billy Joel – $8,871,419
7.    Metallica – $5,158,790
8.    Juan Gabriel – $3,482,694
9.    Keith Urban – $2,770,077
10.   Dave Matthews Band – $1,467,185

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