So, how many readers are venturing out of the Royal borough to see the Rolling Stones tonight in Hyde Park?

It’s the hottest ticket in town.

And a snip at only £95 plus booking fee.

There’s something quite unsavoury about millionaire rock stars charging almost £100 a pop (for the cheapest tickets I should add), especially in a time of recession when everyone is struggling to pay the bills.

And I’ll bet you won’t be able to take your own food and alcohol in.

So punters are in for a proper fleecing.

OK, the band is, arguably, one of the two most important bands in pop music history, and, with a combined age of only 3,000, it might be the last chance to see them – but still.

Jagger, Richards et al should try and listen to the real world a bit more. Be brought down to Earth.

I couldn’t help thinking it would have been hilarious if they’d turned up at the Glastonbury festival and organiser Michael Eavis said to them: “Right lads. You’re on at 3.30pm in the Field of Avalon tent. You’re on just before Brucie.”

Right back down to Earth!

Yes, I’ve got a Hyde Park ticket and no doubt it will be a good gig.

Hopefully songs from the classic Mick Taylor period sprinkled with lots of hits – and not back-to-back songs from their 1986 album Dirty Work, described by one critic as “almost entirely bereft of inspiration”.

Maybe us Stones fans should have made a stand and refused to pay up.

But we didn’t. And I didn’t.

And I was one of the “lucky” ones in the three minutes it took for the tickets to sell out.

Yep, I’m one of life’s winners. And £100 down because of it.

There’s no pleasing some people eh?