One desperate six-year-old tried to obtain concert tickets by claiming her father had died in Iraq (he hadn't). A ten-year-old leapt at the prospect of telling your correspondent how much she loved Hannah's music and clothes, even if she had never heard of The Economist. "Daddy reads it; we don't," her mother admitted. Tickets to the sold-out shows fetch $3,000 on the secondary market, a steep price for the target audience: girls aged six to 14.
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