Roger Daltrey, the lead singer of the Who, who performed this spring for the Teenage Cancer Trust, questioned the morals of those involved, while the charity lamented that members' tickets had been sold for "private gain".
Under the Royal Albert Hall's contentious model of ownership, a quarter of its 5,272 seats are the property of the 316 successors and heirs of the original subscribers who funded its establishment in 1867.
Many of the members allow use of their seats for charity performances to be sold by the ticket office for the benefit of good causes, but it has emerged that others have cashed in by selling them on a ticketing website. Tickets for performances by the Who in March were offered for £139 on one such site, Hoorah.
Richard Lyttelton, a former president of the Royal Albert Hall, addressed the issue at a House of Lords session examining potential changes to the venue's constitution.
"A few weeks ago there was a charity concert given by members of the Who at the Albert Hall," Lyttelton told peers. "The artists gave their performance and actually sponsored, effectively, the whole concert. Certain members felt it wholly appropriate because they are investors to sell their tickets for their own benefit. Now that, I think, does illustrate the kind of mindset."
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