It's the pop ticket money can't buy..

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'...and your YEP has 40 pairs up for grabs
By Richard EdwardsIT'S the hottest ticket in town...everyone wants to be in Roundhay Park to see the King of Pop Robbie Williams perform. Tickets are like gold dust - BUT, we have 40 pairs to give away to our readers. Late last year Robbie fans desperate to seee their hero strut his stuff swamped phone lines and the internet to grab the final tickets for his Leeds gigs in a matter of minutes. NightIt broke a Guinness Book of Records entry for sales - 40,000 tickets were available, they were gone in 40 minutes. Both the pop sensation's Roundhay Park performances, on September 8 and 9, are now sold out, with 90,000 fans expected to turn up each night. But, through your YEP you could be there.Next week all you need to do is collect three tokens and answer a simple question to get your name in the hat with a chance of collecting tickets.Tickets late last year were being sold for £45, music experts reckon that in the days before the concert you could add a nought to that and prices on the net could be far higher. Hotels in Leeds and much further afield are booked solid for the Robbie shows and there is talk of one hotel, just over the Leeds boundary in Bradford offering £50 rooms at £450 for the night of the concert. A spokeswoman for Gateway Yorkshire, Leeds's tourist information centre, said many hotels had already put up the 'No Vacancies' signs for the gig weekend. Robbie's visit to Roundhay is part of his biggest world tour. U2 were the last band to rock Roundhay, in 1997. The Rolling Stones played the Park's Superbowl in 1982 to an estimated 120,000 people.Previous visitors include Michael Jackson, Madonna and Bruce Springsteen. PricesFans of Robbie Williams will need a few quid in the bank if they want to catch their idol live in Leeds later this year. The one-time Take That pin-up's sell-out gigs at Roundhay Park in September have sparked frenzied bidding wars on internet auction site eBay. Ian De-Whytell, boss at Leeds music store Crash Records, said: "You're talking about a lot of cash, but I'm not surprised the prices are so high. "Everyone seems to want to see Robbie - these are the biggest concerts of the year in Leeds without a doubt."

richard.edwards@ypn.co.uk'