Media is bombarding you with stories of Michael Jackson’s death, interviews, comments and reviews of his career while CD/DVD shops owners and bigger guns like Sony Corp. are rubbing their hands. Yet what’s going to happen with the come-back tour, the sold-out concerts? (750,000 tickets were sold. That’s 0.75 million!)
Few remember that ony a few weeks ago Jackson was postponing his first public performances big time. This is BBC on May 20th 2009:
<<Pop star Michael Jackson has delayed the opening four nights of his This Is It UK tour at London’s O2 arena.
Concert promoters AEG Live said the delay was necessary because the singer needed more time for dress rehearsals.
The first show, on 8 July, has been pushed back by five nights. Three other July dates will not take place until March 2010.
Fans, who were told of the rescheduled dates in an e-mail, have reacted with a mixture of anger and support.
“What difference is a week going to make in the grand scheme of things?” wrote Pam A on a Michael Jackson messageboard.
“I had plane tickets booked from Canada,” wrote a fan calling themselves janmic.
“I’m supposed to be returning home on July 9th. I am really not impressed.”
The affected dates are as follows:
President of AEG Live, Randy Phillips, said the delay had been prompted by Jackson and his creative director, Kenny Ortega.>>