The Drama Behind Michael Jackson's HIStory World Tour (His Last Tour) | ICONIC
The Drama Behind Michael Jackson's HIStory World Tour (His Last Tour) | ICONIC
Michael Jackson is a well known worldwide performer, know for his various stage appearances and performance styles…
When most think of Michael Jackson’s iconic performances they usually refer to his Motown 25 performance, or Super Bowl, Maybe even his Bad and Dangerous tours, but one tour that isn’t talked about very often is his final tour, HIStory…
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0.08 -> Michael Jackson is a well known worldwide
performer, know for his various stage appearances
4.629 -> and performance styles…
6.549 -> When most think of Michael Jackson’s iconic
performances they usually refer to his Motown
10.86 -> 25 performance, or Super Bowl, Maybe even
his Bad and Dangerous tours, but one tour
16.23 -> that isn’t talked about very often is his
final tour, History…
19.88 -> The HIStory World Tour covered mostly Europe, Africa, Asia,
and Oceania.
24.84 -> However in the states it was virtually unseen,
given that the tour was not performed on the
29.369 -> North American mainland and did not receive
an American broadcast, similar to the dangerous
33.84 -> tour, Bucharest concert.
35.86 -> The tour included a total of 82 concerts spanning
the globe with stops in 57 cities, 35 countries
41.73 -> on 5 continents. The tour promoted Jackson's
1995 album HIStory: Past, Present and Future,
48.61 -> Book I, with many of the album's songs like
"Scream", "They Don't Care About Us", "Earth
53.48 -> Song" and "You Are Not Alone" appearing in
the setlist. The second leg also promoted
58.29 -> the remix album Blood on the Dance Floor:
HIStory in the Mix and was attended by over
62.82 -> 4.5 million fans.
65.31 -> Announced May 29th, 1996, and marked Jackson's
first concert tour since his Dangerous World
70.55 -> Tour ended in late 1993.
73.1 -> In August 1993, as the third leg of Jackson's Dangerous
World Tour began, news of the allegations
79.14 -> broke and received worldwide media attention.
Jackson canceled the remainder of the tour,
84.39 -> citing health problems arising from the scandal.
That September, the Chandlers filed a lawsuit
89.43 -> against Jackson. They and Jackson reached
a financial settlement in January 1994; Jackson
95.42 -> and his legal team stressed that this was
not an admission of guilt. In September 1994,
100.78 -> the criminal investigation was closed after
the Chandlers declined to cooperate, leaving
105 -> the case without its main witness.
107.31 -> The allegations affected Jackson's public
image and commercial standing. Several of
111.42 -> his endorsement deals were canceled, including
his decade-long Pepsi endorsement.
114.479 -> The testimony of Eric Briggs during the Jackson
family’s lawsuit against concert promoters
120.61 -> AEG Live.
122.24 -> Briggs stated that Michael had a dismal public
image in his final years which meant his final
126.39 -> concert series didn’t have any sponsors,
despite record advance ticket sales for the
130.591 -> fifty planned shows.
132.42 -> Katherine Jackson demanded 1.5 billion dollars
in damages, the amount the Jackson family
137.34 -> expert estimates Michael would have earned
from the concert and a worldwide tour if he
141.7 -> had lived. But Briggs, a defense witness,
argued against this estimate in the Los Angeles
146.26 -> Superior Court, emphasizing that Michael’s
image had deteriorated greatly in the years
150.701 -> leading up to his death, so much so, that
no company agreed to sponsor his final tour.
155.97 -> “Brand companies appreciate artists can
be great performers, but that doesn’t mean
159.95 -> they want to put their names next to the performers,”
Briggs said.
163.28 -> According to Briggs, Michael’s image rebounded
somewhat in the 1990s, but it plummeted again
168.31 -> in 2003 for several reasons. For big-name
labels, Michael was a risk he said, because
174 -> new scandals could emerge without warning
and “brands are looking for predictability.”
177.81 -> He then underscored prior testimony that Michael’s
‘Dangerous’ tour lost money while his
180.69 -> ‘HIStory’ tour only broke even. Briggs
also questioned Michael’s ability to line
185.43 -> up sponsors and endorsement contracts due
to his poor ratings in an influential poll
189.43 -> of consumers. “Michael Jackson had a significant
history of cancelling projects, even when
194.67 -> they were fairly far along,” Briggs testified.
197.13 -> In fact in 1999, it was announced that Jackson
planned to headline two concerts on New Year's
203.47 -> Eve 1999 to mark the new millennium, Jackson
would back out at the last minute and be sued…
210.89 -> The history tour would be criticized for his
use of lip-syncing and despite being professionally
215.14 -> filmed by Nocturne Productions. Jackson planned
to release a DVD of his performance in Munich, Germany.
221.96 -> The film was never released due to Jackson
being unimpressed by his vocals brought on
226.01 -> by laryngitis.
227.92 -> Various shows from Munich, Copenhagen, Auckland,
and Gothenburg would be leaked on YouTube…
232.59 -> Michael Jackson's HIStory tour was one of
his most high tech concert shows of the
237.3 -> time. The show's opening featured a video
segment where Jackson piloted a spacecraft
241.43 -> through multiple points in history before
emerging from underneath the stage at the
245.06 -> end. The stage featured two statues of Jackson
on either side of it, and was large enough
249.94 -> to use an entire curtain for the opening segment
of "Smooth Criminal".
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghq3zWpqysU