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Printablecdcgold said: eireboy34 said: Because this is a forum and my parents brought me up to believe in freedom of speech?? Any other questions?????!!!!! i was told by a moderator that this is a private owned site, and there is no freedom of speech, LOL  | |
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eireboy34 said: Bets are on..will he actually make it through one show???
OK, I bet you a concert ticket that he does make it through a show. You buy me a ticket and I'll go to the concert. If he doesn't make it through the show I attend, I'll pay you back for the ticket. If he does, I get a free concert. Up for it? | |
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harbars said: wow - that's some truly depressing news
PatrickS77 said: Sadly he died on March 6th! I really was hoping to see the guy with Michael in London! R.I.P. David Williams MADGE [and MJ's most of all] GUITARIST'S GRIM DEATH March 7, 2009 -- THE unsung hero behind Madonna and Michael Jackson died yesterday morning, and the grieving family of David Williams is furious over the disrespect shown to him by the music community and by what they say was neglect by the hospital where he spent his last days. Williams, who was 58, was the guitarist for the pop superstars and toured with both of them as well as Jessica Simpson, Chaka Khan, Lionel Richie and Van Halen for more than three decades, succumbed to complications from high blood pressure. Williams collapsed and was taken to Sentara Hospital in Hampton, Va. where he slipped into a coma last week. While he lay dying in ICU, his family was urged to "pull the plug because he had no medical insurance," a family friend said. "The hospital was trying to force them to pull the plug. This man was a Vietnam veteran and gave his life to music and still had no benefits." Jackson has announced a new tour and Madonna is still a top-grossing act. "But David, who supported them onstage all those years, has nothing," said the friend. "[His ex-wife] Deborah just wanted him to have some integrity, and instead the hospital was despicable at best over his lack of insurance." On Thursday, the evening before Williams died, Deborah, who had four daughters with him, wrote us: "During this very difficult time where our focus should be on the nurturing and care of David, we are battling with hospital officials just to get and maintain the care he deserves, a hospital whose main interest lies in his ability to pay for his care." David, like many industry veterans, lived without adequate health insurance. A music industry insider said, "What about NARAS [National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences]? What about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? They collect huge amounts of money every year to help musicians in David's situation - and they throw themselves parties instead. It's disgusting." A rep for Sentara said she'd look into the situation but didn't return calls. http://www.nypost.com/sev...158459.htm And why did he have nothing? He must have earned some money, mh? Sure he was not a multi-millionaire, but he was touring with Madonna and Chaka and stuff. They must have paid him more than just 20$/concert. I bet he just did not save his money. | |
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Ok so it's past 8am English time isnt it? Did anyone get an email? | |
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I was just wondering the same thing. I haven't got an email as of yet and i'm in the UK.
I thought the service was only for UK residents? I registered both my eail accounts for it and have heard nothing as of yet, it better get a move on, tickets go on pre-sale tomorrow. | |
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Babydubistzuschnell said: I was just wondering the same thing. I haven't got an email as of yet and i'm in the UK.
I thought the service was only for UK residents? I registered both my eail accounts for it and have heard nothing as of yet, it better get a move on, tickets go on pre-sale tomorrow. Isn't it only Tuesday there though - I thought NME stated the presale would be on Wednesday. Oh and its open to all people around the world - just the SMS service was restricted to UK citizens. Swa "I'm not human I'm a dove, I'm ur conscience. I am love" | |
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DarlingDiana said: eireboy34 said: Bets are on..will he actually make it through one show???
OK, I bet you a concert ticket that he does make it through a show. You buy me a ticket and I'll go to the concert. If he doesn't make it through the show I attend, I'll pay you back for the ticket. If he does, I get a free concert. Up for it? Yes.....great deal!!!!! | |
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Michael Jackson: A life in reviews .....all his UK Tours...
http://www.independent.co...39674.html As the troubled superstar announces plans for comeback concerts in London this summer, Katy Guest charts an extraordinary career through the critics' reports of his UK tours Sunday, 8 March 2009 Share Digg It del.icio.us Facebook Reddit Print Article Email Article Text Size NormalLargeExtra Large November 1972 'The Times' reports on the Jackson 5's concert in Britain "Shrill teenage squeals echoed round the cavernous hall as skinny, yellow-suited Michael Jackson launched into the show's first ballad. 'Let me fill your heart with joy and laughter,' he sang in that inimitably sexy and provocative voice... Fourteen-year-old Michael has an astonishing command of gesture, and his twinkling feet scarcely seemed to touch the stage... The Empire Pool is a menace, although groups are queuing up to prove they are big enough to fill it. But £2.50 for a front arena is pushing the price too far. American groups are notorious for asking for too much money, but this is the kind of avarice which gives the music business a bad name." The Jacksons claimed that Michael was two years younger than he was, to cash in on his childlike appeal. Shows at the Liverpool Empire broke the attendance records set by the Beatles. July 1984 Miles Kington, writing in 'The Times' "Just who is Michael Jackson anyway? Just about the greatest genius in the history of the world, that's who... Yes, Michael Jackson is so rich that he could afford to have his own nuclear deterrent. He could retire five years ago and never have to work again. Yes, for a kid who can dance and sing a bit, he hasn't done badly. But he is still ambitious... Next year he could be vice-president of the US and after that – who knows? A singing, dancing black man has never been President yet, but then they said a Hollywood bit actor would never make it either." By the time he was 24, Jackson had already made Thriller, the first album to have seven Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles. He had also broken his nose while dancing and had his first rhinoplasty surgery. March 1985 'The Times' on Michael's appearance at Madame Tussauds "Michael Jackson mania brought part of London to a standstill yesterday when thousands of fans turned up to see him live at Madame Tussauds waxworks. The recording star, 26, was attending an unveiling of his effigy in wax and twice ran the gauntlet of screaming fans. Crash barriers were sent flying as mounted police tried to contain the crowd." At the peak of his fame, Jackson had just unveiled the "moonwalk", been called by Time magazine "a one-man rescue team for the music business", received eight Grammys at the 1984 awards – and burned his hair during a Pepsi commercial, resulting in huge public sympathy but a lingering paranoia about his looks. Starting in the early 1980s, his skin began to grow paler. July 1988 The Independent on the Bad tour "Nobody is laughing at Michael Jackson any more... There is a sense in which the way [he] has been pilloried gives him an extra purchase on the fascination of his followers, and when his fragile, sculpted face first appeared on the giant screens panting like a show pony in a paddock, it was greeted with howls of mirth as well as squeals of delight... The word 'wimp' died on a thousand lips... Jackson seemed to shoulder the whole weight of rumour and expectation surrounding him, and turn its destructive potential to his own advantage." By 1988 he had told the press that he slept in an oxygen tank, bought the Elephant Man's skeleton and owned a pet chimpanzee, Bubbles. He'd had four new noses and a dimple put in his chin. August 1992 'The Mail on Sunday' on the Dangerous tour "At Wembley on Thursday night, Jackson delivered the real goods. He presented the fanciest of packages... He performs for the audience as if it were a bedroom mirror. For this, we must love every strange inch of his body. By the time Jacko's circus heads off into the distance 365,000 people will have yelled, gasped and gawped their way through the circus spectaculars. The tickets from Wembley Stadium have grossed £8,200,000. This alone gives credence to the view that Jackson's macabre travelling circus is – in the words of the ringmasters of old – the Greatest Show on Earth." The album Bad and his autobiography, Moonwalk, confirmed Jackson as a musical genius and an officially odd fish. In the book he talked about his abusive childhood and the changes in his face, some of which he put down to hairstyle and stage lighting. February 1996 The New York 'Daily News' on the Brit Awards "A young British pop star said he disrupted a London performance by Michael Jackson because what he called the American superstar's 'Jesus act' made him feel ill. Jarvis Cocker, lead singer of the pop band Pulp, was arrested after invading the stage during Jackson's performance of 'Earth Song' at the Brit Awards. Cocker, 32, strongly denied he had punched and kicked three children taking part in Jackson's stage show. 'I sat there watching and feeling a bit ill because he was doing his Jesus act,' Jarvis said Friday. 'It seemed to me a lot of other people found it quite distasteful as well.'" In 1993, Jackson was accused of molesting Jordan Chandler, 13. A civil lawsuit gave Chandler $22m (£15m) but criminal proceedings were halted. Addicted to painkillers, his reputation suffered. In 1994 he married Lisa Marie Presley. They divorced in 1996. July 1997 'The Times' on the HIStory tour in Sheffield "He has been married twice, divorced once, ensnared in a child abuse scandal and become a father since he last toured in Britain. But the intervening years dissolved like snow in the sun as soon as [he] burst on to the stage of the 50,000-capacity Don Valley Stadium, Sheffield... But for all the slickness of its presentation and attention to detail, there was a lack of emotional engagement at the heart of the show. Jackson is a consummate performer... but he has become a distant and isolated figure, a predicament which this show, for all its theatrical skill, did little to address." In 1995, "Earth Song" had become Jackson's most successful UK single, selling a million copies. But his marriage to his nurse, Deborah Rowe, and the birth of their children, Prince and Paris, were treated with suspicion. November 2006 The 'Daily Star' on the World Music Awards "Pop weirdo Michael Jackson's music career was in meltdown last night after he lost his famous voice. Wacko Jacko, 48, looked finished following his pathetic comeback performance at the World Music Awards. Music insiders... said traumatic child abuse allegations, disfiguring plastic surgery and financial struggles have finally caught up with him. Experts fear the pressure of trying to resurrect his flagging career after living as a virtual recluse has left the hitmaker's voice as ravaged as his face... Sources close to Jacko fear he has never fully recovered from... being accused of abusing teenage cancer victim Gavin Arvizo – even though he was later cleared." After Jackson fell out with Sony, sales of Invincible were disappointing. Dangling his son Blanket off a balcony in 2002 did not endear him to fans. But Jackson was by now considered a freak. March 2009 Last week's papers seemed relatively measured about Jackson's announcement of a residency this summer at London's O2. "This is it?" read one headline. One paper called it "Jacko's final thriller". But another said he was "Off the wall and down the drain". Tickets are expected to cost between £50 and £75, but some seats could exceed £500 – prices that would doubtless incense the 1972 reviewer who called £2.50 "the kind of avarice which gives the music business a bad name". Who knows which nose Jackson will be on by the summer? But there is little doubt his shows will sell out. As one man outside the O2, who has the King of Pop tattooed across his stomach and chest, said last week: "I know it might sound strange to you, but I like to have him near me wherever I go." Da, Da, Da....Emancipation....Free..don't think I ain't..! London 21 Nights...Clap your hands...you know the rest..
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DarlingDiana said: eireboy34 said: Bets are on..will he actually make it through one show???
OK, I bet you a concert ticket that he does make it through a show. You buy me a ticket and I'll go to the concert. If he doesn't make it through the show I attend, I'll pay you back for the ticket. If he does, I get a free concert. Up for it? Yeh he might get through a show but how long 45 mins of lip sinking ,he must be desprate turning to you lot to dig him out,' for the last time'last chance saloon more like it! | |
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O2 offers priority Michael Jackson tickets
Tuesday March 10, 2009 - 4:03 PM O2 has just announced that it will be offering a limited number of priority tickets to its customers to see Michael Jackson in concert. The tickets are likely to be for concerts at the O2 arena where he is due to play in July 2009. If you’re lucky enough to be an O2 customer already, you can apply to get a priority ticket by sending a text JACKSON to 2402. O2 says a code will be sent to your phone that can be used tomorrow from 7am. http://seekbroadband.com/...n-tickets/ MJ L.O.V.E: https://www.facebook.com/...689&type=2 / YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/us...nderSilent | |
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eireboy34 said: DarlingDiana said: OK, I bet you a concert ticket that he does make it through a show. You buy me a ticket and I'll go to the concert. If he doesn't make it through the show I attend, I'll pay you back for the ticket. If he does, I get a free concert. Up for it? Yes.....great deal!!!!! Hey, can I get in on the action? I'd like to go to the opening night, please. | |
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NaughtyKitty said: O2 offers priority Michael Jackson tickets
Tuesday March 10, 2009 - 4:03 PM O2 has just announced that it will be offering a limited number of priority tickets to its customers to see Michael Jackson in concert. The tickets are likely to be for concerts at the O2 arena where he is due to play in July 2009. If you’re lucky enough to be an O2 customer already, you can apply to get a priority ticket by sending a text JACKSON to 2402. O2 says a code will be sent to your phone that can be used tomorrow from 7am. http://seekbroadband.com/...n-tickets/ Thanks for that! i got a code!  infact i have two, one from AEG too! only problem is i'm waiting on my Credit card coming thru the post either tomorrow or thursday before Friday's general sale, if it doesn't i'm pretty much screwed! What a horrible situation. |
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what time is 7am [GMT] | |
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Wooo got a code by mail, now just have to get through the tough part of getting the actual tickets. Is anyone getting the thriller package? | |
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So American fans, have you guys figured out how much this will cost? Any UK fans want to let us crash with you  [Edited 3/10/09 15:40pm] | |
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lilgish said: So American fans, have you guys figured out how much this will cost? Any UK fans want to let us crash with you
[Edited 3/10/09 15:40pm] Haha yes good question, I'm Australian so it will be even dearer for me. | |
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lilgish said: what time is 7am [GMT]
East coast is 5hrs behind UK, West is 8 behind. Depends where you are i guess. |
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For those not going for the presale, you can camp outside the O2 from Thursday midday for the general sale Friday 7am. |
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What night does everyone think is the best night to try for tickets? As in the least others will try for? | |
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lilgish said: So American fans, have you guys figured out how much this will cost? Any UK fans want to let us crash with you
[Edited 3/10/09 15:40pm] It costs about $1500 for me to get there I'll just hope he'll do some dates here in the meantime "We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world." | |
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...then he turned to me and said "I dare you". | |
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anybody get their e-mail- I got mine - but it only said wait i'm in line to be in the que for presale tickets  LOVE HARD. | |
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A Little Boy's Booty Is A Hellva Drug---Michael Joseph Jackson  | |
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Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz: 'I Want To See Michael Jackson's Comeback'
He speaks about King of Pop... by Jason Gregory Tuesday, March 10, 2009 Photo by: WENN.com More Michael Jackson Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz has said he plans to come to London this summer to watch Michael Jackson's comeback shows. Jackson is due to play ten dates at the O2 Arena in July, marking his final performances in the capital. Speaking to the BBC, Wentz said it was “amazing” that the King of Pop had decided to make his comeback. "It's kind of amazing to have a chance to see him again - I'll come to London to do it,” he said. "Have you seen the movie The Prestige? I think there is potential that this is all part of the act, part of the illusion that he will be out onstage and be dancing like the same old Michael and that he has everybody tricked. "I think that anything is possible with it." Wentz also said he planned on purchasing items from the Jackson's Neverland ranch when they go under the hammer in the US next month. The auction, which will take place over five days, includes the gates to Jackson's former home and some of his famous stage costumes. When asked what he wanted to buy, Wentz joked: "That golf cart which has him dressed up with Peter Pan on the front of it." Tickets for Jackson's shows - priced between £50 and £75 - go on sale on general on Friday (March 13th) at 7am, but a pre-sale opens tomorrow (March 11th). http://www.festivalwise.c...s-Comeback "We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world." | |
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Evvy said: anybody get their e-mail- I got mine - but it only said wait i'm in line to be in the que for presale tickets
Yeah I got one and I have a code. How long after it was announced did you register? [Edited 3/10/09 22:54pm] | |
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No email yet - no code - bummer. I'm hanging for it - being in Australia I am so keen to go.
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Arnotts said: Evvy said: anybody get their e-mail- I got mine - but it only said wait i'm in line to be in the que for presale tickets
Yeah I got one and I have a code. How long after it was announced did you register? [Edited 3/10/09 22:54pm] I registered prior to the announcement as soon as the site was live. Hmmmm fingers crossed. Oh and did you see this.... Thriller VIP Packages.... PRICEY!!!! Thriller Package available for Floor or Level 1 seats: Prices: £795.00 inc. VAT Premium Floor Seats £770.00 inc. VAT Premium Level 1 Seats Package includes: Champagne on arrival Pre-show party in private facility DJ and entertainment Red carpet VIP check in and fast track entry Goody bag Souvenir tour laminate After show party Parking/Thames Clipper ticket Door time: 18:00 http://www.ticketmaster.c...ckson.html "I'm not human I'm a dove, I'm ur conscience. I am love" | |
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Swa said: Arnotts said: Yeah I got one and I have a code. How long after it was announced did you register? [Edited 3/10/09 22:54pm] I registered prior to the announcement as soon as the site was live. Hmmmm fingers crossed. Oh and did you see this.... Thriller VIP Packages.... PRICEY!!!! Thriller Package available for Floor or Level 1 seats: Prices: £795.00 inc. VAT Premium Floor Seats £770.00 inc. VAT Premium Level 1 Seats Package includes: Champagne on arrival Pre-show party in private facility DJ and entertainment Red carpet VIP check in and fast track entry Goody bag Souvenir tour laminate After show party Parking/Thames Clipper ticket Door time: 18:00 http://www.ticketmaster.c...ckson.html Oh wow then it must of been random pickings because I registered a few hours after the announcement and I got one. I'm from Australia too. Hmm I was thinking about going for the thriller pack, but I don't think it's worth it. | |
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Oh my god i think buying tickets is open now | |
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Arnotts said: Oh my god i think buying tickets is open now
I'm on michaeljackson.live - where do you buy the pre-release tickets?!?! I mean where is the link to purchase... [Edited 3/11/09 0:10am] [Edited 3/11/09 0:12am] | |
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