Marrk said:

That's the only sad thing about this .....money grabbing..%$^&* touts

SoulAlive said:

Some reports are saying it was the fastest selling presale ever

LondonStyle said:

i'm up for getting a posse together to rob a tout for his tickets!

Marrk said:

I'm in

Marrk said:

i'm with you on this ....let's to it like robin hood robbing from the rich to give to the poor... .....

Randy was talking about it just now...he let slip that they had only planned 25 shows..so the other 25 is pure public demand ...he also confirm that mike had a full medical check up and was in better health then him ...low blood pressure etc...he passed all of them...he's fit...he had to call mike up and ask him if it was ok for the other 25 ....mike said to randy how long will i be in london ...randy joked with him long enough to get a british passport... ....just in

Jackson’s Mystery Manager Revealed

For about a year, since right before the chaos involving his Neverland Ranch possibly being sold at auction, Michael Jackson has had a mysterious new manager.

The man known as Tohme (pronounced toe-may) called himself a doctor. Different sources said he referred to himself either as an orthopedist or orthopedic surgeon. But there was a discrepancy: who was this man, the latest in a long line of managers who seemed to Svengali the pop star?

Yesterday, after many efforts, I finally pinned the 59-year-old Tohme down. A little. He conceded that he is not a licensed physician. “Not at this time,” he said. He refused, after repeated attempts, to say what kind of doctor he might have been at any time. His associates declined as well.

“If you want to talk about Michael Jackson, fine,” he said. “The story isn’t about me.”

But the story is very much about Tohme, who has not only taken over Jackson’s life but has a certain conflict of interest: he acts as a consultant to Colony Capital LLC, the company now partnered with Jackson in ownership of Neverland. Colony bought Fortress Investment’s $23.5 million note on the ranch last year.

More recently, they changed the name of the property to Sycamore Valley Ranch and became partners in the deed with Jackson. A small fortune changed hands, giving Jackson a much needed cash infusion of several million dollars.

But the pop singer always needs more money — he’s like a vampire when it comes to funds. So Tohme restarted talks with AEG Live begun in 2007 about Jackson performing at the O2 Arena in London. Now a staggering 35 dates have been set beginning July 8th. Another 15 are likely. Jackson hasn’t performed live in a full show since September 10, 2001.

Adding to this, Tohme is also responsible for the coming auction of Jackson’s personal memorabilia. He set up the auction with Julien’s Auction House last fall. Contracts were signed. Now Jackson is suing Julien’s, saying he didn’t know what was going on. Julien has catalogs printed, and is going forward. So far, Jackson’s attorney has not filed for a court order to stop the auction.

Sources around Jackson don’t have a high opinion of Tohme. They worry that he’s just the latest person who’s come into Jackson’s life with a personal agenda.

But Thomas Barrack, head of Colony Capital, says Tohme’s a “great guy,” someone’s he known a long time “in the business world, around L.A.” When I asked him how Tohme knew Jackson, Barrack answered: “You’ll have to ask him.” He did say it was Tohme who introduced him to Jackson.

Tohme is fuzzy on this point. “I knew him a long time,” he said of Jackson. At first he said he knew Jackson’s family, then he backtracked and said his relationship was with Michael. We never really figured that one out.

“I love Michael,” Tohme said. “I want what’s best for him. When the problems with Neverland came, I was approached to see if I could help. I knew him for twenty to thirty years.”

Tohme told me he set up the AEG Live deal, even though he was clearly not around in 2007 when I first reported the story. I asked him if he set up the auction. “I did not set up the auction, the auction is not going through!” This is in direct contrast to my conversation with auctioneer Darrell Julien last winter, who sang Tohme’s praises as the pair worked to put it all together.

“We had a certain period of time to empty Neverland last year,” Tohme said. “I was looking for a place for storage, a place to dump a lot of stuff like cars. I called Julien’s and asked if they could do it, come pick it up.” He says an auction could only go through with Jackson’s approval.

Last week, Darrell Julien told this column: “Michael has plenty of storage facilities. He wouldn’t have called me for storage.” True enough: Jackson at different times has had airport hangers at Santa Monica airport filled with his belongings. He’s also had warehouses closer to home near Neverland.

So what about Tohme Tohme, who’s not a doctor? There were a lot of questions I couldn’t ask him because he kept yelling, and refused to answer. I never got to ask him about a 1996 bankruptcy filing on record in the state of California. In the court filing, vs. Marathon National Bank, he listed himself as “Tohme Tohme, Doctor.”

A search of the Lexis Nexis database shows no mention of “Tohme Tohme,” doctor or otherwise, prior to December 22, 2008 when he issued a statement about Jackson’s health.

He was charming in our conversation. He said, “If you play it right, you will be the first one to know everything about Michael Jackson.” I said, thanks, I already was. He said that Michael is in great shape and could easily do 50 shows. “He could do a hundred.”

http://www.foxnews.com/st...,00.html#2

have any of you actually managed to get tix?


ive tried but theres none on sale, i didnt get the presale code til yesterday and there werent any tix there either in 2010


i cant believe this has sold out that fast, i never even got through to a page that let me search for tix.

and now get me in have emailled me showing tix for sale at crazy prices, so what did ticketmaster hold them back for themselves (get me in) or is it all just aload of hype?

i dont like being played and thats what this smells like, i have to also say i dont even think that was the real michael jackson at the press conference, something didnt seem right, he looked like a look alikey to me

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Michael Jackson Sells Out 50 London Shows as Controversy Brews On Secondary Market

3/13/09, 9:12 am EST

Tickets to all 50 of Michael Jackson’s This Is It! concerts at London’s O2 Arena have completely sold out, the BBC reports. After 360,000 presale tickets sold out in record time, the remaining tickets went on sale to the general public this morning, and they didn’t last long. Hundreds of fans “queued” outside the O2 Arena this morning to wait for tickets and over a quarter million people stormed Ticketmaster.co.uk. In the end, more than a million tickets for the This Is It! run were sold. But with a ticket this high in demand, there’s going to be a huge secondary market, and that’s where the controversy begins.

As Rock Daily reported this week, the Wall Street Journal recently exposed artists who set aside their own tickets for sale on the pricier secondary market; This Is It! promoters AEG Live did just that with some of the best seats to all the MJ shows and stuck a deal making Viagogo the authorized secondary-ticket dealer for the shows. AEG CEO Randy Phillips told Billboard.biz, AEG cut a deal with Viagogo “to give fans access to premium seats and the market would set the price on only a small percentage of the house every night; and, secondly, to give fans a peer-to-peer platform where they know these tickets aren’t counterfeited.”

But then, “Viagogo did something really bad yesterday we had no idea they were doing,” Phillips said. Apparently Viagogo then took those tickets they received from AEG and started e-mailing other secondary ticket brokers, offering them packages and discounts and thus raising the price on the secondary tickets even higher. Plus, by pushing these tickets off on brokers, neither AEG or Jackson would see the additional profits from these tickets that sold in the trinary market. AEG Live filed an injunction against Viagogo to ensure that the site actually sells tickets to fans instead of brokers.

With the 50 sell-out shows official, Jackson more than doubles Prince’s previous O2-record of 21 consecutive packed arenas. “Not only are these concerts unparalleled, these records will never be broken,” Phillips told the BBC. “We knew this was show business history, but this is a cultural phenomenon.

http://www.rollingstone.c...ry-market/
[Edited 3/13/09 7:35am]

Michael Jackson tipped to appear on The X Factor
Simon Cowell keen for singer to perform on hit ITV show

Friday, 13 March 2009

Simon Cowell is trying to persuade Michael Jackson to sing on The X Factor.

The star, 50, will kick off his string of gigs at The O2 in the summer – when the live finals of the ITV show take place.

Simon, 49, reckons Michael could be as huge a draw as Britney Spears, 27, was last year.

‘Britney was a massive coup for Cowell,’ a source tells the Daily Mirror.

‘But he’s determined to raise the bar even higher and secure Jacko’s services.

‘He is perhaps one of the few artists who could outshine Britney.

'The only sticking point is that while Britney had her new album to promote, Jacko’s shows have sold out in minutes and don’t necessarily need the publicity.

‘But Cowell won’t let that stop him. He is determined to get his man.’

http://www.nowmagazine.co...-factor/1/

syble said:

I got mine ....but ticketmaster was an ass ...took me hours...

So much for a washed up artist?

paisleypark4 said:

Yeah only washed up artist sell 860,000 tickets...

Corey Feldman: Pretty Young Thing

Posted Mar 13th 2009 11:30AM by TMZ Staff

Here's former child star Corey Feldman (left) at some event in Hollywood on Wednesday -- and the remnants of former King of Pop Michael Jackson (right) in London last week.



At the age of 12, Corey became good friends with Jacko.

We're just sayin'.

http://www.tmz.com/2009/0...ung-thing/

Here are some pics of Michael's latest outing. One of of the outings was him shopping at a store called "Wacko" (oh, the irony! ) and the other outing was at the doctor's office.










For more pictures go to http://www.mjjpictures.com/main.html

NaughtyKitty said:

I don't really think Corey looks like MJ anymore. Hell MJ doesn't look like MJ anymore but they could both use some highlights. The Black hair is so harsh.

Can someone explain this to me?



Albums and cassettes used to cost $4.30?

bboy87 said:

I think that's an english advert from 1984.

Might well be right, obviously it was sale time.

I bought the E.T. storybook boxset (cassette version, w/ poster and booklet) in a HMV sale for about £5 around that time.

JackieBlue said:

Corey never looked like MJ, he is totally obsessed and scary to me. Mike better watch his back while this crazy, bitter bastard is still about. corey is a crazy fool.

I remember his 9/11 story, he scares me.

Marrk said:

That's pretty cheap!

bboy87 said:

as a teen i had a row with my mother (about my girlfriend at the time) and she tore the poster off my wall and ripped it up. i cried as i recall.

never forgiven her.

Marrk said:

When I was 2 or 3, my mom gave me her copy of the Thiller album and I cherished it.....then one day, my 2 older brothers were playing frisbee with my mother's vinyl collection and broke it. I cried my eyes out

bboy87 said:

If it was a 'Shaun Of the Dead' scenario, that'd be forgivable.

I never saw the E.T. set i bought available again, If i lost 'Thriller' and needed it in a hurry, i'm sure i could just knock on my neighbors door and offer them cash or something!

syble said:

Yes I got tickets for two shows - one through presale (average wait time was 1 hour) and through the general release (wait time was 2 hours, but did include a drop out when the site crashed about half hour into it).

Swa

bboy87 said:

Why were your brothers playing the vinyl like a frisbee? How old were they at the time?

Timmy84 said:

Because they were brats They had gotten into rap by then and anything that wasn't rap, well.....was worthless. I'm talking Al Green, Aretha, Isley Brothers, O'Jays, Funkadelics, Four Tops, Temptations, Dramatics.....my mom had a huge collection

They were 10 and 7 at the time. They only broke one record because they caught caught fast

bboy87 said:

They some bitch asses.

What's up with his manager, dr. Tohme, where did he get him from?

This could raise the possibilities for US dates
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50 shows - will he won't he?

There seems to be a lot of neysayers out there who want to think he can't do it.
That MJ is past his prime.
They said he didn't have the fan base to sell out 10 shows.
And now he has sold out 50.
For me I have my eyes open on this one.
I am "cautiously optimistic" that MJ will deliver the goods.
I have seen his shows since the Bad tour, and each time was blown away.
Does he still have it?
Will he still have it for show 20, show 40?
There is a lot of speculation, and to be honest no one knows until opening night.

I just hope, and it may be foolish, people give him a fair chance. As we have seen time and time again with many artists, people love to build them up just to cut them back to size.

It may be a no win situation in all honesty. If he does a brilliant job there will still be those who say it isn't enough.

At the end of the day the only person to prove them wrong is Michael. It's make or break time in his career. I trust he can use this to rise to the occasion and deliver a wonderful show.

Swa
[Edited 3/13/09 16:56pm]