![]() ![]() The tour would promote the HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I album, which was released in June 1995. In September 1996, Jackson returned with the HIStory World Tour, an 82 run of concerts that concluded the following year. Jackson was reportedly paid $17 million (equivalent to $33 million in 2023). In July 1996, Jackson performed for Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah's fiftieth birthday at Jerudong Park Amphitheater, which was specifically built for the birthday concert. The special, Live in Bucharest: The Dangerous Tour, earned Jackson the second of two CableACE Awards of his career, this one for Outstanding Performance Musical Special. Jackson sold the film rights for the concert for $20 million, the then highest amount for a concert performer to appear on television. The Octoconcert in Bucharest, Romania was filmed for broadcast on the HBO network on October 10. All profits were donated to various charities including Jackson's own Heal the World Foundation. ![]() At the end, the tour grossed over $100 million and was attended by 3,500,000 people. Jackson performed in stadiums across the world with all being sold out in countries in Asia, Latin America, and Europe. The follow-up concert series-the Dangerous World Tour-began in Munich, Germany, on June 27, 1992, and concluded in Mexico City, Mexico, on November 11, 1993, playing 69 concerts in Europe, Asia and Latin America. The Bad tour was the second highest-grossing tour of the 1980s after Pink Floyd's Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour It was nominated for "Tour of the Year 1988" at the inaugural International Rock Awards. The Bad tour grossed a total of $125 million, earning two new entries in the Guinness World Records for the largest grossing tour in history and the tour with the largest attended audience. This would be the last time he toured his native country, aside from two shows in Hawaii in 1997 and a handful of one-off appearances in 20. Jackson toured the United States for a second time between September 1988 and January 1989, with a return to Japan for nine sold-out shows in Tokyo Dome for a total of 450,000 people in December. The final European show was held in Liverpool at Aintree Racecourse, where 1,550 fans were reported injured among the crowd of 125,000, the largest show of the tour. The third concert was attended by Diana, Princess of Wales and Prince Charles, and subsequently released as Live at Wembley July 16, 1988. Jackson went on to perform seven sold-out shows at Wembley for a total of 504,000 people which entered him into the Guinness World Records, setting a new world record for playing more dates at the stadium than any other artist. The most successful of the European dates were those in London at Wembley Stadium, where demand for the five July dates exceeded 1.5 million, enough to fill the 72,000-capacity venue 20 times. Attendance figures for the first 14 dates in Japan totaled a record-breaking 450,000. ![]() Beginning in Tokyo, Japan, the tour lasted for 1 year, during which Jackson visited 15 countries and performed to 4.4 million people. Having toured with his brothers since the early 1970s, Jackson began his first solo world tour, the Bad World Tour, in support of his seventh studio album Bad on September 12, 1987. Not as smooth or effortless as he sounded pre-1990, but still pretty amazing.Jackson performing " Jam" in Tel Aviv, Israel, during the second leg of the Dangerous World TourĪmerican singer Michael Jackson (1958–2009) performed on three concert tours, and three benefit concerts. My final analysis? I think he sounds pretty damn good. Also, I think that the acapella and free-time sections of "I'll Be There" would be near-impossible to sing with a vocal track. (Conversely, many reviewers noted that his solo set appeared to be entirely prerecorded) The heavy vibrato on "I'll Be There" and the few off-key pitches are a dead giveaway. However, on the 30th anniversary concerts, he clearly appears to be singing live during the Jacksons set. If anyone knows differently please feel free to add.) While the argument could be made that he lip-synced due to being winded from dancing, MJ was dancing and singing live for years without problems, so I don't think that this is the case. There's a Dangerous-era video of him singing while rehearsing Thriller in the original key, and the change in his voice is evident. I'm guessing that it was because his voice was lowering further, and rather than transpose the keys of his songs (as he did with "Thriller" as far back as 1987) he decided to just lip-sync the vocals and concentrate on his dancing. (The Motown 25 performance of "Billie Jean" being a well known and early exception to this rule). As some of you may know, MJ didn't use live vocals very often in the last 15-20 years, beginning sometime in the early 1990's. ![]()
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