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After Jackson's death, AEG Live offered either refunds to ticket holders or a special "souvenir" ticket designed by Jackson. The cancelled shows, record-breaking ticket sales [1] [2] [3] and potential for a world tour [4] [5] led to This Is It being described as "the greatest concert[s] that never happened".
AEG Live stated that the delay was necessary because more time was needed to prepare, mainly for dress rehearsals. The revised schedule called for 27 shows between July 13 and September 29, 2009, followed by a three-month break, and resuming in 2010, with 23 more shows between January 7 and March 6, 2010. [ 13 ]
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. Beginning in Tokyo, Japan, the tour lasted for 1 year, during which Jackson visited 15 countries and performed to 4.4 million people.
The Microsoft-branded theater in downtown Los Angeles will be no more: The L.A. Live venue owned by AEG will be renamed the Peacock Theater.
In June 2010, AEG agreed to pay the city of Los Angeles $1.3 million to offset some of the cost incurred by the city during the tribute event. [ 39 ] AEG was also accused of having attempted to profit from the death of Michael Jackson , who was due to perform at London's O2 Arena in 2009 and 2010.
Live Nation is a monopoly that likely will be broken up as a result of the Department of Justice’s antitrust lawsuit filed last week, says Jay Marciano, CEO of AEG Presents, in an internal memo ...
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Crypto.com Arena (stylized as crypto.com Arena; originally and colloquially known as Staples Center) is a multi-purpose indoor arena in downtown Los Angeles.Opened on October 17, 1999, as Staples Center, it is located next to the Los Angeles Convention Center complex along Figueroa Street, and has since been considered a part of L.A. Live.