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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 ]
AEG was the second-largest event promoter in the United States. AEG Presents, previously AEG Live, came to international public attention in 2009 when it acted as the promoter for Michael Jackson's This Is It concerts. Jackson died just three weeks before the series of 50 concerts were due to begin. Members of Jackson's family have said that ...
It required Live Nation to provide its ticketing software to AEG Live, its closest competition in the market, and prohibited the company from retaliating against venues who sold tickets through ...
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.
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 ...
For the new Joint, AEG Live intended to regularly book rock and roll residencies at the venue in addition to one-night performances. [61] [62] AEG announced on April 1, 2009, that Santana would open a two-year residency show at the new Joint called Supernatural Santana: A Trip Through the Hits. The band would play 36 shows a year.
Live Nation reps and Fermaglich have so far not commented on the tour. AEG Live, once in contention to promote the summer stadium run, first tipped on Billboard back in December, will produce both ...