Mar 13, 2009 6:45 am US/Pacific
Michael Jackson's 50 London Concerts Sell Out
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Michael Jackson announces plans for Summer residency at the O2 Arena at a press conference held at the O2 Arena on March 5, 2009, in London.
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Michael Jackson delivers his speech to fans during an event "Fan Appreciation Day" in Tokyo on March 9, 2007.
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Michael Jackson, Diana Ross (File)
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Tickets to Michael Jackson's 50 shows in London have sold out.
Tickets went on sale to the public on line and at the O2 arena in London Friday morning. The shows are scheduled to kick off in July.
AEG Live said an advance allotment of half the tickets for the 10 July
shows announced last week sold out soon after going on sale.
Ticket-seller Ticketmaster apologized for problems experienced by fans
after its computer system crashed. Managing director Chris Edmonds said
the glitches were the result of "an unprecedented level of demand."
Tickets, priced between 50 pounds and 75 pounds ($70 and $105), went on sale to buyers who registered online. Half the tickets for
each show have been held back and go on sale to the general public
Friday morning.
The pop singer has said the concert series, entitled "This is It," will be his last in the British capital and part of a larger, worldwide tour.
Jackson has sold more than 750 million albums and won 13 Grammys, but
has not staged a major tour since 1997 or released an album of new
material since 2001.
But it remains to be seen whether Jackson is up to a lengthy tour. His
last live performance in Britain was at the 2006 World Music Awards,
when he managed just a few lines of "We Are the World" before leaving
the stage.
A video of Jackson trying to record a new single, shown at a British
court last year when Jackson was being sued for breach of contract,
showed him struggling to keep up his powerful vocals.
Jackson has appeared in public infrequently since being acquitted of
child molestation in California in 2005, and he has struggled to pay
his debts. Last year, he was forced to give up the deed to Neverland,
his 2,500-acre ranch and miniature amusement park in
California.
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