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HIStory World Tour
World tour by Michael Jackson
One of many identical statues, positioned throughout Europe to promote HIStory.
LocationEurope, Africa, Asia, Oceania, North America
Associated albumHIStory and Blood on the Dance Floor
Start dateSeptember 7, 1996
End dateOctober 15, 1997
Legs3
No. of shows44 in Europe
19 in Asia
11 in Australasia
6 in Africa
2 in North America
82 played
Michael Jackson concert chronology

The HIStory World Tour was the third and final worldwide solo concert tour by American artist Michael Jackson, covering Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania and North America. The tour included a total of 82 concerts and was attended by approximately 4.5 million fans, beating his previous Bad Tour with 4.4 million. The tour was the largest concert tour ever by a solo artist in terms of attendance at the time grossing a total of over $165 million (excluding free concerts).[1] The HIStory World Tour spanned the globe with stops in 58 cities, 35 countries on 5 continents.

Overview

Royal concert in Brunei

Prior to the tour, Jackson performed a free concert at the Jerudong Park Amphitheatre in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei on 16 July 1996, attended by 60,000[citation needed] throughout the park. The concert was in celebration of the fiftieth birthday of Hassanal Bolkiah, the Sultan of Brunei and was attended by the Brunei royal family.

Much of the concert resembled Jackson's Dangerous World Tour, including his outfit, stage, and the setlist, keeping the details of the upcoming HIStory Tour a close secret. This concert was not part of the Dangerous World Tour nor the History World Tour. The concert also marked the debut live performance of "You Are Not Alone" and "Earth Song" as well as the last performances of "Jam", "Human Nature", "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" and "She's Out of My Life" at a Jackson concert. This concert was also among the last performances of "Billie Jean" and "Beat It" being sung fully live; most subsequent performances have been partially lip-synched.

The full concert was never broadcast on television but was a rare promo item in possession of private collectors; a high quality VHS copy has been leaked.

The changes

  • "Carmina Burana" of the "Brace Yourself" introduction was replaced with a similar piece of opera.
  • "Jam" had a shorter ending than usual.
  • "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" was performed with Marva Hicks rather than Siedah Garrett. In the middle of the song, Michael almost sang Marva's part. They sang an extra chorus.
  • "The Way You Make Me Feel" replaces "Workin' Day and Night".
  • "The Way You Make Me Feel" begins with the slow intro from the 1988 Grammys performance, which features the 1st verse, and the main instrumentation skips the 1st verse.
  • "You Are Not Alone" replaces "Will You Be There".
  • Billie Jean instrumentation is slower than Dangerous or Bad Tour, similar in style to the later HIStory Tour (which used a slightly down-pitched a cappella for playback), but sung live. The dance ending has a repeated snare sound like that from Why You Wanna Trip On Me, similar to the 1995 MTV Awards performance but without the bassline. Future performances of Billie Jean had this snare, but only in the beginning of the dance. Like the Dangerous and Bad Tours, Jackson does not beatbox before singing the final line and throwing the hat.
  • In "Beat It", Michael sang the wrong lyrics in the second verse. Also, he threw his jacket at the end, which he did in HIStory Tour.
  • The 1995 MTV Video Music Awards version of "Dangerous" replaces the 1993 American Music Awards version.
  • Michael wore the golden shin pads in "Black or White" instead of the black ones. It began to be used in this show before HIStory Tour.
  • "Heal the World" wasn't performed, but would be present in HIStory Tour.
  • "Man in the Mirror" ended with a curtain call, instead of the Rocket Man finale.
  • "Earth Song" was performed as an encore, and featured live adlibs at the end of the song.
  • The concert included the final live performances by Jackson of "Human Nature", "Jam", "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" and "She's Out of My Life". "Human Nature", "Jam" and "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" were later rehearsed for the 2009–2010 This Is It concert series, while "She's Out of My Life" was rehearsed for the first of Jackson's 1999 MJ and Friends concerts in Seoul, but later removed from the setlist.
Set list: Royal Brunei concert

Tour announcement

Jackson at Perth Airport in 1996.

The birth of Kingdom International, a joint venture between Jackson and HRH Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, the nephew of the Fahd bin Abdul Aziz, the King of Saudi Arabia from 1982 to 2005, was announced at a press conference held at the Palais des Congres in Paris, France on 19 March 1996. Kingdom International allowed opportunities to be created and developed in the entertainment industry. In this conference Jackson said "Kingdom International is a dream come true." It was then announced that Jackson would embark on his third solo world tour. Unlike Jackson's past two, the HIStory Tour was not sponsored by Pepsi-Cola.

First leg (1996)

Jackson started the tour off with a concert at Letna Park in Prague, one of Jackson's largest single attended concerts in his career. On October 7, 1996, he performed for the first time ever in Africa in front of 60,000 fans in Tunis in a solo tour. During the tour's stopover in Sydney, Australia, he married his wife (later ex-wife), Debbie Rowe in a private and impromptu ceremony. He was interviewed by Molly Meldrum In Brisbane. On January 3 and 4, 1997 Jackson only performed two concerts in North America. He did not perform in the USA mainland, but rather in Honolulu, Hawaii at the Aloha Stadium to a crowd of 35,000 each.

Second leg (1997)

Jackson performing "Earth Song" in Lausanne.

The second leg started off on May 31, 1997 at the Weserstadion in Bremen, Germany. Set list changes included the addition of "Blood on the Dance Floor" and later on the removal of the Off the Wall Medley and "The Way You Make Me Feel". After,It was only during the first concert in Bremen that Jackson donned a red jacket for "Blood on The Dance Floor," which was later replaced with a blue uniform. "Blood on the Dance Floor" was taken off the set list after the concert in Oslo on August 19, 1997. Also, Jackson performed at the Parken Stadium on his 39th birthday with 50,000 fans. He was presented with a surprise birthday cake, marching band, and fireworks on stage before the Jackson 5 Medley. Pro footage of this is found in Michael's private home movies. A concert was supposed to take place on August 8 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, but was canceled due to poor ticket sales (this was the only concert that was canceled during the tour). The concert at Hippodrome Wellington of Ostend, Belgium was supposed to be held on August 31, 1997, but was postponed to September 3 following Princess Diana's death. During the September 3 concert audiences were required to be put into "cages". Starting with this concert, several of the final concerts had begun with Jackson's cover of Charlie Chaplin's Smile being played back, and an image of Diana on the jumbotron for some parts of the concert. At the concert in Munich on July 6, the camera lets you see every little thing happening like Michael going on the crane between "Thriller" and "Beat It" or Michael on his way backstage with Michael Bush, his costume designer. Sometimes at the end of "HIStory" Michael went through the floor, as he did in Brunei. But most of the time, he went backstage. The same thing happened with the camera between Thriller and Beat It in Amsterdam on June 10 and lets you see him coming out of the wall and climbing the ladder to the crane and then starting the song when he's completely on the crane and when the ladder is out of the way and taken through the wall where Michael and Michael Bush came from. It was also Bush's job to put the ladder on and take it back. He also had to signal the machines when Michael is safely up on the crane and ready.

Set list

Set list: First Leg/Second Leg

Song Info

  • "The Way You Make Me Feel" was performed without the 2nd verse and it was withdrawn from all shows after Gelsenkirchen [Jun. 15].
  • "Off the Wall Medley" was withdrawn from the show in Tunis and withdrawn permanently following the concert on June 13, 1997, in Kiel.
  • "Come Together" / "D.S." was withdrawn from the show in Mumbai [Nov. 1], Manila [Dec. 8], Bandar Seri Begawan [Dec. 31], and all the second and third leg shows.
  • "Blood On The Dance Floor" was performed in all the second leg shows until August 19 (Oslo) except Vienna (Jul. 2); it was performed with a red jacket in Bremen (May 31).
  • "Dangerous was withdrawn from the show in Tokyo (Dec. 20) and Manila (Dec. 8).
  • At every "HIStory" tour stop, during "You Are Not Alone", one lucky girl was allowed to dance with Michael on stage.
  • In the performance of Heal the World" in Bucharest, the headset microphone was having problems. So, one of the backup singers lent Michael his microphone.
  • At every concert with a predominantly Muslim audience, such as Tunis or Kuala Lumpur, the "Black Panther" video was replaced with "Brace Yourself". Jackson also refrained from his crotch-grabbing move instead putting his hand more outside the thigh or towards the belly.
  • In one of the performances in Tokyo, Michael slipped when he was leaning for "Smooth Criminal". The footage was shown on YouTube, it was taken by a fan (though the audience blocks the view of the moment Jackson falls down).
  • During the first concerts in Amsterdam and Sydney, Michael sang "Beat It" fully live.
  • In the middle of the year, Michael's friend Princess Diana died from a car accident. During the concert in Ostend Michael told the crew to put Charlie Chaplin's song "Smile" on and at the end of the song, Michael said "R.I.P Princess Diana" through the microphone. During the same concert Michael paid a tribute to Princess Diana, because during the performance of "Heal the World" there would usually be a picture of the globe on the big screen, but for this concert it was replaced with a picture of the Princess of Wales.
  • During the first concert in Seoul, Michael was on the crane for "Earth Song", when a fan jumped on it to meet Michael. Michael held the man for safety and at the end of the song the security guards took him away from Jackson.
  • During the August 29 concert in Denmark it was Michael's birthday and after "You Are Not Alone" there was a surprise birthday performance for him by the crew. Starting with a marching band coming in and after that, two of the crew members presented Michael with a birthday cake and after he quoted, "This is beautiful, thank you so much." At the end he thanked his fans for the surprise.
  • In some of the first concerts in Europe, the jacket for "Thriller" and *"Come Together" / "D.S." were red when they are usually white for "Thriller" and blue for the medley.
  • During the first European concerts, Michael donned a rare jacket that was used during "Thriller".
  • Michael usually performs "Billie Jean" with his hair in a ponytail, but during the second leg of HIStory Tour, at a concert in Amsterdam, Michael performed the whole "Billie Jean" number with his hair down because his hairtie fell out. Amateur footage of this concert can be found on the internet.
  • In Munich, on July 6, during "Scream" his jacket accidentally opened up.
  • Usually Michael performs Stranger in Moscow with his jacket open, but from the Bremen May 31 concert to Amsterdam June 10, he performed the song with his jacket closed.
  • On the second concert in South Africa, Michael's longtime friend Diana Ross attended the show and made a surprise appearance on stage in the middle of the performance of Heal The World".

Tour dates

Date City Country Venue
Royal Brunei concert
July 16, 1996 Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei Jerudong Park
Europe
September 7, 1996 Prague Czech Republic Letna Park
September 10, 1996 Budapest Hungary Népstadion
September 14, 1996 Bucharest Romania Lia Manoliu Stadium
September 17, 1996 Moscow Russia Dynamo Stadium
September 20, 1996 Warsaw Poland Bemowo Airport
September 24, 1996 Zaragoza Spain Estadio La Romareda
September 28, 1996 Amsterdam Netherlands Amsterdam Arena
September 30, 1996
October 2, 1996
Africa
October 7, 1996 Tunis Tunisia Stade El Menzah
Asia
October 11, 1996 Seoul South Korea Olympic Stadium
October 13, 1996
October 18, 1996 Taipei Taiwan Chungshan Soccer Stadium
October 20, 1996 Kaohsiung Chungcheng Stadium
October 22, 1996 Taipei Chungshan Soccer Stadium
October 25, 1996 Singapore Singapore National Stadium
October 27, 1996 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Merdeka Stadium
October 29, 1996
November 1, 1996 Mumbai India Andheri Sports Complex
November 5, 1996 Bangkok Thailand Muang Thong Thani City Center
Oceania
November 9, 1996 Auckland New Zealand Ericsson Stadium
November 11, 1996
November 14, 1996 Sydney Australia Sydney Cricket Ground
November 16, 1996
November 19, 1996 Brisbane ANZ Stadium
November 22, 1996 Melbourne Melbourne Cricket Ground
November 24, 1996
November 26, 1996 Adelaide Adelaide Oval
November 30, 1996 Perth Burswood Dome
December 2, 1996
December 4, 1996
Asia
December 8, 1996 Parañaque Philippines Asia World City Concert Grounds
December 10, 1996
December 13, 1996[2][3][4] Tokyo Japan Tokyo Dome
December 15, 1996
December 17, 1996
December 20, 1996
December 26, 1996 Fukuoka Fukuoka Dome
December 28, 1996
December 31, 1996 Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei Jerudong Park
North America
January 3, 1997 Honolulu United States Aloha Stadium
January 4, 1997
Europe
May 31, 1997 Bremen Germany Weserstadion
June 3, 1997 Cologne Mungersdorfer Stadion
June 6, 1997 Bremen Weserstadion
June 8, 1997 Amsterdam Netherlands Amsterdam Arena
June 10, 1997
June 13, 1997 Kiel Germany Nordmarksportfield
June 15, 1997 Gelsenkirchen Parkstadion
June 18, 1997 Milan Italy San Siro
June 20, 1997 Lausanne Switzerland Stade Olympique de la Pontaise
June 22, 1997 Bettembourg Luxembourg Krakelshaff
June 25, 1997 Lyon France Stade de Gerland
June 27, 1997 Paris Parc des Princes
June 29, 1997
July 2, 1997 Vienna Austria Ernst-Happel-Stadion
July 4, 1997 Munich Germany Olympic Stadium
July 6, 1997
July 9, 1997 Sheffield England Don Valley Stadium
July 12, 1997 London Wembley Stadium
July 15, 1997
July 17, 1997
July 19, 1997 Dublin Ireland RDS Arena
July 25, 1997 Basel Switzerland St. Jakob Stadium
July 27, 1997 Nice France Stade Charles-Ehrmann
August 1, 1997 Berlin Germany Olympic Stadium
August 3, 1997 Leipzig Festwiese
August 8, 1997[A] Ljubljana Slovenia Ljubljana Hippodrome
August 10, 1997 Hockenheim Germany Hockenheimring
August 14, 1997 Copenhagen Denmark Parken Stadium
August 16, 1997 Gothenburg Sweden Ullevi
August 19, 1997 Oslo Norway Valle Hovin
August 22, 1997 Tallinn Estonia Tallinn Song Festival Grounds
August 24, 1997 Helsinki Finland Helsinki Olympic Stadium
August 26, 1997
August 29, 1997 Copenhagen Denmark Parken Stadium
September 3, 1997 Ostend Belgium Hippodrome Wellington
September 6, 1997 Valladolid Spain Estadio José Zorrilla
Africa
October 4, 1997 Cape Town South Africa Greenpoint Stadium
October 6, 1997
October 10, 1997 Johannesburg Johannesburg Stadium
October 12, 1997
October 15, 1997 Durban Kings Park Stadium

Box office score data[5]

Venue City Tickets Sold
Letna Park Prague 125,000
Népstadion Budapest 50,000
Lia Manoliu Stadium Bucharest 70,000
Dinamo Stadium Moscow 50,000
Bemowo Airport Warsaw 120,000
Estadio La Romareda Zaragoza 45,000
Amsterdam Arena Amsterdam 150,000
Stade El Menzah Tunis 60,000
Olympic Stadium Seoul 100,000
Chungshan Soccer Stadium Taipei 80,000
Chungcheng Stadium Kaohsiung 40,000
National Stadium Singapore 35,000
Merdeka Stadium Kuala Lumpur 80,000
Andheri Sports Complex Mumbai 60,000
Muang Thong Thani City Center Bangkok 40,000
Ericsson Stadium Auckland 86,000
Sydney Cricket Ground Sydney 80,000
ANZ Stadium Brisbane 40,000
Melbourne Cricket Ground Melbourne 130,000
Adelaide Oval Adelaide 30,000
Burswood Dome Perth 60,000
Asia World City Concert Grounds Parañaque 110,000
Tokyo Dome Tokyo 180,000
Fukuoka Dome Fukuoka 80,000
Jerudong Park Bandar Seri Bengawan 40,000
Aloha Stadium Honululu 70,000
Weserstadion Bremen 105,000
Mungersdorfer Stadion Cologne 60,000
Nordmarksportfield Kiel 55,000
Parkstadion Gelsenkirchen 50,000
San Siro Milan 45,000
Stade Olympique de la Pointaise Lausanne 35,000
Krakelshaff Bettembourg 45,000
Stade de Gerland Lyon 25,000
Parc des Princes Paris 125,000
Ernst-Happel-Stadion Vieena 50,000
Olympic Stadium Munich 140,000
Don Valley Stadium Sheffield 45,000
Wembley Stadium London 216,000
RDS Arena Dublin 43,000
St. Jacob Stadium Basel 50,000
Stade Charles-Ehrmann Nice 35,000
Olympic Stadium Berlin 78,000
Festwiese Leipzig 55,000
Hockenheimring Hockenheim 85,000
Parken Stadium Copenhagen 100,000
Ullevi Gothenburg 50,000
Valle Hovin Oslo 40,000
Tallinn Song Festival Grounds Tallinn 75,000
Olympic Stadium Helsinki 100,000
Hippodrome Wellington Ostend 60,000
Estadio José Zorrilla Valladolid 40,000
Greenpoint Stadium Cape Town 72,000
Johannesburg Stadium Johannesburg 105,000
Kings Park Stadium Durban 50,000
TOTAL 4,145,000

Cancellations and postponements

Legacy

  • The HIStory Tour was the last solo tour of Michael Jackson.
  • The average attendance for each concert on the tour 48,638, with an average income of just under $2 million. [citation needed]
  • Jackson was the first artist in history to sell out the Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii. He performed two sold out concerts there on January 3 and 4, 1997. [citation needed]

Broadcasts & Recordings

All concerts were professionally filmed by Nocturne Productions, Inc. which filmed all of Jackson's tours and private affairs. Just one concert, from Seoul on October 11, 1996 was commercially released on VHS in Korea. The DVD release of the Munich concerts held on July 4 and 6, 1997 planned for Christmas but was subsequently cancelled as Jackson was not satisfied with the performance.

A number of full, or near-full concerts were broadcast on television. Small parts of other certain concerts (typically the opening medley of Scream/They Don't Care About Us/In the Closet) were also shown on news reports around the world.

The following is a list of full or near-full concerts broadcast on television, or otherwise noted:

First leg (1996)

The first full televised concert and also the third concert of the tour. The Great Gates of Kiev introduction was filmed off-screen onto the JumboTron, not a direct feed like the other concerts. The footage and audio for the "Remember The Time" Interlude was different from that shown at other concerts. The crowd noises and some crowd footage is from the Dangerous Tour in Bucharest DVD, but the true origin of these sounds is unknown, as the Bucharest DVD contained footage from Wembley, Madrid and several other concerts. During Billie Jean the playback started late as Jackson covered his mouth to lipsync. The concert was televised by TELE 7 ABC.

Set list: Bucharest
  • October 7, 1996 El Menzah Stadium - Tunis, Tunisia

    • This concert was aired on September 18, 2010 by the Nessma TV channel in Tunisia. Before then, only parts of this concert were shown on television as well as a very poor quality amateur-filmed far from the stage. The broadcast ended at "Heal The World", cutting off the final number, "HIStory". The quality of the broadcast was rather average as the entire concert was on a VHS and broadcast at a low bit rate. A large, spinning Nessma TV logo occasionally rolled across the screen as a means of copyright protection. The concert broadcast twice, with the red ball appearing in different places in both broadcasts (which has allowed fans to re-edit the two broadcasts to remove this logo). During the first broadcast, a scrolling bar of text was placed at the bottom of the screen informing viewers of the second broadcast.

    Set list: Tunis
  • October 14, 1996 Olympic Stadium - Seoul, South Korea

    • During the performance of "Earth Song", Jackson, (who was up on a cherry picker) was accosted by a male Korean fan who climbed up the crane just to meet Jackson. Michael held on to the man because he had a risk of falling. The man was then taken away by security after the crane was lowered. This concert was commercially released on VHS in Korea. Before the release of the 1992 Dangerous Tour Concert in Bucharest this was the only commercially released Michael Jackson concert. Despite an official release, the versions that have appeared online are poor quality leaks because copy protection of the original VHS has prevented a good quality rip. The intros and endings of some songs are cut off.

    Set list: Seoul
  • October 27, 1996 Merdeka Stadium - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    • Performances of "Come Together/D.S", "Black Or White", "Earth Song", "Heal the World", and "HIStory" were not broadcast. The available broadcasts go up to "Dangerous". Snippets of the October 29 concert (including the aforementioned songs) were also released during a news report on TV1000. Because crotch grabbing is considered impure in Islam, Jackson altered his crotch-grabbing move in this concert. It was televised by ntv7, but so far, only poor quality VCD recordings are known to exist.

    Set list: Kuala Lumpur
  • November 9, 1996 Ericsson Stadium - Auckland, New Zealand

    • This was the last known professionally filmed concert with the "Off the Wall Medley" and last performance of "Come Together/D.S.". It was also the only known performance of "Billie Jean" with a repeated chorus near the end of the dance sequence. Also, when Jackson began singing "Thriller", for a brief moment, the a cappella could not be heard.

    Set list: Auckland
  • November 16, 1996 Sydney Cricket Ground - Sydney, Australia

    • Only a few songs were broadcasted from this concert, as well as parts from the concert on November 14. Nine Network also showed some footage from the first concert in the days after Jackson died; it is revealed that he sang "Beat It" fully live as the a cappella track was malfunctioning at the time. Just a few hours after the latter performance, Jackson married Debbie Rowe in a civil ceremony in his presidential suite at the Sheraton on the Park Hotel. Also in Sydney, Michael's latest short film Ghosts had its film premiere.

    Set list: Sydney
  • December 8, 1996 Asia World City - Parañaque City, Philippines

    • This was televised initially by GMA Network. Often referred to as "HIStory Tour Manila." This was also broadcast on Singapore's MediaCorp Channel 5 around October 2006. The Channel 5 version fades after each song (there is no intro to Billie Jean), but is in higher quality than the GMA version. This was one of the few HIStory Tour concerts where Jackson did not beatbox before he threw the hat at the end of Billie Jean (another example being in the concert Moscow). "The Way You Make Me Feel" was performed but not broadcast, there was an amateur snippet of The Way You Make Me Feel filmed and put on a news report in Manila. This was one of the two concerts where "Dangerous" was withdrawn from the setlist.

    Set list: Manila
  • December 31, 1996 Jerudong Park Amphitheatre - Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei

    • This was never televised, but known to exist as a rare promo item as with Royal Concert. Along with the latter performance, it is one of the rarest known concert footages to exist. Private collectors have obtained the concert on VHS in high quality but have never released full concert footage, remaining controversial for their refusal to share the tape. In October 2008 a poor-quality VCD copy (also additionally compressed and watermarked) was uploaded onto the internet by a fan in Brunei who obtained the concert from a stage crew. Video quality was fair and the sound was badly encoded with a rumbling distortion when bass was played. Unwatermarked files from the same VCD source had been uploaded, though the sound quality is still very poor. As of 2012 this concert is still only available in poor quality. As with Malaysia, Brunei has a mostly Muslim population, so Jackson altered his crotch-grab move and this is also obscured by camera angles that are different from most other concerts. This concert is also noted for the first verse of "Scream" being sung live. The curtain used in "Smooth Criminal" and the Cherry Picker for "Beat It" & "Earth Song" were not present during this concert (though they were during the Royal Brunei Concert).

    Set list: Bandar Seri Begawan

    Second leg (1997)

    Jackson planned upon filming this concert for a DVD release by Christmas time, so more camera angles (including individual crowd shots) were used, and the audio was later remastered heavily to emphasize the percussion and audience sounds. Jackson also had the concert filmed with High Definition cameras. The release was ultimately cancelled due to Jackson's dissatisfaction of the behind-the-scenes filming, as well as having laryngitis and the flu which affected his live vocals and dancing. However, the performance was televised extensively in many different countries, making it one of the most readily available concerts. The most common version is the one aired by Sat.1 and most other channels, but other versions, such as the one that aired in South Africa (with a small segment from a concert at Johannesburg), and a Japanese version with alternate camera angles also exist. Most versions have also been edited with a segment from the concert on August 3, 1997 at Leipzig before the Jackson 5 Medley where Jackson talks about an insect on the stage which he calls the security to remove. An unedited version of the Concert from July 4 has the original camera angles seen on the jumbotrons and original sound. Two amateur videos from July 6 (one of which contained footage of both concerts) also exist. Following Jackson's death, this concert was re-televised by RTL 5, who had previously televised it on their Veronica channel.

    This was also televised in Singapore's MediaCorp Channel 5 in 2009. It was also recently televised in Germany on ZDF on June 24 with alternate camera angles and being upscaled to 720p HD, and in Australia on the music channel MAX, on 25 June 2010 and 2011. In Malaysia, 8TV had broadcast the concert on August 2009 in conjunction with the King of Pop's birthday, and it was shown again on 26 June 2010 on the first anniversary of Jackson's death. Also, Brazilian channel Multishow always air this concert in HD and with no cuts.

    Set list: Munich

    Broadcast by TV1000 and Channel 3. Most VHS rips of this version that have appeared seem to suffer from a greenish video noise and audio problems. This concert, along with the 1996 concert in Seoul, were televised on Korean Television in July 2009; the songs "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'", "Stranger in Moscow" and "Blood on the Dance Floor" were edited off in this new televised version of this concert. However, only a version with poor sound quality was recorded by a fan. This performance was also televised on Singapore's MediaCorp Channel 5 in early 2010, both on its standard definition channel as well as upscaled to 1080i HD. The upscaled version has been recorded by fans but has not been shared. The audio of the concert had been edited by the TV station, resulting in some compression issues as well as the censoring of Scream ("stop fucking with me" has been replaced with "stop pressuring me").

    Set list: Copenhagen

    Also broadcast by TV1000 and Channel 3. This concert is very similar to the Copenhagen concert; also the last televised performance of "Blood on the Dance Floor" (though the concert in Oslo on August 19 was the last live performance of this song). During "Scream", the pre-recorded a capella vocal of Jackson did not play back. Jackson continued to lip-sync and dance until the vocals continued during the chorus.

    Set list: Gothenburg

    Most versions that have appeared suffer from audio noise and the video has some ghosting artifacts, although there is no watermark. The HIStory Teaser is shown at the end of the programme. This is the last known full performance to exist on video.

    Set list: Helsinki

    Personnel

    Dangerous World Tour

    Credits

    • Executive Director: MJJ Productions
    • Artistic Director: Michael Jackson
    • Assistant Director: Peggy Holmes
    • Choreographed by: Michael Jackson & LaVelle Smith
    • Staged & Designed by: Kenny Ortega
    • Set Designed by: Michael Cotton & John McGraw
    • Lightning Designer: Peter Morse
    • Director of Security: Bill Bray
    • Costumes Designed by: Dennis Tompkins & Michael Bush
    • Hair & Make-up: Karen Faye
    • Stylist: Tommy Simms
    • Artist Manager: Tarak Ben Amar
    • Personal Management: Gallin Morey Associates

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