Michael Jackson's Dangerous Tour

This was the second [after Bad Tour] and one of the largest solo concert tour made by Michael Jackson. Michael was to appear in 70 performances in different countries; 40 in Europe, 18 in Asia, 6 in South America and 6 in North America. The tour was scheduled to start on June 27, 1992 to run all the way November 11, 1993 which involved three legs. The tour was sponsored by Pepsi-Cola which offered $20 million deal. The main purpose of the tour was to raise funds for his organization, Heal the World Foundation, an international children’s charity. This organization was to contribute funds to pediatric AIDS . Equipments with more than 100 tons were used during the tour which required two Boeing 747 jet aircraft and many lorries to transport to every venue. Before the tour Michael Jackson and his band rehearsed for the whole concert where it was rumored that it took place in Jacksons’s Neverland home. During this tour Jackson was influenced by the uniform worn in the military. During the first leg of this tour, he wore a grey-green jacket with a one bolted strap which sparkled with multicolor uniform while in the third leg he wore a black uniform with three gold bolted straps, one going from his collar to his waist in one direction and the other two in another.

During his performances in the first and second leg, transition from thriller to Billie Jean was one amazing thing. When Jackson walks into two pillars, he secretly switches with a werewolf-masked backup dancer while he changes for Billie Jean. The backup dancer posing as Jackson is placed into a coffin which disappears when dancers posing as skeletons and zombies drape a cloth over the coffin and pull it out. Jackson appears fully dressed for Billie Jean in the upper stage level as it lowers down. The coffin portion of this stage illusion was removed in some of first leg shows and the entire third leg of the tour, and replaced with the Jackson impersonator and the backup dancers performing an encore of the "Monster Breakdown". During these two legs, he also performed ‘The way you make me feel’ and ‘Bad’ in Tokyo, Japan.

On August 24, 1993 in Bangkok during third leg, Jackson was accused of child sexual abuse [made public] where a search warrant was issued to the police. On 29 August 1993, Jackson on his tour performed in front of 47000 on his 35^th birthday in Singapore. Due to the accusations of child abuse and various health problems, this tour ended in Mexico. Jackson started taking Valium, Xanax and Ativan to deal with stress made against him.  Later he entered a rehabilitation program due to the drugs addiction. Many appearances across were cancelled after the incident but were rescheduled for a later date.

Michael Jackson's Marriages

Michael Jackson [King of Pop] was involved in two marriages and ended up divorcing both due to various reasons explained in this article.

First Marriage

Michael married Lisa Marie Presley on 18^th May 1994 in De La Vega, Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic. Lisa had two kids from a marriage with Danny Keough, a famous musician. According to many, it’s believed their marriage was a way of casting Michael in a better light after the 13-year boy sexual molestation charges. On January 18^th 1996 Jackson divorced Presley where reasons for the divorce cited as irreconcilable differences between the two. After Michaels death, Presley gave a statement about her former husband "I do believe he loved me as much as he could love anyone and I loved him very much ... I became very ill and emotionally/spiritually exhausted in my quest to save him from certain self-destructive behavior and from the awful vampires and leeches he would always manage to magnetize around him. I was in over my head while trying ... He was an amazing person and I am lucky to have gotten as close to him as I did and to have had the many experiences and years that we had together." [Courtesy of People.com]

Second marriage

Nine months later after Jackson divorced Presley, he married Debbie Rowe on November 15, 1996. She was an adopted daughter of a millionaire from Malibu, California. Debbie was a nurse at Dr. Arnold Klein dermatology office where she met Jackson who used to come for vitiligo treatment. When Debbie was six months pregnant, both got married in Sydney, Australia. Three months later, she gave birth to a boy child who was named Prince Michael Joseph Jackson Jr. on 13^th February 1997. On the following year, Debbie gave birth to her second girl child, Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson born on April 3, 1998. This was Rowe’s second marriage, her first being to Richard Edelman in 1982. The couple divorced on October 8, 1999 where she gave Jackson full custody of the two children. Rowe was awarded $8 million as settlement and a house in Beverly Hills, California. In 2009 after Jackson’s death, she made statements to deny a lot of gossips that she was not the children’s biological mother and that she was attempting to bargain her parental rights for money. In August 2009, Rowe reached a settlement with Katherine Jackson, the children's guardian, under which she has rights to supervised visitations. Mrs. Jackson's attorney stated that the negotiations were "never about money" and the settlement was in the best interests of the children. The children now know that Rowe is their mother and they have visitations with her.

Micheal Jackson's Early Life

Michael Joseph Jackson whom is well known as “The King of Pop’’ was born on the 29^th of August 1958 7:33pm at St. Mercy Mary Hospital Gary Indiana. He was the eighth child of a famous African-American working-class family, The Jackson Family. His parents were Joseph Walter "Joe" Jackson and Katherine Esther Jackson. His father Joe Jackson was a businessman and a famous guitarist but had to put that aside to provide for his family after marrying Katherine Jackson. His mother Katie, whom was born in Barbour County, Alabama, was a television personality. She always encouraged little Jackson to participate in the church choir because she had noted that he was talented and had the passion to sing. Michael Jackson joined his four older brothers Tito, Jermaine, Jackie and Marlonalso when he was just five years of age as a lead vocalist when his father saw that he could sing in the school talent show. When he was 6 years old he sang with his brothers at the talent show and won 1st prize.

. In early 1960s, Joe Jackson noticed a music talent in his sons where he molded them to a group which gave birth to the The Jackson 5. He gave his first public performance when he was five years of age singing Climb Every Mountain; he showed a great music talent in his vocals and dances. Their father Joe Jackson was a very strict man who always wanted to see his sons work hard and behave in the right way. Michael Jackson's father confessed for the first time that he beat his children .During an interview with US talk show queen Oprah Winfrey, Joe Jackson admitted hitting his children with a strap .'I don't [regret the beatings],' he said. 'It kept them out of jail and kept them right.’ The group performed in many music concerts gaining popularity across America, Asia, Europe and Africa. Later Michael Jackson opted out of the group [The Jackson 5] to do it solo where, the late has gained a lot of fame and popularity due to his magnificent talent in music.