How cool would this be! Reading this it's like it was meant to be......
http://www.thewrap.com/article/michael-jackson-rehearsed-night-his-death_3960?page=1Taped Jackson's Last Night Alive Could Be CD, DVD“We have a live album in the can,” AEG official
boasts.
Michael Jackson’s last rehearsal at the Staples Center on Wednesday, the eve
of his death, was recorded in multi-camera, high-definition video and
multi-track audio, and could be released as the performer’s last album,
according to several people close to the now-defunct concert tour.
The
recordings were made as part of concert promotion company AEG Live’s deal with
Jackson, which included a plan to produce both an album and DVD of what Jackson
had billed his “final performance” tour, titled “This Is It.”
The
entertainer died of heart failure on Thursday.
Randy Phillips, president
and CEO of AEG Live, the nation's second largest concert promoter, emailed that
he would not comment for the story.
The recordings also could be used to
produce both a DVD or Blu-ray disc of the entertainer’s last performance -- the
entertainer singing his greatest hits.
One AEG official boasted to a
colleague this weekend, “We have a live album in the can.”
And what an
album it would be. Amazon, record stores and retailers like Barnes and Noble
sold of all Michael Jackson stock almost immediately -- and in a matter of
minutes following the news of Jackson’s death, in the case of
Amazon.
Press reports have said that AEG Live stands to lose tens of
millions of dollars from the unexpected cancellation of Jackson’s 50-date London
tour.
But any audio and video release of the final concert would
undoubtedly sell millions -- if not tens of milllions -- of units worldwide and
would be the music industry’s equivalent of a license to print
money.
Jackson had failed to appear at many of the scheduled rehearsals
in Los Angeles over the past two months. But he did show up at a full rehearsal
at the Staples Center of his scheduled July 13 London concert on the night
before his death.
The rehearsal, which went on for several hours,
included dancers, musicians and aerial performers. Three people close to the
production said it had been captured by multiple cameras, and the audio
digitally recorded in a manner that could be used to produce a surround-sound
DVD and audio products.
The show -- which was to kick off of a 50-concert
series at London's 02 arena -- was planned as a spectacular performance. At one
point, Jackson was suspended on a crane; at another, there was a 3D view of
“Thriller”-style haunted mansion, that required the audience to put on special
glasses.
Some of those there present at the rehearsal were concerned
about the performer.
Patrick Woodroffe, lighting designer, watched the
final rehearsal. He told the BBC4 that the singer seemed frail.
“We had
rehearsed for the last couple weeks. We put together a complicated show, quite a
spectacular show. Of course a huge part of it was him, and I would say for the
last week he hadn’t really been with us.
He would appear, and he would rehearse sometimes, and he would not
rehearse.
He added: “I guess that we were nervous whether we would be
able to carry off this show at the 02.”
Woodroffe also said that Jackson
was “electric” at the rehearsal. “It was quite an emotional moment when we
realized that, well, he had it. And of course we all had a view as to whether he
would be able to survive these 50 shows.”
TheWrap reported in April that
many Jackson camp insiders were worried that the entertainer was not strong
enough to withstand a rigorous performance schedule.
Others said that the
singer seemed joyous and in his element.
AEG's Phillips told Bloomberg
News, "I take great solace in the pride and confidence he exhibited in the
rehearsals on Wednesday night. This is the memory I will cherish for the rest of
my life.”
"He was dancing, training, working every day with our
choreographer Travis [Payne]," Kenny Ortega, the show’s choreographer, told
the
Los Angeles Times.
"Michael has always been slight. That was his fighting weight. He was getting
rest time, coming in and working with the band, guiding the singers, working on
orchestrations. He was enthusiastically involved in every creative aspect of
this production."
London was to be just the start of a multi-city world tour.
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