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1.5 Million People Wanted Tickets To MJ’s Concert. The Stadium Held 72,000.
In the summer of 1988, Michael Jackson booked five nights at Wembley Stadium in London. Demand for those tickets came ...
Michael Jackson Would Have Turned 68 Today
Michael Jackson was born on 29 August 1958 in Gary, Indiana, the eighth of ten children in a two-bedroom house. ...
Elvis Once Released an Album With No Music On It
In 1974, an Elvis Presley album appeared in shops with a very strange warning printed on the cover: “A Talking ...
The Shopkeeper Who Dressed a Broke Elvis Presley on Credit — And Chose the Suit He Was Buried In
In the early 1950s, a man named Bernard Lansky kept noticing the same skinny teenager outside his shop window on ...
Elvis Presley’s Bandmates Quit On Him At The Peak Of His Career
In July 1954, three men crowded into a tiny Memphis studio and accidentally invented rock and roll. One was a ...
The Day Elvis Sold Out In New York!
By 1972, Elvis Presley had been famous for sixteen years. He had made 31 films, sold hundreds of millions of ...
The Day Michael Jackson Met Nelson Mandela and Their Friendship Became Something Bigger
In July 1996, Michael Jackson arrived in South Africa for the first time. He was already one of the most ...
72,000 Fans Watched Michael Jackson Take Over Wembley and the Full Concert Still Exists
In the summer of 1988, Michael Jackson brought his Bad World Tour to Wembley Stadium and created one of the ...
The Night VH1 Created a Special Award for Michael Jackson’s Work Beyond Music
On June 22, 1995, Michael Jackson arrived at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles for an evening that would celebrate ...
The Missing Footage Michael Jackson Used to Challenge Martin Bashir’s Documentary
By 2002, Michael Jackson had spent decades under intense public scrutiny. When British journalist Martin Bashir approached him about making ...