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* The song "[[Why You Wanna Trip on Me]]" was planned to be performed either after "[[In the Closet]]" in the first medley or after the "[[Come Together]]"/"[[D.S. (song)|D.S.]]", but it was never performed.
* The song "[[Why You Wanna Trip on Me]]" was planned to be performed either after "[[In the Closet]]" in the first Medley or after the "[[Come Together]]"/"[[D.S. (song)|D.S.]]" Medley, but it was never performed.


* In Bremen, Michael donned a Red Jacket for [[Blood On The Dance Floor]].
* In Bremen, Michael donned a red jacket for [[Blood On The Dance Floor]].


* Jackson wore a red jacket for "[[Thriller (song)|Thriller]]" and "[[Come Together]]"/"[[D.S]]" in the Bucharest concert, and wore a white jacket for "Thriller" (in the other concerts of the Tour) and a blue jacket for "Come Together/D.S." in the other concerts of the first leg.
* Jackson wore a red jacket for "[[Thriller (song)|Thriller]]" and "[[Come Together]]"/"[[D.S]]" in the Bucharest concert, and wore a white jacket for "Thriller" (in the other concerts of the Tour) and a blue jacket for "Come Together/D.S." in the other concerts of the first leg.
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* For the performances of "[[Stranger in Moscow]]", he'd take his jacket off and reveal his white T-shirt, but for some concerts, he took off his jacket, revealing his chest.
* For the performances of "[[Stranger in Moscow]]", he'd take his jacket off and reveal his white T-shirt, but for some concerts, he took off his jacket, revealing his chest.


*In the first Australian concert in Sydney, people forces Michael to sing "[[Beat It]]" fully so he sang it, a few days after the [[Death of Michael Jackson]] snippets were televised and songs including Earth Song,Dangerous,Thriller and HIStory.
*In the first Australian concert in Sydney, Michael sang "[[Beat It]]" fully live, a few days after the [[Death of Michael Jackson|Michael's death]] snippets were broadcast on TV, also broadcast: "Earth Song", "Dangerous", "Thriller" and "HIStory".


*In Brunei, he sang "[[Scream]]" fully for the first verse.
*In Brunei, he sang the first verse of "Scream" live.


*In Ostend, in the beginning of "[[Dangerous]] he sang it fully.
*In Ostend, he sang the first part of "Dangerous" song live.


==Tour dates==
==Tour dates==

Revision as of 17:17, 9 September 2010

HIStory World Tour
World tour by Michael Jackson
File:History World Tour poster.JPG
A poster for the concerts in Hawaii, 1997.
LocationEurope, Africa, Asia, Australia, North America.
Associated albumHIStory & Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix (*)
Start dateSeptember 7, 1996
End dateOctober 15, 1997
Legs2
No. of shows44 in Europe
6 in Africa
19 in Asia
11 in Australia
2 in North America
82 in Total (*) Only in the second leg of the tour
Michael Jackson concert chronology

The HIStory World Tour was the third and final (not counting the cancelled This Is It tour) worldwide concert tour by American entertainer Michael Jackson as a solo artist, covering Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and Hawaii from September 7, 1996 to October 15, 1997. The tour, which grossed a total of $165 million, included a total of 82 concerts with a attendance of 4,500,000 fans.The "HIStory" tour spanned the globe with stops in 58 cities, 35 countries on 5 continents, and included 82 concerts to about 4.5 million fans.

Royal Brunei concert

Prior to the tour, Jackson performed a free concert at the Jerudong Park Amphitheater in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei on 16 July 1996, attended by 60,000 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, but not by Sultan himself.

Much of the concert resembled Jackson's Dangerous World Tour, including his outfit and the set list, keeping the details of the upcoming HIStory Tour a close secret. The concert featured the last live performances of "Jam", "Human Nature", "I Just Can't Stop Loving You", and "She's Out of My Life" (all except the latter were rehearsed for the upcoming This Is It tour in London; the latter was rehearsed for the 1999 MJ & Friends concerts, but was not performed). It also featured the first live concert performances of "You Are Not Alone" and "Earth Song" (Jackson had already performed both songs in numerous Music Awards and TV shows the previous year).

A high quality soundboard bootleg recording of the concert was leaked on the Internet. However it has been edited and is a different sound dub. A high quality VHS copy has also been leaked.

The set list was as follows:

Royal Brunei Set list

Tour announcement

Unlike Jackson's past two solo world tours, the HIStory Tour was not sponsored by Pepsi-Cola.

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 1995. 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.

1996/1997: First leg (Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and United States)

Jackson started the tour off with a concert at Letna Park in Prague with a 125,000 strong attendance, one of Jackson's largest single attended concerts in his career. During the tour's stopover in Sydney, Australia, he married his second wife, Debbie Rowe in a private and impromptu ceremony. On January 3 and 4, 1997 Jackson only performed two concerts in 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.

1997: Second leg (Europe and Africa)

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". 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, Norway on August 19, 1997. On August 29, 1997 Jackson performed at the Parken Stadium in Copenhagen, Denmark 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. A concert was supposed to take place on August 7 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, but was cancelled due to poor ticket sales, the only concert that was cancelled during the tour. The concert at Hippodrome Wellington of Oostende, Belgium was supposed to be held on August 31, 1997, but was postponed to September 3 following 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.

Televised concerts

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 crowd noises and footage are the same as the ones from the Dangerous Tour in Bucharest, but the true origin of these sounds is unknown, as the Bucharest DVD contained footage from Wembley, Madrid and several other concerts. The concert was televised by TELE 7 ABC.

This concert is to be aired in full on September 18, 2010 by the Nessma TV channel in Tunisia.

During the performance of "Earth Song", Jackson, (who was up on a crane) 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 concert.

Performances of "Earth Song", "Heal the World", and "HIStory" either were not broadcast, or were not filmed. The available performances go up to "Dangerous". "The Way You Make Me Feel" was performed, but "Off the Wall Medley" and "Come Together/D.S." were not performed. Parts from several other songs from the October 29 concert were also released during a news report on TV1000. Because crotch grabbing is considered impure in Islam (Jackson had been banned from the United Arab Emirates for this during the Dangerous Tour), Jackson altered his crotch-grabbing move in this concert. Televised by ntv7.

Last known professionally filmed concert with the "Off the Wall Medley" and last performance of "Come Together/D.S.". 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 acapella could not be heard.

Only a few songs were broadcast from this concert, as well as parts from the concert on November 14 and were shown in a 1 hour timeslot on the Nine Network in early 1997(and no intro for Billie Jean). Nine also showed some footage from the first concert in the days after Jackson died; it is revealed that he sang "Beat It" fully live (the acapella track was malfunctioning at the time, so Jackson was forced to sing live). 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.

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, to which the audio sounds different. "The Way You Make Me Feel" and "Off the Wall Medley" were not performed at this concert.

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 concerts to exist. Private collectors have obtained the concert on VHS in high quality but have never released full concert footage; these fans have remained controversial for refusing to share this and the Royal Concert with the fan community among other issues. 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 low rumbling appearing when low sounds were played. Starting from February 2009, the uncompressed and unwatermarked files from the same VCD source had been uploaded, though the sound quality is still the same. Like Malaysia, most people in Brunei are Muslim, so crotch-grabbing was also removed in this concert and 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" was not present during this concert (though it was during the Royal Concert), and the crane for "Beat It" and "Earth Song" is not used. "The Way You Make Me Feel" was performed at this concert the last televised performance, but "Off the Wall Medley" was not.

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. This concert was also an early experiment by Jackson with High Definition cameras. The release was ultimately cancelled due to Jackson's dissatisfaction of the behind-the-scenes filming. 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 about an insect on the stage. 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 the 25th of June 2010. In Malaysia, 8TV had broadcasted the concert on August 2009 in conjunction with the King of Pop's birthday, and it was shown again on 26 June 2010 in conjunction with Michael Jackson's 1st death anniversary.

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 full during early 2010, which is the best quality available of this concert so far (though, as with many previous versions, there are some problems with audio).

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.

Most versions that have appeared suffer from audio noise and the video quality is fair, although there is no watermark. This is the last known full performance to exist on video.

Set list

Set list First and Second Leg (1996/1997)
  • Jackson wore a red jacket for "Thriller" and "Come Together"/"D.S" in the Bucharest concert, and wore a white jacket for "Thriller" (in the other concerts of the Tour) and a blue jacket for "Come Together/D.S." in the other concerts of the first leg.
  • "Off The Wall Medley" was performed only in certain concerts from September 7, 1996 to June 10, 1997.
  • "Come Together/D.S.". was performed in certain concerts from September 7, 1996 to Novenber 11 the same year.
  • "Dangerous" was withdrawn from the show in Tokyo on Dec. 20th.
  • Jackson broke the record of "Biggest Concert Tour in History", previously held by his 1992-1993 Dangerous World Tour.
  • Before the televised Auckland concert began, Kenny Ortega realized that the stage was wet, so Michael had backstage crew wipe off the stage with towels. He helped out by stepping on the towels to wipe up some of the water.
  • For the performances of "Stranger in Moscow", he'd take his jacket off and reveal his white T-shirt, but for some concerts, he took off his jacket, revealing his chest.
  • In the first Australian concert in Sydney, Michael sang "Beat It" fully live, a few days after the Michael's death snippets were broadcast on TV, also broadcast: "Earth Song", "Dangerous", "Thriller" and "HIStory".
  • In Brunei, he sang the first verse of "Scream" live.
  • In Ostend, he sang the first part of "Dangerous" song live.

Tour dates

# Date City Country Venue
First leg (September 7, 1996 to January 4, 1997)
Europe
1 September 7, 1996 Prague Czech Republic Letna Park
2 September 10, 1996 Budapest Hungary Népstadion
3 September 14, 1996 Bucharest Romania Lia Manoliu Stadium
4 September 17, 1996 Moscow Russia Dynamo Stadium
5 September 20, 1996 Warsaw Poland Bemowo Airport
6 September 24, 1996 Zaragoza Spain La Romareda Stadium
7 September 28, 1996 Amsterdam Netherlands Amsterdam Arena
8 September 30, 1996
9 October 2, 1996
Africa
10 October 7, 1996 Tunis Tunisia El Menzah Stadium
Asia
11 October 11, 1996 Seoul South Korea Olympic Stadium
12 October 13, 1996
13 October 18, 1996 Taipei Taiwan Chungshan Soccer Stadium
14 October 20, 1996 Kaohsiung Chungcheng Stadium
15 October 22, 1996 Taipei Chungshan Soccer Stadium
16 October 24, 1996 Singapore Singapore National Stadium
17 October 27, 1996 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Merdeka Stadium
18 October 29, 1996
19 November 1, 1996 Mumbai India Andheri Sports Complex
20 November 5, 1996 Bangkok Thailand IMPACT Arena
Oceania
21 November 9, 1996 Auckland New Zealand Ericsson Stadium
22 November 11, 1996
23 November 14, 1996 Sydney Australia Sydney Cricket Ground
24 November 16, 1996
25 November 19, 1996 Brisbane ANZ Stadium
26 November 22, 1996 Melbourne Melbourne Cricket Ground
27 November 24, 1996
28 November 26, 1996 Adelaide Adelaide Oval
29 November 30, 1996 Perth Burswood Dome
30 December 2, 1996
31 December 4, 1996
Asia
32 December 8, 1996 Parañaque Philippines Asia World City
33 December 10, 1996
34 December 12, 1996 Tokyo Japan Tokyo Dome
35 December 15, 1996
36 December 17, 1996
37 December 20, 1996
38 December 26, 1996 Fukuoka Fukuoka Dome
39 December 28, 1996
40 December 31, 1996 Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei Jerudong Park Amphitheatre
North America
41 January 3, 1997 Honolulu United States Aloha Stadium
42 January 4, 1997
Second leg (May 31 to October 15, 1997)
Europe
43 May 31, 1997 Bremen Germany Weserstadion
44 June 3, 1997 Cologne Müngersdorfer Stadion
45 June 6, 1997 Bremen Weserstadion
46 June 8, 1997 Amsterdam Netherlands Amsterdam ArenA
47 June 10, 1997
48 June 13, 1997 Kiel Germany Nordmarksportfield
49 June 15, 1997 Gelsenkirchen Parkstadion
50 June 18, 1997 Milan Italy San Siro
51 June 20, 1997 Lausanne Switzerland La Pontaise Olympic Stadium
52 June 22, 1997 Bettembourg Luxembourg Krakelshaff
53 June 25, 1997 Lyon France Stade de Gerland
54 June 27, 1997 Paris Parc des Princes
55 June 29, 1997
56 July 2, 1997 Vienna Austria Ernst Happel Stadium
57 July 4, 1997 Munich Germany Olympic Stadium
58 July 6, 1997
59 July 9, 1997 Sheffield United Kingdom Don Valley Stadium
60 July 12, 1997 London Wembley Stadium
61 July 15, 1997
62 July 17, 1997
63 July 19, 1997 Dublin Ireland Royal Dublin Society
64 July 25, 1997 Basel Switzerland St. Jakob Park
65 July 27, 1997 Nice France Stade Charles-Ehrmann
66 August 1, 1997 Berlin Germany Olympic Stadium
67 August 3, 1997 Leipzig Festwiese
68 August 10, 1997 Hockenheim Hockenheimring
69 August 14, 1997 Copenhagen Denmark Parken Stadium
70 August 16, 1997 Gothenburg Sweden Ullevi
71 August 19, 1997 Oslo Norway Valle Hovin
72 August 22, 1997 Tallinn Estonia Song Festival Grounds
73 August 24, 1997 Helsinki Finland Olympic Stadium
74 August 26, 1997
75 August 29, 1997 Copenhagen Denmark Parken Stadium
76 September 3, 1997 Ostend Belgium Hippodrome Wellington (resheduled from August 31, 1997)
77 September 6, 1997 Valladolid Spain José Zorrilla Stadium
Africa
78 October 4, 1997 Cape Town South Africa Greenpoint Stadium
79 October 6, 1997
80 October 10, 1997 Johannesburg Johannesburg Stadium
81 October 12, 1997
82 October 15, 1997 Durban Kings Park Stadium

Cancellations and postponements

Interesting Facts

Michael's gold costume was designed by Gianni Versace who already designed some clothes for Michael for his "Dangerous" tour.

1996 HIStory Tour concert which took place in Seoul, South Korea was released on VHS in South Korea by Sony Music.

At every "HIStory" tour concert, during "You Are Not Alone", one girl was allowed to dance with Michael on stage.

Only hours after kicking off the Australian leg of his "HIStory" World Tour on November 14, 1996 Michael married Debbie Rowe in a civil ceremony in his presidential suite at the Sheraton-on-the-Park Hotel in Sydney.

Tour Recording

All concerts were professionaly filmed. All concerts that were broadcast on television are available in internet. Besides televised concerts, there are amateurly recorded performances. These are:

  • Prague, Czech Republic 1996
  • Budapest, Hungary 1996
  • Moscow, Russia 1996
  • Amsterdam,Nederlands 1996
  • Tunis, Tunisia 1996 (will be broadcasted on TV for the first time on September 18, 2010)
  • Kaohsiung, Taiwan 1996
  • Tokyo, Japan 1996
  • Honolulu, Hawaii 1997 (Every song up to the "Off The Wall" Medley)
  • Gelsenkirchen, Germany 1997 (Last Performance of "The Way You Make Me Feel")
  • Milan, Italy 1997
  • Munich Germany (July 6)
  • London, England 1997
  • Basel, Switzerland (Every Song up to the "Jackson 5" Medley)
  • Dublin, Ireland 1997
  • Hockenheim, Germany 1997
  • Copenhagen, Denmark 1997 (August 14)
  • Copenhagen, Denmark (Birthday Concert)
  • Ostend, Belgium 1997 (With the first half of Dangerous sung live)

Performers

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

References

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