Michael Jackson Concert: Coldplay’s concert is scheduled to be held in Mumbai on 18-19 January next year and as soon as the tickets were released, the site crashed. People are surprised to see the craze of fans for this British band’s show. But do you know that even before Coldplay, there was a similar rush for a foreign concert? At that time there was no internet era, yet when the tickets for the show were released, they were sold out in no time.
This concert was of the King of Pop Michael Jackson, who had performed only one live show in India in his lifetime. This show was held in Mumbai on 1 November 1996. When Michael came to Mumbai, 5000 people welcomed him at the airport. Many Bollywood celebrities, businessmen and politicians were specially selected to meet Michael and Anupam Kher was one of them.
Tickets worth Rs 5000 were bought by 35000 people
Before the internet and digital era, when one had to stand in long queues to buy tickets, when Michael Jackson’s concert tickets came, they were sold out immediately. At that time 35000 people attended Michael’s concert. It is not that Jackson’s concert tickets were cheap then. Just like thousands of rupees are being charged for Coldplay today, similarly in that era too, tickets for concerts were sold for up to Rs 5000.
Michael Jackson did not take any fees
17 songs were performed live in this concert and the special thing is that the government made this show tax free. Michael Jackson did not even take his performance fee for this concert and then the show earned a profit of 1 million dollars.