Michael Jackson announces final tour.
THIS IS IT.
So proclaims Michael Jackson's website, where he announces that his performances in London will be his last.
His makeup looked as good as it could get, though we're not so sure about the monstrous wig that decided to climb onto his head and perch throughout the VERY short announcement. Is it just us, or was Michael high nervous? He looked like he had had a nice cocktail mix of pain pills and a lil' somethin' just to get up on the podium. He could barely string words together, and kept falling over, kinda' a bit like Anna Nicole. Perhaps it was the weight of the wig making him topheavy, or just the overwhelming sense of knowing you are not only going to make a fortune bigger than the GDP of some countries in 2 weeks, but that the ego so long undernourished by his reclusiveness (since his last trial) has an opportunity to feed.
At a reported personal profit of $7.5 Million American dollars per show, Mr. Jackson stands to earn a minimum of $75M for his performances, to speak nothing of merchandising, and ancillary rights for broadcast, Blu-Ray, DVD, and online VOD. Furthermore, he's using the shows as a platform to launch his latest studio album. It's probably fair to say that if he was broke before, or on the verge, he isn't now (provided he ever actually was...).
And, if you happen to know anyone - we'd actually like some tickets. This is a show that's bound to be groundbreaking and phenomenal in every way. How well can a man pop-and-lock at an arthritic 50? It's one thing to be like Jagger and rip through some songs onstage, but quite another to out-do other dancing performers half your age. Then again, we suppose, if Madonna can do it at 50, we suppose a real queen man can too!
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