Michael Jackson Fact Check

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Difference Between Fact and Fiction
Section 1: Dates, Venues and Tours!
Claim 1: Volkstadion, Bayrueth, Germany 
Claim 2: Thriller released in December 1982 
Claim 3: Live broadcast from Wembley Stadium 30th July
1992: Jam!
Claim 4: Michael Jackson’s 21st August show at Wembley
Stadium 
Claim 5: Bucharest was Michael’s only former Iron Curtain
show
Claim 6: Thirty-nine shows on the first leg of the Dangerous
Tour 
Claim 7: Dangerous Tour concert 25th August 1993,
Bangkok
Claim 8: The Dangerous Tour’s final show: 12th November
1993
Claim 9: Michael at The Coliseum in Rome, Italy
Claim 10: Victory Tour Kemper Arena, Kansas City 
Claim 11: Michael Jackson’s 34th Birthday at Regensburg,
Germany 
Claim 12: Michael Jackson at The Devonshire Hotel for a
week 
Claim 13: What dates did Michael Jackson perform in Israel
during the Dangerous Tour?
Claim 14: Dieter Wiesner and 120 shows around the world
Claim 15: Paris Interview 13th September 1997 
Claim 16: 16th December 1998 at the Bahamas Atlantis
Resort 
Claim 17: Mexico concert cancellation 
Claim 18: Dangerous Tour cancelled shows!
Claim 19: Michael Jackson’s Dangerous Tour in Peru and
nineteen different countries 
Claim 20: Wikipedia –Dangerous Tour – Seventy
performances 
Claim 21: HIStory World Tour launch date! 
Claim 22: The HIStory Tour: Dates and Countries!
Claim 23: HIStory Tour: Budapest 
Claim 24: Michael Jackson’s ‘Live’ concert from the Olympic
Stadium, Munich
Claim 25: Michael Jackson’s first show in Africa? 
Claim 26: October 23: Michael performs in concert,
incorporating the rescheduled show from October 21
Claim 27: Michael cancelled five concerts due to ill health 
Claim 28: Wikipedia – HIStory Tour Stats!
Claim 29: Wikipedia –Ljubljana, Slovenia
Section 2: Individual Shows and Performances 
Claim 30: The Super Bowl and the drums played with hands
not sticks!
Claim 31: Michael Jackson and Chris 
Claim 32: Greg Phillinganes left the Dangerous Tour after
Istanbul in September 1993
Claim 33: Greg Phillinganes in Dublin during the
Dangerous Tour
Claim 34: Michael catapulted 20ft through the air
Claim 35: Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough and Who Is It,
18th August 1992
Claim 36: Michael performed four songs from Dangerous 
Claim 37: The Dangerous Tour three-minute entrance 
Claim 38: Michael Jackson lip-synced the entire Dangerous
Tour
Claim 39: Lip-synching on the HIStory Tour
Claim 40: Carmina Burana in Ludwigshafen, Germany
Claim 41: Bucharest: more than a quarter of the capitals
police force provided security
Claim 42: Did Michael Jackson perform twice when he was
unhappy with his performance? 
Claim 43: Did Michael Jackson sing an entire first verse flat?
Claim 44: Michael couldn’t be seen during Thriller at the
Tokyo Dome?
Claim 45: Dangerous Tour: six whole songs that he had
dropped spontaneously… in Bangkok 
Claim 46: Michael Jackson stood in a frozen pose for five
minutes
Claim 47: Tokyo Dome: 55,000 empty seats? 
Claim 48: Crowds of 120,000, sometimes 180,000 people! 
Claim 49: Michael Jackson 30th Anniversary Celebration 
Claim 50 Royal Concert Brunei 
Claim 51: Dangerous Tour rehearsals at Neverland Ranch
Claim 52: Wikipedia – The Jackson 5 Medley in Mexico
City
Claim 53: Wikipedia – Dangerous Tour Damon Navandi –
dancer
Claim 54: Wikipedia – The Dangerous Tour Band and
Singers 
Claim 55: Wikipedia – Bucharest
Claim 56: Bad Tour lean in Kansas City on February 23,
1988 
Claim 57: Bucharest Moonwalk! 
Claim 58: Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson perform in
Sydney, Australia
Section 3: Stats!
Claim 59: Michael Jackson and Classical Music 
Claim 60: HIStory Tour rakes in $90 million
Claim 61: Blood On The Dance Floor UK number one? 
Claim 62: Michael Jackson’s Thriller album sales 
Section 4 Trivia 
Claim 63: Did Michael Jackson invent the moonwalk? 
Claim 64: Did Michael Jackson get nominated for Nobel
Peace Prize?
Claim 65: Did Michael Jackson take drugs?
Claim 66: 2006 Guinness World Record Certificate 
Claim 67: Michael donates £100,000 in Holland
Claim 68: The “$300,000” cheque to Prince Charles 
Claim 69: Michael went flying and broke his heel in Moscow 
Claim 70: The Official Grammy Award Museum,
Los Angeles
Claim 71: Motown’s 25th
Claim 72: Michael Jackson strapped on a jet-pack and
flew out of the stadium
Claim 73: Michael Jackson and Bobby Driscoll’s prosthetic
nose in 2002
Claim 74: Moscow: Mop-wielding little old ladies! 
Claim 75: The Dangerous Tour stage canopy 
Claim 76: Did Michael Jackson incorporate famous
artworks into his shows? 
Claim 77: Was the HIStory teaser based on Leni
Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will? 
Claim 78: Michael Jackson and Oprah Interview 
Claim 79: Remember The Time… Michael faked an injury?
Claim 80: Michael Jackson raised his voice at his guitarist
because of Slash? 
Claim 81: Did Michael Jackson create a perfume?
Claim 82: Michael would never visit Harrods
Claim 83: Captain EO, with its $30 million budget
Claim 84: Michael visits Euro Disney in France in the
company of his cousin, Brett Barnes
Claim 85: In the Closet and Princess Stephanie of Monaco 
Claim 86: Is Michael Jackson actually still alive?
Section 5 Fashion Exposés!
Claim 87: Michael only ever wore Florsheim shoes 
Claim 88: Did Michael Jackson always perform in short
trousers and white socks? 
Claim 89: Dangerous Tour Silver Jacket
Claim 90: Sequined socks and yellow tunic top in Bangkok 
Claim 91: Debunking the Michael Jackson and Gianni
Versace story once and for all!
Claim 92: Photo backstage with Gianni Versace
BONUS – Claim 93: September 8: Michael arrives in Budapest
to a welcome which outdid even the Pope’s welcome
Source Notes 
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