people were 'crazy' about this foreign concert ...!?

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 Before 'Coldplay', people were 'crazy' about this foreign concert, 35000 tickets were sold without the internet.


Michael Jackson Concert: 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 sold out in a jiffy.

Michael Jackson Concert

The Coldplay concert is to be held in mumbai on 18-19 january next year and as soon as the tickets were sold, the site crashed. people are surprised to see the fans' craziness 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 sold out in a jiffy.


This concert was of the king of Pop, Michael Jackson, who had performed only one live show in India in his life. 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 wallet PLATFORM' target='_blank' title='digital-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW">digital era, when one had to stand in long queues to buy tickets, when the tickets for Michael Jackson's concert came, they were sold immediately. Then 35000 people attended Michael's concert. It is not that the tickets for Jackson's concert were cheap then. Just like thousands of rupees are being charged for Coldplay today, similarly in that era alsotickets for concerts were sold for up to Rs. 5000.


Michael Jackson did not charge any fee.

17 songs were performed live in this concert and the special thing is that the government had 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.

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