KingOfPop1
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Feel the need to "protect" Michael from certain people. Who was he speaking of when he said this:
OK correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Randy Phillip's role just that of a concert promoter? Why would he cut Michael off from people? That wasn't his job!!! Why would HE need to block people from Michael... Is this why Raymone Bain couldn't serve court papers to MJ properly? Is this why MJ practically defaulted on the lawsuit that Raymone Bain leveled against him? Because he truly didn't know about it until it was almost too late?
Leonard Rowe said on Good Morning America today that Michael did NOT wish to hire Branca & DiLeo, and that AEG hired them. Rowe also said he was fired in May but never received a termination letter and was never fired from Michael Jackson. Rowe said they (him and the Jackson family) were trying to to help Michael but couldn't because the people at AEG were controlling him.
Which brings me back to this article:
Will Michael Jackson Survive His Concert Marathon
http://entertainment.timesonline.co...rticle6372171.ece?token=null&offset=24&page=3
The most chilling part of the article reads
Why would AEG even announce that? Why would they even let people know that they wouldn't make any return until one-third of the O2 shows are played?
These articles always concerned me. The LA Times one which is much like this one was almost like a public threat to Michael. The "Do or Die" mention in the referenced article sickens me. Another article was Phillips confirming that Michael would do all 50 shows. It was as if these articles were in fact pressure tactics. I just don't understand the reason for them. Many fans here thought these articles were made up, tabloid, etc and discounted them but these articles have always stuck out like sore thumbs to me.
Phillips's main worry has been how to keep Jackson away "from all these characters I have to fend off from his past". He won't name them, and you hope they don't include more litigious parents. ne is almost certainly Jackson's former spokesperson, the American PR Raymone Bain, who served during his spell in Bahrain. Claiming to have instigated the AEG deal, Bain is now reportedly suing Jackson for $44m. Phillips says he has built "a protective wall to stop people getting to him the way they used to".
OK correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Randy Phillip's role just that of a concert promoter? Why would he cut Michael off from people? That wasn't his job!!! Why would HE need to block people from Michael... Is this why Raymone Bain couldn't serve court papers to MJ properly? Is this why MJ practically defaulted on the lawsuit that Raymone Bain leveled against him? Because he truly didn't know about it until it was almost too late?
Leonard Rowe said on Good Morning America today that Michael did NOT wish to hire Branca & DiLeo, and that AEG hired them. Rowe also said he was fired in May but never received a termination letter and was never fired from Michael Jackson. Rowe said they (him and the Jackson family) were trying to to help Michael but couldn't because the people at AEG were controlling him.
Which brings me back to this article:
Will Michael Jackson Survive His Concert Marathon
http://entertainment.timesonline.co...rticle6372171.ece?token=null&offset=24&page=3
The most chilling part of the article reads
Profits, however, are still some way off. AEG expects to see no return on its investment of at least £20m until Jackson has played one-third of the O2 shows. The start-up costs for This Is It have been huge, covering the biggest stage set built for an indoor arena show and a number of what Phillips calls “grand illusions”. His hope, along with that of the 800,000-odd fans who have bought tickets, must be that their trust in pop’s most charismatic but accident-prone Peter Pan doesn’t turn out to be the grandest illusion of all.
Why would AEG even announce that? Why would they even let people know that they wouldn't make any return until one-third of the O2 shows are played?
These articles always concerned me. The LA Times one which is much like this one was almost like a public threat to Michael. The "Do or Die" mention in the referenced article sickens me. Another article was Phillips confirming that Michael would do all 50 shows. It was as if these articles were in fact pressure tactics. I just don't understand the reason for them. Many fans here thought these articles were made up, tabloid, etc and discounted them but these articles have always stuck out like sore thumbs to me.