Michael Tributes - My Take

On Saturday October 8th, the Jackson family will participate in a tribute concert extravaganza for their beloved Michael in the UK. The promoters of the event is a promotional company known as Global Live and as the details of the tribute were being release, controversy emerged. First, Global Live decided to have the rock band KISS perform at the tribute. The main problem with that was the lead singer of the band, Gene Simmons, had terrible things to say about Michael the day after Michael died. The things that he stated I am not going to post on this blog for sanity reasons. Second, the timing of the tribute - the event will occur around the time of the Conrad Murray Murder Trial. Even though the event falls on a Saturday and court proceedings do not occur on weekends, it is still odd and downright inappropriate to do a tribute concert when the murderer (or murderers) are not in jail and justice has not been completely served. Third, not everyone in the Jackson family are supporting the tribute mainly because of the timing. Jermaine, Randy and Janet have released statements stating that they will not participate in the event. Fourth, the performers - Black Eyed Peas were in the line-up but were suddenly out of the line-up. Chris Brown was rumored to be in the show, but because of his criminal record, he was barred from entering the UK. Fifth, the tickets issue - I am not familiar with the issue with the tickets, but I can assume that the ticket situation is a mess.