Michael Jacksondied in June this year. It was the year for his great comeback with a lot of concerts on O2 Stadium in London. But he didn’t get that far.
Even though the This Is It concerts never happened, the single was released this fall which you can see in the video bellow made by Spike Jones. A movie, also called This Is It, was realesed in cinemas worldwide in the fall. Sadly, I didn’t managed to go and see it. Luckily, the movie This Is It hits DVD and Blu-ray in the begining of 2010. This will be a must buy for me.
Enjoy the music video of Michael Jacksons This Is It by Spike Lee.
I’ve been an a-hafan since I could read and in the late 80ies I had a mixtape for a-ha songs only. When I found out this summer that a-ha was having a concert in Oslo, Norway, I thought that I had to go.
The ticket for this concert was suddenly more valuable, since a-ha decided that this is it. And before I knew it I had also purchased tickets to the farewell concert 4 December next year. So I got tickets for two shows before I even had been on an a-ha concert.
a-ha hold two concerts in Oslo on, respectively on Friday 6 and Saturday 7 November. I was on the last of these two. This concert is part of Foot Of The Mountain – Tour 2009. Both concerts were sold out and the atmosphere was good already when donkey boy warmed up.
a-ha started with The Sun Always Shines On TV. And we heard both Stay on These Roads, Hunting High And Low and Velvet. With a little help from Dagbladet, a-ha sung 21 songs (I do not count songs when I’m on a concert). And finally, we heard Take On Me, the song that gave the a-ha their great breakthrough in 1985.
I think it was a cracking good gig. Paul Savoy, Magne Furuholmen and Morten Harket did well on stage. The audience was so completely present and sang a long. When Morten Harket announced the last song, Foot Of The Mountain, the audience in Spektrum rose and clapped and joyed through the whole song. This was not the last tune from a-ha guys though. And ofcourse, there was also the encore which was completed with Take On Me. It was a great concert, too bad that the time flew away so fast.
Below you’ll see a short video clip I’ve put together from the concert recored with my cellphone.
Fortunately, it is not quite the end of a-ha yet. Next year starts the farewell tour. This will probably give them a boost in both career, record sales and media coverage. It will be exciting to see how many years it takes a-ha to get back together after the last concert in Oslo 4 December next year. I’m lookinng forward to this concert.
The pictures I posted with the Creative Commons license, and are taken with mobile camera in the dark from a distance.
Here is the trailer for Michael Jackson’s This is it movie. The Official HD Trailer for “Michael Jackson’s This Is It”, aired on MTV Video Music Awards.
Today is also a big Beatles day. Not only is The Beatles: Rock Band released for Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. But you can also buy The Beatles in to re-mastered editions, The Beatles In Stereo and The Beatles In Mono.
IGN.com’s review of The Beatles Rock Band
September 9th also marks the 10th anniversary for Sega Dreamcast in North-America. You can read a lenghty article at IGN.com or watch their YouTube-video of the history of Dreamcast.
You watch the weather report everyday. But have you seen it performed in a song? No, then you should watch the Norwegian weather lady Eli Kari Gjengedal perform the weather report on TV2, Thursday September 3, 2009. It’s amazing, it’s good.
Michael Jackson would have turnet 51 today if he still was alive. He would have been in London at the O2 stadium playing the This is it concerts. It was also known this week that Michael Jackson death was a homicide.
Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean”.
The Los Angeles County coroner rules Michael Jackson’s death a homicide. CNN’s Kara Finnstrom reports.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on the results of the coroner’s report in Michael Jackson’s death and the drugs that killed him.
Tuesday July 7th, 2009 was a sad day for all Michael Jackson fan around the World. I haven’t heard any numbers, but I guess a lot of people watched the public memorial service of Michael Jackson on TV.
It was a great service, with good music, videos of his life and nice tributes. It was laughs and tears, a nice mix of sadness and happiness. I have to say it was very thouching when Michael Jackson’s daughter, Paris, made her tribute to his father.
Among the participants was Lionel Richie, John Mayer, Brooke Shields, Usher, Mariah Carey, Michael Jordan and Stevie Wonder.
The king of pop is no more, but his music and legacy will live on in his music and hour memories.
You can read more on the memorial service on CNN.com among other places.
