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17
November 2006
Michael
Jackson Fans Demand
Ticket
Refund
Michael
Jackson
fans are seeking refunds
on their tickets for the
World
Music
Awards.
Entry
to the award show cost
as much as £100,
and fans say they were
misled by promises that
Michael Jackson would
perform a version of his
hit single,
Thriller.
"I'm
furious," said Katherine
Kidd, who spent
£200 to get to the
show. "I feel like I've
been ripped
off."
Michael
Jackson only sang a few
lines of We Are The
World before leaving the
stage. Thriller was
performed by Chris
Brown.
"It
was a huge anti-climax,"
said 29-year-old
Londoner Zareen Iqbal.
"I just walked
off."
"People
were expecting something
significant but he
didn't perform at all,"
said Abdo Binmadhi, who
travelled from Oxford
for the show at Earls
Court in
London.
"When
the lights went on I saw
people's faces and they
were like: 'Is that it?'
I should have just
stayed at home and
watched it on TV. We
should definitely get a
refund."
The
organisers of the World
Music Awards said that
they had "not been
contacted by any of the
fans or had one
complaint" regarding the
event.
They
added that Michael
Jackson's performance
had been cut short
because the ceremony
over-ran, breaking a
noise curfew at the
venue.
"I
was standing watching
Jackson perform and
suddenly he stopped,"
said Julius Just, head
of Public Relations for
the awards. "They cut
the sound on one of the
greatest living artists
in the world. It's the
first time anything like
this has happened in 18
years of the World Music
Awards."
But
officials at Earl's
Court denied that the
sound had been
cut.
"We
accommodated the show
and the show's
organisers by obtaining
an extension to our
licence in order to
allow the show to run to
eleven o'clock," said
spokesman Jeremy
Probert.
"And
as far as we're
concerned, that's what
the show did. As a
matter of fact, I think
it finished about a
minute-and-a-half
early," he
added.
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