8/01/2009

1997

Michael's head of security Bill Bray retires after 25 years by his side Bodyguard Wayne Nagin takes over the job.


  • January 2 :
Michael arrives in Hawaii where he is welcomed by 150 local dancers + 200 fans. He soons joins Joe & Katherine who came especially for him.
  • January 3 & 4 :
Michael finishes the first leg of the History World Tour by performing 2 huge concerts at the Aloha Stadium in Honolulu .
  • Mid January :
Michael goes to Los Angeles & Montreux ( Switzerland ) to complete work on the album Blood On The Dance Floor.
  • January 21 :
Katherine's father, Prince Scruse, dies at the age of 90 years old.
  • January 24-Febuary 1 :
Michael goes resting at Disneyland Paris with Frank.
He changes his management team by replacing Sandy Gallin with Tarak Ben Ammar from Kingdon Entertainment.
  • February 4 :
Michael goes to a courtroom in Rome (Italia) to testify that he didn't steal Will You Be There from ITalian artist Al Bano.
  • February 10-15 :
Michael shoots the video of Blood On The Dance Floor in Los Angeles .
  • February 13 :
Debbie Rowe gives birth to Prince Michael Joseph Jackson Jr at the Cedar Sinai Medical Center of Los Angeles. Michael attends the birth and then takes his son to Neverland. Grace Rwaramba and Pia Bhatti are hired as Prince's nannies and they move to Neverland with Omer Bhatti.
  • February 16 :
Michael attends a gala to celebrate Elizabeth Taylor's 65th birthday in Los Angeles . For the occasion he performs a song that he just recorded in Montreux called Elizabeth I Love You and gets a standing ovation by the galaxy of stars attending the event.
  • Late February :
Michael organises a Jackson Family Day at Neverland to introduce his new born to the clan. Janet who is in studio in Minneapolis can't attend the party.
  • March 18 :
Michael's attorneys Zia Modabber & Steve Cochran announce that a jury in Santa Maria has dismissed the complait of 5 former employees of Neverland who claimed they were fired because "they knew too much"...
  • March 21 :
Michael goes to Marbella where he receives a special award from Sony Music.
  • March 25 :
British magazine OK gets a world exclusive by publishing the first ever official pictures of MIchael & Debbie with their son Prince (at Neverland) accompanied by a candid interview of the couple.
  • April 2 :
The Blood On The Dance Floor video is premiered on VH1.
Michael arrives in Disneyland Paris with Grace & Prince where he rehearses for the History Tour.
  • April 20 :
Michael attends the innauguration of his wax statue by french artist Mime Marceau at the Musée Grevin in Paris . He is accompanied by his new Manager Tarak Ben Ammar.
The single BOTDF is a big hit in Europe but doesn't do well in the US...
  • May 2 :
Michael & Tarak Ben Ammar attend a press conference for the Histoy Tour at the Munich stadium in Germany.
  • May 3 :
Michael vists his former tour promoter Marcel Avram in a Munich jail.
  • May 5 :
Michael & Tarak Ben Ammar attend the Italian TV Award Ceremont Telegatti in Milano where Michael present an award with Luciano Pavarotti. Michael works on a duet project with Pavarotti Called What More Can I Give...
  • May 6 :
Michael flies to Cleveland ( Ohio ) to be inducted in the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in a special Presentation wih His bothers by Diana Ross & Berry Gordy! Joe, Katherine & Barry Gibb are also prsent at the event.
  • May 8 :
Michael flies back to Europe to attend a midnight private presentation his his Ghosts short film at the Cannes Film Festival with Stan Winston & Tarak Ben Ammar among others.
  • May 14 :
The album Blood On The Dance Floor is released worldwide.
  • May 27/28 :
Michael goes to to study a project of amusement park for Kingdom Entertainment.
  • May 29 :
Michael arrives in Bremen ( Germany ) with Tarak Ben Ammar and they attend a press conference.
Prince Michael Jr is taken to a Paris hotel suit with his nannies so that his daddy can join him after each concert of the European tour. Debbie also flies every week end to spend time with Michael & their son.
  • May 31 :
Michael kicks off the Europen leg of the History Tour with in Bremen .
  • June 3 :
Concert in Cologne .
  • June 6 :
Concert in Bremen .
  • June 8 + 10 :
Concerts in Amsterdam
  • June 13 :
Concert in Kiel
  • June 15 :
Concert in Gelsenkirchen
  • June 18 :
Michael attends the 30th anniversary of Phantasialand in Germant before flying to Milano to perform a concert.
  • June 20 :
Concert in Lausanne
  • June 22 :
Concert in Luxemburg

  • June 25 :
Concert in Lyon
  • June 27 + 29 :
Concerts at the Parc Des Princes in Paris (attended by Debbie)

Officially divorced from Jack Gordon, LaToya reconciles with the Jackson family.
  • July 2 :
Michael takes Debbie & Prince to Vienna where he performs in concert
  • July 4+6 :
Concerts in Munich (attended by Debbie)
While in Munich Michaels is injected with Propofol by 2 Germain doctors to help him get some sleep0

  • July 10 :
Concert in Sheffield (attended by Debbie)
  • July 11 :
While a pregnant Debbie returns to L.A , Michael goes to London where he is joined by his ex wife LIsa Marie!
The single History/Ghost is released in Europe .
  • July 12 + 15 + 17 :
Michael performs 3 concerts at the Wembley Stadium in London . (Katherine & Lisa Marie attend the shows)
  • July 19 :
Concert in Dublin
  • July 25 :
Concert in Basel
  • July 27 :
Concert in Nice
  • August 1 :
Concert in Berlin
  • August 3 :
Concert in Leipzig
  • August 10 :
Concert in Hockenheim
  • August 14 :
Concert in Copenhagen
  • August 16 :
Concert in Gothemburg.
  • August 19 :
Concert in Oslo
  • August 22 :
Concert in Tallinn
  • August 24 + 26 :
Concerts in Helsinski
  • August 29 :
Concert in Copenhagen on Michael 39th birthday. A huge cake is presented to him on stage!
  • September 1 :
After hearing the tragic death of his friend Princess Diana, Michael cancels his concert in Ostend .
  • September 3 :
Michael finally performs in Ostend and dedicates the concert to Lady Di.
  • September 6 :
Last concert of the European tour in Valladolid .
  • September 7 :
Michael gives an interview for US TV show 20/20 with Barbara Walters from his Parisian hotel. The interview is aired a few days later on ABC.
  • September 8 :
Michael returns to Neverland with Prince Michael Jr.
  • September 13 :
Michael attends a public service for Diana in a Los Angeles church.
  • October 1 :
Michael arrives in Cap, with his young friend Omer Bhatti.
  • October 4 + 6 :
Michael performs 2 concerts in Cap attended by Nelson Mandela among others.
  • October 8 :
Michael is best man at his friend Gerry Inzerillo 's wedding to Prudence Salomon.
  • October 10 :
Concert in Johannesburg
  • October 11 :
Michael is made honorary member of a tribe in Phoheng. His parents Joe & Katherine & his ex wife Lisa Marie attend the event.
  • October 12 :
Concert in Johannesburg
  • October 15 :
82nd and last concert of the History World Tour in Durban
  • October 16 :
Michael Leaves Africa and Return to Neverland with Omer Bhatti.

  • October 31 :
Dr Sasaki performs surgery on Michael to reduce the width of his scar on the scalp. 
  • November 18-23 :
Michael goes to Seoul in to support Kim Dae Jung at the presidential elections
Michael & Prince Michael Jr are on the cover of LIFE magazine with a special photo story at Neverland.
  • November 25 :
Debbie Rowe Jackson gives an interview to KNBC in Neverland where she denies tabloid rumors of an affair between Michael & Lisa Marie & announce that she is pregnant with a baby girl that she & Michael want to name Paris MIchael Katherine.
  • Late November :
Michael goes in a Los Angeles studio to record the song Children's Holiday for Japonese group J-Friends
  • December :
Sony cancels the release of History's last single Smile even though MIchael shot a video for the song where he imitates Charlie Chaplin.
A box set is released containing the Ghost short film on VHS + the unreleased song On The Line from the movie soundtrack Get On The Bus.
  • December 17 :
Michael visits british boxer Prince Naseem at a gymnasium in New York .
While in New York , he meets Puff Daddy to speak of a possible collaboration together.
  • December 24/25 :
Michael celebrates Christmas at Neverlaand with Prince, the Cascios & the Bhattis.
Debbie Rowe visit them
  • Late December :
Michael attends the funerals of Enid Jackson (ex wife of Jackie & mother of Siggt & Brandi) & Lilian Disney (widow of Walt Disney)