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Working Day and Night / Bad Tour Japan / Michael Jackson
The Bad World Tour, was the first world concert tour by Michael Jackson as a solo artist, covering Japan, Australia, United States and Europe from September 12, 1987 to January 27, 1989. The tour, sponsored by PepsiCo and spanning 16 months, included 123 concerts to 4.4 million fans across 15 countries. When the tour concluded it grossed a total of 5 million, adding two new entries in the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest grossing tour in history and the tour with the largest attended audience. In the United States alone, where just 54 concerts were held, the tour came in as the 6th largest grossing tour from 1988– 89, grossing a total of .3 million. In April 1989, the tour was nominated for Tour of the Year 1988 at the inaugural International Rock Awards. The tour lost to Amnesty International, but nothing could detract from the fact that Jackson’s first solo tour was the largest and most successful in history. At every concert (at least in the United States) Jackson made sure that 400 tickets were reserved for underprivileged children. These tickets were distributed across hospitals, orphanages and charities. Jackson also donated concert takings to multiple causes. The release of Jackson’s seventh solo album, Bad, on August 31, 1987 led to a huge rise in popularity for Jackson in Japan, with Jackson being nicknamed Typhoon Michael . Other popular artists such as George Michael and Madonna had similarly begun their solo world tours in Japan, as it was …
Paul McCartney’s Höfner Bass
I just love that bass and i love the sound… Can you hear the songs? Please give a comment! Karl Höfner gmbh & Co. KG is a German manufacturer of musical instruments, with one division that manufactures guitars and basses, and another that manufactures other string instruments. Much of Höfner’s popularity is attributed to Paul mccartney’s use of the Höfner 500/1 bass throughout his career. This violin-shaped model is commonly referred to as the “Beatle bass.” The company was made famous through its association with The Beatles, principally through their Höfner 500/1 model hollow-body electric bass, first manufactured in 1956. Paul mccartney played two left-handed 500/1 basses during most of the group’s career, one from 1961 with the pickups mounted close together towards the neck, and a 1963 model, with the second pickup mounted closer to the bridge. He used the 1961 bass up through the recording of With the Beatles and, after having some repair work and a refinish to the bass in 1964, used it as his backup bass throughout the rest of the Beatles’ touring career. It was also seen in the promo film for the Beatles single “Revolution,” and during the filming of the Beatles’ documentary Let It Be (though only as a backup). This particular bass was stolen shortly afterward. His most famous bass, though is the 1963 bass, which was used almost exclusively during the band’s touring career (1962-66), as well as their rooftop performance in London in 1969 (as featured in Let It …
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