Earlier this week we saw photos from Michael Jackson’s dress rehearsal performance at the Staples Center on Tuesday June 23, just two days before his death. Today we get to see video from that dress rehearsal performance. CNN has obtained video footage from Michael Jackson’s full dress rehearsal that was recorded on Tuesday June 23 which features MJ performing with his crew to his single They Don’t Care About Us. Here is a screencap from that dress rehearsal performance:
Michael Jackson appeared healthy in a video clip — obtained by CNN — of his rehearsal two nights before he died. AEG, promoter of Jackson’s planned London shows, released the short video of Jackson rehearsing on a stage in the Staples Center arena on June 23, 2009. Jackson sang “They Don’t Care About Us” — a song from Jackson’s “HIStory” album — as he danced along with eight male dancers. The Staples Center will also be the site of Jackson’s memorial service, which is scheduled for Tuesday at the 20,000-seat Los Angeles arena, according to a person briefed by a family representative. No other details have been revealed about the service.
It’s clear to me from this footage that MJ’s This Is It Tour was going to be something special. To be completely honest, I didn’t think he still had the pizazz in him to pull off a mega concert performance but if this footage is any indication, I was sorely wrong. It’s such a shame that Jackson did not live long enough to prove his detractors wrong. In the performance clip, which you can see behind the cut, it looks like MJ’s old guitarist Jennifer Batten (featured in, among other things, MJ’s Dirty Diana music video) performs with him!
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Does this mean that she was going to be a part of his This Is It Tour?! She mentions this clip on her official Twitter account so I’m guessing that it is her in the clip. After the jump, check out MJ performing his song They Don’t Care About Us on stage with his back-up dancers and possibly Ms. Batten …
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