This Is It was originally the name of a series of 50 concerts scheduled for what would be the comeback of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, which had begun on July 8, 2009 at the O2 Arena in London, and had ended March 6, 2010.
(However, on June 25, 2009, two weeks before the first show of the tour, Jackson suffered a cardio-respiratory arrest and died. The official report called the death of Jackson caused by the combination of tranquilizers, which is the prime suspect Conrad Murray, his personal physician.)The concerts would be the first Michael Jackson Live from Special: 30th Anniversary Michael Jackson as a soloist in 2001 at Madison Square Garden and would have been the most important musical end of the decade. Each presentation at the O2 Arena has a maximum capacity of 23,000 spectators, it was estimated that more than one million people have seen the show. Randy Phillips, president and chief executive of AEG Live, announced that only the first 10 concerts of the tour had raised approximately around U.S. $ 50 million dollar, 50 concerts have raised about U.S. $ 200 million dollars. It is said that the first innings of the tour were sold in just four hours.
