Dec. 7: He collapses on-stage at the Beacon on 74th while rehearsing for Dec. 10 HBO concert, just before 5 p.m. Rushed to Beth Israel Medical Center. In stable condition, but blood pressure low - 70 over 40. Per the Times account: "Linda Wolff, the owner of Joe's Boutique, a store next to the theater, said she had picked up the sounds of Mr. Jackson's rehearsals all week through the walls. Just before his collapse yesterday, she said, "He was doing his song 'Black or White,' and then it just stopped."
Some speculation of med overdose in the press: He'd been using painkillers after his head was burned in the 84 Pepsi fiasco.
Dec. 7: later that day: HBO, which hopes special will be seen by 250 million worldwide, said status uncertain. Show was to have been taped on the 8th, then the rest on Saturday, for the Dec. 10 telecast on Sunday. HBO executives gulp visibly.
Dec. 8: Some speculation that he had cardiac arrhythmia; gastroenteritis, an inflammation of the stomach and intestines, dehydration, electrolyte imbalance, and possible kidney and liver problems. "Mr. Jackson will require several days of critical-care monitoring and treatment," doctors said in a statement.
Dec. 8: HBO concert officially "post-poned" and year and half marketing effort by Sony to get "HIStory" off the mat is history. Show would have included six piece band, 40-piece orchestra; 32 dancers, but because of bigger stage seating capacity is reduced; theater now only holds 1700; rumors Jackson is unhappy with tiny venue. HBO schedules "The Specialist," starring Sylvester Stallone and Sharon Stone, for that Sunday night.
Dec. 8: And yes, first big whiff of controversy, when Daily News gossip columnist A.J. Benza reports the following: "Michael's sexy sister phoned us from Germany with this little nugget of sisterly charity: "I know all of Michael's little moves and his little schemes that he pulls when he thinks he need attention. . . . It's a publicity move." With a sister like this, who needs supermarket tabloids?"That's why he flew his own doctor in, so he would give the reports out and they [the media] wouldn't get it from other doctors," added La Toya, who said she spoke to their mom. Mrs. Jackson, La Toya related, said doctors told her "there was no reason for [Mrs. Jackson] to come. He's fine."
Dec. 9: Doctors refute LaToya: Dr. William Alleyne of Beth Israel North Hospital told a news conference, "Absolutely. . . . We were fortunate that we were able with the assistance of the EMS team and the emergency team at Beth Israel to rapidly replace his fluids and restore an adequate blood pressure."
Dec. 9: Later that day, the official diagnosis, per AP: Michael Jackson is suffering from a viral infection and had been ill for a week or more before he collapsed during a rehearsal this week, a doctor said Friday.Dr. William Alleyne said diarrhea from the infection led to severe dehydration, which in turn dangerously quickened Jackson's heartbeat while lowering his blood pressure, causing his collapse. No evidence of drug use. He could - doctors add - have died.
Dec. 12: He's cleared to leave the hospital.
Dec. 13: He's out. Here's the AP wrap:
"Blowing a kiss to excited fans and flashing a victory sign, Michael Jackson left a hospital Tuesday under doctor's orders to get more bed rest after treatment for a life-threatening illness.
A white van whisked Jackson away, and his publicist wouldn't say where the singer was headed to continue his recuperation.
"Jackson, wearing rouge and foundation, a black fedora and long black coat, walked out of the hospital on his own. He didn't speak to reporters or 50 screaming fans waiting for him.
"'Michael, we love you! We love you!' several women cried as they ran after the van."
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EXCLUSIVE: Inside the King of Pop’s 1995 HBO special that never was; ‘Michael Jackson:One Night Only’
BY DAMIEN SHIELDS
............................Just before 5 P.M. on December 6, during the second of several planned full-day dress rehearsals at the Beacon Theatre, and just two days after he and Marcel Marceau had fronted the media to promote the HBO special, Jackson collapsed on stage.
“He was already feeling ill and had been sick for a few days,” recalls Lather, who had camera blocked his new “Thriller” performance with Jackson onstage earlier that day. “Later that afternoon when we were doing additional camera blocking, he collapsed on stage and had to immediately go to the hospital.”
While Lather says that Jackson had been feeling unwell for a few days, Marceau, who was also rehearsing with Jackson in the days leading to his collapse, and was present to witness it, did not detect any ailment on Jackson’s part.
“I would have noticed something,” recalled Marceau. “There was no sign that he was on the verge of a crisis… I was in the Beacon Theatre, watching the [rehearsals], which were wonderful. Michael was on stage with about fifteen dancers. At one point I turned away to get something to drink and then, suddenly, there was a great silence. He stopped everything. Just before the music was loud, the lights flash, and then, in a moment there was total silence, it was as if the world had come to an end.”
“We were all standing on stage,” remembers Smith, “and saw him walk to the front of the stage and go down, hitting his face on the grating of the stage.”
“We were all standing on stage,” remembers Smith, “and saw him walk to the front of the stage and go down, hitting his face on the grating of the stage.”
“He had both hands by his side, with the microphone in one, and fell face-first onto the metal grate,” recalls Michael Prince, one of the show’s sound engineers. “He didn’t even put his hands out to break his fall. It was scary. And he fell down hard. I’m surprised he didn’t break his nose or his jaw on the grate.”
The metal grate is part of the stage that is specially built into the floor. Jackson uses this to create an effect in certain numbers, including “Black or White,” with bright light, wind, and smoke blasting out from beneath him. Witnesses recall that it was during camera blocking for “Black or White” that Jackson’s collapse took place.
“He was out,” says Margolis. “He fell so hard, and smacked his head on the grates so hard, that he was out cold.”
“He had collapsed, lost consciousness, and was on the floor,” recalled Marceau. “We were all petrified. There were people around him, he did not move at all. Paramedics arrived, and when I saw the stage I was very scared.”
“His bodyguards rushed over and formed a protective circle around him, holding their jackets up to give him some privacy,” says Prince. “Someone yelled for an ambulance and, within minutes, one arrived.”
“I’m the one who called 9-1-1,” recalls Morey. “He was breathing, but definitely not responding. I thought maybe he’d had a heart attack.”
“I must say that the 9-1-1 responders, even with the traffic in that city, got to the Beacon Theatre in less than five minutes. It was incredible,” says Margolis. “First they checked him out as he lay on the ground, then they had him on a gurney, in an ambulance, and out of there so fast. They moved like bullets.”
Jackson was rushed to Beth Israel Medical Center North at 170 East End Avenue on the Upper East Side of New York. Meanwhile, a meeting was called in the lobby at the Beacon Theatre.
Prince recalls that once Jackson had been whisked off to the hospital, “an announcement was made over the PA system at the Beacon asking all dancers, band, cast and crew to gather in the theatre’s lobby.”
“It seemed that probably this whole show was going to be cancelled or delayed somehow,” recalls Lather. “No one knew what was going to happen for the rest of that day. We were still camera blocking and putting the show together with Jeff Margolis. The entire show was never ran from beginning to end; the production wasn’t ready for that yet. Several more days of camera blocking were still on the schedule.”
Ultimately it was decided that the show, or at least rehearsals at that point, would go on without Jackson, who was not scheduled to be at the Beacon Theatre that evening anyway.
Jackson was scheduled to attend the 1995 Billboard Music Awards at the New York Coliseum that evening, where he was to receive the Special Hot 100 Award for his outstanding chart achievements. Instead, Jackson lay in a hospital bed, with medical professionals working to stabilise him.
The One Night Only cast and crew continued to run numbers and camera block at the Beacon Theatre that evening, and the next day, as Jackson awaited the arrival of his personal physician, Dr. Allan Metzger, who was flying to New York from Los Angeles to assess the superstar.
Quentin Schaffer, Vice President of Media Relations at HBO, issued a brief statement on the evening of the collapse, letting the public know that Jackson had been “stabilised,” while confirming that rehearsals were continuing. Schaffer acknowledged that the status of the special was uncertain, adding that HBO’s main concern was Jackson’s health.
Jackson’s blood pressure was found to be an abnormally low 70 over 40 by an Emergency Medical Service crew that arrived at the Beacon Theatre just four minutes after the collapse, reported John Hanchar, a spokesperson for the E.M.S.
Dr. William Alleyne II was the Critical Care Director at Beth Israel North Hospital in December 1995, and was responsible for providing the medical care that ultimately saved the King of Pop’s life.
“Mr. Jackson was in critical condition,” Alleyne told Herald Online. “He was dehydrated. He had low blood pressure. He had a rapid heart rate.”
Meanwhile, the public had caught wind of Jackson’s situation, and began to gather in droves outside the hospital to show their support for the superstar.
“I looked outside the window, and the crowd was shoulder-to-shoulder, huge, far more than when the mayor’s mansion across the street had hosted the Pope, the President, even Nelson Mandela,” Alleyne recalled, adding that it was even “absolute pandemonium” inside the hospital.
It didn’t take long for the media to start reporting the incident, with speculation over the severity of Jackson’s condition running rampant.
“Michael Jackson Collapses At Rehearsal,” was the New York Times’ headline the next morning, reporting that Jackson collapsed while rehearsing on stage the afternoon before, “casting uncertainty over plans for a highly publicised national cable television special to be telecast on Sunday.”
Entertainment Weekly took the news of Jackson’s collapse with a grain of salt, running a story that asked: “Did Jacko faint on stage–or stage a faint?”
The EW article claimed that an unnamed source had revealed to them that Jackson was displeased that the streets of New York City had not gone into lockdown over his concerts, and that the 2,800-seat Beacon Theatre was so small it was incapable of facilitating Jackson’s enormous lighting setup – neither of which were true.
Jackson’s sister, LaToya, was quick to phone the New York Daily News with the assertion that she knows “all of Michael’s little moves and his little schemes that he pulls when he thinks he needs attention,” adding that his collapse was “a publicity move.”
“I don’t think anyone is a good enough actor to fake going down the way he went down,” says Prince, who witnessed Jackson’s dramatic collapse from his post with the sound crew.
The King of Pop’s doctor also insists his collapse was both very real and very serious. “He was near death,” stressed Alleyne, adding that Jackson “was unconscious when he arrived” at Beth Israel North Hospital.
“His biggest concern was could he perform,” recalls Alleyne of Jackson.
Unfortunately for all involved, Alleyne informed Jackson that there was “no way” he could perform anytime soon.
Jackson remained hospitalised and under strict medical care throughout the planned December 8 and 9 taping nights, and beyond HBO’s December 10 broadcast date, resulting in the cancellation of the whole thing.
Not only was Jackson’s collapse, and subsequent cancellation of the HBO special, seriously detrimental to his health, but it also damaged his future record sales in the U.S., and tainted the American public’s perception of his capability to perform live anymore.
“Without a doubt, the HBO special, we perceived, would have been a very big boost to sales right the way through to Christmas,” Vice President of Marketing at HMV, Alan McDonald, told The New York Times.
“Jackson has run out of gas,” New York media analyst, Porter Bibb, said at the time, adding that he “may have seen his day as the King of Pop.”
On December 8, just hours before the first show was scheduled to take the stage with a live audience, the cast and crew at the Beacon Theatre were again asked to assemble themselves for a meeting, with Margolis delivering the news that no one wanted to hear: the show would not go on.
“We got the word that it was being cancelled,” recalls Lather. “It was so disappointing, because everyone had worked so hard, and so many creative special people were working on the show to accomplish something never seen before for Michael.”
“In hindsight, it’s really eerie that my career working with MJ was bookended by cancelled concerts,” recalls Prince, whose first-ever gig with Jackson was One Night Only; his last being This Is It.
Once the cancellation had been confirmed, attention was turned towards whether or not the show would be rescheduled at a later date.
“The show was pretty much ready to go,” recalls Margolis. “I mentioned it at one point to his management that when his health got better we could try and redo it. They said that they would discuss it with Michael and then I never heard back from anybody about anything. But yeah, the music was all done. The mixes were all cleared. The orchestrations were all done. Everything was finished. It was a done deal. And for some reason it just never happened. I guess when HBO and everybody said ‘one night only’ they weren’t kidding.”
The lack of rescheduling was less due to HBO’s desire to try again, and more so a combination of Jackson’s hesitence to return to the concept, and the insurance company’s settlement of HBO’s claim.
“HBO had insurance on the shows,” explains Morey, “so the insurance agency got involved. Basically, once the show became an insurance claim, the whole concept just went away.”
During a 1996 interview, Jackson was asked whether or not he was still planning to tape the HBO shows.
“Oh, yes,” Jackson responded hesitantly. “We’re planning on doing that in Africa. In South Africa.”
I asked Margolis if he’d heard about that. “No,” he said. “I know nothing about that.”
“That sounds like Michael Jackson hyperbole, really,” Morey agreed. “There was no discussion of doing it in Africa, or anywhere.”
“No,” added Smith. “It was too much. We never talked about it again. He did mention that he loved the new Clockwork Orange ‘Dangerous,’ and he said he wished we could have done it. But no, he never talked about doing the HBO special again.”
Years later, Jackson was again asked about the cancelled shows, and whether he would ever do them.
“No, I don’t think so,” Jackson told Black and White magazine. “I worked so much to prepare that show, there was such a pressure; people pushing me to do this show no matter what! Then, finally, the nature took its course and said, “stop!” She decided I shouldn’t do that show.”
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Most don't realise the HBO shows was actually going to be filmed over two nights and edited together to make ONE show for TV. Setlist was all of the HIStory album for one show and the the second show was to have some of MJ's favourite songs being sung live by MJ. Marcel Marceau confirmed in 1997 that Michael was supposed to sit in the courtyard scene singing Childhood live on a stool while Marcel was miming the lyrics to the song which included his famous walking in the wind routine.
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