Michael Jackson memorial ticket winner details
July 6th, 2009 - 2:38 am ICT by John Le Fevre ( 3 comments )
Millions of Michael Jackson fans around the world are anxiously sitting by their computers waiting to see if they have been one of the lucky winners of tickets for the memorial concert at the Los Angeles Staples Centre on Tuesday.
Organizers of the show were to begin informing registrants on Sunday if they had been awarded one of the 8,750 pairs of free tickets to the event.
In the 32-hour window that mourning Jackson fans had to register for the event, more than 1.6 million applications were received.
Each person whose name is drawn will receive two tickets and will be notified by email after 11am PST (2 pm EDT) Sunday with instructions on where to go on Monday to collect their tickets.
The tickets will include a wristband, part of an effort to prevent people from trying to sell the tickets.
The Staples Center has a capacity of nearly 20,000 for sporting events but the organizers said only 11,000 fans will be admitted to the arena for the memorial performance, with the remainder reserved for Jackson’s family, friends, guests and the news media. At the Nokia theater next door 6,500 fans will be admitted.
Organizers said the memorial will not be shown on the giant video screens in the Staples Center plaza to keep crowd levels under control, but arrangements have been made for a world-wide TV broadcast and streaming feed on the Internet.
City officials have urged residents to watch the memorial from home, but many fans have signaled that they intend to show up anyway.
Los Angeles police officials are bracing for tens if not hundreds of thousands of people, but have not given an estimate of what it may cost to control the event, whose lineup and other details have also not been announced.
Los Angeles is battling a recession-fueled $530 million deficit in its operating budget, but Jan Perry, a city councilwoman who is serving as acting mayor, said, that the city considered the memorial an “extraordinary event” and would tap into a fund set aside for such occurrences.
Plans for Jackson’s burial, expected to be private, have not been disclosed, though it has been reported the dead entertain will be buried in a $25,000 casket made of solid bronze and plated with 14-karat gold.
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July 6th, 2009 at 10:54 am
Dear Michael,
You willl always be in my heart, You will be extremely missed and never forgotten by me. I hope you rest in peace, and forever, will you be a legend!
All My Love,
Denise Gallo
July 7th, 2009 at 9:18 am
never got any email to see if Iam got a ticket shame on their web
January 30th, 2012 at 4:45 am
How are you doing? I feel just fine. My name is Dont’e Zierway the singer, inventor, writer, producer. I just wanted to tell everyone that I had a real good time at Michael Jackson’s Memorial July 6th and 7th 2009. I was really there honestly on the scene sitting in the 11th row with enough people absent to give me enough space to sit in the 2nd row so I walked down lower in the aisle and I sat right behind all the stars and family so close to his 24k gold casket that one of his relatives gave me 8 red roses off the top of his casket.
I was even more surprised to myself saying I’m really here and it feels so unreal. I was still being conscious remembering the true reason I came which really was just to get away because my Mother Shirley Dean had just passed away at age 50 October 24,2008 and she loved him with her whole heart. I still have a picture of her in her black and white outfits just like Michael Jackson.
Of course me being a singer I wanted to see who I could meet and give my cd away to and I’ve already performed on a lot of major stages like the World Famous Apollo in NY so music pursuit is music pursuit. I was interviewed by everybody in the media world of all cultures and languages, cities, states oceans, rivers, neighborhoods, towns equalling up over 500 billion viewers so the world’s media was there and I met them all at the Dodger’s Stadium in LA.
I was interviewed in “The Final Call” the “Obama In Africa” edition July 7th, 2009 Michael Jackson Memorial. I wanted to present for donation, If you would like to make a donation for these heirlooms as a whole or individually please email dontezierway@hotmail.com or tweet Dont’e Zierway or hear my original music on myspace.com/blackdiamonddonte or give me a call @ 1.716.200.2067. I have only 1 Michael Jackson Memorial obituary, 1 Golden Bracelet, 1 Original Ticket, 7 Red 24k Casket Roses, 1 copy of “The Final Call” Obama In Africa/Michael Jackson Memorial edition July 7th, 2009 for donation.