Following a controversy with the way tickets were purchased, Michael Jackson donated his proceeds (approx. $5 million) from the tour to three charities, including the T.J. Martell Foundation for Leukemia and Cancer Research, The United Negro College Fund, and Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times.
The set list included songs from the Jacksons albums Destiny and Triumph. Despite the name of the tour, the Victory album was not represented. There were also songs on the list from Jermaine's and Michael's solo careers. Songs from Michael's albums Off the Wall and Thriller were both represented. The set list did not include "Thriller" itself.
Michael sang all the lead vocals, except for a medley of Jermaine's solo hits.
Eddie Van Halen made at least one special guest appearance, doing the "Beat It" guitar solo.
Jermaine sometimes performed the song "Dynamite" during his solo medley in place of the usual "You Like Me Don't You."
Aside from a few months in mid-1975, the Victory Tour era marked the only time that all six Jackson brothers worked together at the same time as a band. Jackie Jackson missed most of the tour because of a leg injury. That injury was described at the time as a knee injury incurred during strenuous rehearsals. Margaret Maldonado (the mother of two of Jermaine Jackson's children) has alleged that Jackie in fact broke his leg in an automobile accident: his first wife Enid ran him over in a parking lot after catching him with another woman. (That other woman was a then-obscure dancer and singer named Paula Abdul, who kept her job as the Victory Tour's choreographer.) In any case, Jackie made a speedy recovery and was able to rejoin his brothers on stage for the last portion of the tour.
Shortly after the tour ended, Michael and Marlon left the group to start their own solo careers without The Jacksons.
In my opinion about Michael Jackson, he is one of few musicians who has a successful career despite whatever problems or mistakes he may have done in the past.
You have to understand that when he and his siblings form 'The Jackson 5', he became a favorite musician worldwide. I have listen some of his earliest songs to his last album when he passed away in 2009.
I am not a major fan of Michael Jackson, but he is one of many musicians that I listen to now and again whenever I am on YouTube.
You can also search some of his dance moves on YouTube by YouTubers who had tried out his moves, such as 'The Moonwalk', The Thriller', 'The Lean' and many more that I have not heard of myself.
There are a few songs that I do like from Michael Jackson when he was alive before his death.
Thriller, Billie Jean, Smooth Criminal, Earth Song, They Don't Care About Us, Black or White and Man in the Mirror
You have to understand that when he and his siblings form 'The Jackson 5', he became a favorite musician worldwide. I have listen some of his earliest songs to his last album when he passed away in 2009.
I am not a major fan of Michael Jackson, but he is one of many musicians that I listen to now and again whenever I am on YouTube.
You can also search some of his dance moves on YouTube by YouTubers who had tried out his moves, such as 'The Moonwalk', The Thriller', 'The Lean' and many more that I have not heard of myself.
There are a few songs that I do like from Michael Jackson when he was alive before his death.
Thriller, Billie Jean, Smooth Criminal, Earth Song, They Don't Care About Us, Black or White and Man in the Mirror
