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Michael Jackson Tribute Concert Plan Abandoned

The event's organizers closed down, the company's liquidators said on Friday.

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Technic Ally
Toronto
December 18th, 2009
8:23 pm

All the original written plans will be burned to ash and packed in an urn to tour major cities.
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