Sounds like an outlandish headline, sure, but we were chatting to a promoter the other day, and they made a throwaway remark that Michael Jackson probably made more money in three days last week from ticket sales for his gigs at The O2 than he did from his Thriller album.Their working went thus: Thriller sold 45 million albums worldwide, and according to the promoter, Jacko would have got on average no more than
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