A "Thriller" in Knoxville: The Jacksons' Victory Tour at Neyland Stadium

[@ricky6935]

I was there the first night, that Friday! We tried to go again that Sunday but we could not get tickets, no more money !!lol It was an amazing the show, they gave you the illusion like a UFO was flying over the stadium and it landed on stage, five doors open and they all walked down a ramp with shades on to the stage! It was beyond words, have been to alot of concerts and have never seen an opening like that still to date and its 2023!!

[@wilmmerwest3876]

😮😮

[@ricky6935]

@@wilmmerwest3876 Yep it was crazy, just imagine a UFO flying over a football stadium and landing on the stage, and then the five doors open and each of the Jackson brother walk down the ramp...it should be the most spectacular opening in history..and they left the stage back in the UFO .it was so hot!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@wilmmerwest3876]

@@ricky6935 Did you see MJ later on his solo world tours after August 1984?🙂

[@areguapiri]

Nothing was better than seeing "The Jacksons" together. It was magical!

[@spenfor1598]

I went to this concert!!!!! 🤗 I had worked all night and went and stood in line to get the tickets!!!!! 😊 Of course I was much younger!!!!! 🤨 But it was worth the wait!!!! 👍 He arrived in a ambulance!!!! Kinda odd but whatever!!! 🤔 I had also been to that Billy Graham Crusade saw him and Nixon in back of car leaving stadium!!!! 🙏 We all know what happened to Nixon after that!!!!! 😏 The show was spectacular and to this day is a very fond memory!!!!!!! 😊💕

[@mocancer3232]

Who arrived in an 🚑?

[@Neevie-Styx]

@@mocancer3232- I think they’re saying Michael arrived in an ambulance.

[@ricky6935]

i don't remember that and i was there ...I don't even know how he would know that, sound like a little lie ..lol

[@aaronberns8485]

Holy crap. I know about this Jackson mania, but from what I’ve seen so far, this frenzy is beyond comprehension. It was more than just screaming fans. The fans fighting and arguing in a long line waiting to get tickets is what really struck me, and I haven’t even finished the video yet. It was like an entirely big deal as essential as food and water. Michael Jackson was something else.

[@johnsonmark65]

this was Thriller era my friend, this is when he was at his peak.

[@managed9348]

@@johnsonmark65 even after thriller era people was still dying to see him

[@DPPLOWD]

​@@johnsonmark65I seen him on all tours Victory had absolutely NOTHING on Bad Tour

[@ThrawnaDelRey]

It's crazy how $30 was too expensive for some people to see Michael Jackson back then. I'd easily pay 5x that amount to see him today!

[@SaveTheFuture94]

I was born a decade after this but watching this gives me a sense of nostalgia, warmth and comfort that I cannot explain

[@johnsonmark65]

this was Michael Jackson at his absolute peak, at this particular point, everything about him was perfect at this point.

[@Fakename70]

I think he was an even better performer once he started touring as a solo artist 3-4 years later.

[@sunwukong7567]

Bad Era is his performance peak, Dangerous Era is his overall global superstar peak.

[@johnsonmark65]

@@sunwukong7567 not at all kid, early-mid 80s is when he was at the top of his game

[@evem620]

@@sunwukong7567 History was his must commercially successful

[@areguapiri]

​@@johnsonmark65....Very true. Early 80s and the Thriller Michael Jackson was the greatest and biggest.

[@triumphsmania]

Whoever is behind the archivist thank you for sharing this, hopefully more of The Jacksons would pop up. This was Victory but they also visited Tennessee in 79 & 81 which was documented so I feel fans would want to see that as well. Thank youu

[@wandarichmond7643]

Thank you so very much for mentioning the concerts. They did here in Memphis, Tennessee in 1979 and 1981.! Fortunately, I did get to see them in 1981. Please tell me how I can see these documented concerts as I would truly appreciate it! I would also like to share with you that I met Michael and his brothers here in Memphis. in 1977. It was a beautiful experience, too.But thanks again for mentioning their concerts here in Tennessee!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤LOVE THE JACKSON FAMILY!😊

[@ericdestler7723]

I'd pay $$$ for the footage from this show. Being a fan I totally missed out! My parents went to this. I was born 2 months later! I always say this was my 1st concert and I missed out of it lol

[@reggieeditz]

Long live the Jacksons

[@chinopicasso132]

why there will NEVER be another Michael Jackson

[@666nkk]

So great to watch this. The man that has been the focal point of my life creating a total mania already 4 years before I was even born.

[@Inaworldoflove]

$30 back then is only $88 in todays money, adjusted for inflation. How the hell were people complaining? And lets not forget people paid crazy money for other things in 1984, like $2500 for a personal computer.

[@genevestal9740]

Extra special memories from the show details to the way The Strip on Cumberland and Profitts ticket outlet looked. My friend caught his "Billie Jean" hat on the second performance night and the radio station I was working for at the time had its mic flag at the center of this press conference. It was truly a once in a lifetime event and the post re-living it is fantastic

[@steviecritiquenewby7874]

The Greatest Group Ever The Jackson 5/The Jacksons 🎤🎶❤️💯🔈🔉🔊

[@wandarichmond7643]

You ABSOLUTELY 💯Correct!!! No one, I mean no one rivals THE JACKSONS!!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉THEY WERE OUR DREAM COME TRUE!!! TRULY PHENOMEMNOL !!

[@coursecorrection4105]

Wow. Thank you for sharing these archive stories. Such a great look at history

[@benowen3399]

Awsum summary of The Jacksons concert at Knoxville. Well done NBC . .

[@Milkers777]

WOW!!!! Thank y’all for this beautiful stuff to see LONG LIVE THE KING OF MUSIC Michael Joseph Jackson!🤩🙌🏽👑💖🌟

[@unboxingthepast]

What an awesome piece of history!

[@touch_the_sky]

Thanks for sharing such valuable material! Even with the huge popularity of Michael and the Victory Tour, there's very little high quality video material available! So thanks again!

[@bigboy0494]

Thank you so much for this!

[@G32Souza-ir1ed]

What a wonderful show, if I were from that time I would definitely go, I would really enjoy it💕💕💕👑👑👑.

[@jasonlinton9902]

The thriller album was amazing id never heard anything like it when it first came out and the thriller song was ahead of its time everybody i know still plays this album every week

[@wilmmerwest3876]

WBIR time you release the whole show now!!!!!

[@eph_loves_80s74]

Hello thank you for this. Can you please upload more Thriller era archives?

[@scottwhaley4585]

No

[@eph_loves_80s74]

@@scottwhaley4585 Oh quiet you

[@scottwhaley4585]

@@eph_loves_80s74 😂😂😂😂😂

[@MJDAS2001]

Love this!!!

[@leemarshall7892]

I want this and all the news footage to be apart of a big document/ concert. They can compile different dates but this would be amazing to see as an intro up the show.

[@managed9348]

I’d sell my house to see Michael perform

[@BlindVeganRescue]

I was 3. My first memory. I remember someone juggling clubs on fire.

[@Fakename70]

Ahh, the days of having to go to a department store or venue box office for concert tickets.

[@Longlostpuss]

I notice nobody touching on the laundry list of demands for the concert. Imagine needing ALL THAT just to feel comfortable? And the 24 hour security. Not sure people understand how much you lose being famous and how much of your money is being spent just to maintain you, literally just so you maintain level, comfort and safety. You can never live what is considered a normal life ever again. This is why I never chased fame, Michael went through all that so you didn't have to.

[@texsion]

Very good

[@jsinc4511]

Thriller is the biggest Album of the world weeks of number 1's in songs like billie jean thriller beat it and wanna be startin sometin.

[@janbriggs7619]

YOU CAN SEE. WHY. WE ALL WANT TO SEE. GOT TO. SEE. GO TO 🙈🙈🙈. **** THE JACKSONS***. SIMPLY. AWESOME. ENTERTAINMENT.

[@isuriadireja91]

Considering Michael friggin' Jackson was THE biggest artist in the..UNIVERSE, back then.. $30 ain't s**t..!!!! 😂 That's A DEAL right there. And now those people are in the elite group of ppl who got to see..experience MJ at his peak.. PLUS his brothers..who together had done it since the late 60s..!! I'd go back thru time machine to get to attend one of those concert dates AND Live Aid, at Wembley.

[@kareemeverison]

At @5:34 that lady said Tito Ready! Haha its nice to hear a fan of another Jackson other than Michael

[@andrewcrawford4635]

6:18 Seems they were trying to chant the names of the brothers but just stopped and settled for the name Tito.😂

[@SaveTheFuture94]

13:30 R.I.P ❤️

[@jonjonharreld7602]

One Love Fam...

[@edreid7872]

30 dollars.. People are paying thousands to see Taylor and Beyonce

[@Enormous32]

See prices has change......40 years ago....prices was cheap.....

[@Corina_Christina_Scordalides]

30 dollars then (around 1982) is around 97 dollars now (2024), so for that times it was quite expensive.

[@beyourself2444]

Sad,but they don't have anything as good as we had in the 80s

[@musicalmelodies3595]

11:29 is literally MJ in 1995 😂

[@kareemeverison]

Lies

[@Karazorel.Ms.PG1.1]

Again !!! Mj donating his money 2 charity...children charities. Love him so much. I agree with the man in blue suit

[@ut_punkn1859]

Here because Morgan Wallen broke Jackson's record at Neyland. What a legend Michael was.

[@ruccireacts]

I would pay $30

[@profesae]

30?!?! they needa make it free! I didn’t wait 40 yrs for this…

[@gb8894]

I’d pay literally $10,000 or more to see Michael Jackson perform.

[@mrs.jackson5872]

@@gb8894 literally

[@Mf_booma]

She said all six included Michael like wtf they had to say his name for everything

[@kareemeverison]

Right! Lol I hate the media dumb af

[@sunwukong7567]

5:49 Ah, come on... don't start exaggerating. They're just recreating the Beat It short film. They needed a third guy to separate them and start dancing.

[@JJW419]

This why Micheal had to get away from his brothers. They were acting like stars like he was, but making him look horrible in the process. He was the main attraction and anything bad publicly would be toward him and him taking most of the blame bc of his superstardom. That's why he went solo permanently.

[@prod.justjae9957]

They were stars tho

[@Neevie-Styx]

I agree with you. They were holding him back and making him do simple group dance moves with them when he was capable of much more fast and complex moves. I can see why it was frustrating for him.

[@kareemeverison]

You're wrong and sound dumb af his brothers were stars too dumby they were The Jackson 5/ The Jackson's

[@kareemeverison]

​@@prod.justjae9957facts

[@kareemeverison]

​@Neevie-Styx you're dumb hush The Jacksons were awesome

[@rededwards3479]

Thanks for posting the video. Things have sure changed and some not. Scalpers, Line cutters, counterfeit merchandise, police, confiscation, NO refunds, bomb threats, etc....hahahaha

[@misterhappy5462]

10:25

[@Nathalie.Zachtezeebries]

'Would you pay 30 dollars?....hm... I don't like him that much' 😂😂😂

[@beyourself2444]

Michael Jackson was an industry

[@mikefrench7304]

But you guys were spending 100 dollars on air Jordan 103 with tax🤦🏿‍♂️

[@wilmmerwest3876]

😂😂😂😂

[@Samantha12c]

1:38 Too funny! 😂

[@cool_cat007smoove]

People really for the smoke for Jackson tickets

[@Karazorel.Ms.PG1.1]

Love u MJ. Ohhh i be so mad if it was cancel hopefully they can be reschedule and not have to pay again. That messed up. Rip MJ & Dominic Lucero..

[@steveedwards5618]

Can u believe it would have been 40 years ago next year. And look what happened 25 years later he is dead, after all that fame and fortune, I wondering he would have traded that all that fame instead to have a long life away from all the fame and torture of his court cases. What was it all about, he went mad and became a drug addicti and died by his own doing. Conrad was doing what he was being paid for.

[@wandarichmond7643]

I agree with most of your words anyway. As is true, michael traded "the whole world gained, but in the end ,he lost something way more precious....His life.🌎 However, NOT By His own doing.

[@garfieldharrison510]

It’s funny how they think back then.. Knoxville was probably serrated at one point in America. Look how the Blackman made them akll go on the edge. with his music. We’re used to the numbers.😅😅😅

[@beyourself2444]

Sadly, there were several bomb threats towards the Jacksons during the Victory Tour

[@garfieldharrison510]

Making threats at the Blackman…to big for. his breeches.Stupid is contagious.Michael wasn’t going there unless he was safe.