Jackson rehearsals caught on tape

June 29, 2009 AEG Live, the company producing Jackson's ill-fated 50-concert London tour, filmed all the rehearsals. The hours of video could be a telling indication of just how healthy the King of Pop was in the last two months of his life -- fit and energized as his backers (and insurers) contend or frail, out of step and tentative, as many of his friends and acquaintances have maintained since his death. Since Jackson never released a live album during his career, these recordings could turn out to be a gold mine --or be a more limited, and slightly creepy, collectors item indicating just how off his game the singer was weeks before his scheduled first concert at the O2 Arena in London.

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