Michael Jackson made a charitable stop in Munich on June 25, 1992. He met with the city’s mayor and donated to causes supporting local children. The Dangerous World Tour opened its first concert in Munich the following day.
The official Michael Jackson Instagram account marked the 34th anniversary of the visit on Thursday. The caption noted that Jackson “met with the mayor of Munich, Germany to donate to causes benefiting the children of the city,” tagged under #MJHumanitarian.
The Dangerous World Tour was Jackson’s second solo world tour. It followed the Bad World Tour. That run had ended in January 1989. The Dangerous tour supported his eighth studio album, also titled Dangerous, released by Epic Records in November 1991. The album debuted at number one in more than a dozen countries. It produced major singles including “Black or White,” “Remember the Time,” and “Heal the World.” Dangerous went on to sell tens of millions of copies worldwide.
Munich was the opening night city. Jackson performed there on June 26, 1992. The tour ran through November 1993 and covered dozens of countries across multiple continents. It became one of the highest-profile concert runs of the early 1990s.
Jackson’s philanthropic work around children’s welfare was well documented by 1992. He founded the Heal the World Foundation that same year. The organization took its name from the Dangerous album track. It directed resources toward causes supporting children globally. Charitable acts tied to children’s welfare were a consistent part of his public calendar during this period. The Munich donation fits within that record.
Germany had been a reliable market for Jackson throughout the late 1980s and into the early 1990s. Dangerous performed well there. Munich was a natural choice for the tour’s opening night. The city is one of Germany’s largest, and it had the arena capacity a world tour launch requires.
The anniversary post surfaces one item from the pre-tour schedule: a formal civic meeting with Munich’s mayor and a donation to causes supporting the city’s children. The detail rarely appears in Dangerous-era retrospectives.
Jackson was 33 years old at the time of the Munich visit. The Dangerous World Tour would span 17 months and become one of the defining pop concert runs of that decade.
The June 25 stop at Munich city hall doesn’t show up in most accounts of the Dangerous era. The 34th anniversary post gives it a brief moment of recognition.
This story originally appeared on Celebrityinsider
