Consequence of Greedy Business

A living legend of popular music, Paul McCartney, abruptly cancelled all concerts in Tokyo. According to announcement of the event office, it was due to bad condition of his health. Hundreds of thousands of ticket holders were deeply disappointed by the news. Few days after the shock, the public began to doubt what happened to him.

Few hours before the opening of his first stage in this Japan tour on Saturday, fans around National Stadium in Tokyo equally raised big “WHAT!” on the announcement of cancelation disseminated through webpage on their smart phones. It was highly unusual that such a great musician cancel his concert when fans were already waiting him in stand and arena. Some ticket holders who came to Tokyo from local cities by air or trains needed to get back home without listening sweet love songs from a inductee of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The event office released statement of McCartney, in which he apologized to Japanese fans and thanking for their support. It once announced that the concert was postponed to next Monday and cost of tickets would be refunded, then it stopped refunding until further policy for the concert schedule would be finally determined. However, McCartney also canceled Sunday concert and alternative Monday concert. He decided to cancel all concert schedules on Tuesday.

One tweeter, who asserted to have gotten info from his friends related to the event, was harshly attacked by a bunch of tweeters, after he uploaded his speculative story that Paul canceled the concert because of drinking too much in disappointment of delay of his wife’s arrival. Although it might be a ridiculous and irresponsible gaffe, announced diagnosis, viral inflammation, was actually too abstract to persuade skeptical fans.

No one would be able to escape from imagining money issue. Estimated amount lost by those cancelations can be amounting tens of million dollars. There may be lawsuits from event office against Paul McCartney demanding compensation. Although it might be a minor accident for McCartney’s life, that great financial loss has fatal meaning for the event office.

This Japan tour was set after McCartney obtained a great success in previous tour last fgall, which endorsed his name value enough to make big business. He and event office supposedly sought another big profit in Japan this month. It is called “seeking another eel in water under a willow tree” in an old saying in Japan. An arena seat ticket of next concert on Wednesday in Nihon Budokan, a venue sometime called Madison Square Garden in Tokyo, was sold at a price of ¥100,000, or $1,000. Greediness of the rock star and event office has no difference each other.