Lady Gaga ( A )
In the summer of 2009 West and Gaga announced they would co-headline an arena tour, the Fames Kills Tour, promoted by Live Nation. WME agent Geiger, who helped put together the tour (both West and Gaga were WME clients). West and Gaga Manage for their tour to last around three months and cover cities across North America.
The staging plans were ectremely ambitious. The design called for the stage to extend the entire length of the arena. Production was in full swing. The agreement stated the West would bear the production cost and Gaga would be responsible for specific set elements-such as her piano-that were used only in her performance.
The problems began when West famously declared at a televised relief concert for Hurricane Katrina victims that “[U.S. President] George Bush doesn’t care about black people” and stormed the stage at 2006 MTV Europe Music Award after failing to win the best video award, arguing that his video should have won because it “cost a million dolars”. West Experienced a very public breakdown during the VMA’s on September 13, 2009. During 17-year-old singer-songwriter Taylor Swift acceptance speech for the best female video, West jumped up on stage, interrupted her acceptance speech, took the michrophone from her, and began to protest in support of one of the other nominated video’s Beyonce. His action left the crowd in attendance and millions of television viewers stunned. Although he publicly apologized for the incident shortly after, the storm around West didn’t die down. And now, roughly a week after the event West had made a public announcement that he was taking a break from the music industry, sitting a number of personal reason, and officially withdrawing from the tour. Because the schedule for the Fame Kills Tour had been released 2 days after the VMAs and ticket had gone on sales, the process of refunding ticked holder would have to be set in motion.
Lady Gaga ( B )
On March 2011,