Star-Bulletin file photo
Michael Jackson last performed in Honolulu on Jan. 3, 1997.
The singer will not perform New Year's concerts in Hawaii
and Australia to welcome in the millennium.

Michael Jackson cancels
millennium concerts

Star-Bulletin staff

Grand plans for two Michael Jackson concerts in Hawaii and Australia to welcome in the millennium have been canceled.

Jackson's management told German-based Mama Concerts that the singer will not perform the New Year's concerts.

Mama Concerts head Marcel Avram told the Star-Bulletin on several occasions this year that Jackson would perform at Aloha Stadium in what he described as "an enormous, overnight-long event."

Now Avram says Jackson instead wants to complete recording the album scheduled to be completed early next year.