Will You Be There in 1999. A music video was made for the song. It included Jackson performing the song during his Dangerous World Tour and footage from "Free Willy". Another video mixing footage of Jackson's performance of the song on tour and on MTV's tenth anniversary was included on the DVD releases, "" and "Michael Jackson's Vision"; the latter release includes alternate shots of the audience near the end. Michael Jackson performed "Will You Be There" live throughout the Dangerous World Tour. Outside of the tour, Jackson performed the song at the MTV 10th anniversary show and at the NAACP Image Awards in
Will You Be There in what he calls his Giving Tree: "I've written so many of my songs in this tree. I wrote... Will You Be There..." ("Living with Michael Jackson", aired Feb 2003). In a 2002 interview with the British television network ITV, Jackson said that he wrote "Will You Be There" while sitting in a tree at his Neverland Ranch. The full version of the song includes a prelude featuring the Cleveland Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus performing a portion of Beethoven's ninth symphony. The segment is from the fourth movement and is a lesser known portion of the famous "Ode