I'm still working on the 1999 thread. Anyone with ANY info orgnote me PLEASE!

BAD 20

How in the world can you follow up Thriller?!
From 1983 to early 1985, Michael Jackson was everywhere! In December, after the end of the controversial
Victory Tour, Michael worked on the USA For Africa "We Are The World" LP That same time, work on the follow
up began, but by this time, the backlash had just started. Rock critics couldn't catergorize Michael
and didn't know where he was coming from as an artist and soul critics felt he was abandoning his roots.

At this time, the then 26 year old began to submit to the pressure and distance himself as health problems
and stress(personal and professional) began to get to him, but it didn't stop him from working. He had
several projects: the Scared of the Moon project, a Broadway play titled "Street Dandy", and the "Michael's
Pets" toyline

Then the follow up. Always the follow up

Quincy took a break from the project to take care of his health and Michael went to work with George
Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola on the Disney film "Captain EO"


In the fall, the Dream Team resumed work, but with obstacles: the title track "Bad" was originally
written as a duet with longtime rival/associate Prince, but the meeting didn't go anywhere. The planned
song with Run DMC didn't work out, and the break the two took had the album behind schedule.
Because of the wealth of material he had written and recorded, Michael wanted the album to be a double LP
but Quincy intervened, feeling it would be a better idea to cipher it to a single LP.

The album was originally supposed to be released in January 1987 but was pushed back. Walter Yetnikoff
also didn't like the cover, citing it as too feminemine.


It was also announced that Michael was gonna
launch a world tour for the album
Doubts about the album's release started to rise but in June 1987, the first single, "I Just Can't Stop Loving You"
was released, debuting at #37 on the Billboard Hot 100, but rose to #1 seven weeks later.

The album was titled "Bad".

The album was promoted heavily with a 4 and a half minute commercial titled "Bad is Coming" chronicling
his life up until 1987.


On August 31, 1987, CBS aired the 30 minute primetime special "The Magic Returns" that also world premiere of the title track's
18 minute short film that was directed by legendary director Martin Scorsese. The title track would be
the second single from the album
[IMG]http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s278/jay8wonder/bad/055.jpg[/IMG
Reviews for the album was mixed. Although Rolling Stone's year end poll voted it "Worst Album", the
magazine gave it 4 out of 5 stars.

The albume debuted at #1 and stayed on the top for 6 weeks and stayed in the top 10 for 39 weeks. Debuted
#3 on the R&B charts but went to #1 the following week and stayed there for 18 weeks, being in the top 10 for 38 weeks.
Also debuted at #1 in the UK for 5 weeks and stayed in the top 10 for 38 weeks and spent 70 weeks in the top 30 until 1992.


The album launched a highly successful world tour and reached 5 continents and over 10 countries,
spawning 123 dates to nearly 5 million concertgoers, including 14 sold out dates in Japan during it's first leg and 9 sold out shows in Japan's
Tokyo Dome during its second leg and a record 8 sold out shows at London's Wembley Stadium, and 5 sold out shows in Los Angeles'
Sports Arena

September 1987


The album won 2 American Music Awards, 2 Grammy Awards, 6 Billboard Awards, 3 NAACP Awards, and 5 Soul Train Awards


1987

Sweden
Best Vocal Artist of 1987 - "Aftanbladet" Readers' Poll

Bravo Magazine
Silver Otto Award
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1988

New York Times Best Seller List
# 1 Best Seller - "Moonwalker", Autobiography by Michael Jackson

Soul Train
R&B Album Of The Year - Bad
Best Male Single Of The Year

United Negro College Fund (UNCF)
Frederick D. Patterson Award
Honorary Doctor Of Humane Letters Degree from Fisk University

NAACP Image Awards
Leonard Carter Humanitarian Award
Best Male Artist - Bad Single
Best Album - Bad

Billboard Awards
Top Black Artist
Outstanding Artist Of The Year
Best Live Show Of 1988
Blues & Soul

Wembley Stadium
Record Braeking Seven Sell Out Shows

Ebony Magazine
American Black Achievement Award

Forbes
#1 Entertainer Of The Year

Bravo Magazine
Gold Otto Award

Cable Ace Awards
Outstanding Editing in a Musical Special - Motown on Showtime: Michael Jackson, the Legend Continues

Guild Hall Party
Presentation Of Sword To Commemorate the "Bad" Tour

MTV Vanguard Award
Outstanding Contribution To Music Video Production

American Music Awards
Favorite Single - Soul/R&B
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1989

Entertainment Tonight
Most Important Entertainer Of The Decade

World Music Awards
Hall Of Fame
Lifetime Achievement In Video
Viewers Choice #1 Video - Dirty Diana

British TV Industry Awards
Artist Of The Decade

British Phonographic Industry Awards
Video Of The Year

British Academy Of Music Awards
Best International Male Artist

Critic's Choice Award
Best Video

Entertainment Tonight
Most Important Entertainer Of The Decade

Friday Night Videos
Greatest Artist Of The Decade
Number One Artist

American Dance Award

American Music Awards
Special Award Of Achievement

Billboard Awards
Number One Black Artist
#1 Album-Pop/R&B - Bad

Bravo Magazine
Bronze Otto Award

BRE Awards
Triple Crown Award - King Of Pop, Rock and Soul
Video Of The Year

TV Show (U.K)
Goodbye To The 80's Award

Vanity Fair
Artist Of The Decade

Video Software Dealer Association
Favorite Music Video - Moonwalker

Soul Train Awards
1st Annual Sammy Davis Jr. Award
Heritage Award
R&B Contemporary

National Urban Coalition
Humanitarian Award

Gardner Street Elementary School
Most Famous Alumnus Renamed School Auditorium to Michael Jackson

People's Choice Awards
Favorite Music Video - Smooth Criminal

Cashbox
Video Pioneer

BET
Award For The Success Of the "Bad" Tour

Forbes
#1 Entertainer Of The Year


1988

Best selling music videocassettes of all time
#1 - Thriller
#2 - Moonwalker

MTV Video Vanguard Award

Cable ACE Awards
Outstanding Musical Special (nomiation) - The Legend Continues
Outstanding Editing in a Musical Special - The Legend Continues

Soul Train Music Awards
Best Video - The Way You Make Me Feel
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1989

Cannes Film Festival
Golden Lion Award, Special Effects - Leave Me Alone

MTV Top 100 Videos of the Decade
#40 - Man in the Mirror


Friday Night Videos
Greatest Video Artist of the Decade

MTV Video Awards
Best Video (nomination) - Leave Me Alone
Best Special Effects - Leave Me Alone
Best Art Direction (nomination) - Leave Me Alone
Best Editing (nomination) - Leave Me Alone
Breakthrough Video (nomination) - Leave Me Alone
Viewer's Choice (nomination) - Leave Me Alone
Best Dance Video (nomination) - Smooth Criminal
Best Choreography (nomination) - Smooth Criminal
Best Cinematography (nomination) - Smooth Criminal

Video Software Dealer Association
Favorite Musical Video - Moonwalker

World Music Awards
Philips Hall of Fame Award for Special Achievement in Video
#1 Video in the World - Dirty Diana

Soul Train Music Awards
Best R&B Music Video - Man in the Mirror

People's Choice Awards
Favorite Music Video - Smooth Criminal

American Music Awards
Video Pioneer Award

British Record Industry Awards
Best Video - Smooth Criminal
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1990

Grammy Awards
Best Music Video, Long Form (nomination)- Moonwalker
Best Music Video, Short Form - Leave Me Alone

MTV Video Awards
Video Vanguard Artist of the Decade

Cashbox's Video Pioneer Award

The album has sold over 30 million copies, the second biggest selling album of all time

Billboard 200-#1
R&B-#1
Canada-#1
UK-#1
Australia-#2
Austria-#1
Belgium-?
Denmark-?
Finland-#1
France-#1
Germany-#1
Holland-#1
Ireland-#1
Japan-#1
New Zealand-#1
South Africa-#1
Spain-#1
Switzerland-#1
Sweden-#1
Zimbabwe-#1

Once again another excelent thread!

MikeMatronik said:

I bet this one will get more feedback on the org than the MJ boards Just like Thriller 25

i might sound a lil ghey but im sorry that negro was plain PRETTY in that era


i dig this thread man it was the year i was born

nice look!

(those bad tour tokyo pix makes me a lil nervous- it looks as tho mike purposefully uses lighter make up as he was still a darker tone...oooooh!}

You were born in 1987 too! Like me

I was looking at those pictures too, I've always thought because the blotches got worse(Karen Faye was a TERRIBLE makeup artist!)


Look at that picture of him with the black shirt with the skin blotches.

Anyway, I don't wanna get too scandalous so I'll leave at that

Anyway, the next part will be " I Just Can't Stop Loving You"

Here is the original commerical "Bad is Coming" that aired in mid 1987:


http://www.jetzi-mjvideo....ads17.html

BAD released in 1987, my birth year. But BAD wasn't even the best Jacksons release that year, that belongs to Marlon's Baby Tonight.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

quit playin'
marlon? is dat YOU? lol
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bboy87 said:

so damn SEXY!!!!

Nvncible1 said:

Ain't nobody playin'


"Don't Go" and "Lovely Eyes" jam way harder then "Another Part of Me" and "The Way You Make Me Feel"

LittleBLUECorvette said:

OOOOOo u wrong for that!

bboy87 said:

bboy where the love at for the 20th Anniversary of Baby Tonight. That shit went Gold and "Don't Go" was a number 2 hit (and guess who held him out the number 1 spot)

You know Marlon's my boy but you know I'm not gonna be rockin "Don't Go" in my car anytime soon

I always see vinyl copies of his albums so I may have to buy it and transfer to CD.

The 80s:The Jacksons RULED the decade
[Edited 6/30/07 21:10pm]

bboy87 said:

You don't see the disc anywhere, the vinyl is cool, but it doesn't come with a bonus track. Have you ever heard any of the tracks from his LP?


http://www.jacksonfamily-...index2.htm

Click the lightning bolt to hear the tracks.

bboy87 said:

Y'know, even though he's already starting fucking with his face CONSIDERABLY here, I would hit it, for some odd reason. I guess I always had this weird weak spot for how he looked during this era.

, I know.

Bad 20 Part 2- I Just Can't Stop Loving You

I JUST CAN'T STOP LOVING YOU

written by Michael Jackson

Recorded in 1987 with Quincy Jones protege Siedah Garrett after Whitney Houston and Barbra Streisand
turned the song down. Siedah didn't even know Quincy wanted her to do the duet until she came to the
actual recording session.

The spoken intro was recorded while Michael was laying in the bed. It was later edited from later pressings
from the album and compilations.

The lead single from Bad. Released in June 1987, went to #1 on the Hot 100 and the R&B charts, making it the 3rd
best selling single of 1987. It also peaked at #1 in the UK for 2 weeks.

Many fans believe that "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" was the song that replaced "Fly Away"

Performed live with Sheryl Crow on the 1987-89 Bad World Tour and the 1992-93 Dangerous World Tour.

Hot 100-#1
R&B-#1
Sales-#1
Airplay-#2
UK-#1
Australia-#10
Austria-#5
Belgium-#1
Canada-#2
Denmark-#1
Finland-#3
France-#6
Germany-#2
Holland-#1
Ireland-#1
Italy-#2
Japan-#32
New Zealand-#3
Norway-#1
South Africa-#7
Spain-#5
Sweden-#4
Switzerland-#2
Zimbabwe-#2

bboy87 said:

The real music fans are here!

bboy87 said:

MJ gets all nasty with Siedah on the performance of the Bucharest DVD!

MikeMatronik said:

Yeah, i was quite surprised and the audience was too! He was feeling all up and down her leg and all up against her. That is probably one of Mike's most steamy moments. I'll have to watch that concert again!

silverchild said:

I'm uploading 2 printscreens of it now!

Wow that was really good. I never knew BAD was going to have that cover.
I like it, but it dosent go with the album.

Thanks for that

Awww I remember when me and some of my friends all used to have this poster hanging up in our bedrooms. *sniff* The good ole' days.



Gotdamn I'm in love with this picture! Michael is just too cute in that pic .
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bboy87 said:

Hahah yup but do a thread on "Dangerous" or "History" over at the MJ boards and i'll bet you'll get a million responses though .
[Edited 7/1/07 11:58am]

wait, how is Bad the second biggest selling album of all time when the Eagles greatest hits and Thriller are neck and neck for first?

sosgemini said:

That beats me too! But what really irks me is that the U.S sales of the Bad album are currently in dispute, as it appears it's sold considerably more than what has been certified.

Check out its certifications:

Australia 5x Platinum 350,000
Brazil Diamond 1,100,000
Canada 7x Platinum 700,000
France Diamond 1,400,000
Germany 4x Platinum 2,000,000
Japan Diamond 1,000,000
Spain 7x Platinum 500,000
UK 13x Platinum 3,900,000
USA 8x Platinum 8,000,000

A SIMPLE REQUEST

Please do not quote the original post as it is includes loads of images and takes time to scroll through. Thanks in advance.

[b]THRILLER OVERTOOK EAGLES...[B]

A heck of a while ago. Bear in mind there are whole continents who didn't take to The Eagles like the US did.

sosgemini said:

papaaisaway said:

im not trying to be snarky i am just trying to gain a better understanding of the "claims".

I did some searching online and it looks as if The Eagles have the biggest selling album in America while MJ is claiming that Thriller is the biggest selling globally...except that there isn't a governing body to verify the figure.

right?

BAD 20

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I still do have that poster in a frame in my room!

sosgemini said:

You are absolutely correct! There is some claims on how The Eagles' Greatest Hits became the highest selling album in America since its 1976 release, that have yet to be investigated...
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