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Reply #240 posted 12/30/09 8:50am

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I have even seen Jeffrey's name listed in the ending credits of one of my Michael Jackson DVDs.

So have I but my ex was/is the MJ fan. He has every VHS and DVD I ever bought of Michael.
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Reply #241 posted 12/30/09 8:52am

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2elijah said:

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He did not. My brothers and I were doing long before we saw MJ do it.


You have brothers? lol (Just messin' with ya) lol


Did you think I was an only child?

5 kids with the same parents (4 boys, 1 girl) both remarried and my mother had one more boy, my father 3 more boys. 2nd oldest but my older brother is deceased.
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Reply #242 posted 12/30/09 8:52am

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hollywooddove said:


As far as I can tell, the moon walk was actually a walk against high wind that mimes would use when they would pop open an umbrella and pull themselves back as though the wind were dragging them. Been used a long long time. I also understand Michael was fascinated with mime, and you can see the influence of it greatly in his dance.

He did expose the world to doing these steps to music, which on the day that he did that, wasn't it the AMA? anyway he was very brave. That could have went over great, as it did, or extremely comic, and could have destroyed him.


He did not. My brothers and I were doing long before we saw MJ do it.


They were doing it all over our local dance TV show "Black Gold" in the year 1980. They may have already been doing it for all I know, but that's the year I began watching the show. Like I said earlier, during that time, it was known as "The Glide". A friend of mine could do it real well and tried to teach it to me....unsuccessfully of course. lol

But since they've aired several old episodes of "Soul Train" in recent years, I've notice Jeffrey Daniel himself doing it on there and there was another episode where several of the other dancers were doing it also while Prince's "Sexy Dancer" was playing. Oh, and I almost forgot, damn near all the pop/lock dance groups were doing it during that time. Actually, the dance had damn near completely gone out of style when Michael Jackson picked it up.
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Reply #243 posted 12/30/09 8:53am

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There were doing it all over our local dance TV show "Black Gold" in the year 1980. They may have already been doing it for all I know, but that's the year I began watching the show. Like I said earlier, during that time, it was known as "The Glide". A friend of mine could do it real well and tried to teach it to me....unsuccessfully of course. lol

But since they've aired several old episodes of "Soul Train" in recent years, I've notice Jeffrey Daniel himself doing it on there and there was another episode where several of the other dancers were doing it also while Prince's "Sexy Dancer" was playing. Oh, and I almost forgot, damn near all the pop/lock dance groups were doing it during that time. Actually, the dance had damn near completely gone out of style when Michael Jackson picked it up.


Some of us even thought it had.
Like Madonna doing 'Vogue' so after the fact . . . .
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Reply #244 posted 12/30/09 8:59am

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They were doing it all over our local dance TV show "Black Gold" in the year 1980. They may have already been doing it for all I know, but that's the year I began watching the show. Like I said earlier, during that time, it was known as "The Glide". A friend of mine could do it real well and tried to teach it to me....unsuccessfully of course. lol

But since they've aired several old episodes of "Soul Train" in recent years, I've notice Jeffrey Daniel himself doing it on there and there was another episode where several of the other dancers were doing it also while Prince's "Sexy Dancer" was playing. Oh, and I almost forgot, damn near all the pop/lock dance groups were doing it during that time. Actually, the dance had damn near completely gone out of style when Michael Jackson picked it up.
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Really, I wasnt aware of that. Learn something new. Now that you mention it, we were doing the side ways moon walk in middle school, and that a couple of years before the Michael Jackson moonwalk phenom. I would say he did give it mass appeal.

Still, doesn't anyone agree that these moves found a lot of their roots in the acts of mime, whether it was Jeffrey D. who was influenced by the mime or others?

I think it is right there in front of our faces.

Watch Jeffrey Daniels dance, those are partial mime moves. And I am not trying to take any credit away from him, putting those moves to dance and making it look cool is a stroke of genius within itself.
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Reply #245 posted 12/30/09 9:00am

2elijah

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2elijah said:



You have brothers? lol (Just messin' with ya) lol


Did you think I was an only child?

5 kids with the same parents (4 boys, 1 girl) both remarried and my mother had one more boy, my father 3 more boys. 2nd oldest but my older brother is deceased.


I have 4 brothers (technically had 5 brothers, but one died during childbirth) and I have 4 sisters, add me, and that's 5 girls. That makes a total of 9 of us. All 8 siblings still alive, but better get back on topic before orger "Babynoz", the org's unofficial threadjacking tracker officer, shows up and reminds us to get back on topic. lol
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Reply #246 posted 12/30/09 9:16am

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hollywooddove said:

Really, I wasnt aware of that. Learn something new. Now that you mention it, we were doing the side ways moon walk in middle school, and that a couple of years before the Michael Jackson moonwalk phenom. I would say he did give it mass appeal.


They did it from side to side, backwards like Michael did, and even forwards. The pop/lock groups used to do some amazing things with it and they also had it incorporated with robot and puppet moves. If I'm not mistaken, I think I even saw Fred Berry (Rerun) do it once. He had been in those groups before he was on "What's Happening" and even afterwards.

Still, doesn't anyone agree that these moves found a lot of their roots in the acts of mime, whether it was Jeffrey D. who was influenced by the mime or others?


Maybe so. It does look a little similar. Almost everything comes from something that was previous. They could have seen mimes or they also could have seen some of the old entertainers way before my time.
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Reply #247 posted 12/30/09 9:26am

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prince did do a lot to destroy black music. why do you think he is trying to change now and make amends?
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Reply #248 posted 12/30/09 9:39am

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vainandy said:

hollywooddove said:

Really, I wasnt aware of that. Learn something new. Now that you mention it, we were doing the side ways moon walk in middle school, and that a couple of years before the Michael Jackson moonwalk phenom. I would say he did give it mass appeal.


They did it from side to side, backwards like Michael did, and even forwards. The pop/lock groups used to do some amazing things with it and they also had it incorporated with robot and puppet moves. If I'm not mistaken, I think I even saw Fred Berry (Rerun) do it once. He had been in those groups before he was on "What's Happening" and even afterwards.

Still, doesn't anyone agree that these moves found a lot of their roots in the acts of mime, whether it was Jeffrey D. who was influenced by the mime or others?


Maybe so. It does look a little similar. Almost everything comes from something that was previous. They could have seen mimes or they also could have seen some of the old entertainers way before my time.



Fred Berry could bust a move for sure.
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Reply #249 posted 12/30/09 9:44am

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jackson35 said:

prince did do a lot to destroy black music. why do you think he is trying to change now and make amends?



I am still out on this one. I remember a lot of black groups in the eighties with the Price sound, remember acts like 'ready for the world.' This band would have never had its 15 minutes of fame without Prince to lay the carpet for them. What would Sheila E have been without Prince, or the Time for that matter. They all rode his coat tail.

Even to this day, Morris can not do an interview without getting a Prince question, you know that has to crawl right up his ass.

I still believe greed is the major criminal. Greed on the part of the record companies.

Did Prince have an influence on thier policies? Yes he did, but the effect of that influence was up to them.

And still, I have never Prince tour without a Band.

He may do all of that fancy studio layering, but he still jams on stage with his people, and from what I have read, he pays them all handsomely for their efforts, until he is ready to ditch them, and that is a topic of its own.
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Reply #250 posted 12/30/09 11:14am

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Harlepolis said:



MJ didn't invent the Moonwalk, and I for one don't feed into his hype even though I love him.

Nice try wink


I am saying that he didn't although since his death you would think the first time the world ever saw it was on Motown 25.


In that case, then I do apologize lol
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Reply #251 posted 12/30/09 11:46am

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One thing that Prince did that was both great and not so great for music is he proved you can have really big hit songs without a lot of instruments.

When Doves Cry is pretty much a drum machine and keyboards. With guitar solos in the beginning and middle.

It's genuis the way he made so little sound so huge.

The bad thing is now, nobody can play instruments anymore. They're just using those same tools that Prince did 25-30 years ago.

The thing is that Prince can also play every other instrument. Nobody does that anymore.
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Reply #252 posted 12/30/09 12:51pm

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2elijah said:

vainandy said:



I have even seen Jeffrey's name listed in the ending credits of one of my Michael Jackson DVDs.


Even MJ's sister confirmed that MJ sought out Jeffrey for some dancing lessons. So the fact is, Jeffrey taught MJ the Moonwalk, and it was during the Motown 25 Anniversary, that MJ made it his own.

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Michael sought out Jeffery and Jeffery got Geron, Michael, and Cooley on board and they worked together for over 10 years

Jeffery and the guys taught Michael the moonwalk and other popping moves (Geron still has the check Michael gave him) (Michael also had some knowledge of the style because he learned the robot and locking from Robot Dane and The Lockers)

Jeffery also co-choreographed Bad and Smooth Criminal and was a consultant on the HIStory tour and the Ghosts film

Boogaloo Shrimp went on to work in the Breakin' movies and other platforms

Cooley is a exotic dancer now lol

and I think Geron is still in the dancing scene
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Reply #253 posted 12/30/09 12:53pm

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hollywooddove said:

jackson35 said:

prince did do a lot to destroy black music. why do you think he is trying to change now and make amends?



I am still out on this one. I remember a lot of black groups in the eighties with the Price sound, remember acts like 'ready for the world.' This band would have never had its 15 minutes of fame without Prince to lay the carpet for them. What would Sheila E have been without Prince, or the Time for that matter. They all rode his coat tail.

Even to this day, Morris can not do an interview without getting a Prince question, you know that has to crawl right up his ass.

I still believe greed is the major criminal. Greed on the part of the record companies.

Did Prince have an influence on thier policies? Yes he did, but the effect of that influence was up to them.

And still, I have never Prince tour without a Band.

He may do all of that fancy studio layering, but he still jams on stage with his people, and from what I have read, he pays them all handsomely for their efforts, until he is ready to ditch them, and that is a topic of its own.

I agree.....

but Sheila already had an established career though
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Reply #254 posted 12/30/09 12:56pm

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hollywooddove said:

vainandy said:



They were doing it all over our local dance TV show "Black Gold" in the year 1980. They may have already been doing it for all I know, but that's the year I began watching the show. Like I said earlier, during that time, it was known as "The Glide". A friend of mine could do it real well and tried to teach it to me....unsuccessfully of course. lol

But since they've aired several old episodes of "Soul Train" in recent years, I've notice Jeffrey Daniel himself doing it on there and there was another episode where several of the other dancers were doing it also while Prince's "Sexy Dancer" was playing. Oh, and I almost forgot, damn near all the pop/lock dance groups were doing it during that time. Actually, the dance had damn near completely gone out of style when Michael Jackson picked it up.
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Really, I wasnt aware of that. Learn something new. Now that you mention it, we were doing the side ways moon walk in middle school, and that a couple of years before the Michael Jackson moonwalk phenom. I would say he did give it mass appeal.

Still, doesn't anyone agree that these moves found a lot of their roots in the acts of mime, whether it was Jeffrey D. who was influenced by the mime or others?

I think it is right there in front of our faces.

Watch Jeffrey Daniels dance, those are partial mime moves. And I am not trying to take any credit away from him, putting those moves to dance and making it look cool is a stroke of genius within itself.

the mime influence is strong in popping and boogaloo. I've been popping for about 10 years now and when I learned miming too around the same time, I saw similarities in certain movements
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Reply #255 posted 12/31/09 11:52am

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2elijah said:



Even MJ's sister confirmed that MJ sought out Jeffrey for some dancing lessons. So the fact is, Jeffrey taught MJ the Moonwalk, and it was during the Motown 25 Anniversary, that MJ made it his own.

nod

Michael sought out Jeffery and Jeffery got Geron, Michael, and Cooley on board and they worked together for over 10 years

Jeffery and the guys taught Michael the moonwalk and other popping moves (Geron still has the check Michael gave him) (Michael also had some knowledge of the style because he learned the robot and locking from Robot Dane and The Lockers)

Jeffery also co-choreographed Bad and Smooth Criminal and was a consultant on the HIStory tour and the Ghosts film

Boogaloo Shrimp went on to work in the Breakin' movies and other platforms

Cooley is a exotic dancer now lol

and I think Geron is still in the dancing scene


Yes, I remember the "Lockers", including the female dancer, I believe her first name is "Toni". I also remember "Shabadoo" doing lock and robotic moves as well, and Shabadoo also starred in the "Breakin'" movies.
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Reply #256 posted 12/31/09 5:59pm

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vainandy said:

It's just according to how you look at it. I think the fact that he could do everything himself may have raised some eyebrows of record executives to cut costs and stop hiring bands. However, even though Prince could do everything himself, he was doing it with instruments. Yes, he used drum machines but he mixed them on top of real drums which gave the songs strength and power instead of just sounding like a mindless, heartless, and souless machine pounding. He played real bass and real guitar. He put the synths on top which made it sound even better and more futuristic than a lot of the other acts of his time.

There is a big difference in what he was doing back then compared to what today's so-called artists are doing because he wasn't just punching buttons on a computer, he was a full fledged musician that just happened to be able to do everything by himself. The only thing I see him guilty of is maybe raising some eyebrows of some label executives that they may be able to save money by cutting out all the other people that would form a musical group. But it was Shitney Houston that was the blame for raising their eyebrows to cut out all the rhythm. lol

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Co-Sign 100% Record labels just saw the cost cutting of having one guy do most of the work. If Prince was not around someone else would have come along and the end result would have been the same.

The real challege for black music is to put the funk back into and sat the music apart from pop.
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Reply #257 posted 12/31/09 8:27pm

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bboy87 said:

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sounds like Prince is being used as an excuse for crap music...what should he have done? toned it down? compromised his artistic integrity? the writer of that was probably high, and jealous.

The writer is a HUGE Prince fan. Did you read the post?


Yes I READ THE POST IN FULL...but there are many Prince fans that are high AND jealous...so what is your point??
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Reply #258 posted 01/01/10 2:34pm

Harlepolis

lotusboy said:

bboy87 said:


The writer is a HUGE Prince fan. Did you read the post?


Yes I READ THE POST IN FULL...but there are many Prince fans that are high AND jealous...so what is your point??


Good to know that construrctive criticism equates to intoxication and jealousy wink
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Reply #259 posted 01/01/10 4:40pm

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vainandy said:

Graycap23 said:

Harlepolis said:

I've yet to read about a black artist citing Elvis as an influence.
.....and NEVER will.
Michael Jackson did. lol

No, he didn't. lol
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Reply #260 posted 01/01/10 4:44pm

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lotusboy said:

bboy87 said:


The writer is a HUGE Prince fan. Did you read the post?


Yes I READ THE POST IN FULL...but there are many Prince fans that are high AND jealous...so what is your point??

What exactly is that author "jealous" of? (Gosh, I can't stand the misuse of that word. lol)
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Reply #261 posted 01/01/10 4:52pm

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I am not even going to read all this mess...sheeeesh....
Someone add cliffs notes of the 9 pages of posts...haha
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Reply #262 posted 01/02/10 5:33am

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WaterInYourBath said:

vainandy said:

Michael Jackson did. lol

No, he didn't. lol

Elvis infulenced every artist out there, no way he couldnt. Just like MJ and Prince have also. They were so big in the business they left their fingerprints everywhere. Elvis never needs be cited. He's like gravity.
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Reply #263 posted 01/02/10 5:38am

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hollywooddove said:

WaterInYourBath said:


No, he didn't. lol

Elvis infulenced every artist out there, no way he couldnt. Just like MJ and Prince have also. They were so big in the business they left their fingerprints everywhere. Elvis never needs be cited. He's like gravity.


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Reply #264 posted 01/02/10 7:23am

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violetblues said:

hollywooddove said:


Elvis infulenced every artist out there, no way he couldnt. Just like MJ and Prince have also. They were so big in the business they left their fingerprints everywhere. Elvis never needs be cited. He's like gravity.


lurking

Yes, Elvis is lurking too.
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Reply #265 posted 01/02/10 8:59am

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hollywooddove said:

WaterInYourBath said:


No, he didn't. lol

Elvis infulenced every artist out there, no way he couldnt. Just like MJ and Prince have also. They were so big in the business they left their fingerprints everywhere. Elvis never needs be cited. He's like gravity.


to bring elvis up reminded me of first part of this scene



"everytime someone mentions Prince or MJ, someone gotta bring.....nod
Live life as though each moment is as precious & beautiful as a rainbow after a spring rain. b positive, creative, kind, productive, resourceful & respectful of humankind, & feel free 2 know that U-R-A star. i can feel it when u shine on me nod
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Elvis infulenced every artist out there, no way he couldnt. Just like MJ and Prince have also. They were so big in the business they left their fingerprints everywhere. Elvis never needs be cited. He's like gravity.


Even James Brown gave Elvis his props. You may not like it, but Elvis is in the DNA of popular music.
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Reply #267 posted 01/02/10 11:08am

2elijah

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Elvis infulenced every artist out there, no way he couldnt. Just like MJ and Prince have also. They were so big in the business they left their fingerprints everywhere. Elvis never needs be cited. He's like gravity.




Oh, for goodness sakes, somebody stop the madness and the BS. No way in the soil of this earth did Elvis influence every artist out there. He may have influenced some, but no way will should he be given all the credit for a style he copied big time, from other artists. Come on now, let's give credit where credit is due. Elvis' style was copied from earlier black artists, and his influence was mostly on other white artists that tried to copy what he copied, after that. That was the trend back in that day, when many white artists tried to mock the styles of black artists, because that music was not being accepted in a segregated society until Elvis copied the singing music and dancing styles of black artists, because there really wasn't any other well-known, young white artist trying to do that at that time. It is not like Elvis didn't appreciate learning it from them, but the fact is, he did. He introduced it to white society in his own way. Like many orgers mentioned several times on this thread, the black music that was heard during the 40s and 50s were called "race" music, and all sorts of other names.

If anybody was an influence it was Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and James Brown's music. Chuck Berry and Little Richard influenced Elvis, at least get the facts straight. If MJ called Elvis one of his influences, that's because Elvis copied his style from earlier black artists. Point blank. He didn't even know certain sounds of black music, until he made it his personal business to visit black night clubs, (and that was according to James Brown who confirmed in his book that Elvis inquired about certain types of music sung within the black community, and that he visited black nightclubs to learn the style) in a segregated society at the time, where black artists were not allowed to walk in the door of white clubs, but Elvis, being white, was allowed to frequent black night clubs, because there were no laws barring him from entering any black business or other venue. To this day, in my opinion, Chuck Berry and Little Richard do not receive the amount of credit they deserve, for being two of the major influences of rock and roll. Chuck Berry was an influence to Bill Haley, Bruce Springsteen, Jimi Hendrix, Prince, Grateful Dead, The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Peter Tosh, and a host of other artists. His reputation and influence on many artists speaks for itself and he could put a stamp on that.




Chuck Berry was an influence to Jimi Hendrix as well







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Reply #268 posted 01/02/10 11:36am

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Music can't stay within a Unique style, it goes along with the time and the styles throughout the decades and eras, and will always move within the waves..
Music hasn't and can't be destroyed, Music evolves, changes, "morphes", so does Prince's music ..
We make our own way to heaven everyday
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Reply #269 posted 01/02/10 11:39am

Graycap23

hollywooddove said:

WaterInYourBath said:


No, he didn't. lol

Elvis infulenced every artist out there, no way he couldnt. Just like MJ and Prince have also. They were so big in the business they left their fingerprints everywhere. Elvis never needs be cited. He's like gravity.

Lol.....B.S.
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