Nvncible1 said:

Robinson and MJ in 1972.

MJ's Real Speaking Voice: Another Part of Him

In the remembrance article written for the Sep 2009 issue of Vanity Fair, MJ friend and journalist Lisa Robinson briefly mentions when Michael spoke in that "other voice", not the whispered one, not the public one." The one he didn't share with fans, the real Michael. He was clearly an eccentric by nature albeit a supremely-gifted one.

Copycat said:

Michael looks so pensive and calm here.

mimi07 said:

Most definately.

EmeraldSkies said:

That´s gonna sell as hotcakes since it´s gonna be before Christmas as well.

Copycat said:

See I don't understand this "other voice " stuff. Why would he have used a fake voice? He always sounded the same,even if you listen to his earlier interviews.

EmeraldSkies said:

That's the whole point. She's disclosing that the interview voice and the on-camera we'd grown familiar with for years wasn't his actual speaking voice. That 'other voice' is what he reserved for others when he wasn't in public.
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Copycat said:

So was his "real voice" supposed to be deeper or something?

We all have "different voices". I think it's bizarre if a person speaks in just one way. Marvin Gaye mentioned in his Rolling Stone interview that he'll talk different whenever he was interviewed by a rock critic or a R&B critic or an author or whatever. So I don't think it's weird that MJ had "different voices", they're all his.

EmeraldSkies said:

His "real voice" was heard during the Super Bowl, the World Music Awards '06 and the final press conference.

i think he spoke in a high soft voice to save his voice for singin? i dunno everyone else talks kinda soft like that too


so deep!!
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Timmy84 said:

ooooh

dearmother said:

Yeah MJ was far from the only singer to speak with a high soft voice. Smokey Robinson? Marvin Gaye? Stevie Wonder? Donny Hathaway? Sam Cooke?

All of them had soft speaking voices.
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The autopsy is indefintely postponed. Why? You have some girl killed by a crackhead here in LA and her autopsy is released a month later.

This proves the power of money because it gives you opportunities and control even when you're dead!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

so when are we going to get the results?

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I think with some celebrities, people feel releasing information so soon stops the media's story of reporting about how these people live their lives and how they got involved with the dead celebrity (reminds me of Anna Nicole). But with random folks or marginally famous folks (like E. Lynn Harris and Billy Mays), you hear about what kill them least a week or two later. It's been about eight-to-ten weeks almost since we wonder what in fact killed MJ. In fact, an AP report said that it would be difficult to press charges against one doctor for a drug because the source believed MJ had other drugs (besides Xanax) in his system and it would be difficult to investigate.

I think people are just wasting their time building a case that may have already been destroyed.

A shopper looks over Michael Jackson CDs on display last month in Tokyo.

For Michael Jackson Estate, The Money is Already Rolling In
August 13



Michael Jackson's estate could double in value by the end of the year, with projected revenue of $200 million from a film project, merchandising deals and other business moves, according to one of the administrators of the estate.

In an interview Wednesday, Jackson's longtime attorney John Branca said that deals negotiated in the seven weeks since the pop icon died had delivered or would soon deliver a total of $100 million in cash to the estate. Two contracts -- a wide-ranging merchandising deal and a plan for a traveling memorabilia exhibit -- are subject to approval by a judge Monday.

Branca said that surging record sales and other revenue are expected to bring an additional $100 million to the estate's coffers by Dec. 31 and that he and his co-administrator, music executive John McClain, project at least $50 million in annual revenue in coming years. That amount would put Jackson in the posthumous company of Elvis Presley, whose estate takes in about $60 million annually.

"We have challenges in the estate in terms of the kind of debt that existed, so it's really not a time to stand up and applaud, but it's time to feel optimistic about the future," Branca said.

Jackson, a notorious overspender who cycled through financial advisors throughout his career, died owing more than $400 million to creditors, but with substantial assets -- such as his master recordings and partial ownership in the Sony-ATV music catalog -- that outweighed his debts by at least $200 million.

Howard Weitzman, an attorney for Branca and McClain, said that if the earnings projections hold, "it's not impossible the debts could be paid off in a time that is unprecedented, given the amounts."

As eager as the estate is to pay off the debts, Branca said, there are no plans to part with Jackson's 50% share of the Sony-ATV catalog, which contains the music of the Beatles among a host of artists. "We're definitely not selling it," he said.

Indeed, the estate plans to add new songs to Jackson's own music catalog. The 50-year-old performer stockpiled as many as 60 songs in the years before his death, Branca said. One new song will be included on a soundtrack for an October feature film that Sony Pictures is making from rehearsal footage of Jackson's planned comeback concert.

McClain, who declined to be interviewed, believes there are "at least a couple of albums' worth" of music, Branca said. He added that McClain, a industry veteran who helped start Interscope Records and engineered Janet Jackson's career, said "there is some really good stuff in there."

Jackson named McClain and Branca as executors in a 2002 will that transferred his assets into a family trust run by the two executors and benefiting his mother, his children and unspecified charities that work with children. Lawyers for Katherine Jackson have not challenged the will but said she has concerns about the executors and the attorneys have asked that she be appointed to a formal role in managing his affairs.

A Superior Court judge made McClain and Branca temporary administrators of the estate pending an October hearing on the will, but has said they should seek and consider Katherine Jackson's opinions in business deals in the meantime. Weitzman said it was unlikely that Katherine Jackson would be named a trustee or executor, but that her opinion is valuable to Branca and McClain.

An attorney for Katherine Jackson said she planned to continue seeking an appointment as an executor or trustee.

"She must have a seat at the table," said the lawyer, L. Londell McMillan. He said the earning projections by Branca represented the minimum that Jackson's name and likeness should be bringing in, but said that his mother was also concerned about the preservation of his reputation.

Branca began working with Jackson in 1980 and shepherded him through some of the most productive years of his life, including the release of his blockbuster album "Thriller" and the purchase of the Beatles catalog. He also orchestrated Jackson's purchase of Neverland, his Santa Ynez Valley ranch, and introduced him to Presley's daughter, Lisa Marie, who became his first wife. But the men split for three years in the early 1990s and then again in 2006 after Branca grew suspicious of other members of Jackson's inner circle.

Jackson rehired Branca on June 17, eight days before his death, in a meeting in a dressing room at the Forum, where concert rehearsals were taking place.

Branca said he came to the meeting with a list of possible projects for Jackson. He knew, from their early days working together, that Jackson loved memorabilia and raved about the smorgasbord of merchandise available at "Star Trek" and Elvis conventions. "He said, 'I want there to be a Michael Jackson convention,' " Branca said.

At their meeting at the Forum, Branca proposed a movie, a coffee table book, a Broadway musical and a major charity event involving First Lady Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey -- "the grandiose sort of things that Michael likes," Branca recalled.

After going over the list, he said, Jackson said, "John! You're back."

Some of the proposals -- the movie and the coffee table book -- are in the works.

"We are getting a chance to fulfill his wishes," he said.

The administrators of Jackson's estate must approve every piece of merchandise, and Branca said they are careful about what they select. They are also cracking down on counterfeiters. Customs officials recently contacted them about a shipment of Jackson key chains from Turkey. They were not authorized and were seized, he said.

"We want to look at what other estates have done -- Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley -- and use the best from each one to create our own strategy," Branca said. "I think Berry Gordy said it best at the funeral -- Michael is simply the best entertainer that every lived, and our mission is to preserve that legacy."


http://www.latimes.com/bu...6762.story
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http://new.music.yahoo.co...stal-ball/

Chart Watch Aug. 9, 2009: Better Than A Crystal Ball

For the seventh consecutive week, Michael Jackson has three of the five best-selling albums in the U.S. Number Ones sold 98,000 copies and would have topped The Billboard 200 for the sixth week if catalog albums were eligible to compete there. The Essential Michael Jackson sold 54,000 and would have held at #3. Thriller sold 47,000 and would have inched up from #5 to #4.

This ongoing success will enable Jackson to make history (or should I say HIStory?) on Nielsen/SoundScan's year-end charts. Do I have a crystal ball? No, I have something better: the tracking company's year-to-date sales chart. Jackson has three albums in the top 15 on that list. Number Ones holds at #2 and will probably pull ahead of Taylor Swift's Fearless, the long-time leader, in two weeks. Thriller jumps to #10, while The Essential Michael Jackson climbs to #15. Jackson is likely to become the first artist to have three albums in Nielsen/SoundScan's year-end top 20 since Garth Brooks achieved the feat in 1992. (All three of Brooks' albums--Ropin' The Wind, The Chase and No Fences, ranked in the year-end top 10.)

Number Ones is vying to become the only the third greatest hits album to rank #1 for the year on either Billboard's "year-end" charts or Nielsen/SoundScan's calendar year rankings. Elton John's Elton John--Greatest Hits was Billboard's leader for 1974. The Beatles' 1 was the magazine's champ for 2001. (On Nielsen/SoundScan, 1 was the #6 seller of 2000.) Number Ones is also likely to become the first catalog album and the first album by a deceased performer to wind up as the #1 album of the year on either list, going back to 1956.

The Essential Michael Jackson is #1 in the U.K. for the sixth straight week. This is the longest continuous run on top in that country since Leona Lewis' Spirit had seven straight weeks at #1 from November 2007 to January 2008. (Coldplay's Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends had six non-consecutive weeks on top last year.)

The Catalog Controversy: This is the 18th week since February 2008 that the top 10 on The Billboard 200 has excluded at least one of the week's 10 best-selling albums. Here's how that tally breaks down: Jackson's Thriller 25 and Josh Groban's Noel each would have had five weeks in the top 10 last year if catalog albums were allowed to compete on the big chart. Pearl Jam's Ten would have had one week in the top 10 in March. And the three aforementioned Jackson albums would have spent the past seven weeks in the top 10.

The Jackson boom has yet to run its course. And remastered versions of the Beatles' studio albums will be released on Sept. 9, concurrent with the much-anticipated The Beatles: Rock Band game. The current tally of 18 weeks since 2008 where the top 10 excluded at least one album because of the catalog rule could climb to 25 or 30 weeks before the year is out. That's a lot of weeks where the top 10 needed to carry an asterisk.

This is a serious and growing threat to the credibility of The Billboard 200. Those of us who love the charts hope the problem is solved before people's confidence in the charts is undermined.

Changing market realities have led Billboard to revise its chart policies many times over the years. Until Nov. 4, 2007, "exclusive" albums (albums sold at only one retail chain) were barred from The Billboard 200. This rule kept a pair of Garth Brooks albums off the chart and very nearly did the same to Eagles' Long Road Out Of Eden, until the rule was jettisoned. Until Dec. 5, 1998, songs that weren't commercially available as singles were barred from the Hot 100. This kept two dozen songs that made the top 10 on the separate Hot 100 airplay chart from 1991 through 1998 from cracking the Hot 100 until this rule, too, was scrapped.

The current situation has a lot in common with the two earlier ones. In all three cases, the rules probably made sense at some point, but there came a time when the rules were causing more trouble than they were preventing.

is that opus thing a bootleg or truly official?

It's the real deal. Otherwise the NBC Today Show would not have done a segment on it.

http://www.tmz.com/

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

It's official.

http://www.krakenopus.com/

http://www.proxibid.com/a...id=5941849

I've never seen these pics of 3T


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NJ man says Jackson memorabilia stolen in Nevada
(AP) – 54 minutes ago

LAS VEGAS — A New Jersey businessman alleges part of his collection of Michael Jackson memorabilia was stolen from a southern Nevada storage facility and auctioned without his knowledge.

North Las Vegas police said Thursday they are investigating after Henry Vaccaro filed a police report July 31 alleging his storage facility was burglarized and valuable Jackson items were missing.

The auction happened five days earlier, on July 26.

Clark County Public Auction owner Mario Trabado says he auctioned Michael Jackson items he bought legally from an unidentified private collector. Trabado says the auction netted about $37,000.

The 69-year-old Vaccaro lives in Asbury Park, N.J. He tells The Associated Press that lyrics, notebooks and costumes he obtained years ago are among the missing items.

Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

suga10 said:

who's 3T?

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Tito's sons.

Timmy84 said:

Just like I thought. Aint nobody going to jail for killing MJ. The postponement of the autospy results was the final straw for me. There may be a trial, but aint nobody going to jail I don't think. Murray and all those others are too clever. They know how this game is played.

Timmy84 said:

it hasn't been destroyed. and they will release it after they arrest Dr Murray.

Timmy84 said:

Ahh..not to much different though.

Timmy84 said:

I hope he had that shit insured. I know I would have.