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tangerine7 said:

Sure is a Big Family

babybugz said:

that is a good foto

tangerine7 said:

Do you have the Bucharest DVD?

EmeraldSkies said:

nope

tangerine7 said:

I'm sure most music stores have it ..I got mines at FYE last year

babybugz said:

yea i have a few dvds collections but I dont have that certain one but I'm going look tomorrow thanks

Hey Guys... I just wanted to let you all know I am sorry about all those pictures I had posyed of Michael that are now gone,My photobucket removed them. Maybe if anyone save all of them they could re-post them.

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Hey Guys... I just wanted to let you all know I am sorry about all those pictures I had posyed of Michael that are now gone,My photobucket removed them. Maybe if anyone save all of them they could re-post them.


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The Evolution of Jackson's Perfect Pop

Michael Jackson's ten solo albums map out the evolution of the hottest styles from the 1970s to the 1990s.
By Bernadette McNulty




Aug 1972: Releases second album 'Ben'. The title track 'Ben' was a million-seller hit single and Jackson's first US 1.
1973: Releases third album 'Music & Me'.
1975: Michael Jackson releases fourth album 'Forever Michael'
1979: Releases 'Off the Wall', produced by Quincy Jones, launches him to superstardom. Sells over nineteen million copies worldwide.
1982: Jackson Releases 'Thriller' album which sells over fifty million copies worldwide and confirms him as the 80's king of pop.
You could argue that the reason Michael Jackson made great pop music was that he loved pop music. When Jackson heard a new sound that excited him, he would try and incorporate it into his own music.

So his ten solo albums are like a pop barometer, mapping out the evolution of the hottest styles and trends from the seventies to the nineties. On those records you'll hear everything from old-school soul to sensitive acoustic ballads, stripped down funk, epic disco, heavy rock, gangsta rap and everything in-between.



Got to Be There: 1972
Key sound: Cute Motown

With first single and breakout hit Got to be There, Motown chief Berry Gordy pushed Jackson's first solo album firmly into the mould of his label's sound: lush, harmonious, optimistic, innocent pop. Songs like cutesy, bubblegum fifties cover Rockin Robbin were no departure from the style of the Jackson 5 there but the now 14-year-old Jackson – despite his still babyish image and voice – imbues cover versions of Bill Withers Aint No Sunshine and the Carole King's You've got a Friend with impressive depth.


Ben: 1972
Key sound: Serious ballads

Teaming up with soundtrack writer and Andrew Lloyd Webber collaborator Don Black, Jackson proved he wanted to move on from the constraints of the R&B charts into the wider limelight of mainstream pop. Monster hit, Ben, on paper is pure schmaltz but Jackson's wrenching yet delicate delivery transforms it into a genuinely moving moment of Broadway pop. He also tackles, if somewhat timidly, the Marvin Gaye conscious-soul school with People Make the World Go Round, while keeping his bosses placated with some increasingly tired sounding Motown-by-numbers.



Music and Me: 1973
Key sound: Movie Showtunes

Clutching an acoustic guitar in his tank top and looking glumly introspective, Jackson was clearly seeking a deeper sound than Motown could provide but on this, his most unsuccessful record, not finding it. Going even further down the epic soundtrack route, this album includes his version of Morning Glow from Pippin and Happy from Lady Sings the Blues. While fitting his still exceptionally high voice, Jackson sounds so feminine on some of these show tunes he could almost be Diana Ross.



Forever Michael: 1975
Key sound: Philly funk

Brian Holland and Eddie Holland, who along with Dozier and Lamont were former hit makers for Motown, create a sparser, more adult soul feel for a deeper voiced Jackson. One Day in Your Life benefits from this lower key than Jackson's previous ballads and when it was re-released in 1981, became his first UK number one, holding the position for two weeks that summer until Ghost Town by the Specials knocked it off the top spot.




Off the wall, 1979
Key sound: Sunshine disco

Finally released from Motown, Jackson spent four year cooking up a new sound and after first working with Quincy Jones on the soundtrack to the film The Wiz, found his perfect musical foil. The two created the tougher, more explosive, euphoric disco-tinged sound of Don't Stop Till You Get Enough with Jackson's daring falsetto bouncing off the top of the beat and his vocal peppered with new 'adult' grunts and shrieks. Jackson took disco out of the clubs though by making the vocal harmony more prominent than the beat but the album broke through to the mainstream because of the clever mix of styles, including a cover of the Wing's song Girlfriend and the histrionic ballad She's Out of My Life.




Thriller, 1982
Key sound: Perfect pop

Emboldened by their initial success, Jones and Jackson pushed their original mix even further. With Jackson taking sole writing credits on nearly half the record, they threw in Edie van Halen guitar rock, paranoid electro-disco, fluffy Paul McCartney duets and in the single Thriller, a faux Horror funk epic with a Vincent Price cackling monologue. The 22-year-old was also expressing his maturity by showing restraint on the ballads, to beautifully sensual effect on Human Nature. So varied was the album, it produced seven hit singles over two years.

Download this: Billie Jean


Bad, 1987
Key sound: High drama R&B

While rap and house music were starting to spread in popularity, this was still the year of the full-fat cream mega star, with George Michael, Whitney Houston and U2, and Jackson's direct rival Prince, all enjoying prime-time success. Jackson, having taken his longest break yet from making music, came back with an album that stuck with the musical template of Thriller but with a more, hip-hop, heavy rock attitude. "I'm Bad", he snarled, somewhere between LL Cool J and Axl Rose on a song that was originally meant to be a duet with Prince. Jackson increasingly shunned writing collaborations, creating most of the album himself.




Dangerous, 1991
Key sound: Anxious new-jack swing

Breaking up with Quincy Jones, Jackson turned instead to the tougher street sounds of Terry Riley, pioneer of the new jack swing sound. As a result, the beats were sharper and less bombastic than Bad and Jackson's vocals less bombastic, interspersed with guest rappers. The length of the album – 77 minutes - stretched the limits of the new CD mode and on Heal the World Jackson's subject matter was turning away from paranoid love to a more philanthropic concern for love and peace.




HIStory, 1995
Key sound: Dystopian world rap

Increasingly isolated and embattled, Jackson buries his new album behind a greatest hits compilation and surrounds himself with an army of hip producers including Jam and Lewis, Dallas Austin and R Kelly, and duets with the Notorious BIG and his by now equally successful sister Janet on Scream, accompanied by the most expensive video ever made. Underneath all this, Jackson, at his angriest lyrically, allies himself with world's oppressed and poor on They Don't Really Care About Us and Earth Song.




Invincible, 2001
Key sound: Slinky urban grooves

Coming full circle in his solo career, Jackson tries – and fails – to break back into the now world dominant R&B scene with a comeback album helmed by more hip hit makers including Rodney Jerkins. He also returns to the classic form of some of his prettiest ballads on Butterflies and Break of Dawn.

tangerine7 said:

Well the three video that I posted up top are parts 1-3. I'll post the rest of the concert.

EmeraldSkies said:

thanks u thank you!!!!!
I have some but NOT That one
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EmeraldSkies said:

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There ya go Tangerine7!
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babybugz said:

Thats not entirely true. There were tonnes of fans there for his trial every damn day. All his concerts sold out at lightening speed. There were still heaps of people loving him before he died. I get the point though, that the general public denied him and are now loving him. But shes wrong about the weeping fans and artists hailing him only being there now

EmeraldSkies said:

Thank You!

Michael Jackson Drawings Featured in Opus
Jackson drew the picture in 1971 in protest at the Vietnam War Photo: PA


August 2009


One sketch, drawn by the 13-year-old Jackson in 1971 in protest at the Vietnam War, shows a figure with arms outstretched in front of a battle scene complete with bombers, machine-gun posts and a helicopter under the slogan ''stop the war''.

The Michael Jackson Opus, the only biography approved by the Jackson estate, includes hundreds of previously unpublished photographs, along with essays and other writing from figures in the entertainment industry.

Pictures of the golf buggy Jackson used to travel round his Neverland ranch also feature in the book, complete with a painting of the singer as Peter Pan on the bonnet.

The book, measuring 13 inches wide and 18 high, weighs 38 pounds and can be ordered through the Ticketmaster website for $165.00.

Reports have emerged that Jackson's personal doctor could be charged over his death after a coroner apparently determined the singer died after being given a lethal cocktail of pharmaceutical drugs.

Court documents in what is reported to be a homicide inquiry have shown that Dr Conrad Murray administered the powerful sedative propofol just hours before Jackson collapsed on June 25.


http://www.telegraph.co.u...-book.html

Glad to help!

Copycat said:

I can't wait till December to get that book.

Copycat said:

Who said MJ didn't know what was going down in this fucked up society at 13?

Wait... 38 pounds? Really?

Superstition said:

They won't accept our 12 quid, lol.

bboy87 said:

is that michael? where is this from