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I hope they release this stuff on DVD.

I hope they release this stuff on DVD.

i know DEAR LORD PLEASE!!!

they NEED to release the following:

-jackson 5 cartoon
-the jacksons variety show
-jackson 5 in japan 1973
-jackson 5 in mexico city 1975
-triumph tour
-destiny tour
-victory tour
-bad tour
-history tour

i know DEAR LORD PLEASE!!!

they NEED to release the following:

-jackson 5 cartoon
-the jacksons variety show
-jackson 5 in japan 1973
-jackson 5 in mexico city 1975
-triumph tour
-destiny tour
-victory tour
-bad tour
-history tour

Interesting

We Killed Michael Jackson



Where were all the weeping fans, the artists who hail him as their hero, the radio DJs who can't stop playing his music? Where were they 10 years ago? Oh right. Everyone thought Michael Jackson was a freak - a plastic surgery addicted child molester. His last studio album "Invincible," released 2001, failed to garner true hit single because radio stations refused to play the songs. Music critics tore him to shreds. He was blackballed. People made fun of him, he was considered a washed-up, has-been, crazy person.

The success of "Thriller," which as sold over 110 million copies worldwide and counting, can never be matched. ("Invincible," for the record managed to sell respectful 13 million copies worldwide to date. No artist can keep up that kind of string of hits. But, he put his heart and soul into every new recording he did, but judgment had already been cast before anyone heard the music.


He was a desperate man in pain and everyone threw stones at him. Now it's fashionable to be a Michael Jackson fan. Radio stations now play his music on heavy rotation. His albums are flying off the shelves. Urban Outfitters even carries a commemorative vinyl collection that hipsters can frame and put on their walls. Suddenly the entire world has rediscovered Michael Jackson. He's dead damn it. Imagine what this kind of love would have done for him while he was living? Maybe then he wouldn't need drugs to sleep.

Michael's body was still warm when celebrities, music execs, family members and even his personal staffed whored themselves to TV news programs professing to be Michaels' best friends. People who didn't even know him were releasing statements. Where were these so called best friends when Michael needed an intervention? Needed help? Nowhere. Yes, some tried, and Michael would not listen -- so keep trying!!!

Things had gotten so strange in Michael's world, that before he signed with AEG to do a string of concerts, one management company was trying to convince him to be 'virtual Michael.' No joke - they were going to set up a 3D Internet portal so Michael could interact with the world without leaving his house. That's enough to make anyone feel nuts.

The AEG deal gave him new life. It brought him back to what he does best - perform, be in front of fans, be around humans. Only the inner sanctum at AEG believed in him. The public and the pundits were waiting for him to fail. Many fans who bought tickets to the sold out concerts just wanted to go to see a historic spectacle, hoping they would witness a car crash.

We killed Michael Jackson. We helped create his gilded cage and then we rejected him. Death serves you well Michael, the world is finally acknowledging the amazing force of nature you were. You changed the face of music. Rest in peace.


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Thanks for the Marlon interview. Well we can say for one that the Jacksons have different accounts with their upbringing. Marlon sounds more like MJ than the others but that's probably evident because they were the closest brothers.


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Damn T, that is a SERIOUS picture. There aren't many pics of the Jackson Five that I haven't seen. But I have never seen this pic. A picture speaks a thousand words huh? Man, what is THIS pic saying? U know, whenever I would hear about Michael not having a childhood, I would always think of Marlon. Marlon was so close in age with Michael. Granted, it was more pressure on Michael being that he was the frontman and the group's success rode on Michael's shoulders to a large extent. Although Jermaine sung co-lead on some of their early hits and lead on others, and he was definately the most popular next to Michael. But Marlon suffered as well. In some ways, worse than Michael because Michael was the "star" of the group and Marlon would catch a different kind of hell from their father if he didn't measure up to Michael. Marlon was in an odd place being right in the middle of the group's two most popular brothers. I think Marlon handled it well. He has always seemed to be a very kindhearted person. Always. But this picture....Both kids seem sad. But u can see the connection they both shared with each other in their body language. Their sitting exactly alike, fingers crossed, but their looking in opposite directions. The pressure on them was huge. The J5 were extremely popular and they toured and toured and toured. They routinely played arenas, zig zaging across the country and the world. U rarely see that addressed, the road wear that it had to have taken on them. Just from the touring alone. Michael and Marlon were just kids here. Very talented kids but kids never the less. And that shows in this picture.
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I hope they release this stuff on DVD.

Deep view into this picture but I have to agree, they both look like they sense the same thing but in different levels when dealing with celebrity (and their dad in general). Sad.

Mike looks so cute in the pic. Marlon's forehead is too high. That's how you can reckognize him. MJ is just a familiar face, Jackie has a big nose and liver lips, Tito is punchy, Jermaine usded to be pretty and had pit marks and marlon a high forehead.

And when Randy came in, he looked even cuter than MJ did, but nowadays, he's bald and overweight.

The only one who has always looked the same is Joe. He looks mean.

There were other ways you could tell the brothers, even though it didn't always show up in pictures Marlon actually had reddish hair(it's even depicted like that in the J5 cartoons) and was the lightest out of all the brothers. Jackie did not have liver lips, I would say Marlon had the biggest lips. They all had broad noses, with probably the exception of Tito who looked the most like Joe.

Jackie was the male version of their mother, he looked nothing like his Dad, and so was Jermaine to a lesser extent. Michael and Randy seem to be a blend of both parents. Marlon looked like a younger version of their Dad. I would say Janet and Latoya looked more like Joe than most of the brothers did, I never understood Michael doing surgery not to look like Joe, because he wasn't exactly the replica of Joe in the first place.

Mike looks so cute in the pic. Marlon's forehead is too high. That's how you can reckognize him. MJ is just a familiar face, Jackie has a big nose and liver lips, Tito is punchy, Jermaine usded to be pretty and had pit marks and marlon a high forehead.

And when Randy came in, he looked even cuter than MJ did, but nowadays, he's bald and overweight.

The only one who has always looked the same is Joe. He looks mean.

Yeah MJ and Marlon were the mixture of both parents but I do think MJ had more of Katherine's heritage in his childhood. He didn't start looking like his dad until AFTER surgery oddly enough. So I don't buy that he was trying NOT to look like his pops.