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I just corrected the ones I knew off the top of my head. Some of these aren't even Michael, some of them are songs that sample Michael
Somebody needs a copy of "For The Record" ASAP "We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world." | |
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Hell, i need a copy of that book my damn self! | |
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My copy is in storage right now and my bookshelf looks funny without it "We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world." | |
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Interesting that there is nothing post 2005. "I'm not human I'm a dove, I'm ur conscience. I am love" | |
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They haven't updated it.There's a couple of songs that should be added, especially the ones on Michael
The estate's STILL registering songs with BMI and the US Library Of Congress "We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world." | |
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here are the first 2 reviews of the Man In The Music Book By Joe Vogel coming in November
First review of Man in the Music is in:
July 2011, @JoeVogel1 said: Second review of Man in the Music is in:
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Andrew Lloyd Webber: Michael Jackson wanted to play Phantom
CNN -- Andrew Lloyd Webber told CNN's Piers Morgan that Michael Jackson wanted to play the title role in the film version of "The Phantom of the Opera." According to Webber, the King of Pop came to see the Broadway show multiple times -- years before the film came out -- and he and Jackson had spoken about a potential "Phantom" movie role.
However, Webber said, "People in those days were very worried that a film, if it was made, would destroy the Broadway or the West End show, and everybody would just go and see the movie. In fact, it's been proven to be completely the other way around. If you make a movie, it's just a great help for the theater. But goodness knows what it would've been like."
Read full article: http://edition.cnn.com/20...ainment%29
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Came across this. Of course, we all know that Jackson calculatedly coined the term, "King of Pop," personally. It definitely had some irony by the time he died, when he really hadn't been musically relevant for at least 15 years.
http://blogs.telegraph.co...or-of-pop/ If Michael Jackson was the King, Prince is the Emperor of Pop
Prince’s appearance at Hop Farm festival was predictably greeted as a triumph. “’There is no greater performer alive today,’ enthused singer Beverly Knight. I think she might be right. Indeed, he may be the most extravagantly multi-talented performer in the history of pop.
Despite not having had a hit single since The Most Beautiful Girl In The World in 1994, Prince consistently remains one of the most popular live attractions on the big gig circuit, as his 21 night residency at the 20,000 seater O2 Arena in London in 2008 demonstrated.
There was a time in the Eighties when Prince was held up as a rival for Michael Jackson’s pop crown, but even then real music fans knew there was no comparison. If Jackson could call himself the King, Prince was an Emperor. In a business that emphasises the front man, Prince had the talents to fulfil every single performing role. He sings like a soul dream, dances like a gymnast, plays every instrument in the recording studio including phenomenal rock and funk guitar, florid and fanciful keyboards and snappy, groovy drumming, writes and produces startling pop music blending rock and dance forms, and marshals all of those skills live by drilling bands of virtuoso musicians into tightly rehearsed ensembles that cross the visceral appeal of heavy rock with the nimble versatility of jazz and the showily dramatic routines of classic soul. Imagine Elvis Presley crossed with James Brown crossed with Jimi Hendrix crossed with Stevie Wonder … with a bit of Lennon & McCartney on top. When the wider world got its first proper glimpse of all of that in Purple Rain in 1984, the effect was electrifying. By bringing together the best of everything pop music could conjure up in one package, Prince really raised the bar for pop stardom. I can’t think of any individual artist who has been able to reach the same heights.
Somehow, he never maintained that purple pop patch, but its hard to explain why, except that he is perhaps too weird, and operates too much on his own terms, and maybe Prince just has too much music in him to be digested by ordinary mortals. Frankly, none but the most dedicated Prince fan could hope to keep up with a creative output that has reached somewhere in the region of 35 original studio albums (many doubles and triples). But live, dipping into his back catalogue and bending it all out of shape with the imagination, exuberance and masterful technique of a great showman who really comes to into his own on stage, audiences know they are in for a treat, even if you never know quite what you are going to hear.
My favourite Prince song: When Doves Cry
Little Red Corvette in 1983 was the first Prince song to catch my attention but When Doves Cry blew my mind a year later. It’s such a weird and original track, sparse and propulsive, with heavy drums and an odd, poetic lyric, the monotone melody building into an emotionally explosive screaming guitar and vocal pay off, followed for no discernible reason by a florid quasi-classical keyboard. I love everything on the Purple Rain album, it set a new benchmark for pop music. "There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind."
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I'm not sure what you're trying to imply, but, in the pop category, Michael could own Prince any day. It's just the truth.
And Liz Taylor came up with King Of Pop, by the way. | |
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Liz Taylor introduced Jackson at the Heritage Awards by saying, "...and in my estimation, the true king of pop, rock and soul..." Liz Taylor was his friend, so I'm not sure what relevance her "estimation" has anything to do with reality. Even if you do give her opinion about music creedance (why would you?), it's a bit of a stretch to take this quote out of context to say she coined the term. Although, I'm not sure who she was thinking, it's also evident by her choice of words, that in her mind at least, there already was a "king of pop" in public opinion. Otherwise, why would she choose to add the word, "true?"
It's Jackson and his manager who stripped it down and then came out and let the press know that Jackson was indeed the self-proclaimed "King of Pop."
At the end of the day, what difference is it really if Jackson came up with it himself, or his best friend gave him the name, before he decided to alert the press? It's actually a meaningless term, but if you're going to call someone the King of Pop Music, it should probably the first pop star in the history of recorded music, Louis Armstrong.
[Edited 7/5/11 11:40am] "There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind."
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Funny, considering who that article is about. [Edited 7/5/11 11:45am] | |
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Yes yes, Imaginative like you... | |
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Um, my name is not Jacko. I have a name, use it please, thanks.
And, in the end, Michael is still the King Of Pop music. | |
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Besides the fact that it's sad, and very telling, that almost no article praising Prince can totally be complete without trying to belittle MJ in some fashion (which rarely happens when it's an article about MJ) thiswas posted in the comments section. I thought it to be one of the better comments:
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What is so ironic, is that when Prince first came out back in the late 70s with "I wannabe Your Lover" DJs thought it was the Jacksons!! | |
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I LOVE I Wanna Be Your Lover, it does sound Jackson-esque a little, though also like the sound that would become Prince's signature sound and ahead of it's time. | |
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"Jackos" was plural and not meant to be a proper noun. Not sure how I would even know your name. :confused:
Being that, as I said, "King of Pop" is a completely meaningless term and was self-annointed, I have no problem letting you keep the meaningless title, if you feel it validates you.
When it comes to substantiated facts, however... they speak for themselves. (Which is why Jackson needed to come up with a catchy title for himself.) It's interesting to note when looking at The Beatles numbers, that they had only seven years or so (or the amount of time between Off the Wall and Bad) to chart these huge numbers, where all of the solo artists had a lifetime to even come close. Most Billboard top 40 hits
Most Billboard top 10 singles
NOTE: If Top 10 sides are considered—that is, singles whose A-sides and B-sides both charted as separate Top 10 entries—then Elvis Presley would have the most, with 38 Top 10 songs. The Beatles' total would increase from 29 to 34, and Janet Jackson would have 29. The totals for Madonna, Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder would remain as is. Most number-one hits
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Most cumulative weeks at Billboard number one
[Edited 7/5/11 12:35pm] "There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind."
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I'm not giving Michael the title purely based on hits. | |
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Imaginative, it's awesome Michael has 13 number 1's, plus We Are The World and the 4 Jackson 5 hits, which would be 18 times, though I do know you're talking about just his solo career | |
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"There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind."
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Glad you're pleased. Curious how many of those 18 songs he wrote.
As I said above, if we add group work and duets, McCartney goes up to 35! A little less than double what Jackson could manage to muster up! I didn't think it fair to do so, but being that you brought it up... !
You guys can keep the "King of Pop" title. I'm fine with the undisputed truth.
[Edited 7/5/11 12:51pm] "There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind."
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MJ wrote or co-wrote 9 of the 18 number ones. Feeling lazy to do the math for the top 10's [Edited 7/5/11 12:52pm] | |
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In my experience Beatles and/or Elvis fanbois start bringing out charts when there's a MJ discussion. Never fails.
Also, like how you didn't dispute the 'Emperor of Pop' title given to Prince in the article, but having a big titty fit about MJ's King of Pop title. If it was all about stats and charts then, obviously, Mariah Carey would have been crowned the Queen of Pop a while ago, not Madonna.
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Um, we're talking about the overall package man, not just the hits. Based on your logic, Britney Spears should be a legend. | |
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Michael and Madonna had a pop culture impact, which is why she was also crowned that. Mariah had hits and talent she shared with the world, but she didn't contribute to pop culture in my opinion, she was more like a Celine or Barbara Streisand when doing her power ballads to touch people, or making people chill out or dance at a club with her hip hop collabs | |
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And how many did he write on his own?
FYI: It's well known and common practice in the music industry that a huge recording artist often adds his name to the writing credits to get a bigger royalty cut and being that he has the clout to do so. (He or she can simply not record the song if the composers don't agree to the artist's terms.) Therefore, it's likely that he had little to do with the "callaborations." "There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind."
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you weren't listening to Gimmie More carefully about her legendary status | |
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Mmm...I love it when you talk out of your ass.
Ignorance is just so sexy... | |
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Still believe King of Pop sounds naff. Why the fans are so obsessed with this title, I will never know. He never needed any silly title to validate who he was. MJ to me was his best, in every aspect when he was just known as "Michael Jackson". And that's how I will always remember him, with the beautiful smile, brown skinned, massive afro and bundles of talent. [Edited 7/5/11 13:07pm] | |
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Unholyalliance said:
In my experience Beatles and/or Elvis fanbois start bringing out charts when there's a MJ discussion. Never fails.
Also, like how you didn't dispute the 'Emperor of Pop' title given to Prince in the article, but having a big titty fit about MJ's King of Pop title. If it was all about stats and charts then, obviously, Mariah Carey would have been crowned the Queen of Pop a while ago, not Madonna.
I never said Prince was the Emperor of Pop. On the contrary, I've been saying all along that these titles are meaningless, and unsubstantiated by any actual facts. No one ever crowned anyone the Queen of Pop. That crown doesn't exist except in the imaginations of those who believe it. Please show me a picture of this "crown!" These titles are generally used when there are not facts to substantiate the artists' desired place in history and/or reality. 
Jackson crowned HIMSELF the King of Pop. This is well-documented and has been substatiated by his then manager. [Edited 7/5/11 13:08pm] "There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind."
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