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Reply #300 posted 06/30/12 7:51am

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alphastreet said:

dag said:

Today was the last day at work for me. Saying goodbye was very emotional. And guess what? The class where I had my MJ lecture made a very emotinal presentation for my collegue who was also leaving and guess what song they used? YANA! biggrin

Aw it's your last day at work, or cause the school year is done? And I guess everyone has mj on their mind, since it's the end of June and there were mentions, so it's good they're playing him smile Glad the project went well.

Both. I am not sure that Mike is on everyone's mind. At least I didn't feel it this way, but it's true that i don't listen to radio nor watch TV, so I am not sure if anyone remembered him, but it besides airing that Bashit documentary, I didn't notice anything else. Even one of my collegue asked me the following day if it was his anniversary yesterday that he was surprised not to see him anywhere. I would love to believe that it was due to my presentation. wink

"When Michael Jackson is just singing and dancing, you just think this is an astonishing talent. And he has had this astounding talent all his life, but we want him to be floored as well. We really don´t like the idea that he could have it all."
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Reply #301 posted 07/01/12 1:32pm

alphastreet

I'm sure he was played since it was the week of, like on the radio, and people subconsciously realized that and remembered YANA.

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Reply #302 posted 07/02/12 10:52am

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Why does it say on Bryan Lorens myspace that he was involved in these songs?

Minimoog synth-bass and programs drums/percussion on "Black Or White", and programs drums/percussion on "Who Is It" from Michael Jackson's Dangerous Lp.

All keyboards & guitars, programs drums & percussion, writes & arranges “Superfly Sister” from Michael Jackson's “Blood On The Dance Floor” Lp.

Percussion and does vocals with Michael Jackson on “Money”, from Jackson’s “History” Lp.

I know he worked with Mike during 89-90 but I thought the songs he was involved with were Men in black, Work that body, To Satisfy You? It's very strange that Mike didnt give cred on Black or white & Money , if he worked on those songs... hmm....

It's also interesting to read that they made many songs together, it seems as if MJ didnt like the direction tho.

" The endless parade of high-profile people I met, just because I was with him when they showed up. From Michael Milken to Eddie Murphy, Steve Wynne, and Little Richard. I did the arrangement on the song he wrote for the Sigfried and Roy show in Los Vagas. The list goes on.

I still have the Fedora I took off his head while he was annoyingly poking at a plate of food I was eating at the studio one day, making him recoil because he had ‘hat-hair’(lol). I remember clearly the day he brought Bubbles(the chimp) to the studio, and Bubbles hit me(open-hand) in my chest(that s$%t hurt!). I wanted nothing to do with the chimp after that. Michael said it meant he liked me. He could not have been more amused. We shared laughter about things that only we knew. We could be in a room full of people, and either one of us could make the other laugh about something that would have others thinking ‘what’s so funny?’ It really made me feel special when Michael told me how talented he thought I was, knowing what the whole world thought of him. Likewise it was a special feeling working with him.

We recorded some twenty-plus tracks together. Sadly, many of these we never finished. But when we did do vocals, beyond his lead work it was always a pleasure to listen to this man lay background harmonies. His voice was truly unique. Really pure tone, and great intonation. On The Simpson's song ‘Do The Bartman’, the background vocals in the bridge are just me(contrary to what the press believed at that time). But, the harmonies in the chorus are performed by the two of us. We are each, singing each part harmony. We did them simultaniously. It was a quick, and painless process. I mixed the record, and I promise you all the vocals are equal gain. That’s two people, and it’s tight! It was really cool for me, as I’d never so easily before doubled with someone doing background vocals. He did the backing chorus voices on ‘To Satisfy You’ from my ‘Music From The New World’ CD because I’d written it for him, for 'Dangerous'. When it was decided he wasn’t going to use it, I told him I wanted to keep his vocals and put it on my record. He said, ‘Of course’. We actually did the finishing work on ‘Superfly Sister’ from ‘Blood On The Dance Floor’ a few years after I’d already done the track, as this was a song that I started writing during the ‘Dangerous’ sessions. Which made me feel it was always possible that we might revist some of the other music we’d started all that time ago. This was not unusual for Michael, as in the case of ‘They Don’t Care About Us’ from the ‘History’ album. This was a song that he’d started even before I joined him for 'Dangerous'. One of the first things I heard was this song, but it got bumped at that time. ‘Earth Song’ was also started during 'Dangerous'.

'Dangerous' was a rough period for me as well. As we’d recorded so much music and none of it was used for that project, and much else occured that I won’t go into here. But, I will say that I spent a great deal of enjoyable time with Michael and made some great music with him as well. There are some songs that even in there unfinished format, you can hear their potential. And over the next few months I will be posting some of those that have enough content to hear that potential.

When we began working, it was my hope to return to a form of feeling that you got from the 'Off The Wall' or even the 'Thriller' Lp. Where there was a very organic feeling about the content. ‘Work That Body’, is complete with Michael repeating(at my behest) the rap from The Jackson Five’s ‘ABC’. He DID NOT want to do this(lol), but realized the toungue-in-cheek fun contained in it. I produced this track, and am performing all of the music. There are no sequencers on it, as I do not generally use them in the course of my work. The two of us wrote the lyric and melody.

Ironically, I’d intended a while ago to post this and other songs that we’d done together because somehow, they’d been leaked to the internet. I would occasionally get email here at Myspace and otherwise asking if I had done this work. Well, to finally and officially answer that question: yes. A bunch of these are my songs, produced by me and co-written with Michael. It is sad that this would be the occasion to finally get to this, but I suppose people who love Michael would especially now like to hear work of his that was unreleased. There is also some amount of catharsis for me in this process.

I am proud to have produced and written for Michael. I am also proud to have called him my peer, and my friend. We shared a friendship that he had with very few people. It was very special to me. I am deeply saddened by his sudden, and untimely passing. My best wishes and sympathy go out to his children and all of the Jackson family. It goes without saying, he will be missed. R.I.P., big bruh...

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[Edited 7/2/12 11:07am]

When the power of love overcomes the love of power,the world will know peace -Jimi Hendrix
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Reply #303 posted 07/02/12 10:43pm

alphastreet

Forgot how good this was, and he sounds really hot and sweet at once!

[Edited 7/2/12 22:45pm]

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Reply #304 posted 07/02/12 10:45pm

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So when do you think Sony is going to give away the bad 25 tracklist?
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Reply #305 posted 07/03/12 7:40am

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musicology54 said:

So when do you think Sony is going to give away the bad 25 tracklist?

My guess would be at the beginning of September. They will probably keep it on lockdown as long as they can.

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Reply #306 posted 07/03/12 12:28pm

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i was just watching this is it, when i realized something. Michael infact does do the moonwalk, at the end of smooth criminal when they are dancing him and the background dancers moonwalk, but it is not shown from the side, but rather from the front.. with that being said, im posotive there is footage from billie jean with the moonwalk.

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Reply #307 posted 07/03/12 9:09pm

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Lately, I've been thinking of the celebrity MJ imitator's out there and how I found myself disliking them because of it, where as otherwise, I don't take issue with them as artists/performers. I'll name two: Chris Brown and Usher. I'll start with Usher. I thought that Usher was entertaining enough. I'd listen to his music and I liked watching him perform until I started to notice that his moves were taking on an MJ slant. I mean nothing is original, but his performance, to me, seemed less creative and more like he was copying MJ's style and not making it his own and I decidedly became turned off by him and disgusted in a way.

Chris Brown wa a cute kid to me and I liked his passion. And I liked his dancing. I felt that he was one to watch and I was excited that maybe, one day, with much hard work, he could prove to be as good a showman as Michael. I didn't believe this of his singing, but of his skills as a performance/artist. But then Chris Brown began to grow up and everytime I saw him perform I started to feel that he was blatantly copying Mike. Did he think he was as good as Mike? Was he trying to be Michael? Now, I feel differently. Both of these artists were showing Michael love when he was here walking the earth. Usher was trying to do Michael when it wasn't so popular to show Michael love. Chris Brown came out and he wasn't scared to pay homage to Michael when it counted, when Michael was here to know about it. The same with Ginuine, Chris Tucker and Al B. Sure! I'm sure there are many others; Justin Timberlake, Justin Bieber. All of these guys have been trying to do Michael and instead of getting mad, I should be glad. I now look at it as they are showing respect and keeping Michael's memory alive, showing how great he was, and really just paying him the biggest compliment. They won't be as good but I don't think I'll say "why don't they do their own thing" anymore. The truth is, is that MJ is going to continue to be imitated until someone comes along with all the talent that he had and does what he did, get it right by making it their own.

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Reply #308 posted 07/04/12 8:01pm

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alphastreet said:

Forgot how good this was, and he sounds really hot and sweet at once!

[Edited 7/2/12 22:45pm]

Makes me wanna do this:

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"I took another bubble bath, with my pants on. All the fighting stopped. Next time I’ll do it sooner.”
— Prince, “The Ballad of Dorothy Parker”
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Reply #309 posted 07/05/12 11:30pm

RodeoSchro

Here's me wearing one of Michael Jackson's personal "Thriller" jackets. He had 5 that were created for the video. Three of them were worn in the making of the video, but this is one of the ones not worn for it. However, he did wear it - just not in the video.

Turns out he was much smaller than I am!

[img:$uid]http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff311/RodeoSchro/MichaelJacksonThrillerJacket.jpg[/img:$uid]

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Reply #310 posted 07/06/12 9:29pm

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RodeoSchro said:

Here's me wearing one of Michael Jackson's personal "Thriller" jackets. He had 5 that were created for the video. Three of them were worn in the making of the video, but this is one of the ones not worn for it. However, he did wear it - just not in the video.

Turns out he was much smaller than I am!

[img:$uid]http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff311/RodeoSchro/MichaelJacksonThrillerJacket.jpg[/img:$uid]

how'd you get ahold of that? not sure I beleive this. anyway, of course he was smaller, he was said to weigh 105 in those days.

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Reply #311 posted 07/07/12 2:10pm

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http://www.google.com/hos...f2a8463bff

MICHAEL JACKSON's Thriller tiger dies of lung cancer.

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Reply #312 posted 07/08/12 1:44am

alphastreet

You know it's a slow news day when....lol

Has anyone else felt their fandom is different from before the death compared to after? I don't mean less of a fan or not a fan, but just feeling....different, like almost empty?

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Reply #313 posted 07/08/12 10:13am

HAPPYPERSON







By Patrick Goldstein From the LA times:

My father loves to brag to his friends that while his son is a big-shot Hollywood reporter, it was his father who actually met Michael Jackson. Until he retired a few years ago, my dad had a store called the 24 Collection on the Lincoln Road Mall in Miami Beach that specialized in fashion, jewelry, art and one-of-a-kind oddities (I still have a clock set into a Cuban cigar box with a portrait of Fidel Castro on the clock face). One day Brett Ratner, who grew up in Miami and whose mother was a regular customer at the store, called my dad and asked if he could bring his pal Michael Jackson by to look around. As he often did as a courtesy for celebrities who might be annoyed or hounded, my father closed the store that afternoon and put the staff at Jackson's disposal.

"Michael walked around every inch of the store, feeling things, smelling things," my father remembers. "He'd ask questions about what this was or that was, where it was from, how we found it. I made sure the staff didn't intrude on him, although one person did ask for an autograph, which made them an ex-employee right away. But Michael was just off in his own world, curious about everything he saw."

I think my dad got his hopes up when he saw that Jackson was also accompanied by an aide who had a zippered envelope full of cash. But the King of Pop never bought anything. After spending an hour in the store, he just thanked everyone for letting him look around and left.

I called Ratner this morning to ask him how he became such fast friends with Jackson. It turns out that they met in 1998 when Ratner was finishing his first "Rush Hour" picture. One day, Chris Tucker was doing a scene and broke into a wild, Michael Jackson-style dance. The sequence was so funny that when Ratner had test screenings of the film, it got one of the biggest laughs in the picture. But because it was an obvious Jackson impression, Ratner knew he had to clear it with the pop star before he could put it in the movie.

That presented a problem, since Jackson was so reclusive that even Ratner, one of the great celebrity schmoozers of our time, couldn't get to him. He even called Jackson's Neverland ranch but never got anywhere. Then he got lucky. "My editor was talking to the projectionist who ran the final screening and it turned out that he was Michael's personal projectionist," Ratner told me today. "So I gave him the print and asked him to play the beginning of the second reel for Michael, which had Chris' dance in it."

Two days later Ratner picked up the phone and heard the soft, feathery voice of Michael Jackson. So what did Michael say? Keep reading.

"Michael said he'd watched the whole movie and loved it, especially the scene Chris did with his dance. He said, 'You have my permission to use whatever you want.' " That was great, but Ratner needed something in writing. When he asked Jackson to sign something on a piece of paper, Jackson simply invited him up to the ranch. "So I drove up there and walked in, with all his giraffes and other animals, all out there to greet me." Ratner recalls. "I ended up staying at the ranch and we just became great friends. We both had this huge, almost childlike fascination with movies and music and all kinds of entertainment."

Over the years, Ratner and Jackson spent an enormous amount of time together. They would film each other, with Jackson asking Ratner about how he became a film director and Ratner asking Jackson about how he became an entertainer. "I have hours of footage of us, sitting around in our pajamas, with me asking him about what kind of music he loved as a kid, what kind of books he had on the wall as a kid. When you were with him, you really felt like God was within him. He was an amazing, superhuman kind of person, but he always treated you as an equal. He would be your friend and he never asked for anything in return."

One of their favorite activities was to have dance-offs in the game room at Jackson's house. Jackson would put on a record, usually a song by his sister, Janet, and unleash some awesome dance moves. Then Ratner or Chris Tucker, who would sometimes come along, would play Michael's records and dance along to them. I asked Ratner if that felt a little like a mere mortal playing one-on-one with LeBron James. "Hey, I wasn't self-conscious. I'm a pretty good dancer. It was just fun to do it together."

When they weren't dancing, Ratner and Jackson would watch movies together. He says they must've watched the original version of "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" 50 times over the years. "I know that people looked at Michael and thought he was strange, but to me, he was fascinating," Ratner says. "He was the most inspirational person in my life. His one dream was to cure all the sick children in the world. And when I'd say, 'Isn't that impossible?' Michael would just start to cry. He was very emotional about things that moved him. I guess you'd have to say he was a pure innocent in a world that wasn't so innocent anymore."




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Reply #314 posted 07/09/12 7:55am

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RodeoSchro said:

Here's me wearing one of Michael Jackson's personal "Thriller" jackets. He had 5 that were created for the video. Three of them were worn in the making of the video, but this is one of the ones not worn for it. However, he did wear it - just not in the video.

Turns out he was much smaller than I am!

[img:$uid]http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff311/RodeoSchro/MichaelJacksonThrillerJacket.jpg[/img:$uid]

Rodeo! love love

Of course, now he needs to step up his game and do the yellow-assless pants outfit from Prince's MTV performance of Get Off.

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Reply #315 posted 07/09/12 1:06pm

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/entert...W_story_1.html

Michael Jackson’s iconic moves are his legacy in Cirque’s ‘Immortal World Tour’
By Sarah Kaufman, Friday, July 6, 5:25 PM

We always knew Michael Jackson’s life was a circus — eccentricity swirled around him like the paparazzi.

But he wasn’t the only pop star defined by oddness. The sex scandals, pet chimps and radical changes to his looks weren’t entirely out of keeping in an industry that has embraced Jerry Lee Lewis, Marilyn Manson and Lady Gaga.

But inspiring a true under-the-big-top spectacle? Now that’s something only Jackson could do.

Cirque du Soleil’s “Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour” rolls into Verizon Center on Friday, claiming to capture the “essence, soul and inspiration” of the late King of Pop. In interviews posted on the show’s Web site, its creators state that Jackson’s music and vocals drive the production.

They’re wrong. Granted, the music is important — more than 30 of Jackson’s songs, including such hits as “Wanna Be Starting Something,” “Dangerous,” “Beat It, “ “Smooth Criminal” and “Man in the Mirror,” will be heard throughout the show, in mash-ups, remixes and live performances of new arrangements. The show’s musical director, Greg Phillinganes, traces his Jackson expertise back to session work on several of the singer’s albums and to his “Bad” and “Dangerous” concert tours, for which Phillinganes was also musical director.

But without Jackson’s legacy as a dance icon, there would be no Cirque circus. There would be, instead, the Jackson version of “Beatlemania.” “MJmania,” perhaps.

Think about it: If he weren’t such a physical performer, known for his introspective solos as well as full-out dance numbers in which his footwork outshone the career dancers fanned out behind him, what would Cirque’s dancers, contortionists and acrobats have been able to sink their famous bodies into? Jackson was a profoundly talented kinetic artist as well as a musician. He was unique in the pop-music world, an entertainer whose physical expression came at us just as powerfully as his musical one.

To be sure, there are countless other pop stars who dance. Ne-Yo pays affectionate homage to Jackson with his white socks and crisp, jazz-inflected choreography (which Jackson, by the way, borrowed in large measure from Broadway great Bob Fosse).

With his velvet coordination, Usher brings up-to-the-minute dance trends like the Memphis jook onstage. But not he, Ne-Yo or enthusiastic singer-dancer Chris Brown has the personal flamboyance or global renown to spark a theatrical event like the Cirque du Soleil show, which has European dates booked through next spring.

And none of them has made dancing a cornerstone of his craft to the extent that Jackson did.

Jackson’s identification as a dancer went beyond the common practice of injecting choreographed sequences into live performances and music videos. Even if such appealing singer-dancers as Beyonce or Madonna were to depart this life well before their time, as Jackson did three years ago at age 50, I’m not sure that the desire to cash in** on their popularity would bloom into a dance-acrobatic-narrative extravaganza as this Cirque production promises to be.

“I don’t know who you could really put next to him,” ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov told me just after Jackson died in June 2009. “To imitate somebody like Michael Jackson is impossible. Why bother? You just relax and admire.” Barysh*nikov, who was introduced to Jackson by Elizabeth Taylor, recalled encounters marked by Jackson’s hungry curiosity about ballet and the process of working with choreographers. The pop king was a completely intuitive dancer; his questions about the studied art of it, Baryshnikov said, were like a child’s.

That natural ability is what most impressed the ballet dancer, who fondly remembered Jackson’s “superior confidence in his body as a dancer. You wanted to say, ‘Wow, this guy, what a cat; he can really move in his own way.’ ”

There was his world-famous moonwalk, which though Jackson didn’t invent it — it was a longtime tap-dance staple — the technique will be forever linked to the pop star. It’s hard to think of him without seeing him sliding backward across the stage, as if he’s slipping on ice, or being pulled by an invisible thread. (“Moonwalk,” though, is one of the world’s great misnomers, though it’s more romantic than calling the move Trying to Reverse Direction on a Conveyor Belt.)

Jackson’s dance prowess was in glorious evidence from the start. As the Jackson 5’s kid singer, he absorbed James Brown’s moves into his bones, especially the Godfather of Soul’s precise, twisting footwork and his tight spins that started with a sweep of one shoulder. Jackson’s joy in moving was an instinctive musical response, and as much a part of his appeal as his dimples and sweet soprano.

As his solo career grew, so did the power he could project through that lithe, boyish body. By the time he was singing in stadiums, the electricity in his dancing could be felt in the highest rows. Look at the jolts and shudders he delivered when he performed “Billie Jean,” for example. This wasn’t a vanity moment, an opportunity for a costume change and some mimed makeout with a backup dancer, as you see in so many other pop concerts. It was a demonstration of the barely contained fire in this performer, the volcanic self-expression that, whatever the oddities of his personal life, found a positive outlet in a perfected physical display.

This physical fire is what extends Jackson’s legacy in a way that Whitney Houston or Donna Summer, as mourned as they are, will never enjoy. The recognizable moves, the kinetic excitement and the visual spectacle of the Jackson concert experience can be resurrected and multiplied, with a cast of hundreds, even though the star is missing. Cirque du Soleil will do it with bloodied, mummy-wrapped characters inspired by the “Thriller” video, dancing in “re-imagined” choreography. There will also be a chorus of performers in red biker jackets like the one Jackson wore in “Beat It.” And hip-hop dancers take the stage in a riff on the video Jackson made with basketball great Michael Jordan.

There’s even a number that was designed for Jackson’s “This Is It” tour, the one he was working on before he died.

“This will be the show that Michael wasn’t able to do,” says Phillinganes in a promotional video clip. Perhaps. But in a larger sense, Jackson had done it all before. That’s why the show exists

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Reply #316 posted 07/09/12 1:45pm

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Freddie Mercury and Michael Jackson: "He has been a friend of ours for a long while," explained Mercury, who visited King of Pop Michael Jackson at his mock-Tudor, pre-Neverland mansion on Hayvenhurst Avenue in Encino, Calif. "He used to come and see our shows all the time, and that is how the friendship grew ... just think, I could have been on Thriller. Think of the royalties I've missed out on!" The two had worked together as well. As the book details, in Mercury's words, "We had three tracks in the can ['There Must Be More to Life Than This,' which later appeared on Mercury's first solo album; 'Victory,' which was featured on The Jackson 5's 1984 comeback album Victory; and 'State of Shock, which became a Jackson duet with Mick Jagger], but unfortunately they were never finished. They were great songs, but the problem was time -- as we were both very busy at that period [1983]. We never seemed to be in the same country long enough to actually finish anything completely. Michael even called me to ask if I could complete ['State of Shock'], but I couldn't because I had commitments with Queen. Mick Jagger took over instead. It was a shame, but ultimately a song is a song. As long as the friendship is there, that's what matters." Mercury subsequently fell out with Jackson because the U.S. star objected to Mercury taking too much cocaine in his living room.

http://www.hollywoodrepor...wie-343526

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Reply #317 posted 07/09/12 9:57pm

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Freddie Mercury and Michael Jackson: "He has been a friend of ours for a long while," explained Mercury, who visited King of Pop Michael Jackson at his mock-Tudor, pre-Neverland mansion on Hayvenhurst Avenue in Encino, Calif. "He used to come and see our shows all the time, and that is how the friendship grew ... just think, I could have been on Thriller. Think of the royalties I've missed out on!" The two had worked together as well. As the book details, in Mercury's words, "We had three tracks in the can ['There Must Be More to Life Than This,' which later appeared on Mercury's first solo album; 'Victory,' which was featured on The Jackson 5's 1984 comeback album Victory; and 'State of Shock, which became a Jackson duet with Mick Jagger], but unfortunately they were never finished. They were great songs, but the problem was time -- as we were both very busy at that period [1983]. We never seemed to be in the same country long enough to actually finish anything completely. Michael even called me to ask if I could complete ['State of Shock'], but I couldn't because I had commitments with Queen. Mick Jagger took over instead. It was a shame, but ultimately a song is a song. As long as the friendship is there, that's what matters." Mercury subsequently fell out with Jackson because the U.S. star objected to Mercury taking too much cocaine in his living room.

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Cocaine? I thought Michael distanced himself from Mercury because he was gay and Mike didn't want to fuel any more gay talk than he already did. I don't know if I read that somewhere or just made an assumption, I just thought it was strange how he cut Freddie off after being close to him, I also see Mercury in Michaels stage performance, particularly when he holds his fist out, that was a freddie thing.

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Reply #318 posted 07/10/12 11:12am

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Spike Lee works on Michael Jackson documentary

NEW YORK (AP) — Spike Lee worked with Michael Jackson and considered him a friend, but the director says even he learned a lot combing through footage of the icon for a planned documentaryabout the singer's "Bad" album.

Lee calls it a "treasure chest of findings."

"We have footage in this documentary that no one's ever seen, stuff that Michael shot himself, behind-the-scenes stuff," he said in an interview Monday. "We had complete access to the vaults ofMichael Jackson. ... He wrote 60 demos for the 'Bad' record. Only 11 made it. So we got to hear a lot of that stuff, too, so it was just a great experience."

He added: "You don't have to be a Michael Jackson-head to enjoy this."

Lee's documentary, which does not yet have an official title, will be part of a flood of material to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the "Bad" album, Jackson's follow-up to "Thriller" that included hits like the title track, "Smooth Criminal," ''The Way You Make Me Feel" and more. The album is being rereleased Sept.18 with additional tracks, a DVD and other bonus material; Lee's film is due to come out later this year, but no date has been set.

Besides Jackson's artistry, Lee said the documentary will show a more personal side of the late legend.

"He had a great sense of humor, and he was funny — so you'll see a lot of that stuff," he said.

Lee interviewed people ranging from Kanye West to Mariah Carey to L.A. Reid to Sheryl Crow, who was Jackson's background singer on the "Bad" tour.

"We really divided it into two things: Artists today who were influenced by Michael, and then people who worked side by side — musicians, songwriters, technicians, engineers, people at the label, who were all committed to Michael, to the follow-up to the biggest record of all time, which still is 'Thriller.'"

Besides the documentary, Lee also plans to hold his now annual birthday tribute to Jackson in Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York, on Aug. 25; Jackson would have turned 54 this year.

"This year we're going to focus on the 'Bad' album, we're going to focus on the 25th anniversary, but at the same time we're going to play his full catalog, including the Jackson 5 and the Jacksons," he said. "It's going to be even bigger and better this year."

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Sounds like this will be a really good documentary! I'm excited to see unseen footage! biggrin biggrin biggrin Wonder if its the same unreleased footage that Justin Bieber saw?

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Reply #319 posted 07/10/12 11:42am

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Bad 25 New Documentary (Snippet) by Spike Lee

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Reply #320 posted 07/10/12 12:15pm

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Bad 25 New Documentary (Snippet) by Spike Lee

looks good, cool!

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Reply #321 posted 07/10/12 3:30pm

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LiLi1992 said:

Bad 25 New Documentary (Snippet) by Spike Lee

Love this! I cant wait smile I'm excited about this Spike Lee documentary, because he wants to honor michaels legacy and he's a huge fan as well, so it's def something great! I love the fact that he's included things we havent seen before, finally someone is doing a good MJ documentary!

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Reply #322 posted 07/10/12 4:29pm

HAPPYPERSON

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Reply #323 posted 07/10/12 7:24pm

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These are beautiful, just saved them!

I have another caption for that last one....get off the stage!

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Reply #324 posted 07/10/12 8:06pm

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Reply #325 posted 07/10/12 9:06pm

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GoldDolphin said:

LiLi1992 said:

Bad 25 New Documentary (Snippet) by Spike Lee

Love this! I cant wait smile I'm excited about this Spike Lee documentary, because he wants to honor michaels legacy and he's a huge fan as well, so it's def something great! I love the fact that he's included things we havent seen before, finally someone is doing a good MJ documentary!

it looks great and Spike, in my opinion, makes better docus than feature films but I was really hoping he would do a full life bio, not one on the making of an album. He did one on Jim Brown that was brilliant, who knows why he's not doing the same with Michael. Maybe he didn't want to feed into the controversies, I think it's a cop out. I would have like to see him delve into this in a way the american press did not, that is to say, I think Mike was innocent and I want to see his name cleared sometime in my life.

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Reply #326 posted 07/11/12 2:17pm

HAPPYPERSON

^ i can contact MJ's Estate & Spike Lee about your idea if you like, maybe we can start a petiton and once we have enough signatures send it to the official online team of the estate

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Reply #327 posted 07/11/12 5:55pm

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^ i can contact MJ's Estate & Spike Lee about your idea if you like, maybe we can start a petiton and once we have enough signatures send it to the official online team of the estate

Yes please do smile

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Reply #328 posted 07/11/12 9:11pm

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Reply #329 posted 07/11/12 10:31pm

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HAPPYPERSON said:

^ i can contact MJ's Estate & Spike Lee about your idea if you like, maybe we can start a petiton and once we have enough signatures send it to the official online team of the estate

Yes please do smile

well i'm writing the rough draft of the petiton right now and once i'm finished, the peition will be posted hopefully tomorrow. we can spread it around signatures for support of them and then i can send it to the official online team of the estate and spike lee

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