GoldDolphin said:

LiLi1992 said:

today looking through the article "List of unreleased Michael Jackson songs"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unreleased_Michael_Jackson_songs

"Crack Kills", writer - Michael Jackson... Planned to have been recorded with rappers Run-DMC for Jackson's Bad album, but was shelved due to the group's negative attitude toward the singer

What is the story? and who dared to offend our overage kid?

Okay, I found ... but it was just showing off on their part http://www.rollingstone.c...p-19861204

[Edited 3/4/13 4:49am]

that's the best shit ever. Finally the truth!

[Edited 3/4/13 14:51pm]

Anybody have the full version of this video?

NaughtyKitty said:

La Toya Jackson seizes ca... TV series

• By STACY BROWN
• Last Updated: 12:22 PM, March 3, 2013

La Toya Jackson was noticeably quiet when the Jackson family feud erupted in public last summer.

But while her siblings battled executors over Michael Jackson’s $2 billion estate, and her niece Paris battled Aunt Janet in the driveway, estranged La Toya, 56, slyly moved in on the heirs to the fortune.

She gathered Jacko’s three children and took sanctuary in the family’s Calabasas, Calif., mansion with Prince, 16, Paris, 15, and Blanket, 10.

The get-togethers included “lots of ice cream and cookies,” said a family insider.

“They needed comfort with everyone showing their wild side, so they watched television together, they listened to music and they talked about what Mike would want. Mostly, it was Toya doing all the talking.”

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AUNT SHE SLY: Jackson insiders say La Toya won over Michael’s three kids and signed them to her talent agency, which has no other clients.

Before long, the gold-digging diva had signed all three of his kids to her Ja-Tail Enterprises talent agency, which boasts no other clients.

Prince recently signed with “Entertainment Tonight” through Ja-Tail to be a correspondent. La Toya, who has named her two poodles after Prince and Paris, stood with a watchful eye in the “ET” studios last week as Prince made his debut.

La Toya also signed Prince to appear on the CW’s remake of “Beverly Hills 90210.”

Paris inked a movie deal that will have her shooting later this year in London.

The coup de grâce for La Toya, who gets a standard 15 percent commission on each deal, would be a reality TV show deal she’s negotiating. Insiders said bidding has approached $10 million.

OWN, Oprah Winfrey’s network, is thought to be the front-runner to land the series that would feature Jacko’s children, La Toya and cameos by family matriarch Katherine.

“Toya’s working it. It’s because [Katherine] can’t say no to her,” one person close to the family said.

She was able to use the sympathy card because most of her siblings were legally barred from the mansion following the videotaped fight between Paris and her aunt Janet, the failed coup on Jacko’s will and the alleged kidnapping of Katherine.

“She pounced while everyone else was making a lot of useless noise. It was her smoke screen, and she got it done,” the insider said.

“She told them how she knew [Michael] better than anybody else, and she knew he’d want them to follow their dreams; and because they were his children, they could be media and entertainment moguls.

“She had a blueprint. She sold it, and they bought it.”

It was La Toya who prompted Paris to speak publicly for the first time at Jacko’s memorial, proclaiming him “the best daddy ever.” The speech ended with Paris in La Toya’s arms.

The fifth of nine children, La Toya has long been considered as wacko as Jacko.

She twice posed for Playboy, ran a psychic hot line, and publicly accused her famous brother of being a pedophile.

She accused patriarch Joseph Jackson of child abuse, and alleged her ex-husband, the late businessman Jack Gordon, tried to pimp her out for $100,000 to boxer Mike Tyson for a night.

Since Jacko’s 2009 death, his big sister has claimed Jacko’s pet chimp Bubbles has spoken to her and that a psychic contacted the “Thriller” singer on her behalf.

One potential hang up to the OWN deal is Paris’s refusal to do a reality show, but insiders caution not to underestimate Latoya’s power of persuasion.

“Prince wasn’t exactly eager to do ET, but could you tell? When the money is on the line, Toya is going to cash in. I wouldn’t bet against her,” the insider said.

Latoya also doesn’t have to worry about potential backlash from cousin T.J., who shares guardianship of the children with Katherine.

“The guardianship really comes down to what [Katherine] will or won’t approve and TJ only steps in when [Katherine] can’t or refuses to make a decision,” a family member said. “Toya is smart, she has her mother eating out of her hand.”

Stacy Brown is a reporter and longtime friend of the Jackson family.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/la_toya_wins_tug_wards_rlZ8WF9lkdYFlHN4ODkudI

Has she hidden the fact from Paris, Prince & Blanket. That she totally threw her brother mJ under the bus years ago. By accusing him of being a child molestor & bleaching his skin.?

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KCOOLMUZIQ said:

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Has she hidden the fact from Paris, Prince & Blanket. That she totally threw her brother mJ under the bus years ago. By accusing him of being a child molestor & bleaching his skin.?

[Edited 3/4/13 16:34pm]

I will say that I have forgiven La toya. After I saw her on Celebrity Apprentice & she donated her reward money to APLA......Plus she requested me as a friend on You Tube & we chatted a little bit. She is a sweet Plus I have her first album in my archives...

Emancipation89 said:

^^ Aww~ I love any picture of him with his kids. and I always liked his hands lol! You just know those hands could never ever hit anyone

http://www.billboard.com/...all-at-nyu

Backbeat: Professor ?uestlove Teaches Michael Jackson’s ‘Off the Wall’ at NYU ‘Classic Albums’ Class

To a certain type of music obsessive, a tutorial on classic albums with ?uestlove sounds more like a fantasy date than something you might actually get college credit for. Yet such a course exists at New York University’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music – and there, at the institute’s SoHo headquarters, 20-odd students and several journalists crammed into the recording studio’s control room on Monday morning.

Students in the program learn about recorded music from multiple angles – essentially the business, the studio and the criticism – and while part of the course’s objective is to help students understand what makes an album a classic (not to mention what the concept of “classic” means), it also is intended to develop their critical thinking around a selection of recordings that the instructors admit are “subjective” and “slanted toward post-1965 African-American expressions.”

Instructors ?uestlove and Harry Weinger teaching the "Classic Albums" course at New York University on Monday (Photo: Jem Aswad)

Jason King, director of history and criticism studies, said the course was inspired by ?uestlove’s response to a blog written by an NPR intern that dismissed Public Enemy’s “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back” (which, not coincidentally, is one of the albums covered by the class).

“I challenged them, ‘I want you to go meta, to make students think about the canon [of classic albums] and what that means,’ ” King said. “Students need to think and communicate in more sophisticated ways about music, and they need to be able to articulate clearly.”

And in?uestlove (Roots drummer, musical director of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon and, as the syllabus states with no exaggeration, “a potent musical archivist and informal scholar”) and Harry Weinger (a former Billboardcontributor whose day job is as a VP and Grammy-winning reissue producer at Universal, where he’s helmed many a classic James Brown reissue over the years), the program could have found few better instructors.

For the class’s fourth session, the subject is Michael Jackson’s “Off the Wall,” pivotal not just because it’s a groundbreaking album, but because it was the then 21-year-old Jackson’s declaration of independence after having spent his entire life mostly within the confines of the Jackson 5, and under the domineering tutelage of his manager/father, Joe.

The formidable wisdom and perspective of ?uestlove and Weinger are what make the class fascinating – but so is their access to multitracks of many of the albums (which also include Aretha Franklin’s “Lady Soul,” Prince’s “Dirty Mind,” Marvin Gaye’s “Here, My Dear,” Mary J. Blige’s “My Life,” Sly & the Family Stone’s “There’s a Riot Goin’ On,” De La Soul’s “3 Feet High and Rising” and the Beastie Boys’ “Paul’s Boutique”). Outside of recording studios, multitracks – aka “stems,” the individual instrumental and vocal tracks that make up the recordings – are usually the domain of “Classic Album” documentaries and multi-disc boxed sets, and in this kind of study, they’re unusually revealing for a number of reasons.

?uestlove cued up several unused instrumental tracks to illustrate the genius of Quincy Jones’ production oversight on “Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough.”

“My observation of this record was not what went into but what was taken away from it,” he says. “This is universally regarded as a very timeless record … When I’m working with a client, I might have an idea of where I think the song should go, but just for good solidarity, so they don’t think you're a dictator, you might want to let them exhaust all their ideas. ‘A/B-ing’ means you try every idea under the sun and then you sit on it and come back to it, and if it sticks you use it; if it doesn’t, you do away with it. On these [unused] tracks are a lot of ideas that I’m shocked they even attempted: There’s theramin tracks, cheesy sirens, overdone disco string arrangements, overdone percussion.”

He plays rejected examples of all of the above, which would have carbon-dated the recording in the late 1970s as vividly as a bushy mustache or a rugby shirt.

“Michael Jackson had a lot of ideas and he probably wanted to use all of them. … I would like to have been there to see Quincy Jones talk Michael Jackson off the ledge. And sometimes Michael did win – Quincy to this day will say that he hated ‘Billie Jean.’ But clearly, underdoing it is the key to success here – understatement is the magic of it.”

A playful moment occurs during a demo recording of “Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough,” where you hear teenaged Randy Jackson and a 10-year-old Janet yelling at Michael because the music is too loud in the headphones. That demo wasn’t just played for entertainment value: The rough version of the song illustrates Jackson’s rigorous preparation and work ethic, and shows how complete many of the titles from “Off the Wall” were before the final recordings even began.

Yet most fascinating was hearing four different takes of Jackson’s lead vocal on “She’s Out of My Life.” ?uest told the story that Jackson had recently broken up with Tatum O’Neill and was hurting at the time he recorded the song – and emphasized that he used that emotion for his art. Indeed, you hear Jackson weeping during a couple of the takes, one of them – the master – so much that he says, “I’m sorry I messed that up” at the end.

“When I see [videos of] the song on the ‘Bad’ tour or wherever he does it, it’s theater, but for this one moment, [you] see him as a human being," ?uestlove says. "I’m curious to see if the caricature that Michael Jackson morphed into is still in your head when you hear this record, or do these moments where he allows his human side to come through … do you feel differently now that you’ve heard him in this way?”

And with that, Weinger concludes the class and moves on to their, ahem, homework assignment: “Catch up with your Public Enemy reading, and watch the videos…”

well, well, well, what do we have hear.......

culture being revisited at the highest level

can't teach culture though, it has to be cultivated

as society, as the industry looks to find answers as it has tanked out, they draw back to study the quintessential/r&b album that's ever been released on wax, introduced to the world 34 years ago

eventually, this discourse was going to happen, but the clutter had to run its course first

people want to know what produced the magic

or the energy that produced the unforgetable lyric

"looooooove suuuurrrrviiiiiiiive, so we can rock forever.....ooooonnnn"

[Edited 3/4/13 20:52pm]

Scorp said:

Emancipation89 said:

^^ Aww~ I love any picture of him with his kids. and I always liked his hands lol! You just know those hands could never ever hit anyone

http://www.billboard.com/...all-at-nyu

Backbeat: Professor ?uestlove Teaches Michael Jackson’s ‘Off the Wall’ at NYU ‘Classic Albums’ Class

To a certain type of music obsessive, a tutorial on classic albums with ?uestlove sounds more like a fantasy date than something you might actually get college credit for. Yet such a course exists at New York University’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music – and there, at the institute’s SoHo headquarters, 20-odd students and several journalists crammed into the recording studio’s control room on Monday morning.

Students in the program learn about recorded music from multiple angles – essentially the business, the studio and the criticism – and while part of the course’s objective is to help students understand what makes an album a classic (not to mention what the concept of “classic” means), it also is intended to develop their critical thinking around a selection of recordings that the instructors admit are “subjective” and “slanted toward post-1965 African-American expressions.”

Instructors ?uestlove and Harry Weinger teaching the "Classic Albums" course at New York University on Monday (Photo: Jem Aswad)

Jason King, director of history and criticism studies, said the course was inspired by ?uestlove’s response to a blog written by an NPR intern that dismissed Public Enemy’s “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back” (which, not coincidentally, is one of the albums covered by the class).

“I challenged them, ‘I want you to go meta, to make students think about the canon [of classic albums] and what that means,’ ” King said. “Students need to think and communicate in more sophisticated ways about music, and they need to be able to articulate clearly.”

And in?uestlove (Roots drummer, musical director of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon and, as the syllabus states with no exaggeration, “a potent musical archivist and informal scholar”) and Harry Weinger (a former Billboardcontributor whose day job is as a VP and Grammy-winning reissue producer at Universal, where he’s helmed many a classic James Brown reissue over the years), the program could have found few better instructors.

For the class’s fourth session, the subject is Michael Jackson’s “Off the Wall,” pivotal not just because it’s a groundbreaking album, but because it was the then 21-year-old Jackson’s declaration of independence after having spent his entire life mostly within the confines of the Jackson 5, and under the domineering tutelage of his manager/father, Joe.

The formidable wisdom and perspective of ?uestlove and Weinger are what make the class fascinating – but so is their access to multitracks of many of the albums (which also include Aretha Franklin’s “Lady Soul,” Prince’s “Dirty Mind,” Marvin Gaye’s “Here, My Dear,” Mary J. Blige’s “My Life,” Sly & the Family Stone’s “There’s a Riot Goin’ On,” De La Soul’s “3 Feet High and Rising” and the Beastie Boys’ “Paul’s Boutique”). Outside of recording studios, multitracks – aka “stems,” the individual instrumental and vocal tracks that make up the recordings – are usually the domain of “Classic Album” documentaries and multi-disc boxed sets, and in this kind of study, they’re unusually revealing for a number of reasons.

?uestlove cued up several unused instrumental tracks to illustrate the genius of Quincy Jones’ production oversight on “Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough.”

“My observation of this record was not what went into but what was taken away from it,” he says. “This is universally regarded as a very timeless record … When I’m working with a client, I might have an idea of where I think the song should go, but just for good solidarity, so they don’t think you're a dictator, you might want to let them exhaust all their ideas. ‘A/B-ing’ means you try every idea under the sun and then you sit on it and come back to it, and if it sticks you use it; if it doesn’t, you do away with it. On these [unused] tracks are a lot of ideas that I’m shocked they even attempted: There’s theramin tracks, cheesy sirens, overdone disco string arrangements, overdone percussion.”

He plays rejected examples of all of the above, which would have carbon-dated the recording in the late 1970s as vividly as a bushy mustache or a rugby shirt.

“Michael Jackson had a lot of ideas and he probably wanted to use all of them. … I would like to have been there to see Quincy Jones talk Michael Jackson off the ledge. And sometimes Michael did win – Quincy to this day will say that he hated ‘Billie Jean.’ But clearly, underdoing it is the key to success here – understatement is the magic of it.”

A playful moment occurs during a demo recording of “Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough,” where you hear teenaged Randy Jackson and a 10-year-old Janet yelling at Michael because the music is too loud in the headphones. That demo wasn’t just played for entertainment value: The rough version of the song illustrates Jackson’s rigorous preparation and work ethic, and shows how complete many of the titles from “Off the Wall” were before the final recordings even began.

Yet most fascinating was hearing four different takes of Jackson’s lead vocal on “She’s Out of My Life.” ?uest told the story that Jackson had recently broken up with Tatum O’Neill and was hurting at the time he recorded the song – and emphasized that he used that emotion for his art. Indeed, you hear Jackson weeping during a couple of the takes, one of them – the master – so much that he says, “I’m sorry I messed that up” at the end.

“When I see [videos of] the song on the ‘Bad’ tour or wherever he does it, it’s theater, but for this one moment, [you] see him as a human being," ?uestlove says. "I’m curious to see if the caricature that Michael Jackson morphed into is still in your head when you hear this record, or do these moments where he allows his human side to come through … do you feel differently now that you’ve heard him in this way?”

And with that, Weinger concludes the class and moves on to their, ahem, homework assignment: “Catch up with your Public Enemy reading, and watch the videos…”

well, well, well, what do we have hear.......

culture being revisited at the highest level

can't teach culture though, it has to be cultivated

as society, as the industry looks to find answers as it has tanked out, they draw back to study the quintessential/r&b album that's ever been released on wax, introduced to the world 34 years ago

eventually, this discourse was going to happen, but the clutter had to run its course first

people want to know what produced the magic

or the energy that produced the unforgetable lyric

"looooooove suuuurrrrviiiiiiiive, so we can rock forever.....ooooonnnn"

[Edited 3/4/13 20:52pm]

While I do love Off The Wall it's a very progressive album and one of my favs, why is QUESTLOVE teaching about it. They couldn't afford BRUCE SWEDIEN OR QUINCY JONES?! Ugh.. sorry...

La Toya Jackson Slams NY Post, Nixes Jackson Reality Show

A recent article claims the “gold-digging diva” has signed Michael Jackson’s three children to her Ja-Tail talent agency and is earning a 15 percent commission.

La Toya Jackson is firing back at The New York Post, calling a recent article on her relationship with Michael Jackson's three children “false” and “derogatory.”

On Sunday, the publication reported that the 56-year-old had quietly begun to profit on the showbiz ambitions of the late singer’s children, signing them as the only clients of her Ja-Tail Enterprises talent agency and collecting a 15 percent commission on Paris Jackson and Prince Michael Jackson’s respective deals.

While Paris recently inked a movie deal that will have her shooting in London this year, Prince Michael has been named a correspondent on Entertainment Tonight and will make his acting debut on The CW’s recently canceled 90210.

The article referred to La Toya as a “gold-digging diva” and claimed that she “pounced” while the rest of the family was engaged in a bizarre feud last summer.

It also was reported that La Toya is in the process of shopping a Jackson family reality series and that Oprah Winfrey’s OWN was thought to be the front-runner in a $10 million bidding war.

Below is La Toya’s response in full, submitted to The Hollywood Reporter by publicist Juliette Harris:

“The story in The NY Post is completely and unequivocally false. Neither La Toya nor her company represent any of MJ’s children in any legal capacity nor has she received any commissions or payment as a result of their individual ventures. As a loving Aunt, when the children ask for help or advice she supports them 100%, and will continue to do so.

Furthermore, there is no shopping of a reality show for the children. Paris did her movie deal over a year ago directly with the production company and La Toya had nothing to do with it. Over the past year, Prince has continuously asked his Aunt for her help in starting his career because of the infrastructure she has. When she asked her nephew what he wanted for his birthday he replied, "He just wanted to work," It was at the time that she diligently started to assist him with his career and that's when Entertainment Tonight was booked and then 90210.

La Toya is currently consulting with her attorneys on how to proceed against these false and derogatory statements made by The NY Post and other participating publications.”

http://www.hollywoodrepor...-ny-425975

Prince Michael Jackson makes acting debut filming 90210 finale

05 MARCH 2013

Michael Jackson's eldest son Prince Michael Jackson joined the cast of teen drama 90210 to film their final episode.

The 16-year-old arrived on set in Los Angeles accompanied by his aunt LaToya Jackson who is acting as his manager. He spent time in make-up having a cut painted onto his face to prepare him for his role of an accident victim named Cooper.

CLICK ON PHOTO TO ENLARGE

The stars of the show, including AnnaLynne McCord, Michael Steger and Shenae Grimes, are currently filming their fifth and final series. It was recently announced that 90210 will come to an end on 13 May.

Prince Michael smiled and was relaxed on set as he was greeted warmly by the cast and crew members.

Before shooting the scene, he told Brooke Anderson of American showbiz news channelEntertainment Tonight that he prepared for his role by running his lines with his cousins, the director and his aunt.

It is the second time in the last fortnight that the teen has worked with Brooke. He received coaching sessions from her when he landed a job as a reporter for the channel.

His first assignment was to interview some of the cast and crew from the upcoming Disney film Oz the Great and Powerful, including director Sam Raimi and actors James Franco and Zach Braff.

The ambitious teen hopes director Peter Jackson will be his next interviewee. "I love his movies.Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and King Kong. I just love the way he shoots.

"I used to study his movies with my dad, put the volume off and just watch it, just the shots to see how he put it together."

His new job will throw him into the spotlight that his late dad was so keen to protect his children from. Along with his two siblings, Paris, 14, and Blanket, 10, the trio had been kept out of the public view until Michael's memorial in 2009.

Since then, Prince Michael has been seen on a handful of occasions, often representing his father. Just months after he passed away in February 2010, the then 12-year-old accepted a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement on his behalf. The following autumn, he signed replicas of his dad's Beat It and Thriller leather jackets for a special amazon.com sale.

mookie said:

La Toya Jackson Slams NY Post, Nixes Jackson Reality Show


Below is La Toya’s response in full, submitted to The Hollywood Reporter by publicist Juliette Harris:

“The story in The NY Post is completely and unequivocally false. Neither La Toya nor her company represent any of MJ’s children in any legal capacity nor has she received any commissions or payment as a result of their individual ventures. As a loving Aunt, when the children ask for help or advice she supports them 100%, and will continue to do so.

Furthermore, there is no shopping of a reality show for the children. Paris did her movie deal over a year ago directly with the production company and La Toya had nothing to do with it. Over the past year, Prince has continuously asked his Aunt for her help in starting his career because of the infrastructure she has. When she asked her nephew what he wanted for his birthday he replied, "He just wanted to work," It was at the time that she diligently started to assist him with his career and that's when Entertainment Tonight was booked and then 90210.

La Toya is currently consulting with her attorneys on how to proceed against these false and derogatory statements made by The NY Post and other participating publications.”

http://www.hollywoodrepor...-ny-425975

GoldDolphin said:

Scorp said:

well, well, well, what do we have hear.......

culture being revisited at the highest level

can't teach culture though, it has to be cultivated

as society, as the industry looks to find answers as it has tanked out, they draw back to study the quintessential/r&b album that's ever been released on wax, introduced to the world 34 years ago

eventually, this discourse was going to happen, but the clutter had to run its course first

people want to know what produced the magic

or the energy that produced the unforgetable lyric

"looooooove suuuurrrrviiiiiiiive, so we can rock forever.....ooooonnnn"

[Edited 3/4/13 20:52pm]

While I do love Off The Wall it's a very progressive album and one of my favs, why is QUESTLOVE teaching about it. They couldn't afford BRUCE SWEDIEN OR QUINCY JONES?! Ugh.. sorry...

QUESTLOVE knows the recording industry is on fumes, that is not functioning properly and he's trying to delve into the wealth of knowledge to get an understanding as to what it really takes to make exceptional music

but it can't be dont' w/out nurturing and protecting the culture

GoldDolphin said:

Scorp said:

well, well, well, what do we have hear.......

culture being revisited at the highest level

can't teach culture though, it has to be cultivated

as society, as the industry looks to find answers as it has tanked out, they draw back to study the quintessential/r&b album that's ever been released on wax, introduced to the world 34 years ago

eventually, this discourse was going to happen, but the clutter had to run its course first

people want to know what produced the magic

or the energy that produced the unforgetable lyric

"looooooove suuuurrrrviiiiiiiive, so we can rock forever.....ooooonnnn"

[Edited 3/4/13 20:52pm]

While I do love Off The Wall it's a very progressive album and one of my favs, why is QUESTLOVE teaching about it. They couldn't afford BRUCE SWEDIEN OR QUINCY JONES?! Ugh.. sorry...

Haha I get what you're saying. Sounds like he was just giving his opinion and observations on the album. I'm sure the arrangement and production were big part of OTW's success but I don't think it's the technical perfection that ultimately made this album "classic", though like you said especially for art students it would've been really helpful if Quincy or Bruce were there to explain the details of putting this album together. I just personally would have loved to hear what he had to say and why he thought this was a classic album and what makes an album "classic" in his opinion, etc. Idk, my major couldn't be further from "music" or "art" back when I was in college so I would've really loved to take this course as an elective lol. Pretty sure I could've earned extra credit by writing a 3-page essay on Prince concert experience or something And like Scorp said, people want to know what was the magic behind this project, what kind of energy made this album so unforgettable etc as well. imo the perfect way of teaching OTW as an example of a classic album in popular music studies would be having not only producers or engineers feedback on the album but going further and dissecting cultural background and impact of this album as well. Like what was happening to mainstream music and Disco in 78/79, what the pre-expected (and limited) impact of a black solo artist used to be back in the day in terms of sales and accolades and of course most importantly what was it that only Michael could deliver that made this album work! etc.

'Smoking Gun' Email Suggests Link Between AEG and Michael Jackson's Death: Reports

March 05, 2013 5:16 AM EST

A “smoking gun” email that allegedly links concert promoter AEG Live to the 2009 death of Michael Jackson was revealed this week in connection with the wrongful-death lawsuit filed by Jackson’s mother and children.

The exchange between AEG Live co-CEO Paul Gongaware and Jackson’s “This Is It” show director Kenny Ortega suggests that Dr. Conrad Murray might have been pressured into forcing an exhausted Jackson into performing over fear of losing his $150,000-a-month job as Jackson’s personal physician, according to CNN.

Jackson died June 25, 2009, just two weeks before the scheduled start of his 50-date comeback concerts at the AEG-owned O2 Arena in London.

Addressing concerns that Jackson had missed rehearsal, Gongaware’s email read: “We want to remind [Murray] that it is AEG, not MJ, who is paying his salary. We want to remind him what is expected of him.” Jackson lawyers are arguing that the email is evidence of AEG’s involvement in the singer’s sudden death.

Jackson’s children Prince Michael, Paris and Blanket, along with their grandmother Katherine, claim that AEG Live’s pressure on Murray led to an overdose of the surgical anesthetic propofol, which the doctor had used to help the pop icon rest for his rehearsals. (Murray was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in November 2011 and is serving his four-year prison sentence.) The new trial is set to begin next month and includes Jackson’s eldest son Prince, 16, and Murray -- who did not testify at his own trial -- on the witness list.

"Now that the court has ruled that there is evidence that it was foreseeable that AEG's actions resulted in Michael Jackson's death, the Jackson family feels vindicated from the public smear campaign that AEG has waged against them," CNN quotes Jackson lawyer Kevin Boyle. "The truth about what happened to Michael, which AEG has tried to keep hidden from the public since the day Michael died, is finally emerging. We look forward to the trial where the rest of the story will come to light."

In addition to Gongaware’s email, additional email exchanges between AEG officials are also being used as evidence. In one note from Ortega to AEG Live president Randy Phillips, Ortega expresses concern over Jackson’s condition. “It is like there are two people in there. One (deep inside) trying to hold on to what he was and still can be and not wanting us to quit him, the other in this weakened and troubled state. I believe we need professional guidance in this matter.”Phillips responded with praise for Murray. “This doctor is extremely successful (we check everyone out) and does not need this gig, so he is totally unbiased and ethical.”

And while AEG Live claims to have no liability in Jackson’s death because Murray was not its employee, Jackson lawyers point to another email as evidence that Phillips was directly involved with pushing Murray to get Jackson to his rehearsals. A correspondence sent by AEG Live tour accountant Timm Woolley to an insurance broker two days before Jackson’s death read, “Randy Phillips and Dr. Murray are responsible for MJ rehearsal and attendance schedule.”

In a brief statement released last year, AEG lawyer Marvin Putnam said, “Defendants did not hire Dr. Murray, nor were they responsible for the death of Michael Jackson.”

one of my personal favorite pics of MJ but I can't find the original one...anybody have it?

[Edited 3/6/13 0:05am]

PARIS JACKSON
I Got Spirit
... FREE SPIRIT!

BREAKING NEWS

One minute she's a football player ... the next, Paris Jackson is pom-pomming her face off on her prep school's cheerleading squad ... another sign MJ's daughter is as free a spirit as he was.

Paris -- sporting a short new 'do -- hit the hardwood and rooted on the Buckley School basketball team in L.A. yesterday ... while hamming it up for the cameras.

It's just the latest predictably unpredictable move for the 14-year-old ... who was just playing for the school's flag football team in 2011 -- she's kinda like "Icebox" from "Little Giants" ... only WAYY more bad ass.

Besides the sports, Jackson is also an aspiring actress ... political activist ... model ... and Bieber-enthusiast.

Funny, Michael spent so much time trying to keep his children out of the spotlight ... but now, it seems she's reveling in it.

Video of Paris cheering: http://www.tmz.com/2013/0...l-buckley/

Read more: http://www.tmz.com#ixzz2MmnQ8Tq9

[Edited 3/6/13 10:36am]

Proof of MJs beautiful and great vocals! Wish they could release more demos like this

GoldDolphin said:

Proof of MJs beautiful and great vocals! Wish they could release more demos like this

This is lovely.

I think she looks like mj the most here than I've ever seen her though I could see a bit of a resemblance before too with her smile, though more with Debbie. I don't just mean after the vitiligo, but the way his face always lit up when he smiled regardless of which era.

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tickets to Cirque du Soleil: Michael Jackson ONE on sale from today.
Price: US $ 85.00 - US $ 200.00

http://www.ticketmaster.c...omo/7vrww1

I do not know why they have entrusted the show to Jamie King again .. why not have a theater director ...

Cirque's Michael Jackson The Immortal World Tour Tops Hot Tours 2013

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By Bob Allen | March 08, 2013 1:12 PM EST

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Michael Jackson The Immortal World Tour, Cirque du Soleil's touring production that has been playing arenas in North America and Europe since October 2011, owns the No. 1 ranking on this week's Hot Tours tally with grosses reported from venues in Russia and Switzerland. The theatrical concert production that features the music of the late King of Pop began its European leg last fall following a yearlong trek through North American markets.

The tour has appeared in three Russian cities since the launch of the European trek on October 12. The first engagement was in Saint Petersburg in November with four performances at the Ice Palace, the city's 12,000-seat ice hockey arena. The Immortal Tour spent the rest of 2012 on the road in Germany, Austria and Spain but returned to Russia at the beginning of this year with three performances in the city of Kazan. A run of six shows followed in Moscow at the Olimpiyskiy, an arena built for the 1980 Summer Olympics. The Moscow shows generated more than $9.9 million in ticket revenue from over 76,000 sold seats.

The Swiss venue that hosted Cirque du Soleil's Michael Jackson tour was Zürich's Hallenstadion with $2.8 million in revenue from a three-night run of shows. The Immortal tour played at the arena on Feb. 13-15 with attendance from all three performances surpassing 20,000.

The Jonas Brothers land at No. 3 on Hot Tours with totals reported from the first three venues on the Latin American portion of the pop trio's world tour that kicked off last October in New York City. Two Mexican cities are on the group's 2013 tour itinerary, and concert promoter OCESA reported gross and attendance totals from both markets this week. More than 18,000 tickets were sold for shows in Monterrey (Feb. 20) and Mexico City (Feb. 22) totaling $1.2 million in gross revenue. The first date on the South American leg of the tour was also reported to Billboard this week. Concert promoter Evenpro/Water Brother reported totals from a performance in Caracas, Venezuela at Simón Bolívar University on Feb. 24.

Muse scores the No. 5 Hot Tours slot with concert box office totals reported from the North American leg of the English band's 2nd Law Tour that began in Europe last year. Ticket sales topped $2 million from five U.S. arenas beginning with the BB&T Center in Sunrise, Fla. on February 22. The tour also played in Tampa and Orlando before heading to Cincinnati on February 27. A March 4 performance at Chicago's United Center rounds out this week's recap.

Weekly .com Boxscores - March 6, 2013

Act
Total Gross
Show Dates
Show Venue/City (Shows/Sellouts)
Total Attendance (Capacity)

MICHAEL JACKSON IMMORTAL WORLD TOUR-CIRQUE DU SOLEIL
$18,387,247
Nov. 9-Feb. 15
Ice Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia (4/0)
TatNeft Arena, Kazan, Russia (4/0)
Olimpiyskiy, Moscow (6/0)
Hallenstadion, Zürich (3/0)
145,088 (160,602)

ELTON JOHN
$2,662,790
Feb. 27
Jockey Club, São Paulo (1/0)
10,195 (12,000)

JONAS BROTHERS
$2,123,511
Feb. 20-24
Auditorio Banamex, Monterrey, Mexico (1/0)
Palacio de los Deportes, Mexico City (1/0)
Estadio Fútbol Universidad Simón Bolivar, Caracas (1/0)
21,811 (26,238)

DAVID GUETTA
$2,109,980
Jan. 12
Estadio Fútbol Universidad Simón Bolivar, Caracas (1/1)
10,000 (10,000)

MUSE
$2,070,717
Feb. 22-March 4
BB&T Center, Sunrise, Fla. (1/0)
Tampa Bay Times Forum, Tampa (1/0)
Amway Center, Orlando (1/0)
U.S. Bank Arena, Cincinnati (1/0)
United Center, Chicago (1/0)
37,696 (48,234)

MAROON 5
$1,137,770
Feb. 20
Bell Centre, Montreal (1/1)
15,980 (15,980)

SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA
$1,029,000
Feb. 27
Bell Centre, Montreal (1/1)
13,324 (13,324)

JAMIROQUAI
$903,199
Feb. 13-23
Jockey Club, Asunción, Paraguay (1/0)
Estadio Fútbol Universidad Simón Bolivar, Caracas (1/0)
9,787 (15,000)

CHRIS TOMLIN
$806,134
Feb. 21-March 1
The Theater at Madison Square Garden, New York (1/1)
CONSOL Energy Center, Pittsburgh (1/1)
Huntington Center, Toledo (1/1)
Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Indianapolis (1/1)
28,199 (28,199)

NEIL FINN & PAUL KELLY
$727,588
Feb. 27
Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Brisbane (2/0)
6,634 (7,278)Weekly .com Boxscores - March 6, 2013

Never saw this performance before. From his HIStory tour in Ullevi in 1997

I haven't seen this version of making of yet. Enjoy.

NaughtyKitty said:

PARIS JACKSON
I Got Spirit
... FREE SPIRIT!

BREAKING NEWS

One minute she's a football player ... the next, Paris Jackson is pom-pomming her face off on her prep school's cheerleading squad ... another sign MJ's daughter is as free a spirit as he was.

Paris -- sporting a short new 'do -- hit the hardwood and rooted on the Buckley School basketball team in L.A. yesterday ... while hamming it up for the cameras.

It's just the latest predictably unpredictable move for the 14-year-old ... who was just playing for the school's flag football team in 2011 -- she's kinda like "Icebox" from "Little Giants" ... only WAYY more bad ass.

Besides the sports, Jackson is also an aspiring actress ... political activist ... model ... and Bieber-enthusiast.

Funny, Michael spent so much time trying to keep his children out of the spotlight ... but now, it seems she's reveling in it.

Video of Paris cheering: http://www.tmz.com/2013/0...l-buckley/

Read more: http://www.tmz.com#ixzz2MmnQ8Tq9

[Edited 3/6/13 10:36am]

CREEPS

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dm3857 said:

hey guys here is a video of me dancing at the Hard Rock Cafe over the weekend. i was at the South Eastern Theatre Competition last week, and when me and my theatre troupe stopped at the Hard Rock, MJ came on and i just had to dance.

I better jump in the shower I think I just shit myself laughing.

[Edited 3/11/13 15:05pm]

lol , whats so funny? and whats with the bob fosse video, lol.

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