NaughtyKitty said:

DonRants said:

Good article and I believe this will be a good book. But I have to call Bullshit on the homeless people part. Impossible that MJ travels as much as he does, sings songs that he does (We are the World, Man in The Mirror, Do you Know where Your Children Are for example) and only saw homeless people for the first time in 2007 when he is almost 50! It is amazing how MJ could get people to believe he was so inncoent.

I totally agree

Janet Jackson wrote in her book about how she and Michael used to drive around giving meals to the homeless. She also recalled the experience in interviews. Michael knew who "the homeless" were.

Janet & Michael Jackson handed out dinners to homeless

MICHAEL and JANET JACKSON cruised the streets of Los Angeles handing out dinners to homeless people.

purplethunder3121 said:

NaughtyKitty said:

I totally agree

Janet Jackson wrote in her book about how she and Michael used to drive around giving meals to the homeless. She also recalled the experience in interviews. Michael knew who "the homeless" were.

Janet & Michael Jackson handed out dinners to homeless

MICHAEL and JANET JACKSON cruised the streets of Los Angeles handing out dinners to homeless people.

Published: Wed, February 16, 2011

The superstar singer has opened up about her colourful past and her personal issues in a new book True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself, and writes about her closeness to her late Thriller hitmaker brother, who died in 2009.

And during a candid chat with Piers Morgan on his CNN show, Jackson reveals her favourite memory with Michael is when the famous pair would hand out hot dinners to down-and-outs.

She recalls, "Mike and I were very close. We used to go to this restaurant called Love's, I don't think it's there anymore, and we used to get a ton of dinners. And we'd drive around in the car looking for homeless people to give them to.

"We used to do it all the time, and just give them food. And one guy said, 'I don't want your stinking food!' And I was like, 'Let's get out of here!' He (Michael) was the one who was driving and I was the one passing out the food. But that's the only time there was any sort of rejection."

This info is VERY TRUE!!!!!

When record executive and Jackson estate co-executor John McClain phoned Anka to apologize over the misunderstanding, he mentioned that he’d found another “great song” of Jackson’s in the vault. “Let me play it for you,” he told Anka.

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Anka listened and agreed that the song was strong. He then dropped a little bomb. “Excuse me, sir, but that’s mine also,” he told McClain. The song was Love Never Felt So Good, a hit single from the latest posthumous Jackson album, Xscape, released last week. It is indeed an Anka co-write (from the same sessions that produced This Is It), and now the Having My Baby singer is the proud parent of another charting collaboration with Jackson.

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“I’ve had a long journey with that song,” Anka told The Globe last week. “It’s certainly a commentary on good material. It’s from a period where Michael was really in his zone.”

Indeed he was. The same year he worked with Anka, Jackson released Thriller, a consequential album to say the least. After Thriller broke big, however, Jackson was no longer interested in appearing as a duet partner on Anka’s Walk a Fine Line album, as was planned.

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In addition to Jackson, Anka worked with others on the Walk a Fine Line project, including David Foster, Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins. Unlike those professional songsmiths, Jackson wasn’t a technician when it came to composing. “He wasn’t a great musician in that sense,” said Anka, whose credits include My Way, She’s a Lady and the theme for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. “His genius was that he had a very strong and passionate love for what he was doing and knowing himself. You could put a drum and a piano and maybe a bass with all those sounds he makes and his whole wherewithal with himself, and what he was capable of doing was remarkable.”

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There are three versions of Love Never Felt So Good, including the contemporary-sounding hit duet with Justin Timberlake and a disco-tinged solo rendering that wouldn’t sound out of place on Jackson’s Off the Wall from 1979. A demo version, with Anka on piano accompanying Jackson’s vocals, is included on the deluxe edition of Xscape.

“He was very unusual in the way he approached a song,” Anka said of the King of Pop. “I’d have to sell him on some chords, and convince him that it could be different or better. Then, once he got in the loop with me, he contributed, but not in an aggressive way. He was a very mild-mannered and shy human being.”

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Jackson and Anka worked for four weeks together in 1983, but nothing from the collaboration ended up on Anka’s Walk a Fine Line. It was to be a comeback album, anchored by a duet with Jackson.

After Jackson pulled out of the project and took the tapes with him, Anka held a grudge for years.

But now? “I think he’s made me a little happier,” Anka says with a laugh, thinking of the cash windfall from the collaboration. Love Never Felt So Good is featured in a major ad campaign for Jeep, and Anka says there are “many, many more songs” from his sessions with Jackson. “They’ll all come out,” he says, “as they need them.”

And make no mistake, they – meaning Sony and the Jackson estate – will indeed have need. Which is just fine for Anka. Don’t stop till you get enough, you can almost hear him say.

I like Paul Anka's 1976 hit "The Times Of Your Life",but he seems like an odd person for Michael to collaborate with back then.Especially at a time when Michael was so hot,he could have worked with anyone.By the early 80s,Paul Anka was sorta a has-been...about as 'relevent' as Neil Sedaka was at that time.I'm not surprised that Michael cancelled the collaboration and the plans for a duet.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/paul-ankas-newest-single-features-duet-with-michael-jackson/article18892638/

Love Never Felt So Good is featured in a major ad campaign for Jeep, and Anka says there are “many, many more songs” from his sessions with Jackson. “They’ll all come out,” he says, “as they need them.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopmusic/10859712/Queen-to-Release-New-Album-With-Unreleased-Freddie-Mercury-Songs.html

"They've been hanging around for years and Michael's estate haven't really been able to make their mind up about what to do with them.

"So we suggested we finish them and see. They're pretty good – one of them is great."

The duet failed to make the listing for the King of Pop’s posthumous album Xscape and it remains unclear whether fans will hear it on the new Queen release

http://www.macleans.ca/culture/books/michael-jacksons-bodyguards-recount-his-final-days/

Michael Jackson's final days

Maclean's reviews Remember the Time

Christopher Loudon

May 30, 2014

NaughtyKitty said:

DonRants said:

Good article and I believe this will be a good book. But I have to call Bullshit on the homeless people part. Impossible that MJ travels as much as he does, sings songs that he does (We are the World, Man in The Mirror, Do you Know where Your Children Are for example) and only saw homeless people for the first time in 2007 when he is almost 50! It is amazing how MJ could get people to believe he was so inncoent.

I totally agree

Same here. Also, he wore a lot of disguises, so he got around. I just believe that MJ just ask the question about the homeless out of concern, not because he's never seen homeless people.

Does anyone knows how the album is doing on the charts? I haven't kept up with MJ in awhile.

Beautifulstarr123 said:

NaughtyKitty said:

I totally agree

Same here. Also, he wore a lot of disguises, so he got around. I just believe that MJ just ask the question about the homeless out of concern, not because he's never seen homeless people.

He was just acting naive/instigating to get a reaction cause he's always amused by how people react to him, I immediately thought of the story about him and janet handing out dinners too

I've been listening to this song allot all week long

this was really amazing music

great music

when this song debuted during the summer of 1987

I listened to it all the time

nothing like a great duet