5th December, 2007 Michael Jackson News and Mentionings

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Michael Jackson News:

News is still circulating around the Jackson family tour rumors as well as Michael's recent shopping adventure:

*Michael Jackson was reportedly rolling around Los Angeles on Friday in a hybrid vehicle. According to TMZ,
the King of Pop went shopping at the Sharper Image in Beverly Hills in a chauffeur-driven Prius.


http://www.eurweb.com/story/eur38987.cfm






Michael Jackson Mentionings:


What the singer does have, however, is an astonishingly versatile voice. He employed a Prince-like falsetto on The Sun and a furious funk wail on Can’t Stop and delivered the soulful Secret like Michael Jackson in his prime, at least until it segued pointlessly into Phil Collins’s In The Air Tonight.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co...ainment/music/live_reviews/article3000072.ece



POLE dancers turned heads and bodies in a bid to break a record.

Seven dancers from the Manchester club Poletastic took part at the Sunshine Studios in Newton Street.

They joined about 500 men and women across the world in the Fitness Pole Dance world record attempt.

At 4pm on Sunday they all danced for 10 minutes to the beat of Michael Jackson's Billie Jean..


http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1026959_pole_dancers_record_bid





Michael Jackson HIStory:

2002 - A Santa Maria, CA, judge ordered Michael Jackson to undergo a medical examination after he failed to show up for court due to a spider bite.

2003
- A spokesperson for Epic Records said "there's no chance that "One More Chance" will be released by Epic Records." The video was planned to debut on a CBS special on Michael Jackson. The show was indefinitely delayed after a child molestation accusation was made public against Jackson in November 2003.
 
Zac Efron Named "Most Wanted" Celebrity of 2007

Actor Zac Efron (High School Musical, Hairspray) has been named the "Most Wanted" Celebrity of 2007 by ContactAnyCelebrity.com, a research firm based in West Hollywood, CA that provides celebrity contact information to fans, businesses, nonprofits and the media. Michael Jackson is #2 followed by Miley Cyrus, Oprah Winfrey, Emma Watson, Avril Lavigne, John Cena, Chris Brown, Angelina Jolie and Enrique Iglesias.

West Hollywood, CA (PRWEB) December 5, 2007 -- Zac Efron is The "Most Wanted" Celebrity of 2007 according to ContactAnyCelebrity.com, a research firm based in West Hollywood, California that provides celebrity contact information to fans, businesses, nonprofits and the media.

The Top 10 "Most Wanted" Celebrities of 2007 are the "most wanted" for autographs, donations, endorsements and media requests from fans, businesses, nonprofits and the media out of ContactAnyCelebrity.com's list of over 54,565 celebrities worldwide.

"Even with his less-than-stellar image, Michael Jackson is #2 and would probably be #1 if it weren't for Zac Efron's immense popularity this year with his roles in "High School Musical," "High School Musical 2" and "Hairspray," says Jordan McAuley, Contact Any Celebrity's Founder and President. "Interestingly, the public wants to get in touch with Michael Jackson more than any other star except Zac Efron which is probably temporary -- we'll have to wait and see."

Most of the searches on ContactAnyCelebrity.com come from fans, businesses, nonprofits and the media. They want to contact celebrities for autographed photos, charitable donations, product endorsements and media requests.

Here is ContactAnyCelebrity.com's list of the Top 10 "Most Wanted" Celebrities of 2007:

1. Zac Efron (Actor)
2. Michael Jackson (Musician)
3. Miley Cyrus (Actress & Musician)
4. Oprah Winfrey (Talk Show Host & Philanthropist)
5. Emma Watson (Actress)
6. Avril Lavigne (Musician)
7. John Cena (Wrestler)
8. Chris Brown (Musician)
9. Angelina Jolie (Actress & Philanthropist)
10. Enrique Iglesias (Musician)

The Top 10 "Most Wanted" Celebrities of 2007 is compiled from two sources: searches on ContactAnyCelebrity.com's public and private online database (http://www.contactanycelebrity.com/database/) plus clicks on the company's Google AdWords listings displayed on Google and across the Web.

A list of the Top 100 "Most Wanted" Celebrities of 2007 is available at http://www.contactanycelebrity.com/top100/

Contact Any Celebrity's online database contains the best mailing address, agent, manager, publicist, production company, and charitable cause for over 54,565 celebrities worldwide.

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:) Yep after all these years the man has still got it! B)


Hurry Michael we want you back! :p
 
:D

http://www.slate.com/id/2179275/
How Thriller Changed Pop MusicPlus: Emo-Semitism, Richard Hawley, and Pimp C.

By Jody Rosen
Posted Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007, at 4:00 PM ET
Michael Jackson's Thriller arrived in record stores 25 years ago this past week. The milestone will officially be celebrated in February with a 25th anniversary edition of the album, featuring unreleased tracks, DVD goodies (including Jackson's amazing performance of "Billie Jean" on the Motown 25 television special), and remixes by Kanye West and will.i.am, among others. In the meantime, Jackson has resurfaced in an exclusive Ebony magazine interview—looking more ivory than ebony in the cover photo—where he waxes grandiose about his famous album. Who could blame him for bragging? From the distance of a quarter-century, the release of Thriller looks like … the most significant event in popular-music history in the past quarter-century. It is the record that ended commercial pop radio's de facto apartheid, that ushered in the modern music-video era, that turned a former kiddie star into a new generation's equivalent of Elvis and the Beatles. Thriller sold 40 million copies during its initial run, and today the worldwide sales stand at 104 million. Those numbers may well represent the last great moment of pop consensus. At a time of intense musical fragmentation, it is charming to remember a record that seduced seemingly everyone: blacks, whites, grade-schoolers, grandparents. Even metalheads found their thrill on Track 5.
Today, we know Thriller so well that it is hard to hear it—to remember, for instance, the mind-bending novelty of hearing Eddie Van Halen shredding on a Michael Jackson hit. But the album's seductiveness masks its deep eccentricity. Consider "Billie Jean." The sound is a world away from the lush, beatific disco of Jackson's previous album Off The Wall (1979)—eerily stark, with that cat-on-the-prowl bass figure, cracking downbeat and multi-tracked vocals ricocheting in the vast spaces between keyboards and strings. Jackson and producer Quincy Jones sought, and got, weirdness. Jackson sang vocal overdubs through a six-foot-long cardboard tube; jazz saxophonist Tom Scott was brought in to play the lyricon, a wind-controlled analog synthesizer whose sour, trumpetlike lines answer Jackson's hiccups and "hee-hee"s. And then there's the lyric, a paternity-suit drama; a stew of shame, paranoia, and sexual terror; a parable about celebrity stalking. (Check out the creepy gumshoe who follows Jackson around in the "Billie Jean" video.) The darkness of "Billie Jean" is typical of the album. Forget the goofy B-movie title track and cock an ear to "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'," a horror show disguised as a dance anthem: "It's too high to get over/ Too low to get under/ You're stuck in the middle/ And the pain is thunder/ You're a vegetable/ Still they hate you .../ You're just a buffet/ They eat off of you." Jackson wrote the words and music to that song, and to "Billie Jean," "Beat It," and the lovely, dopey Paul McCartney duet "The Girl Is Mine"—a reminder that in his prime, the "King of Pop" was also one of pop's greatest auteurs.
 
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