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Stay tuned on this news thread the entire weekend as Dorothy comes with the news and mentionings too. Wish you all to have a wonderful weekend.
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The greatest covers of pop's royal family
Fabulous at fifty ... Prince, Madonna and Michael Jackson.
At Fashion Rocks, Rihanna unveiled her unashamedly Europop cover of Madonna's Vogue – but website Hypeful went one, two, three times better. In honour of Madge and her brothers from another mother, Michael Jackson and Prince, turning the big five-oh, they gave us (yes you guessed it) 50 covers each from the trio. We've cherry-picked the most interesting ...
Let's start with her Madgesty first...
Iggy Pop and The Stooges raucous version of Burning Up can perhaps be traced back to Madonna-obsessive bassist Mike Watt. His version can be heard on Sonic (nee Ciccone) Youth's Whitey Album (see also Sonic Youth's Into The Groove) which he recorded way back in the mid-80s. No wonder she got them to play at her Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction.
Meanwhile it's no surprise Juliana Hatfield chose the contemplative 'Gone'. After being on the receiving end of major label shenanigans (Atlantic refused to release her 1997 album God's Foot), the lyrics about "selling out" and "dream[ing] away your dream" resonate.
Malcolm Middleton's King Creosote-like take on Stay (from Like a Virgin) is eye-wettingly pretty. In Madonna's version the track is yearning and pleading, but Middleton's has a veneer of fatalism and desperation about it. When he sings "If you go/ I'd think of dying instead," you feel like he means it.
Elsewhere, Annie Hardy puts her potty mouth to one side for Giant Drag's psychedelic take on Oh Father, Ryan Adams takes the fun out of Like A Virgin by trying to be too funny and there's no big surprise that that religiously conflicted Tori Amos chose Like A Prayer.
Over to the Michael Jackson collection!
Ignore the Mika and KT Tunstall versions, it's Nicklecreek's stripped down, bluegrass take on I Want You Back which really thrills, sounding like the kids from Little House On The Prairie doing the Motown classic. You can almost hear the enthusiasm dripping out of your speakers.
Lightspeed Champion's take on Thriller is notable for Dev Hynes' arrangement of the tune. Replacing the bold synth lines with Eugene McGuinness' violin gives the song a ramshackle, grot-rock sound.
Ian Brown does a loveable double header of Thriller and Billie Jean. As lilting as the former is, it's his version of Billie Jean that is more memorable. With the spirit of Madchester looming, it's also delightfully daft - when singing the tracks paternity questioning lyrics, Brown sounds like a dodgy dad avoiding eye contact on the Jeremy Kyle show. Speaking of "daft", who could forget Charlotte Church and Amy Winehouse's tense take on Beat It? Well here it is in all its glory. Was Winehouse drunk? Maybe, but with the visual element taken away, she sounds more lucid than memory serves. Although, admittedly, we still can't understand what she's singing about.
And so finally, onto Prince.
As Sinead O'Connor, Chaka Khan and Cyndi Lauper proved, you can't go too wrong with a Prince song – although Beck certainly tries. After threatening to do Do Me Baby (thankfully he doesn't) he takes the psychedelic Raspberry Beret and gives it some impromptu, busker-like love. The spectre of a self-satisfied, irony-heavy slacker audience rears it head when Mr Hansen says it's a song by The Purple One but he wants to dedicate it to the other Purple One... Barney The Dinosaur. Does this guy ever stop? Oh my aching sides, etc...
Foo Fighters' Darling Nikki is wonderful - partly because it's such a surprising choice and partly because Grohl sounds so engaged. Noted Prince-heads, the band also covered Vanity 6's Drive Me Wild but this is their definitive one. They bring out the songs' gothic charm and whip cracking menace. And it helps that the Nicest Guy In Rock sounds genuinely terrified/intrigued by deviant Nikki's naughty ways.
I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man was demoed at the same time as When You Were Mine and it's Prince at his most New Wavey. My Morning Jacket retain the song's country-rockin' grace. The recording is not great but listen carefully and there are some great harmonies going on in the background.
The ever inventive Of Montreal do a pretty straightforward I Would Die 4 U, Well, straightforward aside from what sounds like North Sea drilling going on in the background. Much better is their air-punching version of Purple Rain. It's a song which, like Billie Jean, is pretty hard to mess up. Kate Nash tries, though, by cracking up mid-song and (quite literally) bursting into falsetto.
Meanwhile Ani DiFranco and Aimee Mann's When Doves Cry, depressingly sounds like Jack Johnson playing at FarmFest in 1992. Patti Smith's surprisingly funky version is much prettier, putting the songs parental angst to the core.
What else? Well Gary Numan's industro-pop version of U Got The Look is pretty shocking - it sounds a little too much like Tom Jones's steroid take on Kiss for our liking. Perhaps our favourite of the bunch, though, is Richard Swift's lovely Paisley Park. In keeping with the song's Beatles-indebted spirit, he takes it to the next level. The result? Erm, it sounds like a Muppets song. Marvellous.
What's your favourite? And has the list missed any great covers? Let us know.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2008/sep/12/popandrock
Five great grunge albums
THE year was 1991.
Michael Jackson ruled the charts, boy bands were the flavour of the day and hip hop and urban music were still struggling to break into the mainstream.
It's no exaggeration to say that the release of Nirvana's Nevermind towards the end of that year changed the face of music.
It was a watershed moment that helped to finally push so-called ``alternative rock'' into the mainstream. It was also the moment when grunge became a phenomenon, coalescing around Seattle and the record label Sub Pop. Like punk less than two decades earlier, here was a style of music, a way to dress and even a too-easy slacker lifestyle in one neat alternative package for disaffected teens to latch on to. The sound and aesthetic of grunge were a deliberate reaction to over-the-top, over-sexed hard rock and hair metal of the '80s. This was about getting back to basics and playing loud, dumb and dirty.
More on this story http://warrnambool.yourguide.com.au/blogs/musicology/five-great-grunge-albums/1271234.aspx
President Nicholas succumbs to brolly health and safety
The five Musketeers at Batley Bulldogs are pondering the prospect of a league game in Toulouse next year. Chairman Kevin Nicholas and directors Andy Winner, Ron Earnshaw, John Miller and Paul Hull are brushing up their French accents and have ordered berets, striped jumpers and onions, it will be like Allo, Allo.
Heavyweight Audley Harrison stayed true to form and bored everyone rigid to win on points. I love promoter Frank Warren’s comment: ‘What do Audley and Michael Jackson have in common? They both wear gloves for no reason.’
Full story http://www.dewsburyreporter.co.uk/sport/President-Nicholas-succumbs-to-brolly.4484430.jp
Trivial pursuits
Between sipping coffee and nibbling on muffins, groups with such names as Pats of Butter (because we're on a roll) and Trivia Trio put on their game faces recently at High Point Coffee in Germantown for a test to see who knew the most meaningless knowledge.
Called the "Wilde World of Trivia," organizers from the Germantown Community Theatre even threw in an Oscar Wilde multiple choice question.
Marques Brown (left), Chris Tracy and Jenny Smith sing along to Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror" during the music portion of the Germantown Community Theatre's "Wilde World of Trivia" night at Highpoint Coffee on Poplar near Forest Hill-Irene.
Full story
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2008/sep/12/trivial-pursuits/
Luke Kenny's career sees revival after Rock On
Luke Kenny's English looks stood as an obstacle in his acting career for almost a decade, but with his immaculate performance in the recent hit Rock On, the actor feels he has been able to draw the director's attention away from his appearance to his art.
He started his career as a solo dancer in 1989 after getting inspired by Michael Jackson and won awards. Later he joined Arshad Warsi's dance team as a chorus dancer and assistant choreographer and worked there from 1990 to 1992.
Full story http://sify.com/movies/fullstory.php?id=14756792
'America's Got Talent' recap: 4 hours down, 2 to go...
I'm not even going to bother with a witty intro. You know the deal. Final 20, second out of three shows this week. The battle continues. Let's see what happens. To switch it up tonight, Terry Fator gave us a special performance. I can see why he won. Who doesn't love a turtle singing "Let's Get it On"? And his Elvis-impersonating puppet probably had twice as good a voice as Joseph Hall.
SickStep opened the night, and according to Jerry, they "are hip-hop." Because nothing says hip-hop like silver vests and Michael Jackson. After their performance, I may have lost the challenge I posed to myself. I'm not sure if I can make it through the six hours NBC has planned for me this week. Not after Hall's lackluster Vegas-era Elvis performance (see video above).
Full story http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/200...ca's+Got+Talent'+recap:+4+hours+down,+2+to+go...
Emory to Host Tracy Morgan
Comedian Tracy Morgan, former Saturday Night Live cast member and current star in the sitcom 30 Rock, will perform a stand-up act during this year’s Homecoming, which will take place from Sept. 24 to 27.
The Homecoming Ball on Sept. 27 will feature electronic and hip-hop DJ RJD2 and opening act Who’s Bad, a Michael Jackson tribute band, as the opening act. Who’s Bad is a six-member band that performs Michael Jackson’s songs and original choreography.
Full story http://www.emorywheel.com/detail.php?n=25788
DVD REVIEW: James Brown "I Got The Feelin': James Brown In The 60's"
The Godfather Of Soul has rarely been well served when it comes to video evidence of his claim to be "the hardest working man in show business". What little material that has been available commercially has largely consisted of Soul Train performances from the late 70s or concerts from the 80s, both periods when Brown was past both his artistic and commercial peaks. So when Rhino/Shout Factory announced their intention to release a 3 DVD set of James Brown performances from the 60s, one hoped that this might redress this sorry state of affairs. Now that hope has been answered.
I Got The Feelin' not only fulfills its promise of providing us with a musical-visual document of Brown's greatness, it also beautifully explores his cultural impact in the 60s by devoting one disc to a documentary entitled The Night James Brown Saved Boston. This disc, while light on music, explores how James Brown helped keep the streets of Boston quiet the night after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination by performing a show at the Boston Gardens that was televised live throughout the city (especially amazing given the city's well-documented history of racial divisions). Including interviews with Cornell West, then mayor Kevin White, personal manager Charles Bobbitt, numerous bandmates, as well as others, this documentary outlines the enormous decision Brown faced in going ahead with the concert despite the tragic circumstances. As interesting as this documentary is, however, the musical meat of this 3 DVD set comes with the other two discs. One contains the entire performance, as broadcast on TV (including a test pattern when the signal is briefly lost), of this historic concert. And make no mistake, this is James Brown in his prime, working his band, which included numerous horn players, a string section, even a go-go dancer, into a fever pitch. Brown decided that what the audience needed was not a "tribute" show or anything of that sort. Rather, after a couple of introductory speeches by Boston polticos (including the aforementioned mayor), Brown rips the roof off with a truly incendiary concert. While his "slow ballad" side gets its due with versions of "It's A Man's Man's Man's World" and "Try Me," the inventor of funk held nothing back in his sweat-drenched performances of classics like "I Got You (I Feel Good)," "Please, Please, Please," "I Got The Feelin'", "Cold Sweat," "Ride The Pony," and others.
If you want to know where Michael Jackson, and especially Prince," got their showmanship chops, look no further than the Godfather of Soul, though not even they can match the incredible footspeed displayed by Brown in the dance moves he originated and that are on display here. And the music is, of course, fantastic, including segments where each of the band members gets to "break it down". If that is not enough, the third DVD includes yet another full performance by Brown and band from 1968, this time in front of an adoring Apollo Theater crowd. This performance, once broadcast on TV but then lost for many years (and more roughly shot than the Boston concert), is a more intimate affair, but, unsurprisingly, the funk reigns supreme here, also. The DVD also includes the TV show segments of clips of Brown walking the streets of Harlem, talking with passersby, and just generally extending his goodwill to all. Finally, there are three additional one-song performances pulled from various sources, including part of Brown's set during the TAMI Show movie released in 1965 (it is criminal that the entire 20-minute segment of Brown's performance in this movie, as well as superb performances by the Beach Boys, Chuck Berry, and the Rolling Stones, sits unreleased and locked away in producer Phil Spector's "vault"). In sum, everything here is a treat and vital for any fan of the rock and soul revolution of the 50s and 60s.Combine this with Brown's 20 Greatest Hits CD or his Star Time box-set and one can now experience the full range of Brown's unbelievable talents. Happy viewing to all.
http://www.indy.com/posts/11515
Stay tuned on this news thread the entire weekend as Dorothy comes with the news and mentionings too. Wish you all to have a wonderful weekend.
Mentionings
The greatest covers of pop's royal family
Fabulous at fifty ... Prince, Madonna and Michael Jackson.
At Fashion Rocks, Rihanna unveiled her unashamedly Europop cover of Madonna's Vogue – but website Hypeful went one, two, three times better. In honour of Madge and her brothers from another mother, Michael Jackson and Prince, turning the big five-oh, they gave us (yes you guessed it) 50 covers each from the trio. We've cherry-picked the most interesting ...
Let's start with her Madgesty first...
Iggy Pop and The Stooges raucous version of Burning Up can perhaps be traced back to Madonna-obsessive bassist Mike Watt. His version can be heard on Sonic (nee Ciccone) Youth's Whitey Album (see also Sonic Youth's Into The Groove) which he recorded way back in the mid-80s. No wonder she got them to play at her Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction.
Meanwhile it's no surprise Juliana Hatfield chose the contemplative 'Gone'. After being on the receiving end of major label shenanigans (Atlantic refused to release her 1997 album God's Foot), the lyrics about "selling out" and "dream[ing] away your dream" resonate.
Malcolm Middleton's King Creosote-like take on Stay (from Like a Virgin) is eye-wettingly pretty. In Madonna's version the track is yearning and pleading, but Middleton's has a veneer of fatalism and desperation about it. When he sings "If you go/ I'd think of dying instead," you feel like he means it.
Elsewhere, Annie Hardy puts her potty mouth to one side for Giant Drag's psychedelic take on Oh Father, Ryan Adams takes the fun out of Like A Virgin by trying to be too funny and there's no big surprise that that religiously conflicted Tori Amos chose Like A Prayer.
Over to the Michael Jackson collection!
Ignore the Mika and KT Tunstall versions, it's Nicklecreek's stripped down, bluegrass take on I Want You Back which really thrills, sounding like the kids from Little House On The Prairie doing the Motown classic. You can almost hear the enthusiasm dripping out of your speakers.
Lightspeed Champion's take on Thriller is notable for Dev Hynes' arrangement of the tune. Replacing the bold synth lines with Eugene McGuinness' violin gives the song a ramshackle, grot-rock sound.
Ian Brown does a loveable double header of Thriller and Billie Jean. As lilting as the former is, it's his version of Billie Jean that is more memorable. With the spirit of Madchester looming, it's also delightfully daft - when singing the tracks paternity questioning lyrics, Brown sounds like a dodgy dad avoiding eye contact on the Jeremy Kyle show. Speaking of "daft", who could forget Charlotte Church and Amy Winehouse's tense take on Beat It? Well here it is in all its glory. Was Winehouse drunk? Maybe, but with the visual element taken away, she sounds more lucid than memory serves. Although, admittedly, we still can't understand what she's singing about.
And so finally, onto Prince.
As Sinead O'Connor, Chaka Khan and Cyndi Lauper proved, you can't go too wrong with a Prince song – although Beck certainly tries. After threatening to do Do Me Baby (thankfully he doesn't) he takes the psychedelic Raspberry Beret and gives it some impromptu, busker-like love. The spectre of a self-satisfied, irony-heavy slacker audience rears it head when Mr Hansen says it's a song by The Purple One but he wants to dedicate it to the other Purple One... Barney The Dinosaur. Does this guy ever stop? Oh my aching sides, etc...
Foo Fighters' Darling Nikki is wonderful - partly because it's such a surprising choice and partly because Grohl sounds so engaged. Noted Prince-heads, the band also covered Vanity 6's Drive Me Wild but this is their definitive one. They bring out the songs' gothic charm and whip cracking menace. And it helps that the Nicest Guy In Rock sounds genuinely terrified/intrigued by deviant Nikki's naughty ways.
I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man was demoed at the same time as When You Were Mine and it's Prince at his most New Wavey. My Morning Jacket retain the song's country-rockin' grace. The recording is not great but listen carefully and there are some great harmonies going on in the background.
The ever inventive Of Montreal do a pretty straightforward I Would Die 4 U, Well, straightforward aside from what sounds like North Sea drilling going on in the background. Much better is their air-punching version of Purple Rain. It's a song which, like Billie Jean, is pretty hard to mess up. Kate Nash tries, though, by cracking up mid-song and (quite literally) bursting into falsetto.
Meanwhile Ani DiFranco and Aimee Mann's When Doves Cry, depressingly sounds like Jack Johnson playing at FarmFest in 1992. Patti Smith's surprisingly funky version is much prettier, putting the songs parental angst to the core.
What else? Well Gary Numan's industro-pop version of U Got The Look is pretty shocking - it sounds a little too much like Tom Jones's steroid take on Kiss for our liking. Perhaps our favourite of the bunch, though, is Richard Swift's lovely Paisley Park. In keeping with the song's Beatles-indebted spirit, he takes it to the next level. The result? Erm, it sounds like a Muppets song. Marvellous.
What's your favourite? And has the list missed any great covers? Let us know.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2008/sep/12/popandrock
Five great grunge albums
THE year was 1991.
Michael Jackson ruled the charts, boy bands were the flavour of the day and hip hop and urban music were still struggling to break into the mainstream.
It's no exaggeration to say that the release of Nirvana's Nevermind towards the end of that year changed the face of music.
It was a watershed moment that helped to finally push so-called ``alternative rock'' into the mainstream. It was also the moment when grunge became a phenomenon, coalescing around Seattle and the record label Sub Pop. Like punk less than two decades earlier, here was a style of music, a way to dress and even a too-easy slacker lifestyle in one neat alternative package for disaffected teens to latch on to. The sound and aesthetic of grunge were a deliberate reaction to over-the-top, over-sexed hard rock and hair metal of the '80s. This was about getting back to basics and playing loud, dumb and dirty.
More on this story http://warrnambool.yourguide.com.au/blogs/musicology/five-great-grunge-albums/1271234.aspx
President Nicholas succumbs to brolly health and safety
The five Musketeers at Batley Bulldogs are pondering the prospect of a league game in Toulouse next year. Chairman Kevin Nicholas and directors Andy Winner, Ron Earnshaw, John Miller and Paul Hull are brushing up their French accents and have ordered berets, striped jumpers and onions, it will be like Allo, Allo.
Heavyweight Audley Harrison stayed true to form and bored everyone rigid to win on points. I love promoter Frank Warren’s comment: ‘What do Audley and Michael Jackson have in common? They both wear gloves for no reason.’
Full story http://www.dewsburyreporter.co.uk/sport/President-Nicholas-succumbs-to-brolly.4484430.jp
Trivial pursuits
Between sipping coffee and nibbling on muffins, groups with such names as Pats of Butter (because we're on a roll) and Trivia Trio put on their game faces recently at High Point Coffee in Germantown for a test to see who knew the most meaningless knowledge.
Called the "Wilde World of Trivia," organizers from the Germantown Community Theatre even threw in an Oscar Wilde multiple choice question.
Marques Brown (left), Chris Tracy and Jenny Smith sing along to Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror" during the music portion of the Germantown Community Theatre's "Wilde World of Trivia" night at Highpoint Coffee on Poplar near Forest Hill-Irene.
Full story
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2008/sep/12/trivial-pursuits/
Luke Kenny's career sees revival after Rock On
Luke Kenny's English looks stood as an obstacle in his acting career for almost a decade, but with his immaculate performance in the recent hit Rock On, the actor feels he has been able to draw the director's attention away from his appearance to his art.
He started his career as a solo dancer in 1989 after getting inspired by Michael Jackson and won awards. Later he joined Arshad Warsi's dance team as a chorus dancer and assistant choreographer and worked there from 1990 to 1992.
Full story http://sify.com/movies/fullstory.php?id=14756792
'America's Got Talent' recap: 4 hours down, 2 to go...
I'm not even going to bother with a witty intro. You know the deal. Final 20, second out of three shows this week. The battle continues. Let's see what happens. To switch it up tonight, Terry Fator gave us a special performance. I can see why he won. Who doesn't love a turtle singing "Let's Get it On"? And his Elvis-impersonating puppet probably had twice as good a voice as Joseph Hall.
SickStep opened the night, and according to Jerry, they "are hip-hop." Because nothing says hip-hop like silver vests and Michael Jackson. After their performance, I may have lost the challenge I posed to myself. I'm not sure if I can make it through the six hours NBC has planned for me this week. Not after Hall's lackluster Vegas-era Elvis performance (see video above).
Full story http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/200...ca's+Got+Talent'+recap:+4+hours+down,+2+to+go...
Emory to Host Tracy Morgan
Comedian Tracy Morgan, former Saturday Night Live cast member and current star in the sitcom 30 Rock, will perform a stand-up act during this year’s Homecoming, which will take place from Sept. 24 to 27.
The Homecoming Ball on Sept. 27 will feature electronic and hip-hop DJ RJD2 and opening act Who’s Bad, a Michael Jackson tribute band, as the opening act. Who’s Bad is a six-member band that performs Michael Jackson’s songs and original choreography.
Full story http://www.emorywheel.com/detail.php?n=25788
DVD REVIEW: James Brown "I Got The Feelin': James Brown In The 60's"
The Godfather Of Soul has rarely been well served when it comes to video evidence of his claim to be "the hardest working man in show business". What little material that has been available commercially has largely consisted of Soul Train performances from the late 70s or concerts from the 80s, both periods when Brown was past both his artistic and commercial peaks. So when Rhino/Shout Factory announced their intention to release a 3 DVD set of James Brown performances from the 60s, one hoped that this might redress this sorry state of affairs. Now that hope has been answered.
I Got The Feelin' not only fulfills its promise of providing us with a musical-visual document of Brown's greatness, it also beautifully explores his cultural impact in the 60s by devoting one disc to a documentary entitled The Night James Brown Saved Boston. This disc, while light on music, explores how James Brown helped keep the streets of Boston quiet the night after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination by performing a show at the Boston Gardens that was televised live throughout the city (especially amazing given the city's well-documented history of racial divisions). Including interviews with Cornell West, then mayor Kevin White, personal manager Charles Bobbitt, numerous bandmates, as well as others, this documentary outlines the enormous decision Brown faced in going ahead with the concert despite the tragic circumstances. As interesting as this documentary is, however, the musical meat of this 3 DVD set comes with the other two discs. One contains the entire performance, as broadcast on TV (including a test pattern when the signal is briefly lost), of this historic concert. And make no mistake, this is James Brown in his prime, working his band, which included numerous horn players, a string section, even a go-go dancer, into a fever pitch. Brown decided that what the audience needed was not a "tribute" show or anything of that sort. Rather, after a couple of introductory speeches by Boston polticos (including the aforementioned mayor), Brown rips the roof off with a truly incendiary concert. While his "slow ballad" side gets its due with versions of "It's A Man's Man's Man's World" and "Try Me," the inventor of funk held nothing back in his sweat-drenched performances of classics like "I Got You (I Feel Good)," "Please, Please, Please," "I Got The Feelin'", "Cold Sweat," "Ride The Pony," and others.
If you want to know where Michael Jackson, and especially Prince," got their showmanship chops, look no further than the Godfather of Soul, though not even they can match the incredible footspeed displayed by Brown in the dance moves he originated and that are on display here. And the music is, of course, fantastic, including segments where each of the band members gets to "break it down". If that is not enough, the third DVD includes yet another full performance by Brown and band from 1968, this time in front of an adoring Apollo Theater crowd. This performance, once broadcast on TV but then lost for many years (and more roughly shot than the Boston concert), is a more intimate affair, but, unsurprisingly, the funk reigns supreme here, also. The DVD also includes the TV show segments of clips of Brown walking the streets of Harlem, talking with passersby, and just generally extending his goodwill to all. Finally, there are three additional one-song performances pulled from various sources, including part of Brown's set during the TAMI Show movie released in 1965 (it is criminal that the entire 20-minute segment of Brown's performance in this movie, as well as superb performances by the Beach Boys, Chuck Berry, and the Rolling Stones, sits unreleased and locked away in producer Phil Spector's "vault"). In sum, everything here is a treat and vital for any fan of the rock and soul revolution of the 50s and 60s.Combine this with Brown's 20 Greatest Hits CD or his Star Time box-set and one can now experience the full range of Brown's unbelievable talents. Happy viewing to all.
http://www.indy.com/posts/11515
Today in
Michael Jackson History
Michael Jackson History
1986 - Michael Jackson's "Captain Eo" debuted at Disneyland's Journey into Imagination at Epcot Center. The film opened at Disneyland's Magic Eye theater on September 18.
1987 - Michael Jackson began his Bad Tour.
1987 - Michael Jackson's album "Bad" debuted at #1 in the U.K.
1995 - Michael Jackson's maxi single "The Remixes" was released.
1995 - Michael Jackson's "Video Greatest Hits - History" was certified 2 times Platinum.
1997 - Michael Jackson talked about the recent death of Britain's Princess Diana with 20/20'1 Barbara Walters.
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