Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Michael Jackson News: - several articles repeating the Good News about Thriller Broadway style, and the 'bad' news about John Landis's lawsuit.

This description sounds funny:

Jazz Hands For Michael Jackson
[SIZE=-1]Cinema Blend - [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]Maybe, just maybe... the answer to all of our prayers is a staged musical of Michael Jackson's Thriller. Maybe. Do you remember the scene in 13 Going On 30 ...[/SIZE]

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Can Michael Jackson resurrect his career with 'Thriller' musical ...
[SIZE=-1]Los Angeles Times, CA - [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]Michael Jackson is hoping to revive his sagging fortunes with a Broadway musical based on his smash hit single "Thriller." He is partnering with the ...[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]A Legal Thriller: Michael Jackson Sued by John Landis [SIZE=-1]E! Online[/SIZE][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Michael Jackson sued by 'Thriller' director [SIZE=-1]NME.com[/SIZE][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' musical may come to Chicago [SIZE=-1]Chicago Tribune[/SIZE][/SIZE]




Michael Jackson Mentionings:



Springsteen plans local gig
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[SIZE=-1]Stars who appeared at the Apollo when they were young include Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Sammy Davis, Jr., Michael Jackson, Gladys Knight and Luther ...[/SIZE]


Janet Jackson postpones shows in Japan
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[SIZE=-1]Jackson, 42, is the younger sister of pop icon Michael Jackson. Her tour, which opened on September 7 in Vancouver, was the first time she had gone on the ...[/SIZE]

An educated guest, 1/28/09
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[SIZE=-1]The following is a judge on "American Idol": (a) Michael Jackson, (b) Randy Jackson, (c) Reggie Jackson, or (d) Jesse Jackson. The answers are at the end of ...[/SIZE]


Lions add LBs coach
[SIZE=-1]DetNews.com, MI - [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]"That's all I kept thinking about when I did it: Michael Jackson . But you've got to try everything you can." The seeds for the Arizona Cardinals' success ...[/SIZE]





1985 - "We Are The World" was recorded after the American Music Awards. The song was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie.

2005 - The judge in the Michael Jackson child molestation trial ruled that Jackson's accuser would have to testify in open court.












JACKSON 5

Induction Year: 1997

Induction Category: Performer



"Inductees: Jackie Jackson (vocals; born May 14, 1951), Jermaine Jackson (vocals; born December 11, 1954), Marlon Jackson (vocals; born March 12, 1957), Michael Jackson (vocals; born August 29, 1958), Tito Jackson (vocals; born October 15, 1953)

In the words of Berry Gordy, founder and driving force behind Motown, the Jackson 5 were “the last big stars to come rolling off my assembly line.” After performing for much of the decade in and around their native Indiana, the Jackson 5 found their way to Detroit’s hitmaking Motown Records at the tail end of the Sixties. Led by 11-year-old Michael Jackson-who was joined by brothers Jermaine, Tito, Marlon and Jackie-the Jackson 5 were young, fresh and full of energy. The group made music-business history when their first four singles shot to #1 in 1970. That record-breaking string of 45s-"I Want You Back,” “ABC,” “The Love You Save” and “I’ll Be There"-endeared the hard-working Jackson’s to a public that found their soulful singing and tight choreography an entertaining diversion from all the social and political cataclysms weighing upon the country. Like all of Motown’s acts, the Jackson 5’s popularity transcended race. Everyone loved the Jackson Five, especially the cherubic, charismatic Michael. The reasons for their out-of-the-box success boiled down to one simple truth: “The singing and the songs make us happy,” wrote soul-music biographer David Ritz. “They are moments of incandescent beauty-young, wildly optimistic.”

The Jackson 5 rose from humble circumstances in Gary, Indiana. They were the eldest sons in a family of nine children born to steelworker Joe Jackson and his wife Katherine. When Joe saw that his charges had talent, he devoted himself to molding them into a well-rehearsed group that covered Motown and other soul/R&B hits of the day. When they formed in 1964, Michael Jackson was all of six years old, but his natural gift for singing, dancing and entertaining belied his youth. They performed at talent shows and as opening acts on bills that took them to places like Harlem’s Apollo Theater, where they won an amateur-night competition in 1967. All the while, Michael Jackson studied the moves of the masters: their onstage choreography, how they phrased a song, the way they worked a crowd. His heroes and tutors included James Brown, Sam and Dave, Jack Wilson, Etta James and his older brother, Jermaine, who himself was a disciple of Marvin Gaye. The Jackson 5 also absorbed a considerable measure of influence from another “family” act: the prototypical soul/funk crossover band Sly and the Family Stone.

The Jackson 5 wound up at Motown through the importunings of Bobby Taylor, a performer and producer who caught their act at Chicago’s Regal nightclub. They were a road-tested act even then, having for years worked the “chitlin’ circuit” of black nightclubs as far east as Washington D.C. At Motown, Berry Gordy took a hands-on interest in the group. With Diana Ross having left the Supremes and Gordy having relocated from Detroit to Los Angeles, the Jackson 5 were poised to inherit the torch and carry Motown’s success forward into the Seventies. Much of the Jackson 5’s early repertoire was written, rehearsed and recorded in California under Gordy’s tutelage.





They were matched with “the Corporation,” a Motown production team groomed to replace the recently departed Holland-Dozier-Holland. In January 1970, their first production for the Jackson 5, “I Want You Back,” reached #1 on the pop and R&B charts. Its followup, “ABC,” unseated the Beatles’ “Let It Be” from the top position that April. Their youthful, soulful sound got dubbed “bubblegum soul.” By the summer of 1970, the Jackson 5 were headlining 20,000-seat venues, and Jacksonmania was in full swing. “I’ll Be There,” their fourth #1 single in a row and biggest hit, remained on top for five weeks in the fall of 1970. They conquered television as well as radio, appearing regularly on The Ed Sullivan Show in the early Seventies and on their own CBS summer variety show in 1976. An animated Saturday-morning cartoon show based on the musical adventures of the Jackson 5 enhanced their appeal with younger fans.
Their tenure at Motown continued until the mid-Seventies, by which time they’d begun to turn their attention to the emerging disco movement with hits like “Dancing Machine” (#2, 1974). Moving to Epic, the Jackson 5 shortened their name to the Jackson’s. Their first two albums for the new label, The Jackson’s and Goin’ Places, were produced by Philadelphia R&B masters Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff. The Jackson’s entered another successful phase in their career with a trio of contemporary dance-oriented R&B albums-Destiny (1978), Triumph (1980) and Victory (1984)-which were produced and largely written by the increasingly autonomous group.

Their highly publicized 1984 Victory tour turned out to be the last Jacksons project to include brother Michael, who had by then achieved solo superstardom. Clan patriarch Joe Jackson and boxing promoter Don King were among the co-promoters of the Victory tour, which was sponsored by Pepsi. Controversy ensued when ticket prices were fixed at a then-astronomical $30. Michael Jackson thereupon announced that he would donate his share of the proceeds to charity. In 1989, the Jackson’s (sans Michael) released their seventh Epic album, 2300 Jackson Street, whose title referred to the street address in Gary, Indiana, where the family’s incredible musical saga began.

TIMELINE

• May 14, 1951: Jackie Jackson was born.
• October 15, 1953: Tito Jackson was born.
• December 11, 1954: Jermaine Jackson was born.
• March 12, 1957: Marlon Jackson was born.
• August 29, 1958: Michael Jackson is born in Gary, Indiana.
• 1964: The Jackson 5, ranging in age from six to thirteen, first perform publicly at Mr. Lucky’s, a nightclub in their hometown of Gary, Indiana.
• August 13, 1967: The Jackson 5 win an amateur-night competition at Harlem’s famed Apollo Theatre.
• July 23, 1968: The Jackson 5 audition at Motown’s Detroit headquarters for a number of label executives. Berry Gordy was not present, but he signed them after viewing the audition tape.
• August 16, 1969: After a “coming out” party at a Beverly Hills club five days earlier, the Jackson 5 open for the Supremes at the Los Angeles Forum. Lead singer Michael Jackson was not quite 11 years old.
• December 13, 1969: The debut album ‘Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5’ is released, eventually climbing to #5 on the album chart.
• January 31, 1970: I Want You Back (The Jackson Five) was a hit.
• January 31, 1970: “I Want You Back,” the first of four consecutive #1 hits in a nine-month period from the Jackson 5, reaches the top of the charts. The others: “ABC” (April 1970), “The Love You Save” (June 1970) and “I’ll Be There” (October 1970).
• April 19, 1970: ABC (The Jackson Five) was a hit.
• May 13, 1970: ‘ABC,’ the Jackson 5’s second album, is released. Two more—‘Third Album’ and ‘The Jackson 5 Christmas Album’—are released before the year is over.
• June 21, 1970: The Love You Save (Jackson Five) was a hit.
• October 1, 1970: with the success of “I’ll Be There,” the Jackson 5 become the only group in history whose first four records went to Number One.
• October 11, 1970: I’ll Be There (The Jackson Five) was a hit.
• April 9, 1974: The Jackson 5 open an engagement at Las Vegas’s MGM Grand Hotel. In addition to the five brothers, siblings Janet, LaToya and Randy appear on the bill—a sign of the family talent and solo careers yet to come.
• May 18, 1974: “Dancing Machine,” one of the Jackson 5’s last big hits for Motown, reaches #1 on the R&B chart and #2 on the pop chart.
• March 13, 1976: The Jackson 5 move from Motown to Epic Records and amend their name to the Jackson’s.
• 1976: Jermaine Jackson, who leaves the Jackson 5 for a solo career, is replaced by brother Randy (born October 9, 1961).
• December 13, 1978: The Jackson’s release ‘Destiny’, their first entirely self-produced and almost entirely group-written album. It reaches #11 and sells more than a million copies, vindicating their belief in their own creative powers.
• 1979: 13 of the 23 #1 songs are disco, including Rod Stewart’s “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?”, Blondie’s “Heart Of Glass”, and Michael Jackson’s “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough”; “Disco Demolition Night” at Chicago’s Comiskey Park, hosted by Steve Dahl, spearheads “Disco Sucks” movement
• March 25, 1983: The TV special ‘Motown 25: Yesterday, Today and Forever’ is taped. The Jackson 5 perform a medley of their hits, then Michael sings “Billie Jean” (from ‘Thriller’) by himself, premiering his “moonwalk” dance move. The show airs on May 16, and Jackson’s’ segment is a highlight.
• November 30, 1983: The Jacksons’ forthcoming summer tour, which will include superstar Michael, is announced at a press conference at New York’s Tavern on the Green.
• June 30, 1984: “State of Shock,” which features shared lead vocals from Michael Jackson and Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, enters the charts. The leadoff single from the hotly anticipated Victory album reaches #3 on the pop chart and #4 on the R&B chart.
  
  
  
  (State of Shock apparently didn't have a video, but here's a photo and live action collage that is 'rockin')unk:​
  
  
  
  
  
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• June 27, 1995: A four-disc, 82-track Jackson 5 box set, ‘Soulsations!: The 25th Anniversary Collection’, is released. It includes hits, rarities, unreleased tracks and solo cuts.

May 6, 1997: The Jackson 5 are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the twelfth annual induction dinner. Diana Ross is their presenter.

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Thanks for the news :flowers:

Happy Birthday to people celebrating one today!! :birthday: :cheers:

Here's a quote from Alain Baraton, a gardner at the Palace of Versailles, near Paris:

"I escorted Michael Jackson when he visited the gardens a few years back. At one point, we were near the Queen's Grove, and he really needed the loo. We had to wait for the riot police to arrive and clear the grove so that he would finally relieve himself."

http://www.linternaute.com/jardin/m...s-dans-les-parcs-pour-trouver-des-idees.shtml

Thanks for the background information on when the J-5 went in the Hall that was nice to read again after all these years :flowers:

noumene said:

Here's a quote from Alain Baraton, a gardner at the Palace of Versailles, near Paris:

"I escorted Michael Jackson when he visited the gardens a few years back. At one point, we were near the Queen's Grove, and he really needed the loo. We had to wait for the riot police to arrive and clear the grove so that he would finally relieve himself."

http://www.linternaute.com/jardin/m...s-dans-les-parcs-pour-trouver-des-idees.shtml

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lol only mike

noumene said:

Here's a quote from Alain Baraton, a gardner at the Palace of Versailles, near Paris:

"I escorted Michael Jackson when he visited the gardens a few years back. At one point, we were near the Queen's Grove, and he really needed the loo. We had to wait for the riot police to arrive and clear the grove so that he would finally relieve himself."

http://www.linternaute.com/jardin/m...s-dans-les-parcs-pour-trouver-des-idees.shtml

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lol this reminds me when around 2000 he went by car from Hamburg to Frankfurt i think and on the highway they had to stop somewhere for the same reason....and maybe the police saw them or so..but the "big news" made to the newspapers.lol

LMao!! I just realize michaels pees alot

The Jacksons’ Destiny (1978) and Triumph (1980) Now Expanded Editions


Source: http://www.phillysoulclassics.com/n...y-1978-and-triumph-1980-now-expanded-editions

By PIR • January 26, 2009
Their First Breakthrough RIAA Platinum Albums - Self-Produced and Self-Written For The First Time!
Both Expanded Editions with Multiple Bonus Tracks - Rare 12-Inch Disco Mixes Previously Unavailable On CD
30th anniversary of DESTINY (”Blame It on the Boogie,” “Shake Your Body”), followed by TRIUMPH (”Lovely One,” “This Place Hotel (aka Heartbreak Hotel),” “Can You Feel It,” “Walk Right Now”)
First expanded editions from Jacksons’ catalog, with liner notes by Ernest Hardy, arrive at both physical and digital outlets on January 27, 2009, through Epic/Legacy
“In their own relentlessly honed and perfected artistry, they paid homage to those who had come before them while updating the blueprint for future generations. They were the carriers and embodiment of so many hopes, fantasies, and dreams - cultural and political ambassadors just by virtue of their being: Smart, talented, visionary, hard working young Black Americans, coming into their own after a decade of bloody struggle and sacrifice.” - from the liner notes written by Ernest Hardy, For the expanded edition of DESTINY

The evolution that began in 1976, of the classic Motown teen hitmaking group the Jackson 5 into the independent grown-ups known forever after on Epic Records as the Jacksons - was a transition that did not happen overnight. But there is universal agreement that by the time they released their third album for their new label, 1978’s DESTINY (with the worldwide hits “Blame It On The Boogie” and “Shake Your Body”), followed by 1980’s TRIUMPH, the first RIAA platinum album of their career - both LPs self-produced for the first time, and (mainly) self-penned - the transition was complete.
“Three decades after its initial release,” writes Ernest Hardy of DESTINY, “it’s still fresher - more potent, more substantive within its sturdy R&B/pop structure - than most of what you hear playing on the radio or streaming on the net today.” In honor of its 30th anniversary, DESTINY, including two bonus tracks of rare 12-inch disco mixes previously unavailable on CD, and TRIUMPH, with three bonus tracks of rare 12-inch mixes also previously unavailable on CD, will both arrive at both physical and digital outlets on January 27, 2009, through Epic/Legacy, a division of SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT.
DESTINY and TRIUMPH represent the first expanded editions ever issued by Legacy on the Jacksons, from their catalog of seven original studio and live albums on Epic between 1976 (The Jacksons) and 1989 (2300 Jackson Street). They follow the February 2008 release of the two-disc CD+DVD 25th anniversary expanded edition of Michael Jackson’s THRILLER, which has sold over 2 million copies worldwide so far this year. Michael, celebrating his 50th birthday on August 29th, and the Jacksons will be among the focal points of Universal/Motown’s 50th anniversary campaign this fall.
Both DESTINY and TRIUMPH have been newly remastered in the U.S. for the first time in more than a decade, by three-time Grammy Award-winning engineer Mark Wilder. In addition, these expanded editions gain historic importance with new liner notes essays by Ernest Hardy, an award-winning music and film critic and author published in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Village Voice, Rolling Stone, and elsewhere. Hardy last worked for Legacy when he penned extensive notes for Love, Luther (Epic/J Records/Legacy), last year’s four-CD box set tribute to Luther Vandross; and has also written notes for albums by Chet Baker, Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson, and Chuck D’s anthology of hip-hop protest songs, Louder Than A Bomb.
Opening his discussion of TRIUMPH, Hardy focuses on the landmark video for “Can You Feel It,” the album’s opening track (but its third single), and the song that actually follows it, “Lovely One” (the album’s first and highest/longest-charting single). “That juxtaposition puts the overall album on ground similar to that mined by everyone from Marvin Gaye to Prince,” he writes. “It’s terrain on which the secular and the profane, spiritual love and carnal lust, all coil around and glide through one another, even though Michael’s grinning come-ons stay firmly on the chaste side of seduction. It’s a way of saying that the divides that have been put up between matters of the flesh and the spirit are false, a smokescreen.”
More than a decade before, in late-1969, the newly-minted Jackson 5 - 11-year old Michael, 12-year old Marlon, 15-year old Jermaine, 16-year old Tito, and 18-year old Jackie - ignited a string of hits at Motown with their historic first four consecutive #1 R&B and #1 pop hits. They became a core group at the label, staying inside the Top 10 for nearly five years. But as they grew older - into their teens for Michael and Marlon, and out of their teens for the others - they grew restless with the Motown songwriters and assembly-line production, and began a campaign to change.
In 1976, they finally realized a long-term goal to part company with Motown and join the CBS Records Epic label, though they had to relinquish the name Jackson 5, thus becoming the Jacksons. Michael and Jermaine had both started recording as solo artists; Michael chose to stay with his brothers, while Jermaine remained at Motown, replaced by youngest member Randy.
By the time Epic assigned the Jacksons to Gamble & Huff’s Philadelphia International wing, and they released their first new music in late 1976, Randy was 17, Michael was 18, Marlon was 19, Tito was 23, and Jackie was 25. Their self-titled debut album was a classic G&H PIR production, but only included two original compositions by the brothers. Still, the album was certified gold on the strength of two Top 10 R&B singles written by Gamble & Huff. Their second PIR album, 1977’s Goin’ Places fared less well, though it again included two original Jacksons compositions, and introduced some guitar work by Tito, and Randy on percussion.
All were experienced musicians by this time, and had observed the industry’s top producers at work for nearly a decade. The decision to take over full rein of their own production and songwriting (and rev-up their presence as musicians) was an ambitious one - but yielded immediate success with DESTINY, a level of success surpassed two years later by TRIUMPH.
In between, Michael resumed his solo career at Epic with 1979’s 7-times platinum blockbuster Off The Wall (169 weeks on the Billboard chart). After 1981’s Jacksons Live double-LP, Michael came back in 1982 with Thriller, making pop history that stands to this day. The Jacksons have reunited on occasion since then - the “Motown 25″ NBC-TV special in 1983; their Epic albums Victory in 1984 (and the “Victory World Tour”), and 2300 Jackson Street in 1989; and as part of 1985’s “We Are the World” cast. Their Epic years were sampled on Epic/Legacy’s 2004 collection, The Essential Jacksons.
“There is the sound of a family’s long, hard struggles and sacrifices paying off on terms far more valuable then economic,” Hardy sums up. “There’s the sound of African American political struggles for equality and justice coming to fruition in the voices of blood-tied native sons, who can spin wise as social commentators and spiritual soothsayers, and then flip it and be the afro’d lothario. It’s the sound of assorted American cultural practices, traditions, and musical genres all converging in one spot, in one family. It’s the sound of DESTINY being fulfilled in TRIUMPH.”