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Spike Lee announces Off The Wall Documentary - Estate Announcement Page 66

innuendo141 said:
Regardless of whether or not we know who he is or not, I find it fitting that a relatively unknown (to me) will be performing.
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Yes. I am actually pleasantly surprised that this OTW re-release even gets a nod at the Grammys. It's not like it happens to every re-release of a classic album. So I think it's nice.
 
barbee0715 said:
Whether it's exploitation or not, I don't care. I'm truly surprised that they are going to celebrate the album in a show that's probably chock full already.
The more people that discover this great album, the better!!
And Greg playing the piano?? Yes!!!
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OTW has been shunned for decades

Its just fiunny to me how OTW is getting all this love all of a sudden lolll
 
Bringing Brighter Days said:
OTW has been shunned for decades

Its just fiunny to me how OTW is getting all this love all of a sudden lolll
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Maybe so, but better late than never. I'm quite ecstatic that my own personal favorite album of all time is getting all this love from other people.
My taste in music has never coincided with what's popular. It's really rare.

I remember watching a show years ago with Justin Timberlake and Pharrell where they were talking about OTW. I didn't really know who they were back then and it surprised and impressed me.

(And I don't recall all who did Michael's tribute in 2010 but it fell flat. They did it in 3D as I remember and it was just blurry. They are capable of doing it right. Jennifer Hudson honoring Whitney was fantastic and done at the last second. I hope they do something to honor Mauruce White too).
 
HIStoric said:
Gaga wasn't hired by Bowie's Estate. She was already booked to perform on the Grammys but completely changed her show's direction after Bowie's death. IIRC she has an album due out much later this year so her original performance was probably related to that.
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She was hired by someone to do the tribute. I said "by the Estate and Grammys". In her case it might have been just the Grammys.
 
what? who's Miguel? does it matter? no artist is too big or too small to pay tribute to the even bigger artists. just reading that someone is paying tribute, is enough to put a smile on my face. even if it was some unknown singer from my hometown performing at a local bar. it's awesome no matter who does it. this also helps to keep their legacies alive
 
Kerry Hennigan ?@kerryhennigan 10. Feb.

iTunes Pop Album chart in the US - @michaeljackson Off the Wall still in Top Ten this morning.
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respect77 said:
Yes. I am actually pleasantly surprised that this OTW re-release even gets a nod at the Grammys. It's not like it happens to every re-release of a classic album. So I think it's nice.
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Dito. Seems some totally miss the point
 
^^Dam!! Why can't we get stuff at theaters in US?? Ok, I know NYC and LA have, but we have lots more cities!!!
 
The whole Off the Wall documentary just shows how amazing Michael was in that era, especially during the Triumph tour and people at that time must of thought this is it this is Michael Jackson in all his glory. Little did they know what he had in store a few years on. And it just emphasis hows even more incredible Michael became during the Bad era!!!!!
 
SkyWalk said:
The whole Off the Wall documentary just shows how amazing Michael was in that era, especially during the Triumph tour and people at that time must of thought this is it this is Michael Jackson in all his glory. Little did they know what he had in store a few years on. And it just emphasis hows even more incredible Michael became during the Bad era!!!!!
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I have to admit it was an incredible time-we went from an adorable Scarecrow turn to this incredibly naively sexy powerhouse singer and dancer and it just kept getting better and better and better.?
 
To all Members this thread was way off topic it is clean up now so please i repeat stay on topic this is a warning. This thread will be watch.
 
Review: Michael Jackson, Before He Was King

By MIKE HALEFEB. 4, 2016

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“Michael Jackson’s Journey From Motown to Off the Wall” is Spike Lee’s new documentary, having its TV debut on Showtime on Friday. Credit Todd Gray


When you think of Spike Lee as a director of documentaries, you probably think of “4 Little Girls” and “When the Levees Broke,” his somber, anguished accounts of assaults on black communities. But the majority of his nonfiction work has been in a lighter and more celebratory vein — music and comedy concert films, music videos, profiles of athletes like Kobe Bryant and Jim Brown.

Fitting solidly into that second category is “Michael Jackson’s Journey From Motown to Off the Wall,” which had its debut at Sundance last month and has its television premiere on Showtime on Friday. The film’s producers include the two executors of Jackson’s estate, and it is predictably admiring, though Mr. Lee keeps it from feeling too fawning, at least until the closing minutes. What it resembles more than anything is a deluxe extended episode of a television music-biography series like “Unsung” (or “Behind the Music” minus the scandals).


“Journey” shares that genre’s tendency toward superficiality and obviousness — only the most devout fan won’t tire of being told repeatedly what a brilliant singer and dancer Michael Jackson was. But it also possesses the genre’s virtues in abundance, beginning with the liberal use of performance footage, from the early days of the Jackson 5 to the Jacksons’ 1981 “Triumph” tour, an opportunity to appreciate not only Jackson’s preternatural skills but also a dazzling succession of skintight sequined jumpsuits.


And while the selection of interview subjects includes people whose connection to Mr. Lee is stronger than their connection to Jackson (Rosie Perez, John Leguizamo, Mr. Bryant) and the occasional name-value choice without a lot to add (the ballet dancer Misty Copeland), there are talking heads who provide pleasure whenever they pop up on screen. The fabled R&B producers Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff lend a warm authority, and Jackson’s brothers Marlon and Jackie reminisce in delightful harmony, fully attuned to each other after decades together onstage.

This is Mr. Lee’s second documentary pegged to a Michael Jackson album, following “Bad 25” in 2012. Beginning with a brief account of the Jackson 5’s enormous initial success, “Journey” skips ahead to the their defection from Motown to Epic Records, where they became the Jacksons (and lost much of their early luster).

It frames the move as a bid for artistic freedom — Epic let the brothers write their own songs, which Motown wouldn’t allow. And Mr. Lee’s objective is to define Jackson as a particular type of artist — a thoughtful, highly conscious perfectionist who never stopped honing his technique, rather than an instinctual physical genius who merely had to walk onstage, pop his hips and let out a falsetto shriek.

Is that a case that needs to be made at this point? Probably not, but it’s still interesting, and moving, to hear the teenage Jackson earnestly discussing his aspirations and role models. In a handwritten self-motivational manifesto from 1979, he states, “I should be a new incredible actor singer dancer, that will shock the world.”


As the film segues into a song-by-song analysis of “Off the Wall,” Jackson’s breakthrough 1979 solo album, another theme hovers in and out of sight: that the disc was the culmination of a period in his and his brothers’ careers when their music was most passionately embraced by black listeners, providing the soundtrack for their lives through the 1970s. Just over the horizon — and barely mentioned in the film — are “Thriller” and Jackson’s epic performance at the Motown 25th-anniversary celebration, when he ascended to a new and nearly unprecedented level of crossover fame.


Completely absent from “Journey” is any mention of Jackson’s later status as tabloid fodder, from the allegations of child molestation to the accusations of general weirdness. In an interview with The Daily Beast, Mr. Lee said that Jackson’s estate and his record label, Sony, ruled out certain subjects, but he also said, “I knew I didn’t want to deal with that stuff.”

He’s made a fan’s film, and he’s happy to let us know it, shouting out questions from behind the camera and cackling loudly when he particularly likes an answer. “Off the Wall” came out the same year as Mr. Lee’s first film, the student short “Last Hustle in Brooklyn,” and he includes a clip from that fledgling work. The closing credits of “Journey” end with a note that begins, “This documentary celebrates the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, and the achievements of his album, ‘Off the Wall.’” It also celebrates some of Mr. Lee’s fonder memories.


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/05/movies/review-michael-jackson-before-he-was-king.html?_r=1
 
There is a interview with The Jacksons from Swiss-Forum after their Art of Ice-Performance:

http://www.jackson.ch/artikeldetail/i-want-you-back-hat-unser-leben-ins-rollen-gebracht/
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Werden von der «Unity Tour» und auch von den alten Sachen wie der «Victory Tour», DVDs erscheinen?
Will there be from the Unity Tour and the older tours like Victory Tours coming out DVDs?



Jackie: Wir werden etwas zusammenstellen. Das wird bald kommen.
We will put something togehter. It will coming soon.



Und was ist mit den Konzerten aus den frühen Zeiten?
And what about the concerts from formter times?
Marlon: Die Zeit muss dafür reif sein. Es könnte «Packet-weise» erscheinen. Es muss ein ganzer Marketingplan dahinter stecken und all diese Dinge.
The time must be right for this. It can be coming in packages. There must be a marketing-plan and all those things.



Jackie: Es sollte keine aktuelle Musik draussen sein, bevor wir etwas raus bringen.
It shouldn`t be a actual music out before we bring it out.



Gibt es keine rechtlichen Probleme? Marlon: Nein. Wollt ihr welche verursachen? (alle lachen)
There are no problems with rights?


Marlon: Nein. Wollt ihr welche verursachen? (alle lachen)
No, will you cause them? (all smiling)
 
Holly Robinson Peete‏@hollyrpeete
Yo @spikelee this Michael Jackson's "Journey from Motown to Off The Wall" is my WORLD right now … #showtime

Darren Hayes ‏@darrenhayes
You did it again @SpikeLee - thanks for making a worthy tribute to Michael Jackson #OffTheWall

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I wonder why Sony Music and Estate put only Get on the Floor, Workin' Day and Night & It's the Falling in Love on YouTube? Why not put all of them if the streaming counts on Billboard chart? The missing songs are Rod Temperton songs (Off the Wall & Burn This Disco Out), Girlfriend and I Can't Help It. All written by outside writers. Other songs are up in their video from (DSTYGE, RWY & SOOML). Do you think it's their intentional strategic choice not to put all of them or is Rod being an ass again by stopping them to put online his songs? Same with Paul. Weird that I Can't Help It is not up because both Stevie & Susaye Greene appeared in the documentary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdYwglFL6iM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWnyCxva6bA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8DE_cvnGXQ
 
From USA Today: This is a podcast called "DadRock" that is on Spotify and iTunes-this week they're reviewing "Off the Wall" track by track.
I'll just put the link here because the actual podcast looks like it must be protected by copyright-it won't copy over. They also include a Spotify playlist of OTW.


http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2016/02/12/dad-rock-takes-jacksons-off-wall/80314046/
Dad Rock takes on Jackson's 'Off the Wall'

Patrick Foster and Jim Lenahan, USA TODAY8:50 p.m. EST February 12, 2016
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(Photo: AP)


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OnirMJ said:
I wonder why Sony Music and Estate put only Get on the Floor, Workin' Day and Night & It's the Falling in Love on YouTube? Why not put all of them if the streaming counts on Billboard chart? The missing songs are Rod Temperton songs (Off the Wall & Burn This Disco Out), Girlfriend and I Can't Help It. All written by outside writers. Other songs are up in their video from (DSTYGE, RWY & SOOML). Do you think it's their intentional strategic choice not to put all of them or is Rod being an ass again by stopping them to put online his songs? Same with Paul. Weird that I Can't Help It is not up because both Stevie & Susaye Greene appeared in the documentary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdYwglFL6iM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWnyCxva6bA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8DE_cvnGXQ
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Somebody (I thought Sony) put this really nice OTW playlist on You Tube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yURRmWtbTbo&list=PLYagrqIg-kgRervKniMLfhLzwePqadKW8
 
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