Galactus123
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I don't mind some crowd shots, but Bucharest went overboard with it.
I don't watch the Bucharest very often. The editing is annoying. I'm so happy that we have Oslo, Bremen and Copehagen concerts.
I don't mind some crowd shots, but Bucharest went overboard with it.
Literally surreal to read this. Idk. Just makes absolutely no sense to me.
He fell off (while he was on stage) on two occasions during the HIStory Tour, but this had nothing to do with possible health or tiredness issues.
I don't mind some crowd shots, but Bucharest went overboard with it.
Worst thing about Bucharest was all those damn crowd shots. Thank god for all the leaked Dangerous Tour shows where that's not a problem
Isn't the original TV version of Bucharest 92 around? Crowd edits were ok in that. I've never watched the later DVD version, but seems it was re-edited to the worse there.
Princess Diana told him to leave it in. He talks about in the beginning of this interview:Also He mentions twice that the royal family is present yet I Dirty Diana was in the setlist? I thought he left it out out of respect?
The tv broadcast is pure gold. Taped the Dutch broadcast and BBC broadcast back in the day and watched it hundreds times before the commercial release was available. That edit was way too much. The unedited Bucharest release is still one of my favourites. Only real downsides are the missed shot of the toaster and the mediocre jetpack footage. But other than that top notch.
NatureCriminal7896;4284064 said:
mj_frenzy;4284134 said:Speaking of the ‘Smooth Criminal’ lean, one very important reason that the 1997 Munich HIStory concert is not going to get an official release is because one of his back up dancers accidentally reveals the trick while he comes back to his upright, original position.
Makes total sense. In fact it's extremely well put.Live is about being live. The energy, the excitement, the unpredictability, those shouts and hee-hees Michael can barely contain in the opening 60 seconds of that song because he's there, raw in the flesh, in the moment, feeling everything and giving it all back. It's the passion and the soul and the uniqueness of the moment that make live performance so special, so vital, so alive. The vast majority of that goes behind a massive barrier when he stops singing.
I understand you aren't into any of that, but to call it nonsensical is quite strange.
Yeah, there are several videos of MJ instructing cameramen to film the crowd during public appearances (saying he wants them to shoot "action-reaction").I think Mj was trying to show his perspective on stage/the entire atmosphere. I think we have the unedited versions on here.
So I just watched the Bad Wembley performance on MJ's YouTube channel.
How come TWYMMF wasn't part of the setlist that night? Also He mentions twice that the royal family is present yet I Dirty Diana was in the setlist? I thought he left it out out of respect?
We really really need a real live performance of TWYMMF, I can't stress this enough.
Also He mentions twice that the royal family is present yet I Dirty Diana was in the setlist? I thought he left it out out of respect?
JichaelMackson;4284112 said:Also He mentions twice that the royal family is present yet I Dirty Diana was in the setlist? I thought he left it out out of respect?
ChrisC;4284227 said:Michael was the ultimate PR man. The Dirty Diana anecdote was not true. Either that or he simply 'misremembered' it.
Electro;4284284 said:As far as i've heard the story over the years, Michael initially wanted to leave it off out of respect to her. But when he met Diana before the concert she asked if the song would be played, saying that it was her favourite. (Probably sensing that it might be left out because of her). So then it was put back in.
mj_frenzy;4284294 said:Michael Jackson initially removed ‘Dirty Diana’ from the Wembley concert’s set list (on July 16th, 1988) out of respect for Princess Diana who attended that particular concert.
He revealed that publicly on two occasions: in the Barbara Walters interview (1997), and in the ‘Private Home Movies’ TV documentary (2003).
He specifically said to Barbara Walters that he took ‘Dirty Diana’ out of the show in honour of Her Royal Highness.
The confusion about it (if the song was performed or not at that night) started because Michael Jackson never said publicly that he eventually performed it at that night.
But he eventually performed ‘Dirty Diana’ at that night after Princess Diana asked him to perform the song (when he met him personally backstage some minutes before the start of the show).
Although it was too late, he and his production team managed to put the song back into the Wembley concert’s set list and the song was performed (as shown by leaked audio, but also by various fan reports).
Also He mentions twice that the royal family is present yet I Dirty Diana was in the setlist? I thought he left it out out of respect?
Yeah we've known for a while MJ did DD that night - it's on the DVD