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Thrills and spills
Mark Ellen
Published 22 May 2008
The Michael Jackson phenomenon represented a golden age - the peak of the music industry. The only way was down
At four o'clock on 8 December 1982, Michael Jackson did one of his last print interviews with me for the pop magazine Smash Hits. Shortly afterwards, his album Thriller became such a huge hit that he disappeared into a cocoon of management and PR people, only resurfacing in 1999 to refute child-abuse allegations. I remember sitting at midnight in the Smash Hits office, trying to make sense of his high-pitched, disembodied voice and his strange blend of sharp business sense and childlike wonder.
Jackson's rehabilitation is now well under way, with the second single from the 25th-anniversary reissue of Thriller, a remix of "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" featuring the singer Akon, due out in June. But will it ever be possible for him to reclaim his former place in the pop firmament? It is easy to forget how ubiquitous the sound of Thriller once was, and how widespread the ***** mania. In March 1983, performing "Billie Jean" live for a celebration of 25 years of Motown that was later televised, Jackson stole the show and introduced a key component of his multi-pronged assault on popular culture: his signature dance, the moonwalk. Small children - many sporting a single glove - sashayed across kitchen floors at every party in my street while their parents comically failed to imitate them. Like all colossal success stories, the album had an element apparently decodable only by children.
Nevertheless, Jackson's influence went way beyond his musical achievements. A cautious MTV discovered that a black artist wouldn't threaten the ratings. His pioneering videos opened TV outlets for subsequent stars to sell in territories they had never heard of, without ever having to perform a note of live music. Jackson's biographer claimed the album had reactivated an industry in decline since 1978: "At some point Thriller stopped selling like a leisure item - like a magazine, a toy, tickets to a hit movie - and started selling like a household staple."
Mark Ellen is editor of "The Word" magazine
"Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 2008" featuring Akon (Sony BMG) is out on 9 June
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EDDY ARNOLD (1918-2008)
May 09, 2008
Country music’s smooth balladeer Eddy Arnold passed away yesterday. Elected into the Country Music Hall Of Fame in 1966, his hitmaking career began in 1945 and between then and 1968, Eddy topped the country singles chart no less than 28 different times.
His biggest crossover hit was in late 1965 with Hank Cochran’s pleading ballad MAKE THE WORLD GO AWAY. A Sony/ATV Tree copyright, it was followed by another Eddy Arnold reading of a Hank Cochran composition, I WANT TO GO WITH YOU. Both these hits made #1 on Billboard’s Country chart.
Among Eddy Arnold’s many other best-selling records of Sony/ATV songs were FULL TIME JOB (Teifer) a #1 in ’52, IT'S A SIN (Rose/Turner) #1 in ’47, LONELY AGAIN (Chapel) #1 in ’67, TEXARKANA BABY (Rose/Clark) #1 in ’48, THEN YOU CAN TELL ME GOODBYE (Loudermilk) #1 in ’68 and WHAT’S HE DOING IN MY WORLD (Belew/Bush/Moore) #1 in ’65.
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