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Got this in my email today

Greetings Thriller fans!

Thriller 25, the special re-release of the world's biggest selling album of all time is almost upon us! The album will be available next Tuesday, February 12th.

Thriller is available as a two-disc edition in your choice of covers (either Michael in his white suit or Michael as a zombie). The first disc features the original tracks digitally remastered, new 2008 collaborations from Akon, Will.i.am, Fergie and Kanye West as well as "For All Time," a previously unreleased ballad from the original Thriller recording sessions. The second disc is a bonus DVD featuring digitally enhanced versions of the short films for "Beat It," "Billie Jean," and "Thriller". It also features Michael's legendary performance on Motown 25, when the world saw the moonwalk for the first time. You can pre-order from Amazon and get "Wanna Be Starting Something" 2008 featuring Akon and brand new vocals from Michael on iTunes.

Thanks to Clear Channel, you can hear the Thriller 25th Anniversary CD before it hits stores next week exclusively in the US. Simply go to http://www.1047kissfm.com/cc-common/news/sections/special/michaeljackson. While you are there, you can also check out Michael's videos, photos, and a preview of the brand new Thrillercast podcast series.

Thrillercast is a 40-episode Podcast series that will feature icons of music and screen, including hip-hop legends KRS-One & DMC, current superstars Nick Cannon, Chris Brown, choreographers Shane Sparks and Mia Michaels from the hit show "So You Think You Can Dance", turntablist DJ Spooky as well as many more special guests. Each guest sat down with us to discuss their experiences with Thriller, the various singles and videos, and its influence on them, both personally and professionally. Thrillercast launches February 12th, 2008 with an episode featuring DMC of Run DMC. They will be available on all podcast providers as well as directly via http://www.michaeljackson.com/podcast. The series will be updated with a new episode each week throughout the year.
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http://www.theimproper.com/Template_Article.aspx?IssueId=3&ArticleId=1216


Michael's Back!
POP ICON RETURNS WITH RE-ISSUE OF HISTORIC "THRILLER" ALBUM
By The Improper

Michael Jackson's back. “Thriller," the world's top-selling album, which vaulted Jackson to superstar status 25 years ago, is about to be reissued as “Thriller 25.” The release is being supported with a flood of singles, a 40-episode "ThrillerCast" podcast, the Super Bowl launch of the "Thrillicious" Sobe Life Water ad campaign and the presentation of a Lifetime Achievement Award to Jackson at the NRJ Music Awards at Cannes among other events.

The original album was certified 27-times platinum, (Double Diamond in the United States. In 1984, Jackson received a record-breaking 12 Grammy nominations and went on to win eight, which still stands as the most Grammy Awards won by an individual in a single year. Seven of the awards were for “Thriller.” The Guinness World Records claims Jackson is among the most highly acclaimed and influential artists in pop culture. Jackson, of course, has been mired in controversy in recent years that include allegations of child molestation and often bizarre behavior. But if a reissue of one of the most successful album of all time and the huge multi-media campaign surrounding it can’t restart his career, nothing will.

The album will go on sale Feb. 12 in this country and will be released simultaneously around the world the same week. Seven bonus tracks have been added, including new collaborations with Akon, Fergie, will.i.am and a Kanye West remix of "Billie Jean 2008." The Michael Jackson Thriller 25th anniversary celebration runs throughout 2008 with a global media and marketing blitz featuring television, radio and online events around the world and the major re-launch of Jackson’s official website. You can check it out here.

Super Bowl Media Kickoff
The media campaign kicked off with the premiere of "Thrillicious," Pepsi's Sobe Life Water spot starring supermodel Naomi Campbell and a cast of animated lizards. It featured a series of dance moves to the tune of Jackson's "Thriller." The first single from "Thriller 25," "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 2008" featuring Akon, has already been released to radio and is getting spins on pop, rhythm and urban stations across the country. The single has been the No. 1 “On Demand” song online for all Clear Channel Radio station Web sites since its release Jan. 18, according to the Jackson camp.

On the comeback trail, Jackson was recently honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the prestigious NRJ Music Awards ceremony at a music industry conference in Cannes, France. Following a video tribute, Jackson delivered a personal message via satellite to NRJ attendees and a television audience of more than 7 million viewers. A recent "Thriller 25" promotion in London featured professional dancers re-enacting the iconic zombie choreography on the London Underground, Trafalgar Square and other unusual locations. A competition has been launched for UK Michael fans to submit their own versions of the "Thriller" dance to YouTube.

"Thrillercast," a groundbreaking 40-episode podcast event, launches Feb 12 and will be updated weekly throughout the year. The series features icons of music, screen and culture including hip-hop legend Darryl "DMC" McDaniels, superstars Nick Cannon and Chris Brown, choreographers Shane Sparks and Mia Michaels from the hit show "So You Think You Can Dance," and dozens of other special guests. Each episode will explore their personal experiences with “Thriller” and its influence on them, both personally and professionally. "Thrillercast" will be available for free through iTunes, Zune, and all major podcast providers, as well as directly through Jackson's Web site.

Mix of New and Old“Thriller 25” includes all nine of “Thriller's” original performances as well as seven bonus tracks, including five new homages featuring performers in contemporary pop and soul music. "Thriller 25's" first single, "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 2008," produced by Jackson and Akon, is an all-new version of "Thriller's" opening cut. It showcases newly recorded 2008 vocals by Jackson and Akon. Another track, "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) 2008," by Jackson with will.i.am is an original, unreleased pre-album demo remixed by Jackson and will.i.am with newly added vocals and production from will.i.am.

"The Girl Is Mine 2008" is another Jackson/ will.i.am collaboration based on a demo predating Jackson's duet with ex-Beatle Paul McCartney. This is a previously unreleased track newly produced and mixed by Jackson and will.i.am, featuring a will.i.am rap. "The Girl Is Mine 2008" is the album's first single and is already charting in Brazil, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Poland, South Africa, Switzerland, the UK and Japan, where it at No. 5 on the Top 10.

"Billie Jean 2008" features the original tracks of Jackson's signature hit, newly remixed by Kanye West. "Beat It 2008" is both a remix and a new track featuring Jackson's vocals and instrumental tracks from the Thriller original coupled with seductive new vocals by Fergie with new band tracks and production by Jackson and will.i.am.

”Thriller 25” closes with "For All Time," a nascent classic recorded by Jackson during the original Thriller sessions in 1982 but never completed or released until now. Jackson has added new vocals and band tracks to his original recording. Mick Guzawski mixed and Jackson produced "For All Time," which “provides a sublime and fitting close to this new, definitive edition of Thriller, a spokesman says.

As an added bonus for fans, “Thriller 25” includes a DVD featuring Jackson's groundbreaking music videos from the original album; ("Thriller," "Beat It," and "Billie Jean") and the artist's Emmy-nominated breakout performance of "Billie Jean" from the legendary "Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever" television special (broadcast on NBC on May 16, 1983).

The Thriller 25 CD/DVD set will be available in three collectible editions: a standard version with the album's original cover art; a standard version with a new "Zombie" cover; and a deluxe edition in a hard-bound casebook format with a 48-page booklet. Both standard versions contain the CD and bonus DVD in a brilliant box with a rainbow holographic O-card and a 20- page booklet. Thriller 25 will also be available as a Platinum MusicPass Album Card, a digital album card that consumers can use to download “Thriller 25, and special bonus content in the form of high-quality MP3 files.

Originally released in the United States, Nov 30, 1982, the Epic Records production was Jackson's sixth solo album and second with producer Quincy Jones. It rocketed the former Jackson 5 child-star and lead singer to international superstardom. Jackson introduced the "robot" and the "moonwalk" and revolutionized mainstream pop. The original Thriller spent an astounding 80 consecutive weeks in the American Top 10, 37 of those at No. 1.Thriller also made history as the first and only record to be America's top- selling album two years running (1983 and 1984).
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PLEASE POST SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO THE WRITER OF THIS ARTICLE TO THE TELEGRAPH ARTICLE TO telegraph@blj.co.uk

Here is the link to the article:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/02/07/bmthriller107.xml
>>>>there are 8 more articles about the Grammy's
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Time to take a bow

Time to take a bow [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]This year, three of the biggest names in music - Michael Jackson, Madonna and Prince - hit 50. They've each sold millions of records in long careers. But what do their futures hold - and what is the point of a middle-aged pop star, asks Joe Queenan[/FONT]

[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif] Thursday February 7, 2008
The Guardian

The piece is quite long and not entirely about MJ & the others, but you can read it here:

http://music.guardian.co.uk/pop/story/0,,2253660,00.html

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saw that advertised on the front of their paper today. knew they would have to bring mj up
 
So much favorable news and mentionings

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18767827

At Long Last, 'Justice' for Michael Jackson

By John Richards


'D.A.N.C.E.' by Justice
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courtesy of Justice A French DJ duo, Justice operates on the leading edge of heavy electronic music.


Thursday's Pick
  • Song: "D.A.N.C.E."
  • Artist: Justice
  • CD: [cross]
  • Genre: Dance


NPR.org, February 7, 2008 - A French DJ duo, Justice operates on the leading edge of heavy electronic music. The pair's primitive, mutated fusion of pop, rock, and dance sounds practically pushes listeners' fists into the air with its heavy beats and unforgettable hooks. "D.A.N.C.E." exemplifies that sound perfectly, functioning as one of the most insistently catchy songs to surface in years.
With the assistance of a London-based youth choir chanting, "Do the D-A-N-C-E / 1-2-3-4-5," Justice has an enormous amount of fun paying sincere homage to Michael Jackson. Incorporating elements of several of his songs — including "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)," "Black or White," and The Jackson 5's "ABC" — it offers a new take on Jackson's ingeniously infectious early days. Playing off Jackson's lyrics while paying tribute to his legacy, "D.A.N.C.E." does a wonderful job of stripping away the pop icon's recent history (musically and otherwise), in the process rediscovering the joy inherent in his best music.
 
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=7513

Kehinde Wiley: I’m sort of numb at this point. You know Michael Jackson is calling me, Elton John bought Dead Soldier, my latest painting (above), at Art Basel Miami Beach. At some point it just becomes some sort of weird reality and you roll with the punches. It’s a freak show but that becomes normal.

TAN: So are you going to be doing something with Michael Jackson?

KW: I am, but we’re still discussing exactly what it will involve. I think he was doing a photo shoot at the Brooklyn Museum and he saw my work and was really taken with it, so he had his people contact me. I thought it was a joke at first. It just didn’t seem real, so I ignored it for the longest time. Then he contacted a friend of mine who’s an actor, so I knew it was for real.
 
eternitys_child said:
TAN: So are you going to be doing something with Michael Jackson?

KW: I am, but we’re still discussing exactly what it will involve. I think he was doing a photo shoot at the Brooklyn Museum and he saw my work and was really taken with it, so he had his people contact me
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Fingers and toes crossed its an album sleeve ;)
 
This writer needs to do some research. He is biased towards Madonna and she had a big slump period around 1993.

noumene said:
Time to take a bow

Time to take a bow [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]This year, three of the biggest names in music - Michael Jackson, Madonna and Prince - hit 50. They've each sold millions of records in long careers. But what do their futures hold - and what is the point of a middle-aged pop star, asks Joe Queenan[/FONT]

[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif] Thursday February 7, 2008[/FONT]
[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]The Guardian[/FONT]

[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]The piece is quite long and not entirely about MJ & the others, but you can read it here:[/FONT][FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]

[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]http://music.guardian.co.uk/pop/story/0,,2253660,00.html[/FONT]

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this was posted in the Thriller 25 thread and thought some might want to know

Rollingstone review - Thriller 25
http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/...deluxe_edition

Michael Jackson

Thriller 25 Deluxe Edition

5/5 (5 out of 5)

Thriller is the sound of Michael Jackson in 1982, when he was the coolest, slinkiest, prettiest pop star alive. He was Boy George times Rick James and beat both of them at their games, although he did nothing but make the competition sound even better. He taught Boy George fans and Rick James fans to hear each other's music, just as he taught Van Halen, Lionel Richie, ZZ Top, Stevie Nicks and Bruce Springsteen to play to this grand new pop-thrills audience he'd called to the floor. After this, nobody claimed disco sucked again. "Billie Jean" was the hit, with MJ's voice aching with erotic longing and dread, and nearly five minutes of creepy strings and seductive bass and breathy gasps, though there wasn't a station on the dial that faded the song out early. "Beat It" was the one designed to get on rock radio — but "Billie Jean" got there first, since the rock stations played it, along with the rest of the world. They couldn't resist that bass. Who could?

Thriller has been the world's favorite pop album ever since, and this deluxe expanded edition shows why, even with six lame new remixes from artists like Fergie, Akon and Kanye West, as well as the mediocre ballad "For All Time," a rerecorded outtake from the original sessions, tacked on. The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition is like the I'm Not There soundtrack: All the new artists sound cowed by the originals, and they know nobody will ever play their versions twice. Even Kanye can tell he's in over his head, so he sends "Billie Jean" out there without the bass line, which is like putting Bobby Orr on the ice without a hockey stick. And in an early fast-track contender for the year's most pointless musical moment, there's Fergie's "Beat It 2008." How funky and strong is her fight?

Akon's "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" is actually kind of great — he slows it down into a piano ballad, lingering over the easily obscured lyrics. Paul McCartney doesn't show for "The Girl Is Mine 2008," but that would be a sore subject anyway. (What can it mean that the music on "The Girl Is Mine" was played by the guys from Toto, who had that song about Rosanna Arquette — who has recently been linked to McCartney?) Instead we get Will.i.am, whose idea of production is dumb-thug bluster and trying to hide the goofy "doggone" hook, which is the whole point of the song, dude. "The Girl Is Mine" without "doggone" is like "Same Girl" without the Waffle House. Note: Though MJ's original vocals are on here, Jackson himself doesn't participate much in the new versions, showing previously well-hidden instincts of self-preservation.

So that leaves the original Thriller, which hasn't lost any of its fizz. One of the funny things about the album is that even though it's as close as you can get to timeless, it really only could have happened in 1982. That was a watershed year for pop music, with New Wave synth pop and disco feeding into each other, the year of Madonna's "Everybody" and George Clinton's "Atomic Dog" and the Human League's "Don't You Want Me" and Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing." Jackson got this whole era grooving a few years earlier with Off the Wall, but at the end of 1982, right when everybody was still reeling from Prince's 1999, he dropped Thriller and shocked everyone. Madonna made her own version of "Billie Jean," retitled "Like a Virgin." Stevie Nicks called her version "Stand Back," Pat Benatar called hers "Love Is a Battlefield." Bob Dylan called his "Tight Connection to My Heart." Yet none of them could touch the original.

Thriller has MJ at his breathiest and most salacious ("PYT"), and his most beautifully fragile ("Human Nature," so open and brave it makes "She's Out of My Life" seem phony). The one hit that sounds tired now is "Thriller," killed off by the video, with its bid for middlebrow respectability. ("Billie Jean" and "Beat It" are great videos — "Thriller" is just a crap John Landis movie.) But the wiggly bass that kicks off the album in "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' " feels like the sound of MJ's soul, and you can hear it all over his voice. (A big hand for bassist Louis Johnson, please, who also played on "Billie Jean.") By the time he came back with Bad, the wiggle was gone from his bass and his voice. Yet the weirdest thing about Michael Jackson will always be that he gave the world this work of genius.
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eternitys_child said:
So much favorable news and mentionings

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18767827

At Long Last, 'Justice' for Michael Jackson

By John Richards


'D.A.N.C.E.' by Justice
add to playlist

justice300.jpg
courtesy of Justice A French DJ duo, Justice operates on the leading edge of heavy electronic music.


Thursday's Pick
  • Song: "D.A.N.C.E."
  • Artist: Justice
  • CD: [cross]
  • Genre: Dance

NPR.org, February 7, 2008 - A French DJ duo, Justice operates on the leading edge of heavy electronic music. The pair's primitive, mutated fusion of pop, rock, and dance sounds practically pushes listeners' fists into the air with its heavy beats and unforgettable hooks. "D.A.N.C.E." exemplifies that sound perfectly, functioning as one of the most insistently catchy songs to surface in years.
With the assistance of a London-based youth choir chanting, "Do the D-A-N-C-E / 1-2-3-4-5," Justice has an enormous amount of fun paying sincere homage to Michael Jackson. Incorporating elements of several of his songs — including "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)," "Black or White," and The Jackson 5's "ABC" — it offers a new take on Jackson's ingeniously infectious early days. Playing off Jackson's lyrics while paying tribute to his legacy, "D.A.N.C.E." does a wonderful job of stripping away the pop icon's recent history (musically and otherwise), in the process rediscovering the joy inherent in his best music.
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I was working security at a concert a few months back and this group were the support act. thought he was an mj fan because when he came down into the pit the smaller of the 2 guys in the picture had BAD (done in the style from the album cover) tattoed on his arm. it was a strange night cause as some of the ppl were entering the venue (i was on the front doors) they were turning round on the slippy floor and moonwalking.several ppl did it within a few minutes of each other. it was really bizarre
 
Am I "seeing things" or did really "Rolling Stone" published decent review of "Thriller 25" without some nasty slant or slander?
 
denisrs said:
Am I "seeing things" or did really "Rolling Stone" published decent review of "Thriller 25" without some nasty slant or slander?
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Amazing, isn't it? I loved that review. It was beautifully written and funny as well as insightful (i.e. the writer shares my opinions :lol:)
 
you can listen to T25 on KissFM (a Clear Channel station)
http://www.kzzp.com/cc-common/news/sections/special/michaeljackson/

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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"Everybody wants to be near Michael. Every celebrity wants to meet Michael. He's the King of Pop for a reason. He's a mystery."[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]- Justin Timberlake[/FONT]​


JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE: "Just like Michael took inspiration from James [Brown], sure, Michael's inspired me immensely to do what I do. Anytime someone comes out and dances and does something with choreography, they say, 'Well, that's inspired by Michael.' So, thank you. That's a compliment."

USHER: But when I heard ["I Want You Back"]I was inspired. I wanted to sing like Michael, to be like Mike."


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CHRIS BROWN: "There isn’t an artist out now that hasn't been influenced or inspired by Michael Jackson. [He's] as close to perfection as an artist can be."

BEYONCE: "He taught us so much and it's such a blessing."

ALICIA KEYS: "I'm upset at the way he's being treated in the media. I think they're really trying to slander his name, and I really think that's unfair for the way that he's contributed to the American culture since the day he was born. I think he deserves much more than that."

MISSY ELLIOTT: "He's my biggest influence..."

MACAULAY CULKIN: "We're close, he's a good friend of mine, we definitely have a connection that most people don't have..."

CHRIS TUCKER:"'Michael is a genius, a creative being in a whole other reality..."

NICOLE RICHIE: "He's a good person."

KENNY ROGERS: "He's a gifted dancer, singer, and performer. He's always had a wonderful spirit about him."

LIZA MINELLI: "He has more talent than anybody in the world."
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LL COOL J: ''I'm a fan. I support him a hundred zillion percent."

will.i.am: 'You always just dream of meeting him, let alone working with him. I wouldn't have believed it."

NE-YO: He called his song "Crazy," "Another one of my unofficial tributes to Michael Jackson."

LIL' ROMEO: "I always looked up to him--and my dad--since I was a little boy."

ELIZABETH TAYLOR: "We're very much alike."


VOTE on the site

What Michael remix is your fave?
Wanna Be Startin' Something with Akon Beat It with Fergie Billie Jean with Kanye The Girl is Mine with Will.I.Am Select your option and vote!
 
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Rasta, you rock, seriously! LOL.

I have an issue: I am trying to click on that Usher picture and it is not working.

BTW, who is loving the news today? :)
 
Bee1983 said:
Rasta, you rock, seriously! LOL.

I have an issue: I am trying to click on that Usher picture and it is not working.

BTW, who is loving the news today? :)
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Meeee!!! Gah! the news is sooo f' ing :punk: awesome today! rock on MJ, ROCK ON:punk: bout time they give Mike due respect! I hope this goes on throughout 2008!!!
 
Nice review from Rolling Stone mag, a bit surprised that they actually gave such a review with 5 stars given their attitude to MJ.

Anyhoo.....today is my birthday, so happy birthday to me!lol
 
Thanks for the news and i want to know is it true about Rolling stone saying good things about Michael. I believe that when i see it. Still i sure hope its true .
 
CHRIS BROWN: "There isn’t an artist out now that hasn't been influenced or inspired by Michael Jackson. [He's] as close to perfection as an artist can be."
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best quote on MJ's greatness as an artist!!
ALICIA KEYS: "I'm upset at the way he's being treated in the media. I think they're really trying to slander his name, and I really think that's unfair for the way that he's contributed to the American culture since the day he was born. I think he deserves much more than that."
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she's honest and real for saying this. thanks to her.
 
Thanks for the news guys good to see fellow artist and entertainers giving MJ love. Thanks for that post Rasta Pasta.
 
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