That's right actually. He wanted to perform songs he made for himself.
Don't know. I've only read it once so I'm not intimately acquainted with all the details. @staywild23 read it for the 2nd time just this year so she might be able to answer this.
This wouldn't surprise me. Record labels release these compilations to cash in and it's not unusual for the band / artist to be hacked off about it. Especially bc they've usually moved on by then.
I haven't gotten the chance to. It's surprisingly hard to find at a library and I just absolutely refuse to pay for books. On average. Needless to say I'll find a way.
Yeah, it's not gonna be standard for a library to have it, especially now that it's not a recent book.
Nosy question but any particular reason why? I don't buy very many books bc they are so expensive and the production values are often so crap. Most of my books I buy 2nd hand. But I don't have a policy of refusing to buy books at all. Just curious to know your reasoning but no probs if you don't want to answer.
Mm. Could be tricky. I've never seen Moonwalk in a charity shop (= thrift shop). Depending on where you are in the world you could try to get it on inter-library loan. For example, the British Library has Moonwalk and it could very well be part of the UK inter-library loan scheme bc it's not a rare book or massively expensive. So you could put in a request at your local library. Oh, hang on, that won't work. You'd have to pay for it. ILL's don't come free. Used to be £5 per request but I'm sure it's gone up since then. Apologies if I'm telling you stuff you already know, lol. It would probably be cheaper to buy a 2nd hand copy online. Oh, but you don't wanna pay for books. I'm going round in circles, lol.
I don't recall it being mentioned, he did state he liked Ben & Got To Be There though
It mean at the time it was a new solo album, heck I love it so much that I even bought it on CD and soon vinyl and maybe cassette.
He does not mention this in Moonwalk! He does write quite a bit about Motown, in general, though. Good and bad. I agree that it is an essential read, so I hope you find it @Mister_Jay_Tee!
Coincidentally, I saw Moonwalk in a thrift shop LAST NIGHT!! Isn't that funny? I was so excited, I took a photo of it lol. I wanted to buy it, because that is my immediate impulse with anything remotely related to Michael. But seeing as I already own it, I wanted to leave it for others to buy. But still! I was so happy to see it there.
I feel exactly the same. I love this book. I will probably read it once a year. It's a special experience to be inside of Michael's head. I do have some issues with it thought. Well "issues" is putting it too strongly. There is nothing I actively dislike about it at all, just a few things I wish were different. More than anything, I just wish he was able to release a second memoir later in life. Sigh.
Cooler than cool.
Agreed but we already did this over on the book review thread so I'll contain myself and not derail the thread further!
How sure are you that he said that, what type of interview was it
I am 100 % sure he said it, it was probably a newspaper article, I remember being surprised because I thought they were good songs....
But then… it should rightfully read: you’re sure you’ve read it. Not that Michael said it. Because the former does not equate the latter.
Best comment on MJJC ever. I hereby declare you an International Treasure.
Ahhh you need to find it lol
Just because a singer/band performs a song does not necessarily mean they like it. I'm not saying that's the case here, but many artists have said they didn't like certain songs that have become hit singles, but they have to perform them in concert because of fans wanting to hear the songs.
I always forget this is a thing in the US because over here, adults have to pay for subscription, unless their earnings are under a certain threshold. The US also has much more libraries per area; if I want to go, I'd have to go all the way to the center of town. There's no other way.
On top of that, I personally believe that just because Michael didn't perform certain songs live, that does not necessarily mean he didn't like them. To be honest, I'm fairly certain he liked most (if not all) songs he recorded during his adult years, unless he said anything to the contrary (in which case, I stand corrected).
Send?
That also depends on what kind of artist and/or the type of audience that goes to see them. Michael Jackson was pretty much going to only perform whatever his most popular hits are, but another artist might perform album tracks that weren't singles, do covers of other artists songs during a concert. Some artists will change the arrangements of songs for a concert or make them much longer or put songs in a medley if they don't want to perform the entire songs. Some will even perform songs they have not recorded or released yet. I know Stevie Wonder has performed songs over the years that he has never released or put them out over a decade later from whenever the concert was.
