Michael Jackson - King of Pop 01 (Jun 09 - Dec 11)

[kennynah]

leg cramp man....

[LenaHuat]

The full track is now available at the official UK site:-
http://www.michaeljackson.com/uk/node/326415

This is it. Here I stand
I’m the light of the world
I feel grand.

I think it's from Rebbie Jackson's "Fly Away" era.
But this rendition by her brother is more lovely, especially when it gets to the chorus
Fly Away. I've a notion.....

[LenaHuat]

This Is It or
This Is It

I think it's the later. I'm not paying good $$ for this CD

[LenaHuat]

Are we done with Freddie Mercury ? I think he is, was and will be the last and only singing Parsi unless Rahul Gandhi takes to entertaining. There are so few Parsi who practise Zoroastrism now.


The NYT wrote : "This Is It . (Full Stop). (Full Stop). . . .."
Jackson co-wrote this song with Paul Anka in 1983 (so I was pretty close to dating it correctly ) and in 1991, Paul farmed it out to a little-known Puerto Rican singer, Safire.
Now, the estate has announced that it will pay Paul Anka, his 50% share of the takings
His family members and Sony thought we, fans are easy feed
What greedy bags

In the same NYT article:-

To wit, did you see the GQ cover story on Mr. Jackson a couple of months ago? One of the most moving bits was the brief anecdote about how he asked to sit in and watch Stevie Wonder work on “Songs in the Key of Life,” how he wants to get inside the music’s “anatomy.” We know him as a performer of stratospheric gifts, but he was also a tremendous technician — it’s so reassuring to hear him count out “1, 2, 3, 4 ...” at the beginning of “This Is It,” so casually in control.

Jackson's 2nd motto for success is: "Get into the anatomy".
From the first motto "Learn from the great and be greater", one can discern Jackson has an organized mind. How does one move from here to there?

Watch him with Marcel Marceau (This is the best video of them together. There was a better Youtube video taken off Israeli TV but it has been locked for violation reason. I can no longer access it.) :-
Michael Jackon with the great French Mime artiste, Marcel.

And Jackson was caught on video practising some mime moves at his private dance studio:-
Was Jackon doing mimes?

His cosmetic surgeon claimed that he once brought Jackson to an orthopaedic class in UCLA so that he could understand better how the feet worked. I have no idea whether this is true. But would you be surprised that he did I'm not. He was into "anatomy"

[Poles]

for lena...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfVsxb2G ... re=related

[LenaHuat]

Hi Poland

Thank Q Q for the link. I chuckled . It was posted before his death.
If it was after, then I would think it is distasteful to stump on a dead man.
Did you notice the Jesus Juice right at the beginning of the video??

I discovered this other video that contained the MM/MJ appearance taken of an Israeli TV programme. It's at the end segment of the video. The first segment contained one of the greatest compliment to MJ, the master talking about Jackson to this students. It's recorded in French. You can read the comments to undertand the master :-

Michael Jackson et le mime Marcel Marceau

I realised that I have misquoted Jackson. He said "Study the great and be greater" and not "Learn from the great and be greater". He said : "Be a scientist". I'll continue with this thread.

[Poles]

probably i am shallow, but i think MJ deserve the Nobel prize more than OB....i guess it seems like a consolation for not getting the Olympic ticket for Chicago??

[LenaHuat]

You are not, Poland

The shallow ones include those who kept on labelling his O2 shows, "Comeback" shows. They are not.
Jackson was very clear abt this : "This Is It. I mean...this is the final curtain show".
So it is "This Is It. (full stop) . (full stop)".

The shallow ones include those media who kept on writing about his falling out with other artists. When he collaborated with others, he wanted to find out whether the chemistry would work. If it didn't, he quitted. He didn't have a "falling out" with them. So he didn't fall out with Freddie Mercury or Paul Anka.

Just to entertain forumers who read this thread, watch i.am.will of "Black Eyed Peas" recording at Jackson's Irish studio. He 'wowed' when he discovered the US$6,000 price tag for a video recorder. The reporter in the video said that Jackson cooked for his children

Jackson recording in Ireland

[millionairemind]

Oct 14, 2009
MJ nominated for music award

NEW YORK - MICHAEL Jackson has a chance to win artist of the year posthumously at the American Music Awards.

The pop superstar, who died on June 25, was among a diverse group of artists nominated Tuesday for the top honour. Country star Taylor Swift, rapper Eminem, breakthrough rockers Kings of Leon and flamboyant pop star Lady Gaga were the other nominees.

Swift topped all artists with six nominations. She drew inadvertent attention at the MTV Video Music Awards last month when rapper Kanye West interrupted her acceptance speech to say Beyonce deserved the award instead.

Jackson followed Swift with five nominations and Eminem received four.

Winners are determined by an online vote of fans and will be announced at a Los Angeles ceremony televised by ABC on Nov 22. The nominees were selected through a measurement combining sales and radio airplay.

Jackson was also nominated as favourite male artist along with Eminem and imprisoned rapper T.I. -- AP

[kennynah]

MJ will no doubt in my mind attain immortality in the hall of fame, just as elvis and beatles did...