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Post by NatureCriminal7896 on Jun 29, 2022 10:32:39 GMT
“Weird Al” Yankovic says his friend was recently digitizing footage from his “Eat It” video — his 1984 Grammy award-winning spoof of Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” — and found this “insurance” take (below), which is a 3-minute-long shot of Yankovic’s character battling junk food in his bedroom.
“Basically, this is a take where the director just points the camera at the star of the video, who just does anything they feel like doing for the duration of the song,” he explained on his YouTube page. “It’s insurance, in case for some reason the production runs out of time and doesn’t get all the shots they were hoping to get.”
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Post by NatureCriminal7896 on Jul 1, 2022 18:03:52 GMT
He's right.
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Post by NatureCriminal7896 on Jul 1, 2022 18:21:56 GMT
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Post by NatureCriminal7896 on Jul 18, 2022 8:48:21 GMT
R.I.P
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Post by NatureCriminal7896 on Sept 5, 2022 8:28:19 GMT
It's no stop that Michael Jackson is called the King of Pop. The musician became iconic by creating powerful visuals for his hit singles such as "Thriller", "Remember The Time" and "Black or White", one of his most famous music videos.
In the video, dozens of celebrities appear in the clip and a memorable cameo was from model Tyra Banks. The creator of America's Next Top Model was so flattered to participate in the clip, that nervousness almost ruined the King of Pop's production.
Before becoming one of the world's most famous supermodels, one of Banks' first notable appearances was in the music video for "Black or White". In a 2019 interview with Access Live, Banks spoke of how his overconfidence was completely ruined at the time of filming.
The model says that, at the time of the recordings, she was only 17 years old and was cast just because she was a local girl. After teaching the choreography, everyone met with the clip's director, John Landis, and Tyra felt the pressure of all the work.
They put us in a room and said, 'OK, here are the dance steps, that's what you have to do.' I was there less than two minutes ago and I thought 'I have a soul, I'm perfect for that'. I went on set and saw John and thought 'OK'. But then they increased the music, put on the lights and I just forgot.
Tyra Banks even joked that she was 'rewarded for greed' and the producers even took the individual model, where she sings a snippet of 'Black or White'. The video of the single was considered an ambitious undertaking for the time, for exceeding the limits of music and audiovisual.
The prologue features Macaulay Culkin (Forgot Me) as a boy whose father (George Wendt) gets mad at him for playing loud music after his bedtime. Culkin rengives by plugging a guitar into a large loudspeaker in his room, blasting his father's voice out of the house and around the world.
Throughout the video, Jackson is seen on the plains of Africa, on the Vasquez rocks in California, and off traditional Russian architecture singing and dancing with people of different cultures and backgrounds.
"Black or White" was released in 1991 as the first single from the icon's eighth studio album, Dangerous. The song features a fusion of pop-rock, dance and hip hop during Jackson's time on Epic Records.
The song peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in a few weeks, making it the fastest on the top of the Us charts since the Beatles' "Get Back" and topped the charts for seven weeks.
by Rolling Stone
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Post by NatureCriminal7896 on Sept 9, 2022 10:28:09 GMT
Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney first met on March 24, 1975, aboard the Queen Mary, which was docked in Long Beach, Los Angeles, and where Paul was celebrating the completion of wings' fourth album, Venus and Mars. The former Beatle was impressed with how the young singer radiated energy and talent. They met again a year later, on June 24, 1976, at a party in Beverly Hills, to which all the Jackson brothers were invited.
McCartney told Jackson that he had written a song for him: Girlfriend. "We shook hands in a huge crowd of people and he said, 'You know, I wrote you a song.' I was very surprised and thanked him. And he started singing Girlfriend to me at this party. So we exchanged phone numbers and promised to meet soon, but different projects and lives just got in the way for both of us and we didn't talk again for a few years. He ended up putting the song on his own London Town album."
The song finally found its way to Quincy Jones, who felt it was an obvious choice for Michael, who included it on his album Off the Wall.
Girlfriend was just the beginning of a dazzling collaboration, and the songs that Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson wrote together during the first half of the 1980s entered musical history.
They reunited again when the young prodigy decided to call the older musician to declare his artistic passion: "Let's get together and write some hits." The Girl Is Mine (Thriller, 1982),Say Say and The Man (Pipes of Peace, 1983).
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Post by NatureCriminal7896 on Sept 26, 2022 2:28:20 GMT
As a personal trainer, Michael hired Lou Ferrigno, whom he had first heard as the second best-known weightlifter in the world (after Arnold Schwarzenegger) in the early 1970s, and then as the actor who played the green giant in the popular television series The Incredible Hulk. Preparation for the this is it series of shows began with three-fold-a-week workouts, always at the Carolwood mansion. "The paparazzi will follow me if I go to your house," Michael explained. Working with Michael required a very different approach from the one used when he was hired to fill Mickey Rourke with muscle for his role in The Fighter, Ferrigno recalls. Michael wanted flexibility and structure, so they did exercises with rubber bands and a pilates ball instead of using weights. Ferrigno had worked with Michael for the first time almost fifteen years earlier, when Jackson was preparing for the HIStory World Tour, at a time when he was known to frequently exceed his own physical limits. The Michael Jackson he was living with now seemed more relaxed and measured, Ferrigno said. Michael did all the exercises he went through and was "very excited" but also seemed to have learned something about stopping while still winning. In the 1990s, Michael confessed on several occasions that his life was lonely, but now seemed much more "fulfilled and happy," said Ferrigno, who was waiting smiling when Michael took breaks in his catch-catch sessions with his children: "He was a big dad." Michael showed up for practice in an all-black outfit, Ferrigno recalls: black pants, t-shirt and sneakers, and the jacket only took off on a single occasion.
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Post by NatureCriminal7896 on Oct 12, 2022 21:01:30 GMT
Billie Eilish released her first song 'Ocean Eyes' when she was just 14.
The weekly segment of Australian radio triple j called Like A Version saw performances by some of the world's biggest stars, including Childish Gambino, Lorde, Tame Impala, Tash Sultana, HAIM, Gang of Youths, Halsey, Aurora and Arctic Monkeys. When Eilish was invited to do some covers on the radio station she chose to play the hit "Bad" by the King of Pop.
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Post by NatureCriminal7896 on Oct 13, 2022 22:33:17 GMT
Jackie Chan, icon of martial arts films, tells a curious story with Michael Jackson in his new autobiography. In the book released in Chinese, he confesses that he was surprised to receive two drawings of the King of Pop! — a sunflower and the portrait of the Statue of Liberty. Katherine Jackson (Michael's mother) told him that MJ wanted her to be gifts to Jackie and since then, the actor has set up a special place for the drawings in his Hong Kong office. During the release of the film Rush Hour 2, Jackie Chan in the company of Chris Tucker talked about when he missed a call from the King of Pop.
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Post by NatureCriminal7896 on Oct 16, 2022 18:08:28 GMT
On June 12, 2003, Oscar winner Gregory Peck died at age 87. In addition to being one of Hollywood's most influential actors, Peck was also a close friend of Michael Jackson. Not surprisingly, the new widow Veronique Passani-Peck asked Michael to help her organize her husband's funeral services. And the King of Pop, unsurprisingly, offered to pay all the funeral and burial expenses. Just below, the letter the Pecks published in the media in 2003, following the screening of the infamous documentary Living with Michael Jackson and the famous exhibition of little Blanket "Dear Michael, you are recognized all over the world as a great artist, but few know you as a father. We've been friends for over 25 years. We spent a lot of time with you, Prince, Paris and Blanket, who often played with our grandchildren. We and our children, who are of your generation, always admire you as a loving and caring father. [Your children] They love and respect you. You have created them with kindness, kindness, and genuine concern for their well-being. Their joy and love are a reflection of their attention and love as a father. Those who criticize and judge you would do well to look at your family life. We have seen him countless times playing his role as a caring and devoted father, and we have joined his many friends who are now at his side and his family. Love, Veronique and Greg. It was ten years since Gregory Peck knew Michael Jackson when, one afternoon, Jackson called him and asked if the actor could visit him. Peck was shocked to see that Michael had decorated every line of dialogue in the book The Sun is for everyone, and the artist asked pertinent and profound questions about the film. The friendship that developed from this meeting was as lasting as it was surprising. Jackson and Peck (who had bought a cattle ranch north of Santa Barbara County in the late 1950s, when he worked on the film Stigma of Cruelty) rode together frequently at the Neverland ranch and talked for hours. Michael was one of the few people Peck would talk to about the suicide of his eldest son, Jonathan, in 1975, and the first Blanket Michael met was Peck's dog. In December 2002, when Michael put his own Blanket on the balcony of the Adlon hotel in Berlin and became an international outcast, Gregory Peck and his wife, Veronique, wrote an open letter of support. When Gregory Peck died asleep at the age of 87 in June 2003, Jackson arrived twenty minutes late to the actor's funeral at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. What the many people who scolded him for trying to steal the attention of Hollywood's most beloved star didn't know was that Michael had gone to the Peck family home in Bel Air the day after Greg's death to help the widow plan the funeral.
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Post by NatureCriminal7896 on Oct 25, 2022 5:52:04 GMT
The diary of British actor Alan Rickman (1946–2016), who became eternized as Professor Severus Snape in the film adaptations of the literary series "Harry Potter", revealed his thoughts in the book "Madly, deeply: the Alan Rickman diaries" — in free translation, "Madly, Deeply: Alan Rickman's Diary".
Alan wrote a paragraph about Michael after watching the documentary "Living with Michael Jackson"...
"On February 8, 2003, I watched a documentary about Michael Jackson by Martin Bashir; what a shameful and selfish documentary. How much did it cost to make? Why not film the millions of daily incidents of prostitution and pedophilia and children dying of AIDS in South Africa, instead of documenting MJ's actions."
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Post by NatureCriminal7896 on Oct 27, 2022 4:24:03 GMT
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Post by NatureCriminal7896 on Nov 5, 2022 7:03:31 GMT
Winnie Harlow surprised her fans by coming up with a special costume for this year Halloween. The Canadian model recreated the look of "Remember The Time", a song by Michael Jackson included from the 1991 album Dangerous.
For the production rehearsal, Winnie fantasized about both Michael Jackson and Queen Neffertiti, who appears in the clip played by model Iman Abdulmajid, and impressed with the similarity of the original look.
"The legendary King of Pop. Love You forever Michael," she said in the caption of one of the clicks posted on her social networks.
"You know I couldn't do the Queen without the KING OF POP!!! Michael is my icon and the only person I wish I'd met. Growing up he was the only person I saw with Vitiligo and it made me feel seen," she added.
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Post by NatureCriminal7896 on Dec 13, 2022 23:09:27 GMT
''I'll never forget when [the] Tower Records store was still open here in Sherman Oaks. I was buying something and i was playing Beat It on the speakers. I hear a group of kids in front of me and one of them said, ''Listen to this guy trying to sound like Eddie Van Halen.' I touched her shoulder and said, ''This is me!' That was hilarious.''
''Unfortunately, Thriller prevented our album "1984" [by van Halen] from reaching Number 1. Our album was almost ready to get there when he [Michael] burned his hair in that Pepsi commercial. And boom, he went straight to number 1 again!''
''I have great respect for Michael. He misses a lot. I'd be curious what he'd be doing at the time.''
-Eddie Van Halen, excerpts from the interview for CNN in 2012
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Post by NatureCriminal7896 on Jan 3, 2023 18:34:17 GMT
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