Post by NatureCriminal7896 on Jan 6, 2022 8:49:09 GMT
The death of Michael Jackson at the age of 50 seemed to me such an unrealistic fact that you can't let it go. No, i'm not.
As our age difference was very small (he was born in 1958, I, in 1961), had the opportunity to follow his career in real time, and become his fan soon with his first success, I Want You Back, recorded with the Jackson 5.
During all these years, his figure was ubiquitous in the musical environment that I followed. First as the boy prodigy who sang with the technique and the emotion of an adult. Better up! I'll Be There, Ben, I want to Be Where You Are,Happy, Got To Be There, ABC..
Then, like that teenager whose voice was changing his timbre, without losing his beauty and originality. The songs One Day In Your Life and Dancing Machine are the first that appear in my mind as a soundtrack for that moment.
There, in 1978, the adult MJ comes into play, bursting into Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground) and Blame It On The Boogie, already with the Jacksons (new incarnation of Jackson 5) and the following year with Rock With You, Don't Stop Til You Get Enough, Working Day And Night And Girlfriend, of his first adult solo album, the magnificent Off The Wall.
It had already completed my 21 years when it emerged Thriller (1982), phenomenal album that in 1985 still insisted on keeping emplacando hits on the tracks, among which the title track, Billie Jean, I want to Be Startin' Somethin', The Girl Is Mine, Beat It, Human Nature...
In 1987, still a beginner in the music journalism scene, I had the honor of participating in the launch party (at the now defunct Up And Down, on Pamplona Street in São Paulo) of the album Bad,when we had the opportunity to hear firsthand tracks such as Bad, The Way You Make Me Feel, Man In The Mirror, Dirty Diana, Smooth Criminal... I wrote a special magazine about Michael and this record for Print.
When the star did two historic shows at morumbi stadium, in October 1993, on the tour that released the album Dangerous (1991) I was there, entitled to visit the dressing rooms of the King of Pop (without him inside, obviously...), stay on duty in front of the hotel Mofarrej, in santos mall, where he stayed, and interviewing the boy that a car of his entourage ran over and that ended up being visited by the author of Billie jean.
That is, every step of Michael Jackson was accompanied by me over the years. On the day of his funeral ceremony, on July 6, 2009, there I was live, alongside host Luciana Liviero, making comments about Michael on TV Record.
It's hard to believe this little brother's gone. A guy who has achieved something difficult: unite fans from all countries, races, backgrounds, social classes, sexes etc. around his music, which was, is and will be the soundtrack of the life of all of us. Look after us, King of Pop, wherever you are, and live forever in our hearts, because we want to rock with you forever!
— Fabian Chacur
As our age difference was very small (he was born in 1958, I, in 1961), had the opportunity to follow his career in real time, and become his fan soon with his first success, I Want You Back, recorded with the Jackson 5.
During all these years, his figure was ubiquitous in the musical environment that I followed. First as the boy prodigy who sang with the technique and the emotion of an adult. Better up! I'll Be There, Ben, I want to Be Where You Are,Happy, Got To Be There, ABC..
Then, like that teenager whose voice was changing his timbre, without losing his beauty and originality. The songs One Day In Your Life and Dancing Machine are the first that appear in my mind as a soundtrack for that moment.
There, in 1978, the adult MJ comes into play, bursting into Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground) and Blame It On The Boogie, already with the Jacksons (new incarnation of Jackson 5) and the following year with Rock With You, Don't Stop Til You Get Enough, Working Day And Night And Girlfriend, of his first adult solo album, the magnificent Off The Wall.
It had already completed my 21 years when it emerged Thriller (1982), phenomenal album that in 1985 still insisted on keeping emplacando hits on the tracks, among which the title track, Billie Jean, I want to Be Startin' Somethin', The Girl Is Mine, Beat It, Human Nature...
In 1987, still a beginner in the music journalism scene, I had the honor of participating in the launch party (at the now defunct Up And Down, on Pamplona Street in São Paulo) of the album Bad,when we had the opportunity to hear firsthand tracks such as Bad, The Way You Make Me Feel, Man In The Mirror, Dirty Diana, Smooth Criminal... I wrote a special magazine about Michael and this record for Print.
When the star did two historic shows at morumbi stadium, in October 1993, on the tour that released the album Dangerous (1991) I was there, entitled to visit the dressing rooms of the King of Pop (without him inside, obviously...), stay on duty in front of the hotel Mofarrej, in santos mall, where he stayed, and interviewing the boy that a car of his entourage ran over and that ended up being visited by the author of Billie jean.
That is, every step of Michael Jackson was accompanied by me over the years. On the day of his funeral ceremony, on July 6, 2009, there I was live, alongside host Luciana Liviero, making comments about Michael on TV Record.
It's hard to believe this little brother's gone. A guy who has achieved something difficult: unite fans from all countries, races, backgrounds, social classes, sexes etc. around his music, which was, is and will be the soundtrack of the life of all of us. Look after us, King of Pop, wherever you are, and live forever in our hearts, because we want to rock with you forever!
— Fabian Chacur