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Q: How does it feel to know you have changed history? Do you think about that a lot?
A: Yeah, I do, I really do. I’m very proud that we opened doors, that it helped tear down a lot. Going around the world, doing tours, in stadiums, you see the influence of the music. When you just look out over the stage, as far as the naked eye could see, you see people. And it’s a wonderful feeling, but it came with a lot of pain, a lot of pain.
Q: How so?
A: When you’re on top of your game, when you’re a pioneer, people come at you. It’s there, who’s at the top, you want to get at them.
But I feel grateful, all those record-breaking things, to the biggest albums, to those No. Is, I still feel grateful. I’m a guy who used to sit in my living room and listen to my father play Ray Charles. My mother used to wake me up at 3 in the morning, ‘Michael, he’s on TV, he’s on TV!’ I’d run to the TV and James Brown would be on TV. I said, ‘That’s what I want to do.’
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Q: Another big moment was the Motown 25 performance …
A: I was at the studio editing “Beat It”, and for some reason I happened to be at Motown Studios doing it–I had long left the company. So they were getting ready to do something with the Motown anniversary, and Berry Gordy came by and asked me did I want to do the show, and I told him ‘NO.’ I told him no. I said no because the Thriller thing, I was building and creating something I was planning to do, and he said, ‘But it’s the anniversary …’ So this is what I said to him. I said, ‘I will do it, but the only way I’ll do it is if you let me do one song that’s not a Motown song.’ He said, ‘What is it?’ I said, ‘Billie Jean’. He said, ‘OK, fine.’ I said, ‘You’ll really let me do “Billie Jean?” He said, ‘Yeah.’
So I rehearsed and choreographed and dressed my brothers, and picked the songs, and picked the medley. And not only that, you have to work out all the camera angles. I direct and edit everything I do. Every shot you see is my shot. Let me tell you why I have to do it that way. I have five, no, six cameras. When you’re performing–and I don’t care what kind of performance you are giving–if you don’t capture it properly, the people will never see it. It’s the most selfish medium in the world. You’re filming WHAT you want people to see, WHEN you want them to see it, HOW you want them to see it, what JUXTAPOSITION you want them to see. You’re creating the totality of the whole feeling of what’s being presented, in your angle and your shots. ‘Cause I know what I want to see. I know what I want to go to the audience. I know what I want to come back. I know the emotion that I felt when I performed it, and I try to recapture that same emotion when I cut and edit and direct.
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Q: How did it all start?
A: Motown was preparing to do this movie called The Wiz … and Quincy Jones happened to be the man who was doing the music. Now, I had heard of Quincy before. When I was in Indiana as a child, my father used to buy jazz albums, so I knew him as a jazz musician.
So after we had made this movie–we had gotten pretty close on the film, too; he helped me understand certain words, he was really father-like–I called him after the movie, out of complete sincerity–’cause I’m a shy person, ESPECIALLY then, I used to not even look at people when they were talking to me, I’m not joking–and I said, ‘I’m ready to do an album. Do you think … could you recommend anybody who would be interested in producing it with me or working with me?’ He paused and said, ‘Why don’t you let ME do it?’ I said to myself, ‘I don’t know why I didn’t think of that.’ Probably because I was thinking that he was more my father, kind of jazzy. So after he said that, I said, ‘WOW, that would be great.’ What’s great about working with Quincy, he let’s you do your thing. He doesn’t get in the way.
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- Jermaine Jackson (born 11 December 1954, also known as Muhammed Abdul Aziz).
- In the house several of the housemates have commented that Jermaine was very shy and they therefore found it difficult to converse with him and get to know who he was.
- Jackson was the first housemate to enter the Celebrity Big Brother UK house in 2007.
- He steered clear of the controversy caused by the series, avoiding confrontation and offering moral support to fellow housemate Shilpa Shetty against alleged bullying from fellow housemates Jade Goody, Danielle Lloyd, and Jo O’Meara.
- He was often considered to be the most stable minded in the house.
- During a task in the Big Brother house, the housemates had to create a tribute band for The Jackson 5. The performance of “I Want You Back” helped put The Jackson 5 back in the UK charts at #53.
- The final three consisted of Dirk Benedict, Jermaine Jackson, and Shilpa Shetty.
- After leaving Big Brother, Jackson did several interviews on UK television, stating why and how he took his peaceful and mediating stance in the Big Brother house.
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Hollywood Film Festival’s 11th Annual Hollywood Awards – Backstage
October 22, 2007 – Beverly Hilton Hotel Hollywood, CA United States
Actors Brittany Snow, John Travolta, Nikki Blonsky, Amanda Bynes, Elijah Kelley, Zac Efron and Janet Jackson backstage
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Premiere held at the The Cinerama Dome, Arclight Hollywood on October 4, 2007 in Los Angeles, California
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Tasha Smith (as Angela), Janet Jackson (as Patricia) and Sharon Leal (as Dianne) in TYLER PERRY’S WHY DID I GET MARRIED. Photo Credit: Alfeo Dixon
Tasha Smith (as Angela), Janet Jackson (as Patricia) and Sharon Leal (as Dianne) in TYLER PERRY’S WHY DID I GET MARRIED. Photo Credit: Alfeo Dixon
A scene from TYLER PERRY’S WHY DID I GET MARRIED? featuring (clockwise left) Mike (Richard T. Jones, standing), Terry (Tyler Perry, seated), Dianne (Sharon Leal) and Trina (Denise Boutte); and (clockwise right) Angela (Tasha Smith, standing), Marcus (Michael J. White), Gavin (Malik Yoba) and Patricia (Janet Jackson). Photo Credit: Bob Akester
Kaira Whitehead (as Keisha, left), Michael J. White (as Marcus), Tasha Smith (as Angela) in a scene from TYLER PERRY'S WHY DID I GET MARRIED? Photo Credit: Alfeo Dixon.
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We came across an article on the Air Force Times.com Michael Jackson greets troops in Japan which was posted on Sunday Mar 11, 2007.
Michael Jackson reads a statement to service members, their family members, and U.S. civilian and local national employees during a visit to Camp Zama on Saturday. Jackson thanked troops and their family members for their service to their country.
TOKYO — Michael Jackson greeted thousands of U.S. troops and their family members March 10 at an Army base south of Tokyo, taking a break from days of parties with die-hard fans and well-heeled business people.
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To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Thriller, Ebony magazine slapped Michael Jackson on their December cover and somehow managed to get him into the middle of Brooklyn for a photo shoot at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Top of the list in any conversation about Michael Jackson is sure to include all the freakish things he’s done to himself, surrounded himself by, and has allegedly done to others. For a couple of years Michael Jackson was every comedian’s softball joke. Easy laughs.
In the magazine interview Michael Jackson was asked how he feels about being labeled as ‘Wacko Jacko,’ Elizabeth Taylor, kid toucher, *pointing at a crushed Twinkie on the floor* “Hey, what’s that!?” .. What’s what?.. “Nothing, I thought it was your nose.”
Michael, comment?...
“I don’t pay attention to that. In my opinion, it’s ignorance. It’s usually not based on fact. … Every neighborhood has the guy who you don’t see, so you gossip about him. You see those stories about him, there’s the myth that he did this or he did that. People are crazy!
When you’re on top of your game, when you’re a pioneer, people come at you. … But I feel grateful, all those record-breaking things, to the biggest albums, to those No. 1s, I still feel grateful.”
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REMOVE THAT SCARF! YOUR HANDSOME!
Awww…
