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Did you know? Due to being 50 and health and safety reasons, Michael had to use a body double for small scenes in the smooth criminal video in This Is It. These were very small scenes, Jumping over the buildings, sliding down the banister and entering the room as well breaking through the glass. This isn’t the first time Michael used a double for an official video. A prime example would be Who Is It, Michael started shooting while on tour and had to call in E'Casanova to finish a few shots.
However when the double was first spotted in the film, it cause people to believe that two “Michael’s” were used in the film, the fake Michael being the one in the glasses and the real one without glasses. Of course, this is completely false and stupid. Sony ARE stupid, but not stupid enough to publish a film with a crappy impersonator.
(Photo’s With Kenny and T are the real MJ.)
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That moment when Michael Jackson freaks your shit.
A lot of people seem to be having trouble with the real names of Michael’s kids. Here’s their birth certificates taken from the trial when they were interviewed. Hopefully, this clears up some of the confusion for you.
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26/08/97 Michael Jackson’s HIStory tour takes place in Helsinki, Finland. 91,000 of the 96,000 tickets sell and grossed over 4.1 million.
26th being the second concert in Helsinki, Michael played to over 50,000 fans that night.
(Pictures are not from the show night.)
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August 31, 1987: Michael Jackson released his seventh studio album, BAD.
Shortly after it’s release Bad started its six-week run on top the US album chart in that small time it managed to achieve five No. 1 singles. The singles that reached the top were “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You,” “Bad,” “The Way You Make Me Feel,” “Man in the Mirror” and “Dirty Diana.” No other artist had been able to beat that level of success until Katy Perry matched his record in 2010 with her album Teenage Dream.
Michael Jackson was nominated for six Grammy Awards after the release of Bad, “Album of the Year”, “Best Pop Vocal Performance – Male” and “Best R&B Vocal Performance – Male” as well as “Record of the Year” for “Man in the Mirror” that following year. In the end Bad won Grammy’s for “Best Engineered Recording” and “Best Music Video Short Form” for “Leave Me Alone” in 1990.
(Leave Me Alone wasn’t included in the original release of BAD, but was later released on the CD version then LP.)
And during all this time BAD World tour ended up breaking world records.
One for a record-setting revenue of over $124 million made during the tour.
The other for most successful concert series which sold out seven nights at Wembley Stadium in London in1988 with a total of 504,000 fans attending the shows.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified Bad nine time platinum for having shipped nine million copies in the United States alone. Internationally, Bad was commercially successful. In the United Kingdom the album sold 500,000 copies in its first five days of release, and as of 2008 is certified 13× platinum, for sales of 3.9 million, making it Michael’s second biggest-selling album in the United Kingdom.
Happy 28th Birthday BAD…..~
Thank you to all the amazing people who worked on the album, (Thanks to wikipedia for the long list!)
- Writer, composer, vocal arrangement, co-producer, solo and background vocals: Michael Jackson
- Producer:Quincy Jones
- Engineer, executive producer, mixing, speaking part: Bruce Swedien
- Background vocals:Siedah Garrett,The Winans and The Andraé CrouchChoir
- Bass guitar: Nathan East
- Hammond B-3 organsolo:Jimmy Smith
- Synthesizer solo: Greg Phillinganes
- Drums: John Robinson, Miko Brando, Ollie E. Brown, N'dugu Chancler, Bill Bottrell, Bruce Swedien
- Drumprogramming: Douglas Getschal
- Guitar:David Williams, Bill Bottrell, Eric Gale, Danny Hull, Steve Stevens,Dann Huff,Michael Landau,Paul Jackson, Jr.
- Trumpets: Gary Grant and Jerry Hey
- Sounds engineered: Ken Caillat and Tom Jones
- Percussion:Paulinho da Costa, Ollie E. Brown
- Keyboards: Stefan Stefanovic
- Saxophones: Kim Hutchcroft, Larry Williams
- Synclavier keyboards, digital guitar and rubboard: Christopher Currell
- Synthesizers: John Barnes, Michael Boddicker, Greg Phillinganes, Christopher Currell, Rhett Lawrence, David Paich
- Piano: John Barnes
- Rhythm arrangement: Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones and Christopher Currell
- Horn arrangement: Jerry Hey
- Synthesizer programming: Larry Williams, Eric Persing, Steve Porcaro
- Midi saxophone solo: Larry Williams.
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Listen to Michael Jackson who’s very much in the grove during the recording seasson of ‘State Of Shock’.
I was informed by a fan on Twitter that Michael Jackson’s HIStory album doesn’t exist on cassette. So to those who follow me, I apologize for the blankness of these photos! I guess I thought my wall looked good.
I’m sure you guys all know of that stupid rumor that followed Michael during his mature era of how he had to wear a “prosthetic nose”? I personally never believed that rumor not even when I first heard it around 2001/2. The one thing that truly made me understand how false that rumor is was during Michael’s 45th birthday in 2003. If you watch the footage of the food fight, which by the way, you need to if you haven’t because a drunk MJ will bring you SO much life. You’ll notice Michael teases a food fight with the cake which he’s then edged on to do, so he throws a large piece of the cake right into Aaron Carter’s face and Michael tells him to do the same in return. Now credit to Aaron Carter as he does so but he REALLY throws the cake into Michael’s face and I mean hard. Directly to MJ’s nose with nothing falling/moving like you’d expect a prosthetic one to do when hit with such a force. The funny thing is nowadays you can just read the autopsy report to find that MJ’s nose was his own nose. Case closed, but I remember seeing that back in the day and shouting SEE?!
I guess when the world kept seeing Michael with plasters and bandages on his nose they kept thinking he was having work done when in reality even years down the line after a nose job you have to be careful of swelling and flare-ups and seeing as Michael was constantly dancing and moving about it’s only right for him to take those precautions.
I can’t stress how annoying it is the “MJBeats” screenshot my personal filmed memorabilia and take them for their own. They don’t credit or ask. They’ve taken a lot of fan’s personal memorabilia photo’s and use them as their own and I have messaged them countless times and asked them not to use my photos/videos. However, I get no reply. Stop it. It’s not right to use without permission. Respect people’s time and effort. It’s their collection; Not yours.
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To escape the world I’ve got to enjoy that simple dance, And it seemed that everything Was on my side~
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August 31st, 1987: 29 years ago MJ released his BAD album. The album produced five Billboard number one singles. Bad peaked at #1 in thirteen countries and charted within the top twenty in other territories. The album also won two Grammy Awards and it’s tour broke world records.
- Record-setting gross of over $124 million made during the tour from September 1987 to December 1988.
- Most successful concert series, The tour sold out seven nights at Wembley Stadium, London, England.
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November 20th 2003, Michael Jackson is escorted to the Sheriff’s building. This is where and when that famous mugshot is taken. However, i believe that the mugshot was edited by the Sheriff's County to make him look more freakish and weird. I know lighten and different cameras make all the difference but still, The version of MJ that enters and leaves that building isn’t the same version of MJ shown on that mugshot.
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Seven years ago today we lost the biggest artist the world had ever seen. Michael Jackson was one of those rare original artist’s that appreciated the legends before him and showed that in his work. Michael didn’t steal from other dancers or musicians. Instead, he watched what they did and how they did it. He then took those moves into his own hands and turned them into something new and unique.
Michael soon went on to break records set by his predecessors and smashed them to pieces. He was always respectful to other artists even when they hated on him. Overnight Michael became a “freak” because he was a success, But somehow he always found a way to smile and find the good things in life. He was a very rare person and musician. It’s only a shame after the 2000′s and the release of Invincible he became so quiet due to problems with Sony and other contracts.
Even during his troubles in the 2000′s he never stopped writing or recording which was revealed to us by his untimely death. The amount of songs he left in his vaults will last a lifetime, until the end of time people will never forget who or what Michael Jackson was. A person, A Dancer, humanitarian and a Father. However, the amount of things he did release will last us a lifetime and may i say.
What a bad ass discography to leave us.
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