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Posted in Michael Jackson with tags Tribute to Michael Jackson on May 23, 2013 by michipatoMichael Jackson 1979 manifesto reveals singer’s plan to become the most ‘incredible’ entertainer
Posted in Michael Jackson with tags 1979 manifesto on May 22, 2013 by michipato
“MJ will be my new name. No more Michael Jackson. I want a whole new character, a whole new look. I should be a tottally [sic] different person. People should never think of me as the kid who sang “ABC,” [or] “I Want You Back.” I should be a new, incredible actor/singer/dancer that will shock the world. I will do no interviews. I will be magic. I will be a perfectionist, a researcher, a trainer, a masterer [sic]. I will be better than every great actor roped into one.”
‘MJ will be my new name,’ wrote the King of Pop as he reinvented himself at 21 years old. ‘No more Michael Jackson.’
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“I should be a new, incredible actor/singer/dancer that will shock the world,” Jackson wrote at 21. “I will do no interviews. I will be magic.”
Exploring the legacy of Michael Jackson, CBS News’ “60 Minutes” uncovered the late King of Pop’s handwritten manifesto from 1979.
The note, scribbled in his handwriting on the back of a tour itinerary and tucked away in a secret warehouse full of Jackson’s belongings, details the legendary singer’s dreams and wishes for his career while he was still just 21 years old.
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Michael Jackson, 13, was the youngest member of the singing group Jackson Five.
“MJ will be my new name,” he wrote. “No more Michael Jackson. I want a whole new character, a whole new look. I should be a tottally [sic]different person. People should never think of me as the kid who sang “ABC,” [or]“I Want You Back.”
Many close to the “Thriller” singer knew him to be meticulous and detailed when it came to his music. According to these words in 1979, preserved by archivist Karen Langford, Jackson thought well in advance about the level of success he wanted.
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In his manifesto Jackson wrote about wanting to leave the Jackson 5 days behind.
“I should be a new, incredible actor/singer/dancer that will shock the world,” he wrote. “I will do no interviews. I will be magic. I will be a perfectionist, a researcher, a trainer, a masterer [sic]. I will be better than every great actor roped into one.”
His goals were spot on. In the same year he released his first major album, “Off the Wall,” which catapulted his solo career. Jackson went on to become arguably the biggest entertainer in history.
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In 1979, the same year he wrote the manifesto, Jackson’s career soared with the release of his first solo effort “Off the Wall.”
Even his shocking death in 2009 happened in the middle of preparations for his fourth sold-out world tour, a come-back effort titled “This Is It.”
Witness: ‘Everybody was lying’ after Michael Jackson died
Posted in Michael Jackson with tags 'Everybody was lying on May 16, 2013 by michipatoLos Angeles (CNN) — The portrait of Michael Jackson in the last week of his life, painted by people close to him, is a disturbing picture of an emaciated man, unable to sleep or eat, and unlikely to be ready for his comeback concerts just days away.
“Oh, my God, Turkle, I can see Michael’s heart beat through the skin in his chest,” stylist Michael Bush said after a costume fitting six days before his death on June 19, 2009.
Turkle is the nickname of makeup artist Karen Faye, who testified Thursday and Friday in Jackson’s wrongful death trial. Her testimony has been the most dramatic so far.
Proceedings continue Monday with choreographer Stacy Walker on the witness stand.
“Get him a bucket of chicken,” manager Frank DiLeo said in reply to concerns about Jackson’s weight loss, Faye testified.
“It was such a cold response, it broke my heart,” Faye said through tears.
Witness: Jackson was paranoid, talking to himself in last days
Michael Jackson’s mother and three children contend concert promoter AEG Live is liable in Jackson’s death because its executives ignored his health problem and pressured him to prepare for his “This Is It” shows set to debut in London in July 2009.
AEG Live negligently hired, retained and supervised Dr. Conrad Murray, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the pop icon’s death, according to the Jackson’s lawsuit.
The coroner blamed Jackson’s June 25, 2009 death on an overdose of propofol, combined with sedatives, given to him by Dr. Murray as a treatment for insomnia.
AEG lawyers contend that it was Jackson, and not AEG, who hired and supervised Dr. Murray, and that he was responsible for his own decisions. They said these were influenced by a drug addiction its executives did not and could not be expected to know about.
Witness: “Everybody was lying after he died”
The Michael Jackson the public saw in the documentary “This Is It” — produced months after his death with 80 hours of video shot during his last rehearsals — is not reality, Faye said.
She was asked to help retouch the video to make Jackson look healthier on the big screen, she testified. But she refused.
“It was a lie. I didn’t want to lie,” Faye said. “Everybody was lying after he died, saying that Michael was well, and everybody knew he wasn’t. I felt that retouching Michael was just a part of that lie.”
Before Faye testified, jurors heard a similarly disturbing description of Jackson in his final days from “This Is It” associate producer Alif Sankey.
Jackson “was not speaking normally” at the June 19 costume fitting, Sankey said. She and producer Kenny Ortega cried after he left because of his appearance and what he said.
“God keeps talking to me,” Jackson told Ortega, Sankey testified.
Faye said Jackson seemed “frightened,” and he was talking to himself, repeating “the same thing over and over again.”
“He kept repeating, ‘Why can’t I choose?’” she said.
Jackson was shivering from chills, and it was “like I was touching ice” when she put on his makeup, Faye testified.
Faye said she raised her concerns with AEG Live CEO Randy Phillips. He told her, “Yeah, this is bad. It’s not so good. I had to scrape Michael off the floor in London … because he was so drunk,” she said.
The Jackson family’s legal representation contends Phillips should have gotten Jackson medical care from someone other than Murray.
Sankey, who knew Jackson since she first danced with him in 1987, said she screamed at Ortega in a phone call after the June 19 rehearsal, begging that he get help for Jackson.
“I kept saying that ‘Michael is dying, he’s dying, he’s leaving us, he needs to be put in a hospital,’” Sankey said. “‘Please do something. Please, please.’ I kept saying that. I asked him why no one had seen what I had seen. He said he didn’t know.”
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Debbie Rowe was “in love with Michael”
The trial, which enters its third week Monday, could offer more previously unpublicized insights into Jackson’s life and death.
Along with his oldest children Prince and Paris Jackson, his ex-wife and their mother, Debbie Rowe, is scheduled to testify.
Faye’s testimony on Friday offered a glimpse at Jackson’s relationship with Rowe, suggesting there was romance involved, or at least jealously.
Faye said that after she was fired from her job during Jackson’s “History” tour in 1997, she learned it was because Rowe felt threatened by her relationship with Jackson.
“She was obviously in love with Michael,” Faye said. “She had told me for many years that it was her desire to be with him.”
Rowe later apologized to her for asking Jackson’s manager to let her go, she testified.
“She told me she was jealous of me,” Faye said. “She thought that Michael liked me better.”
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Eddie Van Halen shares his memories of working with Michael Jackson
Posted in Michael Jackson with tags Eddie Van Halen - Michael Jackson on May 14, 2013 by michipatoMay 6th, 2013
“Piers Morgan Live, Rewind”: Eddie Van Halen on Michael Jackson; Wayne Lapierre slams Piers Morgan and LL Cool J on racism
Whether you fell asleep early, stayed out too late, or simply want to watch it again, we realize it’s not always possible to get your entire “Piers Morgan Live” fix from television. As an answer to this, we offer the below labor of love – “Piers Morgan Live, Rewind” – dedicated and designed to getting you caught up and connected to the conversation.
- Eddie Van Halen on Michael Jackson
On Friday evening, Piers Morgan welcomed legendary rock guitarist Eddie Van Halen to the program. Ranked at the top of “Rolling Stone” magazine’s list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists,” the musician and leader of his eponymously named band spoke about his work with another legendary musician, the late Michael Jackson.
In the early 80s, Jackson invited Van Halen to play on his single “Beat It,” but because of Van Halen’s policy with his band mates he was unable to take financial credit for his contribution.
“Honest to God truth, the band’s policy was, you know, we don’t do things outside of the band at the time, and everybody was out of town so I had no one to ask,” explained Van Halen. “I swear to God, I figured who’s going to know if I play on this black kid’s record.”
Van Halen also shared his memory of Jackson as a person away from the music. “He was a sweet guy is all I know,” he said. “Accused of a lot of things. He was just I think, you know, he wanted to remain a kid himself.”
Paris Jackson Bonds with Mom Debbie Rowe at a Horse Farm
Posted in Michael Jackson with tags Paris Jackson on May 7, 2013 by michipato
A new pony for Paris?
Michael Jackson’s daughter, now 15, spent the past weekend with her mother, Debbie Rowe, scoping out horses at a ranch in Temecula, Calif.
Rowe, 54, who lives on a ranch, breeds horses and who has rekindled a relationship with her daughter in recent months, accompanied Paris to Bricker Performance Ponies, a training and show horse facility in Riverside County, Calif. They later shared a sushi meal, capping off a relaxed weekend together.
Rowe is the ex-wife of the late pop star, who died in 2009 and the mother of both Paris and her brother Michael Joseph “Prince” Jackson Jr., 16. Paris and Prince live with their grandmother, Katherine Jackson, who celebrated her 83rd birthday on Saturday.
Katherine Jackson Caught in HUGE Contradiction About Michael
Posted in Michael Jackson with tags her son DIDN’T have an addiction to painkillers or alcohol. on May 3, 2013 by michipatoThat Could Sink Wrongful Death Claim — See The Proof!
Katherine Jackson has been caught in a huge contradiction about her son Michael‘s drug use — a contradiction so big it could sink her $40 billion wrongful death lawsuit against concert promoter AEG, RadarOnline.com is reporting exclusively.
An attorney for Katherine told jurors Monday in opening statements of the Michael Jackson wrongful death trial that the late King of Pop had been addicted to prescription drugs for decades and that Michael’s family knew it and only AEG claims to have been unaware of it.
But RadarOnline.com has exclusively obtained a statement signed by the Jackson family matriarch claiming that her son DIDN’T have an addiction to painkillers or alcohol.
And you can see the proof below, as Radar has obtained the signed statement that pokes a huge hole in the argument offered by Katherine’s attorney.
In 2007, nearly two years after Jackson had been acquitted of child molestation charges in Santa Maria, California, and two years before his death, Katherine Jackson, Jermaine, Jackie, Tito and Marlon issued a public statement, signed by all five, declaring Michael didn’t have ANY substance issues.
They all also declared they had never attempted to stage an intervention on Michael. The statement was released after People magazine published a story that the King of Pop was dependent on booze and pills.
It’s a key point because Katherine is suing concert promoter AEG and her attorneys claim everyone knew Michael had painkiller addiction problems — trying to cast doubt on AEG’s claim that it was unaware. Now, suddenly, it seems as if the family’s position has shifted to fit the lawsuit.
The family’s statement, issued on September 7, 2007, says, “People Magazine has followed other publications in reporting untrue and inaccurate information about MIchael Jackson and the Jackson family. Of these wildly reported rumors, what has become the most troubling and heinous, is that my son, and our brother, Michael Jackson, is dependent on painkillers and alcohol. People and other news organizations, have quoted “sources,” indicating that our family has attempted a drug intervention, and engaged in an effort to take over his business affairs, because of this alleged drug and alcohol usage.
“We categorically deny ever planning, participating in, or having knowledge of any kind of intervention, whatsoever,” the statement asserts.
You can read the signed document here:
Katherine Jackson’s attorney, Brian Panish, told jurors during opening statements on Monday in the wrongful death trial, that the Thriller singer had an addiction to painkillers, and that concert promoter, AEG failed to to properly investigate Dr. Conrad Murray. Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael.
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“Over the years Michael’s family and people who knew him believed he had a problem with prescription medication,” Panish told jurors, and that AEG and its executives claim to be the only ones who were unaware of his issues.
Panish revealed to the jury of six men and six women that Jackson had an addiction to prescription drugs, including Demerol, and relied on pain medications after he suffered horrific burns on his head during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in 1984.
The public statement Katherine signed in 2007, “could prove to be very problematic for her when she takes the stand. It could be used to discredit her testimony in front of the jury. Katherine knew for years before he died that Michael had an addiction to Demerol. AEG doesn’t want to rake Katherine over the coals, but she is suing them for $40 billion dollars,” a source close to the situation tells RadarOnline.com exclusively.
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AEG maintains it did not hire Murray and could not have predicted the events that led to Jackson’s death.
A lawyer for AEG, Marvin Putnam, told jurors during opening statements that there was no way the concert promoter could have known that Jackson was being given Propofol by Dr. Murray.
“That was between doctor and patient and not AEG Live… this case is about taking responsibility for your actions,” Putnam said.
International Dance Day
Posted in Michael Jackson with tags Dance Day on April 30, 2013 by michipatoHappy Dance Day! ♥
International Dance Day was introduced in 1982 by the International Dance Committee of the International Theatre Institute (ITI), a UNESCO partner NGO, and is celebrated on April 29 every year. The date was suggested by the International Dance Committee of ITI to commemorate the birthday of Jean-Georges Noverre (1727-1810), creator of modern ballet and author of the famous Lettres sur la danse published in 1760 in Lyon.
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