This is an earlier teen performance I had never seen: Michael & The Jackson 5 on the Carol Burnett show. The dancing!
This is Michael's iconic performance of Billie Jean at the Motown 25th Anniversary. I remember watching this on TV and being blown away. Apparently Fred Astaire called him up the day after the show to tell him it was a "helluva performance."
You'll be missed Michael, but you'll live on in our hearts and iPods forever...
This is Michael's iconic performance of Billie Jean at the Motown 25th Anniversary. I remember watching this on TV and being blown away. Apparently Fred Astaire called him up the day after the show to tell him it was a "helluva performance."
You'll be missed Michael, but you'll live on in our hearts and iPods forever...
Damn, I miss him!!
ReplyDeleteI've been strangely and passionately moved by this. And the first thing I did was get home and turn on "Shake Your Body" and then "Off the Wall." I refuse to listen to Ben because I will lose it!
ReplyDeleteVH1 has been running MJ music videos non stop and I DVRd a few hours. That man had so much talent.
ReplyDeleteWow this was a great post. I feel so bad for him though, his life turned out sad and lonely in the end. I remember the magic of MJ when I was a kid. And seeing him slowly become someone entirely different was hard to take I think for lots of his loyal fans. When I see him in this Billy Jean video with his perfect face/features I cannot imagine why he's want plastic surgery. He was so incredibly handsome and I loved and dated all races when I was single so maybe I don't get it because I'm color blind, but why was he so obsessed with being white? It's a shame to think about how much internal pain he had to endure - and that everything we saw of him was always acting and not truly a representation of how he'd live had he not been tortured by so many inner demons. It's really sad.....
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