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Date: 6/25/2009 6:44:23 PM
Author: innerkitten
Remember when the thriller video came out and everyone tuned in to watch it on TV?! It was the biggest thing at the time.
The videos they''re playing on CNN are bringing back childhood memories.
Ditto Lisa.Date: 6/25/2009 8:40:50 PM
Author: Kaleigh
TONIGHT, I am all about his music, and what we have lost in an icon. I celebrate Michael as an artist, a true genious, the likes we will never see again. RIP MJ. Maybe in heaven you will be a less tortured soul. Remember Deb''s quote, it was so fitting for this thread.![]()
Date: 6/25/2009 8:40:50 PM
Author: Kaleigh
TONIGHT, I am all about his music, and what we have lost in an icon. I celebrate Michael as an artist, a true genious, the likes we will never see again. RIP MJ. Maybe in heaven you will be a less tortured soul. Remember Deb''s quote, it was so fitting for this thread.![]()
Linky??Date: 6/25/2009 8:44:57 PM
Author: SparklyLibra
''Ben''......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSqo17o2a1w
Wahhhhhhhh!![]()
Truly, the end of an era.....![]()
I posted a link to ''Ben'' and ''Smooth Criminal'' music videos on page 4...Date: 6/25/2009 8:49:34 PM
Author: Kaleigh
Linky??Date: 6/25/2009 8:44:57 PM
Author: SparklyLibra
''Ben''......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSqo17o2a1w
Wahhhhhhhh!![]()
Truly, the end of an era.....![]()
Thanks, will go find it.Date: 6/25/2009 8:59:24 PM
Author: Sha
I posted a link to ''Ben'' and ''Smooth Criminal'' music videos on page 4...Date: 6/25/2009 8:49:34 PM
Author: Kaleigh
Linky??Date: 6/25/2009 8:44:57 PM
Author: SparklyLibra
''Ben''......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSqo17o2a1w
Wahhhhhhhh!![]()
Truly, the end of an era.....![]()
Date: 6/25/2009 8:40:50 PM
Author: Kaleigh
TONIGHT, I am all about his music, and what we have lost in an icon. I celebrate Michael as an artist, a true genious, the likes we will never see again. RIP MJ. I know he wasn''t perfect, no one is. Remember Deb''s quote, it was so fitting for this thread.![]()
Michael Jackson was said to be diagnosed with Lupus in 1984. We do not know what this man went through and suffered with if this is true.Date: 6/25/2009 6:41:36 PM
Author: AGBF
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is engaged in a great struggle.”
AGBF
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Awww, I knew this would bring her to her knees. Sending prayers of comfort her way.. It''s too much ...Date: 6/25/2009 9:19:56 PM
Author: Linda W
I just heard on Larry King that Elizabeth Taylor is too devastated to issue a statement. She will issue one on a later date.
Date: 6/25/2009 9:23:40 PM
Author: Kaleigh
Awww, I knew this would bring her to her knees. Sending prayers of comfort her way.. It''s too much ...Date: 6/25/2009 9:19:56 PM
Author: Linda W
I just heard on Larry King that Elizabeth Taylor is too devastated to issue a statement. She will issue one on a later date.![]()
I stand behind my words...but we''re talking about very, very different people with different pasts. The quote you highlighted pretained to someone imparticular and wasn''t (by any means) a blanket statement.Date: 6/25/2009 8:19:45 PM
Author: luckystar112
Date: 6/25/2009 7:50:22 PM
Author: Italiahaircolor
...Because at the end of the day, everyone is allowed to acknowledge his passing in their way...good or bad. This is still an online forum, not a memorial site.
Sensitivity needs to be projected towards her family and friends during this time...even though it''s a safe bet that none of us are directly effected, her loss is still very much real and should be respected 100%.
Your words after Natasha Richardson died (and after people were discussing the appropriateness of the helmet argument on the thread). Just saying!
From a young age Jackson was physically and mentally abused by his father, enduring incessant rehearsals, whippings and name-calling. Jackson''s abuse as a child affected him throughout his grown life.[4] In one altercation—later recalled by Marlon Jackson—Joseph held Michael upside down by one leg and "pummeled him over and over again with his hand, hitting him on his back and buttocks".[5] Joseph would often trip up, or push the male children into walls.[5] One night while Jackson was asleep, Joseph climbed into his room through the bedroom window. Wearing a fright mask, he entered the room screaming and shouting. Joseph said he wanted to teach his children not to leave the window open when they went to sleep. For years afterward, Jackson suffered nightmares about being kidnapped from his bedroom.[5]
Jackson first spoke openly about his childhood abuse in a 1993 interview with Oprah Winfrey. He said that during his childhood he often cried from loneliness and would sometimes get sick or start to regurgitate upon seeing his father.[6][7][8][9] In Jackson''s other high profile interview, Living with Michael Jackson (2003), the singer covered his face with his hand and began crying when talking about his childhood abuse.[5] Jackson recalled that Joseph sat in a chair with a belt in his hand as he and his siblings rehearsed and that "if you didn''t do it the right way, he would tear you up, really get you."[10]
Jackson showed musical talent early in his life, performing in front of classmates and others during a Christmas recital at the age of five.[3] In 1964, Jackson and Marlon joined the Jackson Brothers—a band formed by brothers Jackie, Tito and Jermaine—as backup musicians playing congas and tambourine, respectively. Jackson later began performing backup vocals and dancing; at the age of eight, he and Jermaine assumed lead vocals, and the group''s name was changed to The Jackson 5.[3] The band toured the Midwest extensively from 1966 to 1968. The band frequently performed at a string of black clubs and venues collectively known as the "chitlin'' circuit", where they often opened for stripteases and other adult acts. In 1966, they won a major local talent show with renditions of Motown hits and James Brown''s "I Got You (I Feel Good)", led by Michael.[11]
The Jackson 5 recorded several songs, including "Big Boy", for the local record label Steeltown in 1967 and signed with Motown Records in 1968.[3] Rolling Stone magazine later described the young Michael as "a prodigy" with "overwhelming musical gifts", noting that Michael "quickly emerged as the main draw and lead singer" after he began to dance and sing with his brothers.[12] Though Michael sang with a "child''s piping voice, he danced like a grown-up hoofer and sang with the R&B/gospel inflections of Sam Cooke, James Brown, Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder".[12] The group set a chart record when its first four singles ("I Want You Back", "ABC", "The Love You Save" and "I''ll Be There") peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.[3] During The Jackson 5''s early years, Motown''s public relations team claimed that Jackson was nine years old—two years younger than he actually was—to make him appear cuter and more accessible to the mainstream audience.[13] Starting in 1972, Jackson released a total of four solo studio albums with Motown, among them Got to Be There and Ben. These were released as part of the Jackson 5 franchise, and produced successful singles such as "Got to Be There", "Ben" and a remake of Bobby Day''s "Rockin'' Robin". The group''s sales began declining in 1973, and the band members chafed under Motown''s strict refusal to allow them creative control or input.[14] Although the group scored several top 40 hits, including the top 5 disco single "Dancing Machine" and the top 20 hit "I Am Love", the Jackson 5 left Motown in 1975.[14]
Date: 6/25/2009 9:04:31 PM
Author: Kaleigh
Thanks, will go find it.Date: 6/25/2009 8:59:24 PM
Author: Sha
Date: 6/25/2009 8:49:34 PM
Author: Kaleigh
Linky??Date: 6/25/2009 8:44:57 PM
Author: SparklyLibra
''Ben''......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSqo17o2a1w
Wahhhhhhhh!![]()
Truly, the end of an era.....![]()
I posted a link to ''Ben'' and ''Smooth Criminal'' music videos on page 4...