![]() ![]() He purchased and rebuilt the Neverland Valley Ranch in California, making it an amusement park, a movie theatre and a zoo, and often inviting terminally ill children to come and play. ![]() The album was followed by Jackson’s second world tour, an autobiography called Moonwalk and the movie Moonwalker, also featuring John Lennon’s son Sean. The LP included hit singles as the title song, The Man in the Mirror, The Way You Make Me Feel, Dirty Diana and Smooth Criminal, recently covered by Alien Ant Farm. Jackson’s next album after Thriller, Bad, came out in 1987 and went together with a world tour. Supporting the fight against famine in Africa, Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie composed We Are the World in 1985, performed by several famous artists under the name USA For Africa. It was also during this period that Jackson did his first Moonwalk and received his first fame as a dancer. The latter hit was accompanied by the first video by a black artist on MTV. The album included seven top ten hits, of which the title song, Beat It and Billie Jean reached number one. Thriller also marked the launch of the new genre of music videos: short films accompanied all singles, almost simultaneously with the rise of newborn MTV. Twenty million Americans bought the record, while worldwide over 50 million copies were sold. He cooperated with Quincy Jones again for Thriller in 1982, an album that became the best-selling record of all time. The album sold over 15 million copies worldwide and earned Jackson two more number one hits ( Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough and Rock With You).Īlthough Michael still kept on recording and touring with The Jacksons, his solo efforts were way more successful. Michael Jackson would work together with producer Jones on his solo album Off The Wall, which was released in 1979. In his movie debut, Michael played the scarecrow alongside Diana Ross, who starred as Dorothy. Michael’s solo career was revived after he met Quincy Jones at the set of the Wizard of Oz adaptation The Wiz in 1978. ![]() They signed a deal with Epic but the rights to the name Jackson 5 were with Motown, so the brothers changed their name to The Jacksons. Michael and his brothers left Motown in 1976 when their popularity started to decline a bit. Decades later this first contact would lead to a marriage between Michael en Lisa Marie Presley (married in 1994, divorced in 1996). Elvis Presley brought his young daughter backstage to meet the Jackson 5 when they performed at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas in 1974. Simultaneously the talented eleven-year-old was pushed into a solo career already, scoring his first hit in 1971 ( Got To Be There) and still one of his best known the year after: Ben. It reached number one soon, as would their next three singles ( ABC, The Love You Save, and I'll Be There). They were discovered by Motown after singing at talent contests and signed a contract in 1969, resulting in their first hit I Want You Back. Still, the Benjamin of the pack was the lead singer of the Jackson 5, as they were called, assisted by his brothers Jackie, Jermaine, Marlon and Tito. His father Joseph worked at a steel mill, but founded a pop group consisting of five of his sons when Michael was only five years old. Michael Jackson was born on Augin Gary ( Indiana), as the seventh of nine children. Michael Jackson (1958-2009) American pop artist Still it was a shock to find out this little had been written here about the alleged King of Pop. Of course there’s no place for Michael Jackson in geek culture. ![]()
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