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...“Pictures” is the ballad, sparsely produced, with moody piano from Greg Phillinganes, one-time MD for Michael Jackson....
...He also promoted Michael Jackson’s Bad tour. In the 1990s, he became chair of Motown Records....
...The cast features Chloe Bailey, one half of the Grammy-nominated duo Chloe x Halle, along with Paris Jackson (offspring of Michael), Rory Culkin and a Very Big Pop Star who can’t be named but who makes her...
...The singer is also famed for his choreography, which, like his music, bears an undeniable Michael Jackson influence, though that is not overstated nowadays....
...But even before he moved from Texas to Detroit (“I was, like, 11 or 12 years old”), he had been steeped in gospel music: The Dixie Hummingbirds, The Soul Stirrers, Mahalia Jackson....
...Jackson and Madonna....
...His love of Disney and pop defines his Americanness at a very European house; he grew up loving the high pomp of Madonna, of Michael and Janet Jackson, while the Disney influence seems even more pronounced...
...Many popular musicians, including David Bowie, Bob Dylan and Michael Jackson, have been accused of sexual misconduct over the years....
...This was a trend that began in earnest in 2019, with documentaries including Channel 4 and HBO’s Leaving Neverland, about two men who claim they were abused as children by Michael Jackson, who died aged...
...Because of the court order, the nine were identified in the reporting of the trial as Woman A, Woman B and so on....
...There were imperious dance moves, defiantly in the mould of disgraced brother Michael, while the sharp contours of her 1980s R&B hits gleamed amid the setlist’s over-rushed tempo....
...According to Quincy Jones, Elvis Presley “couldn’t sing”, Michael Jackson “stole a lot of stuff”, Paul McCartney was “the worst bass player I ever heard” and Leni Riefenstahl was “a very special human being...
...He once had a sleepover with Michael Jackson, about which he said in 2010 that “it didn’t seem out of the ordinary”. Now he prefers to say nothing about the topic (“I just don’t want to get into it....
...You could hear it in “I Feel Energy”, whose live iteration made plain — in Longstreth’s vocal inflections, in the burst of “chicken-scratch” guitar — that it could as easily have been a Michael Jackson hit...
...“Don’t Matter to Me” provides a degree of distraction with a refrain based on a previously unheard Michael Jackson vocal sample from a 1983 recording....
...Freeman’s credits range from Michael Jackson to Dizzy Gillespie, but here he delivered modern jazz based on modal structures and the blues....
...wrote the Black Panther actor Michael B Jordan on Twitter, illustrating his sentiment with seven “fire” emojis....
...Michael Wickens, Professor of Economics, University of York (Emeritus) and Cardiff Business School. 1.6 per cent....
...It’s a measure of its popular appeal that this year the festival lined up Herbie Hancock, George Benson and The Jacksons as headliners and expanded its capacity....
...Mars has spoken of wanting to emulate Prince and Michael Jackson on his “24K Magic” tour. His abilities license the comparison. But judged on those terms, the show was two-dimensional....
...Reporting by Leo Lewis, Michael Hunter, Thomas Hale, Gavin Jackson and Michael Mackenzie...
...That’s why I have always found it puzzling when the likes of Michael Jackson or George Michael were labelled as geniuses....
...Less light rock, please, more R&B and Michael Jackson. Starbucks, which rarely allows tinkering with its model, agreed....
...And it’s what makes the three albums he recorded with Michael Jackson so transcendental....
...Let alone to seek help with a Michael Jackson album. The public’s strongest image of the singer was still as the cute frontboy of the Jackson Five, all bubblegum pop and Motown-monitored sweetness....
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