At the 2009 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Wonder performs the Jackson hit "The Way You Make Me Feel" with singer John Legend. But after a minute or so into the performance held in NYC, Wonder begins to choke up and wipe his eyes.
Heartbreaking...
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December 02, 2009
Stevie Wonder Breaks Down Over Michael Jackson
At the 2009 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Wonder performs the Jackson hit "The Way You Make Me Feel" with singer John Legend. But after a minute or so into the performance held in NYC, Wonder begins to choke up and wipe his eyes.
Heartbreaking...
October 12, 2009
"This Is It" by Michael Jackson
Here's the newly released single with lead vocals by MJ and backing vocals by his brothers... enjoy :)
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August 11, 2009
LL Cool J On His Michael Jackson Tribute & Contest
After Michael Jackson passed away, it left many in shock. One of those people was LL Cool J. The emcee recently leaked his remixed version of MJ's "Billie Jean" in a move to pay homage to one of his favorite performers of all time. He also says the lyrics he wrote on the track came to him in his sleep.
"After hearing the tragic news of Michael Jackson's death, the lyrics for the 'Billie Jean' remix came to me in a dream," LL told Billboard.
"Michael was one of my childhood idols and has always been a great inspiration to me."
It's because of this that he has decided to title the song "Billie Jean Dream: Written by Michael Jackson."
The song will also work as a tool for other fans to connect with. OnBoomdizzle.com, his social networking site, LL is allowing fans to make videos for this song and has asked supporters to submit their own MJ tribute tracks.
There will actually be a contest for the best Michael Jackson tribute song. The winning artist will obtain promotional help from Boomdizzle.com. Finalists will be chosen by other users and a panel of judges led by Cool J.
I find LL's dream story to be interesting being that MJ's mother once said he used to get ideas while in bed and would jump up yelling "WOHOO!" Also Michael never wanted to take "credit" for his work because he always felt that it was never truly created by him, but instead another force just used him to release it to the world.
August 05, 2009
Thrilling Demos
Michael Jackson and master mind producer Quincy Jones left a few unreleased songs off of the top selling album "Thriller". The blog Unheard Music was linked to the LA Times as being the source of the free demo downloads. Here's a track list and rundown of the songs, and again you can download the songs for free from the UM site.
01 Trouble
02 Hot Street
These are clearly professionally produced recordings, but I'm assuming these versions weren't considered final. Hot Street isn't bad but both it and Trouble don't seem release ready compositions.
03 Billie Jean
This is another demo recording, although unlike the version featured on the Special Edition reissue of Thriller (not to be confused with the 25th anniversary edition, the Special Edition has bonus cuts and interviews with Quincy Jones. there are no remixes from Kanye West or anyone of the sort.), this has mostly finished lyrics and is the complete song. The synths sound a little like something Moroder would use.
04 Love Never Felt So Good
A short piano and vocal recording. Actually, this one is quite nice, but who knows if it got any further than this nice little demo.
05 Nite Line
Another rather complete demo recording, just like Trouble and Hot Street. Decent song, but it was to leave it off the album.
06 The Girl Is Mine
07 Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
More demos sessions. The Girl Is Mine is a solo demo with a string section and everything. It doesn't sound like a synthesized string section so it's odd if this was just meant to be a demo, but it's pretty short so who knows. As for Wanna Be Startin' Somethin', like Billie Jean, this is a rather complete recording. It's kinda rough and MJ doesn't sound like he's worked out his performance yet, but the basic idea is all here including the mama-say-mama-saa-mamoko-sa thing at the end.
08 Thriller (Starlight Session Excerpt)
09 Baby Be Mine (Session Excerpt)
10 Billie Jean (Session Excerpt)
11 Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' (Session Excerpt)
12 Hot Street (Session Excerpt)
13 P.Y.T. (Instrumental Excerpt)
These recordings all appear to be excerpts of sessions with Michael singing over what seems to be finished tracks. The vocals are definitely not finished, and in several places you'll notice different lyrics. This is most notable on Thriller which features the original chorus when the song was known as Starlight. How I wish the full versions of these recordings were out there! Again, they may show up sometime in the near future as there will be a lot of archival research in the very near future, if it hasn't already begun.
14 Groove Of Midnight
Apparently this song was recorded by Siedah Garrett. This doesn't sound like a demo let alone a complete song. This sounds more like Michael messing around while waiting for the tape to be restarted. Whatever it is, it's not much and is more confusing than enlightening.
15 Carousel (Complete Version)
This song almost made the album, but was replaced by Human Nature. Michael Sembello is one of the co-writers. Nice enough track, definitely b-side or compilation worthy.
16 There Must Be More To Life Than This
This track originally listed Freddie Mercury as a co-performer, but he is clearly not here. Just a very polished performance of Michael singing this fine number.
17 Trouble (Alternate Source)
18 Hot Street (Alternate Source)
There is nothing different between these tracks and the other versions contained here other than someone cleaned up the audio a little bit. If they didn't sound a little better I wouldn't have bothered posting them, but I'm not promising any real clarity here.
*tracks 4, 6, 8 and 16 are great & if you own the "Thriller" special edition CD then you're already aware of song 15.
August 03, 2009
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July 28, 2009
Michael the Love [RARE]
This a one of the group's first recordings on SteelTown Records; the company they were with before signing with Motown. Enjoy!
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