We do not care about his skin bleached or the countless touches of plastic surgery. We do not care to know the legal aspects of his life or his follies analyze a star. We do not care to understand what were the causes, yet mysterious, his death.
We want to tell half the story of a boy that, just eleven years , debuted on the scene da professionista insieme ai fratelli Tito, Marlon, Jackie e Jermain Jackson.
Il piccolo Michael ha come riferimento James Brown, la sua capacità di intrattenere il pubblico e il suo modo di stare sul palco e di ballare. Abilità che non passano inosservate alla cantante Gladys Knight e, successivamente, a Berry Gordy , il patron della Motown al quale la stessa Gladys aveva suggerito di ingaggiarli. A Berry iniziano a scintillare gli occhi quando pensa ai Jackson 5, il gruppo composto dai cinque fratelli dell’Indiana che possono diventare le prime star adolescenti della Motown. Per completare l’operazione di marketing, sceglie Diana Ross come madrina ufficiale del gruppo. Siamo nel 1969, year album Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 and, above all, the individual I Want You Back, a song by fresh and catchy rhythms. A hit that goes to the top of the charts and the latter to the English ones. From that album forward, the road is downhill. The hit one after the other (ABC, Never Can Say Goodbye, Is not no sunshine, Shake your body down to the ground, Blame It On The Boogie) and the Jackson 5 became the Beatles blacks, five boys to imitate ( even look) and idolized by millions of fans. This also means sacrificing the dreams of a teenager and games, often forced by his father in recording sessions and countless other Kids are playing in the street.
Fortunately, there a true friend by his side, Diana Ross, with whom plays the part of the scarecrow in The Wiz, a film adaptation of the stage hit The Wizard of Oz. It's not a success, but it represents the turning point in his career. The music producer of The Wiz is such Quincy Jones and the two are very special agreement that creates a basis of friendship, respect and trust. Michael relies totally in Quincy, the father who has never had, the result is Off the Wall (1979). The disc opens with the first song written entirely by myself, Do not stop 'til you get enough, which is still good for dancing everyone as if he had ants in the pants. Below Rock With You, written by Rod Temperton (who also designed the beautiful title track) She's out of my life and I can not help it, whose authors include Mr. Stevie Wonder.
Among awards, number one in the charts and a new album with his brothers (Triumph), Michael finds time to return to work in the studio with Quincy Jones to a new disc, which will go down in history as the biggest selling album of all time. E ' Thriller (1982), which cost "only" $ 750,000, very well rewarded by the collection. The first seven singles (out of nine songs!) Is the duet with his friend / rival, Paul McCartney, The Girl is mine, una canzoncina semplice e fischiettabile. Ma come, tutti quei soldi spesi per pubblicare una canzone, anche banalotta? Calmi, il duetto rassicurante serve solo a calmare gli animi e a preparare l’arrivo della “bomba”: Billie Jean. Niente più miele, le atmosfere dolci e zuccherose si infrangono su un tema scottante e su un groove incalzante e si sciolgono in una intro lunga, inusuale per un pezzo pop, che contribuisce a far crescere l’attesa. Chi è Billie Jean? E di chi è quel figlio? Il video contribuisce al successo del brano: Michael balla illuminando i mattoni con i suoi passi, quasi come in una gigantesca discoteca all’aperto con un solo protagonista nel mezzo della pista.
Le immagini make their fortunes in the single Thriller. The song became a short film by fourteen minutes directed by John Landis : the smiling Michael turns, leaving the cinema and in front of his girlfriend, in a terrifying man with cat's eyes that, slowly, is surrounded by zombies dancers. History, like the red leather jacket worn in the video.
To find the sweetness and sensitivity of Michael on the album, Human Nature have to wait, an invitation to let go and bite the city like an apple. In short, a masterpiece after another, many hit made possible in sequence to a disk become legend.
past five years, during which Michael it is not with our hands (affecting Victory, the last album with his brothers, and wrote We Are the World with Lionel Richie), and arrives Bad , the last album produced with Quincy Jones. A very pop album, with electronic drums and rhythms nerve, where you can see the future of Michael, a Michael, at least musically, has become mature and independent. That 's what you think Quincy, suggests that the producer for his next album, Teddy Riley, a friendly and lets go his way.
Where, we, too, we prefer to leave it.
Mr.Soundelicious
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