I know that this was just posted but I thought that I would give my perspective. Billie Jean really sums up Michael Jackson the king of pop. br /br /Michael Jackson has a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/06/pop-star-michael-jackson-was-rushed-to-a-hospital-this-afternoon-by-los-angeles-fire-department-paramedics--capt-steve-ruda.html"died at the age of 50/a. br /br /When Michael Jackson's strongOff the Wall/strong album (yep, it was an album back then, 1979) came out, I bought it the first week it was out. I was in college. MTV was just starting. Off the Wall's first hit was strongDon't Stop Until You Get Enough/strong. This was a hit. A huge hit. This begins Michael's best time as a creative performer. He does the voice track for ET. He wins a Grammy for that. br /br /MTV was getting big. Billie Jean was released. As I recall, the song was just doing okay. Nothing big. Nothing huge. Then MTV played the video. strongNo Black artist that I know of was on MTV before Michael./strong The video was slick. It was more than some guy with big hair sticking his touch out at the camera for 3 minutes. Was the video nuclear physics? NO. It was a huge breakthrough. br /br /There was just a hint of BET (Black Entertainment Television) at this time. Most houses couldn't get BET. There was no satellite. Cable was still really young. WGN and TNT were the main channels on cable. HBO and Showtime were the only movie channels that I can remember at that time. br /br /So, it is May of 1983. Motown is going to have their 25th anniversary show. I'm running around with graduation from college duties. I miss the special. Everyone who saw it was amazed at Michael's performance. This performance, if I'm not mistaken, wins Michael an Emmy. The combination of the video and the live performance caused Michael Jackson to blow up. emstrongHe was HUGE/strong/em. br /br /Michael and Quincy Jones, the producer who really was responsible for the sound, cleaned up at the Grammy's. They won 8. br /br /Just a few words about this performance. strongThere are 2 new dance moves that Michael breaks out for this performance that floors the crowd and become legendary Michael Jackson moves./strong He does the moonwalk for the first time. He also does the thing where he goes up on his toes. I have no idea what that's called. But he was so fluid, and moved so well that the audience just stares at one point.br /br /object width="320" height="265"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/C-blEgMyJwUhl=enfs=1color1=0x5d1719color2=0xcd311b"/paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramparam name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/C-blEgMyJwUhl=enfs=1color1=0x5d1719color2=0xcd311b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"/embed/objectbr /br /No one was as big as Michael Jackson, in my opinion. No performer. Not The Beatles? Maybe. Not The Stones? Maybe. Elvis? Nope. Here's why I say this. Michael Jackson was popular all over the world. With TV and truly world tours, he had the ability to be worldwide like no other performer. strongThriller which was the zenith of his popularity sold over 104 million copies./strongdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21083673-3386485163554896515?l=mirroronamerica.blogspot.com'//div
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