Michael Jackson in Amsterdam (1977)
Photo by Claude Vanheye
Michael Jackson in Amsterdam (1977)
Photo by Claude Vanheye
MJ singing passionately
Eddie Murphy presenting his friend Michael Jackson an AMA in 1989 and then another at the Soul Train Awards a few months later, jokingly over adjusting his mic for him the second time.
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Charlie, Jackie Coogan and Tom Wilson in The Kid c.1921
I love great talent. People like Chaplin, I mean God, how could you not admire his genius? He was the king of Pathos. I mean he knew how to touch your heart and knew how to make you laugh and cry at the same time. I mean he was the master of that.
I find some of that in what I do and I relate to him. I sometimes feel like I am him. - Michael Jackson
My fav facial expressions from short films requested by: michael-jackson-angel
“His manager said to me, ‘make sure you find room for him to dance’. So I went through it with him, and said we had this chorus that we could do the dancing.
When we came to do it, I said ‘I’ll show you all the paving stones that light up’, and I led him along the street. ‘This one, these two, that one…shall we walk it through and rehearse?’, and he said ‘no, let’s just do it.’
I’m on camera tracking back as he came forward - and it was astounding. When he came forward through that chorus, my eyepiece literally steamed up, and I’m thinking, ‘fucking hell, this is amazing, he is incredible.’ Dancing on his toes, the whole thing.
We shot that first take, got to the end, and everyone – up in the gantries, eating their sandwiches, reading the paper, painters working on another set – just burst into applause.
We all just knew we’d seen another era of superstar that the world was about to see. It was a major moment.” - Steve Barron on the making of his video for Billie Jean