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00:01موسيقى
00:02الموسيقى
00:03اه، اعجب في مجال
00:04احجب في مجال
00:11حسنًا
00:11موسيقى
00:11موسيقى
00:12اعتقدني أن كل شخص لقياه
00:15لتشكل شيء
00:17موسيقى
00:19كما أترى أنني أريد أن أكون
00:21موسيقى
00:26كيف يمكن أن يكون على المساعدة
00:32كيف يمكن أن يكون على المساعدة
00:37عندما يشعرون و يشعرون و يشعرون و يشعرون
00:41و أنا أريده
00:47لأنني أريد أن يكون أحب
00:50هذا هو الأشياء
00:51أريد أن أحب الناس لتحبني
00:56الكثير من الناس يسأل
00:59من هو أن أحبال و هو إذا كنت أحبال
01:05أقل أنه كان لعصور أخي
01:07الذي كان كلمس يزده على المساعدة
01:09على المنطقة
01:15هذا هو أخي من قبل
01:18المترجم للقناة
01:50المترجم للقناة
02:19That level of mega stardom is not healthy. People are not gods.
02:33Tonight Jackson is wanted by police of multiple felony counts of child molestation.
02:41The Jackson machine just keeps right on rolling.
02:46The Jackson machine just keeps right on rolling.
05:39كلمة نحن نحن كان واحدة وعندما راضيقام وعندما كان رائحًا أو نحن
05:48كان يقوم بتلقى سيارة ويجعله وبي شخص ميتا قلقا
05:59سيارة رضيق حتى أنه يشعر بأسنوية
06:04أين انتهي دائما قال يجب أنه
06:08جيديني يعرف در Thursday كانوا لديهم خلال کا يرادو choice
06:17ذلك تم تعلق أرد عدة أخرى
06:20مجددا الف Perry persناعة
06:22التواصلة لم يكن معقاس من التاريخ
06:22لكنهم ينظم Luther ولacc الاضum
06:26کوهلا تتحرك
06:27نحن نحن نحن نحن نحن نحن نحن نحن نحن نحن نحنOh!
06:32منه نحن نحن نحن نحن نحن
06:48المترجم للقناة
07:30المترجم للقناة
07:39المترجم للقناة
07:41المترجم للقناة
07:54المترجم للقناة
08:06المترجم للقناة
08:13المترجم للقناة
08:25المترجم للقناة
08:28المترجم للقناة
08:29المترجم للقناة
08:37المترجم للقناة
08:39المترجم للقناة
08:51المترجم للقناة
08:54المترجم للقناة
08:55المترجم للقناة
08:58المترجم للقناة
09:05المترجم للقناة
09:08المترجم للقناة
09:10المترجم للقناة
09:28المترجم للقناة
09:31المترجم للقناة
09:33المترجم للقناة
09:42المترجم للقناة
10:07المترجم للقناة
10:10المترجم للقناة
10:11المترجم للقناة
10:12المترجم للقناة
10:13المترجم للقناة
10:16المترجم للقناة
10:20إلى Los Angeles
10:21كانت جداً
10:22نحن جدتناً أماماً
10:26إلى أمامك
10:27إلى أن نرى
10:27وكانت بالحياة
10:28في مدينة
10:31نحن جمعنا مجدد
10:39ويأتي خلال
10:42إنه سيكون مكان
10:47وما يقولون
10:50dedication
10:50let's introduce Mr. Joe Jackson
10:59okay
11:04we're going to find a looking gosse around here
11:06do you have to ever
11:08discipline this lively group you've got here
11:12i have a way
11:13you know like
11:13when Randy don't do right
11:15we make him take out all the garbage or something
11:17صلى الله عليه وسلم
11:47لسف tصرة when Joseph spoke to me about coming to work for the boys,
11:52he presented himself as a really concerned, loving father.
11:59Joseph grew up dirt poorä,
12:02before civil rightsä.
12:05And to take from nothing and build that act was huge.
12:10and all of a sudden
12:12now he's living in a wealthy house
12:14in Encino
12:15he's got a Rolls Royce
12:18he really was chasing
12:20the American dream
12:24at that point
12:26they were portrayed as this happy loving family
12:29but
12:31my experience
12:32can't speak for anybody else's
12:34but my experience of what I saw
12:35that was the farthest thing from the truth
12:39I
12:40went to high school with Michael's
12:42baby sister Janet
12:44and Michael was also a very
12:46close friend
12:47when I would be there and Joseph would pull in
12:51you know
12:52the speaker or the phone would ring and it would be like
12:54Joseph's here and everyone's like oh god
12:56Joseph's here we weren't that
12:57you know savvy back then about this stuff
13:00but knowing
13:02that there was just weirdness
13:06our career
13:07is very important
13:10my father made sure that we rehearsed
13:12every day
13:14lock all the doors
13:15it's time to rehearse
13:18if you went out of step
13:19you'd get it real bad
13:24he would oil you down
13:25your whole ritual
13:26he would oil you down
13:29so when
13:29when the foot of the
13:31of the iron cord
13:32hit you
13:33it would just
13:34you know
13:35and your foot's all in your face
13:37your back
13:37everywhere
13:40he said if you guys ever stop sinking
13:42I'll drop you like a hot potato
13:47I found out later
13:49Joseph
13:51had done some really
13:53awful stuff
13:54Joseph would put Michael
13:56in the closet
13:56in the dressing room
13:58in the dark
14:00and lock it
14:01so that he was
14:03he would do what
14:04Joseph
14:05would tell him to do
14:18he wasn't as cruel
14:20as people think
14:21but
14:22Mike had a fear
14:23my father
14:23we all did
14:24because we
14:26we felt
14:26okay
14:27what did we do wrong
14:30he's going to discipline us
14:31and you were
14:32kind of afraid of that
14:33it just
14:34put something
14:35in your belly
14:36and you would say
14:38to yourself
14:39oh no
14:40his eyebrows
14:42would go up
14:43and his eyes
14:44would turn
14:46a deeper green
14:48a deeper green
14:49than they were
14:50and you knew
14:51he was angry
14:52everybody would say
14:53I don't want to get in trouble
14:55because Joseph's
14:55going to strangle us
15:07we're right
15:07almost in the middle
15:08of a recording session
15:10with the Jacksons
15:11and we're going to
15:12bring the boys in
15:13right now
15:14all five of them
15:16here they are
15:25now I don't have
15:27to give any
15:27introduction
15:28to these gentlemen
15:28do I
15:29you knew them
15:30originally
15:31as the Jackson 5
15:32they're the Jacksons
15:33now
15:34they record
15:34on Epic
15:38this is really
15:39a special picture
15:40to me
15:42both of our hair
15:43was kind of big
15:43see his face
15:45looks completely
15:45different
15:46so this was earlier
15:47I guess
15:48he still looks like
15:49a great looking kid
15:50you know
15:52when the Jackson 5
15:53came to Epic
15:54they were a good
15:56pop group
15:58but Michael
15:59was so much
16:00the center of it
16:01the star
16:05he just wanted
16:06to be perfect
16:07in a way
16:08he wanted to be
16:09the best dancer ever
16:11best singer
16:12best entertainer
16:14he wanted to be
16:15a great
16:16you guys are
16:17you guys are really
16:17riding a big high
16:18now as far as
16:19producing records
16:20and so on
16:21do you think
16:21this is the peak
16:22of your career
16:23now or
16:23have you gone down
16:24a little bit
16:25are you expecting
16:25bigger and better
16:26things
16:26well we're looking
16:27forward to doing
16:28other things
16:28like producing
16:29other people
16:30and producing
16:32ourselves
16:32in the future
16:33and going into
16:34acting
16:34and that type of thing
16:46new york is the
16:47most exciting city
16:48in the world
16:48but new york
16:50has never seen
16:50anything like
16:51the whiz
16:52a new musical
16:53motion picture
16:54being made here
16:54that stars
16:55diana ross
16:58the whiz
16:59was the black
17:00version of
17:01the wizard of oz
17:03and michael
17:04really wanted
17:05to be in that
17:06movie
17:10my father
17:11didn't want him
17:12to venture off
17:13into movies
17:15because he felt
17:16it would break
17:17up the group
17:18and he would
17:18go in a
17:19different direction
17:19and he wanted
17:21to keep the
17:21brothers together
17:22as he always
17:24said i want to
17:24keep my boys
17:25together but
17:26this is something
17:27that mike saw
17:28he loved
17:29opportunity
17:30and he went
17:31for it
17:42how did you feel
17:43when you heard
17:44you got the part
17:44in the whiz
17:45and especially
17:46playing with
17:46diana ross
17:47i was um
17:48very happy
17:49i would talk
17:50to diana on the
17:51phone i say
17:52you're gonna film
17:52the whiz next week
17:53huh or or
17:54next month
17:55she would say
17:56yeah next thing
17:56i noticed i was
17:57in it
18:01mike and i
18:02were extremely
18:03close
18:05so we moved
18:07to new york
18:07together
18:11and going to
18:12the set
18:13every day
18:14he just
18:16embraced it
18:17with great joy
18:18but most of
18:19all what he
18:20would always say
18:21i'm learning so
18:21much latoya
18:22you have no
18:23idea
18:23hey fellas
18:24is today today
18:25you gonna help
18:26me get down
18:26from here
18:27help you down
18:28what is going
18:30down in that
18:31hayloft you
18:32call ahead
18:36living in new
18:37york we were
18:39so used to
18:40being with
18:42family being
18:43controlled by
18:45my father
18:46but yet you
18:47could do
18:47what you
18:48wanted
18:50it was so
18:52wonderful
19:07is michael there
19:09hi michael come on
19:10you can come right
19:11in hi
19:11how are you
19:13you just walked in
19:14how are you
19:15michael this is
19:16jane fall
19:16sit over here
19:18it's uh
19:19been a long day
19:20for you and
19:20you're unwinding
19:21here
19:21uh you mean
19:22today
19:23no we're all
19:24finished with
19:25the movie
19:25but i'm just
19:26relaxing now
19:27just hanging out
19:28in new york
19:29yes
19:29studio 54
19:31when you hear
19:32the name
19:32studio 54
19:33what uh
19:34what does that
19:35do does it
19:35your pulse
19:36quicken
19:36and your beats
19:36start moving
19:37yeah i'm ready
19:38to have a good
19:38time
19:39it's where you
19:40come when you
19:40want to skate
19:42it's really
19:43escapism
19:44sure michael
19:45jackson you
19:46don't have it
19:46so bad
19:46what are you
19:47escaping from
19:48you know
19:48i'm not
19:48escaping from
19:49anything
19:49it's just
19:50a change
19:50of pace
19:51right it is
19:52he doesn't
19:53escape from
19:54anything
19:54if anything
19:55he's one of
19:55those people
19:56who very
19:56recognized
19:57doing the
19:57whiz
19:58and all the
19:59work that
20:00he had done
20:04and the growth
20:05that came with
20:06it
20:09took him
20:10mentally
20:11in a different
20:12direction
20:13saying i want
20:14to do a
20:15solo album
20:23by michael
20:24doing the
20:24whiz he
20:26had a chance
20:26to meet
20:26great composer
20:28arranger
20:28quincy jones
20:34and
20:35quincy
20:36i work with
20:36sinatra
20:37i mean
20:38greatest music
20:39people
20:39ever
20:44i called
20:45quincy up
20:46one day
20:46i said
20:46quincy
20:47i'm ready
20:48to do
20:48an album
20:48a solo
20:49album
20:49but i want
20:51a real good
20:52producer to
20:52work with me
20:54i said can
20:55you recommend
20:55somebody
20:57and he said
20:58why don't
20:59you let
20:59me do
20:59it
21:15i remember
21:16getting a copy
21:16of off the wall
21:18and when i
21:19heard
21:20don't stop
21:20forget enough
21:22i was just
21:23astonished to
21:24hear
21:24oh my gosh
21:26i said michael
21:27this is gonna
21:27be
21:30it's gonna be
21:30phenomenal
21:32this is the album
21:33that's caused the
21:34storm right around
21:35the world
21:36it's michael's
21:36off the wall
21:37album
21:37and hopefully
21:38we've got michael
21:39in la on the
21:40phone now
21:41let's have a
21:42oh here we go
21:43hello michael
21:44hello
21:45how are you
21:49he's the first
21:50artist to have
21:51four top ten
21:52singles with his
21:53off the wall
21:53album
21:54he keeps breaking
21:55records
21:55it's just amazing
22:04it had to happen
22:07i feel like i want
22:08a rock
22:09he had earned
22:11the right to
22:13be
22:13michael
22:18he felt that
22:19it's now my
22:20time
22:41let's get the
22:42mayor back here
22:43yeah
22:44i'm rolling
22:46hey guys what'd you
22:47think of this were you
22:48ever afraid when you
22:49saw that big crowd
22:50never afraid
22:51never afraid
22:52it's a lot of
22:53excitement
22:53and it's nice to
22:55see the fans all
22:55come out to greet us
22:57at the airport i think
22:58it's i think it's
22:59wonderful
23:01what do you have to
23:02say for atlanta
23:03i'll start here
23:04love it i can't wait
23:06tomorrow night
23:08i love it
23:09we love you atlanta
23:11love you very much
23:12tomorrow night
23:12everybody be out
23:13there
23:13we're gonna do our
23:14best
23:14have a good time
23:26at this point
23:27michael really is kind
23:28of the mainstay of the
23:29jacksons has it always
23:30been that way
23:33um yes yes michael has
23:35always been sort of the
23:36star yeah he's been
23:38highlight the most because
23:38he's a lead singer and he's
23:40up front you know as a
23:42little kid we put him up
23:43front because he danced so
23:44much and has so much
23:45energy
23:50i think my brothers some of
23:54them felt that once he do
23:56this he's never coming back
24:00he's gonna abandon us
24:04and that was kind of disturbing
24:06to some of them and then the
24:08others were just well let's see
24:11where it goes let's see where it
24:12leads
24:19i remember the boys being in
24:21the office
24:21and one of them
24:23distinctly said if it wasn't
24:25for them michael wouldn't be
24:27who he was because they were
24:29the ones
24:30and joseph was the one who
24:32made michael who he is and
24:34they he basically wouldn't be
24:35shit without them
24:36and it was them that built him
24:39and michael's just sitting
24:40there listening to this
24:43and he sat there and he
24:44took it i just remember
24:46thinking how mean why are you
24:48guys being so mean to him i
24:50just i wanted to go in and
24:52like hurt them because they
24:54were being mean to mike
25:00i think michael had grown up
25:02feeling under joseph that he
25:05wasn't anything more than a
25:06commodity
25:07and i think in that moment it
25:10crystallized for michael that he
25:11was nothing more than a commodity
25:13to his brothers
25:13and i think it broke his heart
25:26so nice to meet you too
25:29fine how are you
25:41if things got difficult for mike he
25:45always had a very loving
25:46relationship with with my mother it
25:49was a very trusted relationship if
25:56something upset him she would
25:58always make sense out of everything
26:16my mother was a very religious person she
26:23was a jehovah witness and she always
26:27always thought if you had a personal relationship with god then he would show you away
26:45it's strange being back here i haven't looked at you for many years
26:50yeah it was such a strange time you know with michael being
26:53suddenly so famous and we're just going door to door trying to save souls
27:00michael would say hi my name is joe
27:03that's his middle name so he wasn't lying
27:05this is my friend christian we're here to talk to you about the wonderful hope of god's kingdom
27:10and the people would kind of stare
27:12they would think
27:14that guy really looks like michael jackson
27:17you can kind of see it in their eyes
27:21the jehovah's witnesses are uh millennialists so they believe that armageddon
27:26is coming any day now when god's going to cleanse the earth of all the evil people
27:31and so our job as joe's witnesses was to go to door to door and try to recruit people to
27:36save them
27:36so that they could join our religion and then
27:39you know hopefully make it into the paradise that was going to come
27:44michael had a tough upbringing and i i think that he had a you know fantastical view of
27:50what he wanted the world to be and i think this idea of of uh god bringing a paradise just
27:57was very appealing
27:58and i think that was a big part of his enthusiasm for going door to door he genuinely wanted to
28:03tell people
28:05we did missionary work door to door
28:09you do 90 hours a month
28:11it was just a wonderful time for me because it allowed me to get out into society and to see
28:16people
28:17i was totally deprived of seeing people open their door
28:20i don't go to other people's houses
28:22i don't know what they live like
28:23so when they would open the door and say
28:25come in
28:26i would come in
28:30i was 15 when we started hanging out together
28:35i think he felt safe with us
28:37because he had no other space where he didn't have something
28:41some place where people wanted something from him because of his fame
28:44we just liked him because of who he was
28:47and that he was part of this joint community where we were all working to do god's will
28:55but at the same time i think he was conflicted about who he was
29:00because even though he was very devout
29:03i think michael had a lot of ambition uh around being perceived as uh very successful very talented
29:13he was raised in this paradigm where success is how you get validation right
29:17and and from the time he was a little kid so i don't think he ever lost that
29:20michael sometimes would stand in front of a mirror and say 100 million 100 million
29:25because he was he wanted to sell 100 million albums on his next album
29:29and i think that really uh fed him
29:54michael's ambition i believe was to make the greatest album ever heard
30:02but he also knew the power of motion pictures
30:10he wanted to use video to drive sales
30:13i mean rock bands have been doing that for years
30:19i'm not like other guys
30:22i mean i'm different
30:33i think this is going to be the citizen kane of uh the videos i really do
30:43it's going to be the most revolutionary thing in the history of the videos you know
30:50i mean it's a new art form now but i think this is leading the way beat it and this
30:54one is leading the way
30:59god what a great looking kid
31:04filmmakers they usually know when they have something
31:10music video was new at that time and this is pre-internet
31:17and michael's videos were special
31:20you could tell
31:26some prominent black musicians are complaining that they are being left out of the video market
31:31specifically the music television cable operation
31:33we are looking for a certain sound and a certain point of view
31:37bob pitman is the 29 year old whiz kid who created mtv after a successful career as a radio station
31:44program director
31:45we are not all things to all people
31:46we are cable television and what cable television does best is specialize
31:50one thing per channel
31:52so you know exactly what you're getting when you turn on the channel
31:56it was almost impossible for a black artist to get on the cover
31:59of any of the major magazines or tv shows
32:04over christmas i watched mtv i saw no black star
32:08plenty of black stars but only black stars who do rock and roll
32:13and mtv refused to play michael's video
32:17he was outraged
32:19it was pure blatant racism plain and simple
32:24prejudice is ignorance
32:27music has no color
32:28i don't believe in that
32:29what i do i don't want it labeled black or white
32:32i want it labeled it's music
32:34a few of us at epic and the president of cbs records
32:39we all went up there and explained why they had to play those videos
32:43they said you can't continue with a program like this
32:48without honoring some of the best music
32:50that america has to offer and some of the best music america has to offer
32:55is made and performed by black artists
32:58period end of discussion
33:00they only could look at the bottom line and say
33:02you can't ignore these tracks
33:04and once they played michael
33:08it took off
33:15michael jackson's album thriller has been topping various record charts
33:19so it should come as no surprise that thriller is number one on billboard's chart of most successful pop albums
33:25well the title song from that blockbuster album now the subject of the most talked about music
33:30video to come along take a look at this
33:35thriller was an amazing piece of work like everybody loved it and it just got bigger and bigger
33:44we love you we love you michael
33:48michael jackson was partying in new york the occasion for selling 23 million albums
33:54he exploded everybody wanted a piece of him everyone wanted to see him
34:02michael jackson is partying in new york
34:04michael jackson's thriller is now the highest selling solo album in the history of recorded music
34:09the number one artist in the world
34:14he is simply put probably the most exciting and intense performer of the decade
34:21you had something within your records that everybody just loves
34:26well i i i couldn't say i just created it
34:31where do you think the gift came from
34:33god
35:02ladies and gentlemen may i have your attention
35:07i need your attention right now
35:12i am saying for the last time
35:15as chairman of the walk of fame
35:18if you do not back up
35:20this ceremony will be cancelled
35:26ladies and gentlemen
35:27michael jackson
35:29and now welcome him to the walk of fame
35:39the thriller album was fantastic
35:41it was far exceeding anyone's expectations
35:43about how big it was going to be
35:46and michael was becoming sort of transcendent as a pop star
35:52but he was still very idealistic
35:54very devout
36:01i mean nobody had been that famous
36:02in the jehovah's witnesses yet
36:07it was very much at odds for the church
36:09for someone to be famous
36:10because any kind of notoriety
36:12could be considered controversial potentially
36:15even even his deciding to do the thriller video
36:19the church was very paranoid about any demon influence
36:22and anything the demonology
36:23and so zombies rising from the dead
36:25or anything related to the occult
36:28suddenly the hammer came down
36:29from the headquarters of the church
36:31and so when he realized
36:34that this was going to be a problem for him
36:35he panicked
36:37he wrote
36:38due to my strong personal convictions
36:40i wish to stress that this film
36:41in no way endorses a belief in the occult
36:44and he had to put that at the beginning of the video
36:46in order to get the church to go
36:49okay you can release it
36:52it really created some tension
36:55on the one hand
36:56fame brought him all this opportunity
36:59and i think he liked the adulation
37:01it was very validating
37:02but i think he started to feel handicapped
37:05by the fact that
37:05he couldn't pursue all his creative stuff
37:07that the church was constantly
37:08tightening the screws
37:10and saying
37:10no you can't do this
37:11no you can't do that
37:13and later on
37:14he just made a decision
37:18he disassociated himself
37:19which basically meant
37:20he was leaving the church
37:23you know i left the church in 1990
37:25and when you leave
37:27you know the church completely cuts you off
37:29you know you lose your whole foundation
37:31you lose your family
37:32all of your friends
37:33you're really adrift
37:35uh in so many ways
37:37and when he left
37:38he lost the thing that had grounded him for so long
37:48how long have you had this
37:49beautiful beast
37:50gosh
37:52look during uh
37:53a little bit before thriller
37:54i had him
37:55probably about
37:55almost a year
37:57almost a year now
37:58and this type of snake
38:00is not dangerous
38:01well i don't think so
38:03some people want it
38:04could it be dangerous
38:05they squeeze
38:05yeah
38:05they squeeze
38:06they can really squeeze
38:08uh
38:10i think it's great
38:12what other animals do you have
38:15after a thriller
38:16i saw a completely different michael jackson
38:23i was his personal cinematographer
38:26from 1981
38:28to 1987
38:32and when i first met him
38:34michael was
38:35really humble
38:39he was
38:40a true cool dude
38:41but
38:43after the thriller album
38:46his personality
38:47started to get
38:48a little bit different
38:49more
38:50um
38:51eccentric
39:05i could see
39:06he enjoyed
39:08being around kids
39:13hello
39:18we're gonna do our own interview here
39:21okay this is jim
39:22like a Jackson interview show
39:23okay
39:24so
39:25how old are you young man
39:26no not how old are you
39:28um
39:28what show are you on
39:29my show is webstar
39:32and who do you play
39:33out of nowhere
39:35michael's good friend
39:36was emmanuel lewis
39:40emmanuel lewis
39:41was a star
39:42of the tv show
39:43webster
39:47and then one day
39:49michael calls me up
39:50he goes
39:50i need you to
39:51come over
39:53so i get there
39:55and he has
39:56emmanuel with him
39:57they're dancing to
39:59one of his
40:01new songs
40:02that never ever
40:03was released
40:04and he's
40:04holding him
40:05like a baby
40:15and i could see
40:16michael had
40:17a connection
40:18with children
40:21when a child
40:22steps in the room
40:23i can
40:25i'm totally changed
40:26i feel their energy
40:27and i feel their spirit
40:31when i look in their eyes
40:33i feel healed
40:43what i saw
40:45michael liked
40:48kids because of the fact that
40:51they weren't
40:52domineering
40:53they weren't asking for something
41:00you know because
41:01you had too many of these
41:03producer bigwigs
41:04coming over
41:04what i called
41:06and what he called
41:07suits
41:08and when the suits
41:09would come over
41:10it was a different
41:11atmosphere
41:12because
41:13they wanted something
41:16but then
41:17michael
41:18got so
41:19big
41:20now it's just
41:20a business
41:24jackson's image
41:25has been pressed
41:26into plastic
41:27in a short six months
41:28since they first came
41:29on the market
41:30michael jackson toys
41:31dolls
41:32and other products
41:33have been selling
41:33with a fury
41:35jackson has become
41:36a mini conglomerate
41:37he is setting up
41:38five separate companies
41:39to handle his business
41:40interests
41:41albums
41:42video cassettes
41:43concert tours
41:43merchandising tie-ins
41:45this year
41:46michael jackson
41:47is expected to earn
41:48more than
41:4950 million dollars
41:50michael jackson
41:51made recording
41:52business history
41:53today
41:53by closing the deal
41:54on the beatles catalog
41:55from now on
41:56all those royalties
41:57go to jackson
41:59michael jackson
42:00has a new manager
42:01jackson has hired
42:03the vice president
42:03of promotion
42:04for epic records
42:05frank de leo
42:06to manage
42:07his booming career
42:08formerly jackson
42:09was managed
42:10by his father
42:10joseph jackson
42:15mike decided
42:16to end the relationship
42:18with my father
42:20and his
42:21his thinking
42:22and his thoughts
42:23were
42:23i need a manager
42:24who's
42:24who's much bigger
42:25and better
42:26and someone
42:27who really knows
42:28what they're doing
42:29in this big industry
42:32but i think
42:34the part
42:34that became difficult
42:36was
42:36the people
42:38that entered
42:39into his life
42:40because
42:41this business
42:43can be
42:43very overwhelming
42:45cutthroat
42:46and people
42:47will say
42:48and do
42:48anything
42:49to get
42:49into your
42:50circle
42:51and to
42:52manage you
42:53and that
42:54part of it
42:57destroyed him
43:02michael jackson
43:03has
43:03not a song
43:04on his lips
43:05but a bottle
43:06of pepsicola
43:07this week
43:08he signed up
43:09for five million
43:10dollars or more
43:11to promote
43:12pepsi
43:12in concerts
43:13and commercials
43:14a lot of people
43:15are asking
43:16why would
43:16michael jackson
43:17do commercials
43:18well the reason
43:19is that these
43:20commercials are
43:20going to be
43:21just extraordinary
43:22they're using
43:23state-of-the-art
43:24technology
43:25they're going to
43:25be creative
43:26masterpieces
43:26no expenses
43:27spared
43:29they asked
43:30me to
43:31direct them
43:32because
43:33i had
43:34success
43:36and a
43:36relationship
43:37with michael
43:38we were going
43:38to shoot
43:39two
43:39promotional
43:41commercials
43:42even though
43:43michael
43:44confessed to
43:45me
43:45that he never
43:46drank pepsi
43:46in his life
43:47we went
43:48down there
43:49and started
43:50shooting
43:50and the plan
43:51was
43:51there was
43:52an explosion
43:53michael
43:53would come
43:54down
43:54and dance
43:56the pyrotechnics
43:58added too
43:59much
44:00and all
44:01hell broke
44:01loose
44:41the scene was
44:42wild
44:42as hundreds
44:43of fans
44:43tried to
44:44see michael
44:44jackson
44:44as he was
44:45carried into
44:46a los angeles
44:46area hospital
44:47with second
44:48and third
44:48degree burns
44:49on his
44:49scalp
45:09i'll never forget
45:10the image of michael
45:11being taken away
45:12in the stretcher
45:12but smart enough
45:14to take his glove
45:15the famous glove
45:16and wave it
45:20but it was
45:21the beginning
45:22of a dark
45:23time
45:43but it was
45:46i remember
45:47in the early
45:48years
45:48michael
45:49would just
45:49come out
45:50and hang
45:50out
45:50it was just
45:51it was casual
45:52it was normal
45:55but at that
45:56point
45:57michael
45:58started going
45:58out a lot
45:59less
46:05everybody was
46:06like
46:06worried
46:08he would
46:09call all
46:09the time
46:11he would
46:12constantly
46:12reflect back
46:13on things
46:14from his
46:15childhood
46:21i was
46:21always
46:21trying to
46:22be perfect
46:25trying to
46:25impress
46:26my father
46:30and i
46:31wanted him
46:31to be
46:31proud of
46:32me
46:32but he
46:32would
46:32never
46:33say
46:37he used
46:38to make
46:38fun of
46:39me
46:41you
46:42are so
46:42black
46:42you don't
46:43look like
46:43my child
46:47you look
46:47good
46:47you should
46:48point
46:48you got a big
46:49nose
46:53you don't
46:53realize how
46:54much it
46:54hurt
46:57i wanted to
46:58just die
47:08when i went
47:09to the house
47:10after the
47:11pepsi burn
47:13with michael
47:14there were
47:15some times
47:15where
47:15we would
47:17talk and
47:17he would
47:18come a little
47:19close and
47:20then i would
47:20say to
47:22myself what
47:23is on his
47:23nose and
47:25those were
47:25stitches physically
47:27or visually
47:27that you could
47:28see that it
47:29had been
47:30you know
47:31worked on
47:31i have a
47:33shot of
47:33michael
47:34when he's
47:34leaving
47:35the
47:35haven
47:36hearse
47:36house
47:36and that
47:37was
47:37what i
47:38saw the
47:38change
47:39you know
47:39the transition
47:40from
47:41the negro
47:42look
47:43to look
47:44like
47:44something
47:45different
47:52it was
47:53heartbreaking
47:55michael was
47:56trying to
47:56erase something
47:57off of his
47:58face
47:59and it
48:00was
48:00all the
48:01nastiness
48:02and all the
48:02things that
48:03joseph said
48:03about him
48:04but i think
48:04that set
48:05michael on
48:05a very
48:06unhealthy
48:06pattern
48:06and path
48:07for the
48:08rest of
48:08his life
48:09when it
48:09came to
48:11facial
48:11reconstruction
48:13and his
48:13skin color
48:15but i don't
48:16think anybody
48:17was prepared
48:18for how
48:19extreme it
48:20would get
48:22michael
48:24please turn
48:30go
48:31i don't
48:32back
48:32back
48:32back
48:34back
48:34back
48:34back
48:35back
48:36back
48:36back
48:37back
49:07Not since Thriller five years ago has the record industry been so focused on a single album. It's called Bad.
49:15It's Michael Jackson and Bad right here on Kiss FM.
49:23They were queuing all over America, snapping up the first copies of Michael Jackson's latest offering.
49:29But after five years of comparative seclusion, he's changed his image.
49:34It's a lot of talk. A lot of people are talking about it and how foolish he looks.
49:39The look, well, the new look is not too hot, but the album is great and he's a great entertainer.
49:48I was a fan of Michael Jackson's. I was a kid from, you know, the Jacksons. You know, I loved
49:56Off the Wall.
49:59I was a talent manager at the firm that managed Michael Jackson.
50:04And it was our job to manage his career and public image.
50:08I remember when I met him like up close and personal and I was just surprised at like how white
50:14he was.
50:15I mean, and just almost like, almost like translucent.
50:19That was good. Beautiful. What happened?
50:22You know, we were wondering if he was bleaching his skin or maybe it was makeup.
50:28I can remember one instance and we had made this video.
50:32It was like multimillion dollar video. We had David Fincher, you know, directed.
50:36I remember at one point he literally kind of broke down in tears and he was kind of ranting like,
50:41I look like a monkey. I look like a monkey. And I was like thinking, what?
50:45What? I mean, he looked great in the video, but in his own mind, he, you know, he hated the
50:51way that he looked.
50:52And some people mentioned, I think it's called baking, where they, you know, couldn't lighten him up throughout the video.
51:00I mean, that word, I look like a monkey.
51:04First, it was kind of shocking from him.
51:08I'm thinking, here's this huge, amazing artist and his own issues with self-image actually became a form of like
51:18self-sabotage with his career.
51:25I remember a lot of the black community felt like he had deserted them and thought that he didn't want
51:36to be black.
51:38And it was really difficult because he was in the tabloids every week.
51:45He sort of became a joke.
51:48First problem is the sex problem.
51:51The problem being, we don't know what sex he is.
51:58The latest of the Michael Jackson rumors.
52:01Are Michael Jackson and his sister, Latoya Jackson, actually the same person?
52:06I'm here with Lars Bunquist of the IOFC IRA, the Institute of Facial Changes in Recording Artists.
52:13And I understand you had a grant for the last six years to study the facial changes in Michael Jackson.
52:18That's correct, Dave.
52:19And it's been, it's been a full-time job.
52:23To most of us, he's just wacko jacko.
52:26And if some of the press are to be believed and sleeps in an oxygen tent, often with a chimp,
52:32a snake, and an alien.
52:35When you think of Michael Jackson, you don't first think, what a great artist, what a definitive performer.
52:41You think, what a weird guy.
52:42Record stores have been reporting disappointing sales for the new album.
52:47Some have already begun taking down the bad promotional posters.
52:52The bad album had been released in the late 80s, but it hadn't been as successful as Thriller.
52:57We had to get him back to basics as an artist, as a singer, and get away from the wacky
53:04personas and the trappings and everything else and stuff.
53:15We had to make him more relatable to the public, to answer the questions that people had about him, about
53:24his skin, about bubbles, about everything.
53:28Because up to that point, Michael hadn't done a major interview.
53:33People hadn't heard him talk.
53:34People didn't know anything about him.
53:39And then Michael's managers had this idea that he should do an Oprah Winfrey interview.
53:58And the whole objective for that interview was to humanize him to the world.
54:06Oprah was calling every day, like, five or six times a day.
54:10Nothing was left to chance.
54:11His whole career, his reputation, were dependent on this interview going well.
54:23Ladies and gentlemen, Michael Jackson.
54:26Hey.
54:27Oh, hey, hey.
54:29Well, how nervous are you right now?
54:33How what?
54:34How nervous are you right now?
54:36Mm, I'm not nervous at all, actually.
54:38You really aren't.
54:39No, I never get nervous.
54:41You don't?
54:42No.
54:42No.
54:43Not even for your first interview and it's live around the world?
54:46I thought you'd be a little nervous, but that's great.
54:49Because if you're not nervous, I won't be nervous.
54:51I just wanted to let the world know that.
54:55We were all watching it on TV and it was pretty eye-opening.
54:58I think it really was the first time that I can recall where he ever sat down for a length
55:04of time, answered the questions that we all wanted to know, and was really pretty candid.
55:10I was actually surprised how candid he was.
55:13The main thing in that Oprah interview that was talked about was his answer to his skin color changing.
55:21The color of your skin is obviously different than it was when you were younger.
55:26And so I think it has caused a great deal of speculation and controversy as to what you have done
55:35or are doing.
55:36Are you bleaching your skin?
55:37And is your skin lighter because you don't like being black?
55:41The number one, this is the situation.
55:43I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of the skin.
55:48It's something that I cannot help.
55:50Okay, but when people make up stories that I don't want to be who I am, it hurts me.
55:55So it is.
55:58It's a problem for me, okay?
56:00I can't control it.
56:01I'm a black American.
56:03I'm proud to be a black American.
56:08The black community was really relieved to hear that.
56:11You know, I remember people saying, oh, well, that's why it was.
56:15Of course.
56:16Of course, Michael wouldn't desert us.
56:18He has a disease.
56:20It makes me feel some of the pain that he's feeling because I can look in his eyes and I
56:24can see the hurt in his eyes.
56:26You know, he looks like he's so lonely and so hurt, you know, and it makes me want to just
56:30reach out to him.
56:34And it worked.
56:36And it really changed a lot of people's perceptions of him.
56:42It felt like Michael was back on top.
57:01My name is Rosabelle Smith.
57:05In 1993, he was working the sexually exploited child unit.
57:09A case had come in involving a young boy who was 13 years of age and that the perpetrator was
57:18Michael Jackson.
57:26We knew that it was going to be a huge case.
57:35We knew that it was going to be a huge case.
57:49That it was going to be a huge case.
57:50Down the cell and then there.
57:58We did talk about the first thing.
58:03I think so.
58:04That's it.
58:07We know that-
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