Michael Jackson: BAD 25


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THIS FILM CONTAINS SOME STRONG LANGUAGE

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I feel rejuvenated, kind of, because after working on it so long,

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it's so much work.

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A lot of people, they're used to just seeing the outcome of work.

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They never see the side of the work you go through to produce

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the outcome, and I feel, you know, rejuvenated and happy,

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it's a jubilation, is what it is.

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It's like a celebration, it's like, "We're done!"

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People were holding on to the fact that Thriller was the biggest selling record in the world.

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How are you going to follow up on something like that?

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It's almost impossible. Try telling that to Michael Jackson, though.

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Thriller is the blockbuster behemoth in the era

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of blockbuster artists. You know, that was the era

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when you had Madonna, Springsteen, Whitney Houston,

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so big stars, big albums, MTV era, music videos are in ascendance.

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And that's the signature album of that era.

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Thriller sold over 100 million copies worldwide to date.

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35 million in the US, over 70 million outside the US,

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and that's not even counting singles.

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There was a mania around Michael

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and Thriller for those three years that was very difficult to

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capture again, and you go back to Elvis, or Frank Sinatra,

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or the Beatles, even today with Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga,

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it's a space and time, the window's only opened so far,

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and Thriller captured that. It was magical.

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MUSIC: "Want to Be Startin' Somethin'" by Michael Jackson

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# Startin' somethin'

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# Startin' somethin'

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# Startin' somethin' Startin' somethin'... #

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Thriller broke every record that existed, and it sold more records

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than any other album in the history of the music industry.

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To most of us he's just Wacko Jacko,

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and if some of the press are to be believed, he bathes in

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Perrier water, eats flowers for lunch, and sleeps in an oxygen tent,

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often with a chimp, a snake,

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and an alien, in a sort of bizarre love triangle.

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All that stuff is trash,

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and it all comes from the fact that Michael Jackson doesn't do

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interviews, and they have nothing else to write about him.

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What surprises me sometimes, the people that get distracted

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and myopic about Michael's eccentricities, when they listen to

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his music and watch his performance, that's like someone saying,

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"Hey, there's a cobweb on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel."

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This article is from Playboy magazine, January 1985.

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It's called Freaks And The American Ideal Of Manhood, by James Baldwin.

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"He will not swiftly be forgiven for having turned so many tables,

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"for he damn sure grabbed the brass ring."

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People tend to reduce the backlash to Michael Jackson to these

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eccentricities, but I think that the James Baldwin quote

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suggests that it was more than that. Michael Jackson became

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one of the most powerful figures in the entertainment industry, and

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certainly he was the most powerful African-American to that time.

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And in addition to that, 1985, along with John Branca,

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he acquires the Beatles catalogue.

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When we announced the acquisition of the Beatles' catalogue,

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it was almost a feeling that Michael didn't have the right

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also to be a savvy businessmen.

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It was a misconception that Michael went behind Paul McCartney's back

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to bid on the catalogue, but that was absolutely not the case.

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I remember when he bought the Beatles' catalogue.

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He came to me and he said they want whatever it was at that time,

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52 million, it sounds like too much money. He said, "I think you're wrong."

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A lot of those Beatles' songs are considered sacred songs by people.

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They are really just more than pop songs on the radio,

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they meant something in their lives beyond almost any songs they heard.

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I mean, Sergeant Pepper, particularly right?

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And for him to take that catalogue and use it the way he's used it,

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it's going to have some kind of backlash.

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After Thriller, you know, Michael had a few extra dollars to invest,

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and we had an investment committee, and we used to look at

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all sorts of possible deals for Michael,

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and he never had interest in buildings, tax shelters,

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the kinds of things that other people

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were interested in at the time.

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One day Michael came to me and he said,

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"I saw Paul McCartney's song catalogue.

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"He showed it to me. Do you think you can help me buy copyrights?"

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And I said, "Absolutely, Michael."

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We bought a couple Dion & The Belmont's songs,

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Runaround Sue and The Wanderer.

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Then we bought the Sly & The Family Stone catalogue,

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which was a major acquisition for Michael.

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Michael's 28 years old now. He's not a baby dumpling now.

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He's grown, he's listened, he's going up,

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and those are the kinds of things he wants to say now.

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I feel the stretches are there,

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but they don't feel like they've been conscious stretches.

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I think that things have just occurred along the way to say that

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this is the way I feel like thinking,

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and I feel like feeling at this time.

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And one thing we've really tried not to do, to sit down and worry about

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competing with Thriller,

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because that's really self-destructive, you know.

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And it's dishonest.

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He would always write with a red Sharpie

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on his mirrors in his rooms, wherever he was.

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He would write 100 million albums sold for Bad, to remind him,

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when he would stand in front of the mirror, brushing his teeth,

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brushing his hair, doing himself up, that that was his goal.

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I remember sitting on Michael's mirror,

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he wrote the big note, 100 million albums.

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And that was a goal that he set for himself, but I remember one time,

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I was in Hong Kong with Michael, and it was in between the records,

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and I said, "you know, Mike, there's a lot of pressure.

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"Maybe you should think,

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"why not do an album of cover songs that inspired you?

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"Jackie Wilson, James Brown, just going little left of centre,

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"so you don't feel like you have to compete with yourself."

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And he looked at me like I was from Mars.

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Because Michael thrived on that pressure,

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he thrived on pushing himself, and everybody else around him.

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If this record doesn't do as well as Thriller, and doesn't win

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a whole bunch of Grammy awards, he's going to be very unhappy.

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He would call during the Thriller and the Bad days.

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"My record's not number one.

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"My record's not number one, what are we going to do?"

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I said, "Michael, we're going to go to sleep, we're going to get up tomorrow,

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"and we're going to work on getting you a number one."

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Michael didn't have limits, Michael thought bigger than anyone.

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Off The Wall was a huge hit, and when he told people after

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that album, "I'm going to follow this up with an album that's going

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"to sell twice as much as Off The Wall, people didn't believe him." And he did it.

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And so with Bad, he said, "OK, I'm going to do it again."

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Bad has the special distinction.

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It's the first album in history to generate five consecutive

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number one pop singles, and that record was only recently

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tied by Katy Perry, with her Teenage Dream album.

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It started with I Just Can't Stop Loving You, in the summer of 1987.

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-Bad.

-Then you had The Way You Make Me Feel.

-Man In The Mirror.

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And finally, Dirty Diana.

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It's a testament to his swag, really, that he

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even made another record after Thriller.

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It did take in five years.

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I was 16 years old when the Bad album came out.

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I remember being highly obsessed with every aspect of that album.

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We were just like, "What is this going to be?"

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Because this was a humongous deal.

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I guess in some way or another, my education of the industry,

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and those inside it and outside it really starts with that record.

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The original album title was Smooth Criminal.

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That was the original name of the album,

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and again, Michael called me up, and said this is what he wants to do.

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A couple of days later I got a call

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from Quincy Jones, "Larry, I got a problem with the album title."

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I go, "Why? It's kind of cool, it's edgy, it's kind of cool."

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He says, "I understand Larry, but I will not allow this album to be called Smooth Criminal."

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He felt that the connotation was inappropriate at this time.

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So I said, "Let me call Walter, I'll get back to you."

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Because Walter Yetnikoff was very involved with this project.

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And Walter says, "I don't care what you call it, just put it out!"

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This was the most published music image of the year.

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We prepared for it for three days. We were shooting the video in the subway in New York.

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Every day after shooting, we would go, "OK, let's do it."

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"I'm tired. I got something to do." Next day. OK.

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"No, no, no, no, I'm tired." OK, last day, Frank says,

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"Mike, he's been sitting here for three days, you got to take this picture."

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"OK, Frank." Three rolls of 12 shots later he goes, "That's enough."

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And this is what we came up with.

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There was an album cover shot,

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and it was done in a very '30s style.

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It was a copy of a Vogue photograph of Gloria Swanson that had

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been shot back in the '30s.

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And they took a piece of lace, and they stuck it

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in front of the camera, and they shot through the lace,

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Michael's face, it was just a headshot, so it looked like

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Michael was wearing a veil, or a piece of lace on his face.

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He did have a veil, and I said "I'm not putting out an album cover

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"with that all over his face."

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He called me up, and he went, "That is not the album cover!"

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We wanted a tough album. We wanted a tough image, anyway.

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You know, because,

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because it's important that you keep trying to change, change up.

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And this is the one where I'd asked him to write all the tunes.

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This room was built for Michael.

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This studio D in Westlake

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was built for Michael Jackson.

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For specifically the Bad record.

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I was in this big room here, we had Phillinganes in the other room,

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E, I believe it was, doing all the synth parts.

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We had Jerry Hey and the other guys doing other arrangements

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in the other rooms.

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We had this whole building locked up. Locked out!

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Everybody's working on different tunes on the same record.

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Well, the Bad song really sets up the entire album,

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because this is a song in which Michael's addressing

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the huge backlash that had taken place since thriller.

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The whole world has to answer right now, "Who's bad?"

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Well... It is quite different from anything I've ever recorded,

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or I've ever written.

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It's a bold statement to say, but I mean it in all goodwill.

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You know, so don't take it too seriously.

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I'm saying, it's like a way of saying you're cool, you're all right,

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you're tough. I'm not saying I'm like criminally bad.

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Of course, that's how people will take it.

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It's a bold statement to make.

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Opening line is, "Your butt is mine," that's extremely...

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You know, like, let's get it on!

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So, I wanted to do a duet with Prince,

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and have the video with him coming to kick Michael's ass.

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The rivalry between the two of them, between Prince and Michael,

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for real music lovers at that time, and real music fans,

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that's a rivalry that is unmatched,

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and will go unmatched for many, many years.

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Michael impacted dances.

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Nobody can touch him dancing.

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When I try to dance, I'd try, not to mimic him,

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but I try to, you know, not let him down, in a way.

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Prince impacted musicians.

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Michael Jackson and Prince were the polarising figures of the '80s.

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Are you a Michael fan or a Prince than?

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You can't do that! You know why? Because I think that Michael

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and Prince came into our lives at a different point.

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They're synonymous to me, they're equal.

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Michael and Prince are our heroes, they're our musical heroes.

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My annual Michael Jackson versus Prince party,

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that's something I've been doing for a while,

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really just to pay homage and tribute to those two artists.

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I'm Michael Jordan, Mike Tyson, Michael Jackson.

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I met Michael once at, ironically enough, a Prince concert.

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I was performing with Prince in Vegas.

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After the show was over was when I met him backstage.

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I thought that they had nemeses all these years,

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but it turns out that Mike was a pretty big fan of Prince as well.

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So Michael said,

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"Branca, set up a meeting. I want Prince to come over."

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The meeting took place at Hayvenhurst, 4641 Hayvenhurst.

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And Bob Cavallo went over with Prince...

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So, you actually met then?

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They met in Michael's study, and I recall, I wasn't there that night,

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but I remember, I was told the next day, it was not a happy meeting.

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Apparently Prince brought over some sort of voodoo box, and Michael

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was convinced that Prince was trying to cast a spell on him.

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If Quincy has gone to Prince and said, "Write a song for you

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and Michael to do," that song would have gotten recorded.

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Not by Michael!

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But Michael wouldn't have done it!

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Now Prince wasn't doing no song with Michael Jackson. All right?

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That was a very optimistic view that he would get down...

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At that point, in the Sign O' The Times era, he's rolling.

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Oh, the cool thing about playing on the title track, Bad,

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was I shared a solo with Jimmy Smith.

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Jimmy Smith played on that, jazz organist, played on that.

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He was great.

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That was the groove, you know.

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And then Jimmy did this organ solo on top of that.

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And here he comes...

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ORGAN SOLO

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And here I come after that. Watch out!

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By '86 and '87, hip-hop is now becoming the dominant thread

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in a lot of aspects of American pop culture.

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Michael's responding to that to some degree with the Bad video,

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and imaging of Bad, but it's done in a Michael Jackson way.

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The first step that was taken was to bring in Martin Scorsese.

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Martin Scorsese to direct the first video from the album, and

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Michael never called them videos, it was the short film from the album.

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You'd never hear him say "music video".

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"I'm doing short films."

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He wanted people not just to hear the music, but see it.

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We had a meeting with Quincy and Michael in Los Angeles,

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and I found that really nobody had... They were wide open to ideas.

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Nobody had ideas what kind of story we could make up,

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what kind of issue we could deal with.

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And so I suggested that I hire Richard Price,

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who just wrote Colour of Money for me to do the script.

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I just thought, Michael Jackson and Marty Scorsese, that's way too...

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That's way too bizarre for words, absolutely I will do it.

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If it's to be anything, it should be something very,

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very different from what he's done before, and that means

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a dramatic piece, and something with a lot of style, a lot of grit to it.

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I don't remember exactly who said this, but he said Michael

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wanted to make a video to show the brothers he's down.

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So he goes to the, you know, the Italian asthmatic, who goes

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to the Jewish asthmatic, and we're going to make Michael a homie!

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We gave him these three ideas.

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Michael and I both loved the one called Pressure -

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that was the working title of this one.

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About peer pressure.

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I had just read this article that a friend of mine,

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Robert Sam Anson, had written about Edmund Perry.

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Within the hour, police revealed more information about the death

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of a young man from Harlem.

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He had graduated with honours from an exclusive New England prep school.

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Edmund Perry was killed by a police bullet on Morningside Drive.

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They had read stories like this before, too many of them.

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Black kid, 17, from Harlem, poor,

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with another black youth, tries to rob a white man,

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who turns out to be a plain-clothes cop.

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Edmund Perry was a kid from Harlem.

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He and his brother, Jonah, had both gone to prep schools,

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said they were like, not privileged, but they were exposed to privilege.

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And this was a kid that was very much kind of dealing with

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what is becoming a more common kind of internal conflict

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among black kids who were put in isolated environments...

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I want to say before you go, you know, you did a real good job this term.

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Thanks.

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..and are asked in that passage

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to let go of the culture that spawned him.

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Yo, the black is back, my man...

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So, I just ran off, and I wrote this thing, and I rate in like two days.

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You know, it's only ten pages, and Marty thought it was great.

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Oh, yeah.

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He did ask me,

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he took me aside, and said, "Do people live here?"

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I said, "Oh, yeah, this is a good one,

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"because we went to some others, and I was pretty..."

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-Was he scared?

-A little bit, I think.

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For him, I thought, it was a shock to see that.

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Folks, I think we better go through a walk, man.

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How did I get cast in this?

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Audition, you know, we all had to audition.

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Were there a lot of people?

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It was quite a few guys, I don't know exactly how many.

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Wesley came in, there was no... Yeah, there was no question.

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And the guys I went in with,

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they all approached the characters kind of B-boy-ish.

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You know, characteristic of B-boys, with the, "Yo, man, yeah."

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This type of thing.

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And that's not my particular style, so I went the opposite direction

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of what they did, and I played it very, very subtle.

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Yo, college? What's your major, man?

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This is high school, there ain't no majors.

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Then what's your minor?

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Wesley Snipes, his appearance in a video was probably one of

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the most notable acting debuts,

0:19:000:19:03

(and the fact that he made his mark known in a music video,

0:19:030:19:06

everyone remembered Wesley Snipes after that moment.

0:19:060:19:11

Are you bad?

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Or is that what they teach you up in that little sissy school of yours?

0:19:140:19:17

How to forget who your friends are.

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Let me tell you something, I don't care what

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they teach you up there, you either down, or you ain't down.

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And one of the things that I found was this piece of paper,

0:19:230:19:29

which he wrote "Bad Film" on there.

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And it's titled, "Today's Motto."

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"Let nothing be a take unless I'm extremely satisfied,

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"unless I felt it in my soul."

0:19:390:19:42

You want to see who's bad?

0:19:420:19:44

You want to see who's bad? Well, come on, come on, let's do it.

0:19:440:19:48

Let's see who's bad, man. Come on. Come on! Let's go.

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As we're putting the piece together,

0:19:520:19:54

working on the choreography,

0:19:540:19:56

it's towards the middle of it that they say, "We have a location,"

0:19:560:19:59

so they took us to Brooklyn, to the Hoyt-Schermerhorn subway station.

0:19:590:20:03

There is a place where the train is actually running under us.

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There's a midsection, that's the place we went to.

0:20:070:20:11

The first time we walked in, we were with Martin Scorsese, Quincy Jones,

0:20:110:20:14

myself and Michael, and we're walking through there,

0:20:140:20:17

and Michael goes, "Wow, this is great.

0:20:170:20:21

"Yeah, it looks real. Look, there's even some pee stains over there.

0:20:210:20:24

"Wow, it's really nasty, yeah, that's great."

0:20:240:20:26

Well, even if we catch them with the last two steps.

0:20:260:20:30

No, that's OK. That's OK. Oh, sure, because he's hiding as well.

0:20:300:20:33

It's ideal if we don't see it.

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And then we come back, and he's hiding.

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He's frozen again, that would be great if we could do that.

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FOOTSTEPS

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-That move is in Taxi Driver.

-Yeah, I like... Yeah, I like that.

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Right, let's go again, same thing. Same thing.

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Speak. 19, Kansas, take five. And action.

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Give me a quarter. Run, move, go! Run!

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Cut.

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I mean, there was a moment there with the old man,

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when he said, "Gimme a quarter."

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Give me a quarter. Run! Go! Run!

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And the guy... Something happened, sort of hurt his arm a little bit.

0:21:300:21:34

-No, no, it's all right. It's all right.

-What can we do?

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We're going to take care of it. I promise you it won't happen.

0:21:360:21:39

No, please, do it in the same way, I mean, it has to be done in that way.

0:21:390:21:42

The only time Michael really became, I think, very,

0:21:420:21:45

very concerned was at that moment, where he begged me,

0:21:450:21:48

"Please don't do another take on the guy.

0:21:480:21:49

"I didn't want to hurt anybody." I mean, really begged me.

0:21:510:21:53

I said, "No, no, no, it's all right. Actually it's all very good."

0:21:530:21:56

"Please, I beg you." It was true, we did have it, so...

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You know, I went with that.

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That's what I want to see. It's going to be like this.

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-He can't touch me though.

-No.

-He can't touch me.

0:22:050:22:08

OK, so just run through the lines this way.

0:22:080:22:11

That's the way it's going down. Huh? That's it?

0:22:110:22:14

Well, you ain't down with us! You ain't bad, you ain't bad at all.

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LAUGHTER

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You know, Wesley's talking to him, and Wesley's got this fierce

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kind of profile and everything like that, and it's almost like

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I felt scared from Michael, like he was going to get eaten.

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I was so happy to see Michael Jackson being tough.

0:22:400:22:45

I was so happy to see him in what seemed like regular surroundings.

0:22:450:22:50

I think I was a little bit caught off guard, because it was

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like Michael talking, Michael sort of being very rough, a little bit.

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I don't know if he was trying to reaffirm his connection with

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the black community, or what he was trying to do, but it was successful.

0:23:030:23:08

It's one shot. Whatever is best for him.

0:23:080:23:10

Whatever is good to him at this point, it's only one shot.

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The thing is also, when he drops down into it.

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And everybody starts surrounding him.

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If we drop down in front of the three guys the opposite way,

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the three guys will be in the way of the camera.

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What I didn't realise is that, you know,

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I have this like earnest social drama, and all of a sudden it's

0:23:260:23:30

going to end in this choreographed big song, and it was like, "Huh?"

0:23:300:23:35

Oh, I remember this, yeah.

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Now, the thing is... Oh, this is pretty much, you know...

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What are you going to do, dance us to death? I think he says...

0:24:050:24:09

What, y'all going to dance us to death?

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You got to be kidding me.

0:24:120:24:13

He probably was going to dance them to death.

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Because you ain't saying nothing here. Raise up.

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I think the Bad moment, outfit wise,

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was far more influential than the Thriller moment.

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Like, the Thriller moment might have been more iconic,

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but Bad was more influential.

0:24:410:24:42

So, I like almost dress like that today.

0:24:420:24:44

When everybody's out, they're all staring, and the pipe breaks.

0:24:440:24:47

-Yeah, right.

-Everybody looks.

0:24:470:24:49

So, what's up?

0:24:540:24:55

We're going to hold that a while.

0:24:570:24:59

Michael was very interested in incorporating body popping

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into his videos.

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So, he feels like the dancers themselves know more

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about what we're doing, so he chose to use the street dancers

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to co-choreograph the videos with him.

0:25:240:25:26

# I'm giving you on count of three

0:25:260:25:30

# To show your stuff or let it be... #

0:25:300:25:32

Now hit those little things like - boom!

0:25:320:25:34

Do the little moves, those little up rhythms.

0:25:340:25:37

He would work with the dancers in the daytime, but me and Casper

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would go up to the Helmsley Palace hotel and work with Michael

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at night, and we'd be working to 2.30, 3 in the morning.

0:25:430:25:45

And, you know, we'd take turns creating different things,

0:25:450:25:48

making different things happen, and then he'd get in there,

0:25:480:25:52

and he do his thing, I'd get in to do my thing,

0:25:520:25:54

and we would take turns doing that.

0:25:540:25:56

It wasn't like a dance-off, like competing against each other,

0:25:560:25:59

but like pushing each other, inspiring each other,

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and pushing each other to the next limit.

0:26:020:26:04

So at first it was myself and Casper and Michael only,

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then after I got hold of Gregg Burge,

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and Gregg Burge started coming over to the rehearsals with us

0:26:100:26:13

as well. And we were just gelling, just coming up with ideas,

0:26:130:26:17

so there was nothing constructive yet.

0:26:170:26:19

# You know I'm bad, I'm bad Come on... #

0:26:190:26:22

-I know people made a lot of, "What's a shamone?"

-Shamone.

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Shamone is basically his hat nod to Mavis Staples.

0:26:270:26:30

# Shamone, shamone. #

0:26:300:26:34

He could have went with James Brown, and being like, "Lookee here,"

0:26:340:26:38

or Marvin Gaye and "Hoooo!"

0:26:380:26:40

I love the fact that he played that homage to one of

0:26:400:26:44

the under-championed soul singers of her day.

0:26:440:26:46

# Shamone, shamone, shamone... #

0:26:460:26:49

Michael has this scooting move, where he scooting forward.

0:26:490:26:53

That's a Michael signature step.

0:26:540:26:56

I said, "Michael, that has never been done in a group before.

0:26:560:26:59

"Could you imagine if all of us

0:26:590:27:01

"were scooting across the camera like that?"

0:27:010:27:03

So now it's looking like a train, "chuka-chuka-chuka-chuka..."

0:27:030:27:06

with a group of us doing it. And it worked out beautifully.

0:27:060:27:10

# You're throwing stones to hide your hands

0:27:100:27:13

# Well, they say the sky's the limit

0:27:130:27:15

# And to me that's really true

0:27:150:27:17

# And my friends you have seen nothing

0:27:170:27:19

# Just wait till I get through

0:27:190:27:21

# Because I'm bad, I'm bad Shamone... #

0:27:210:27:24

Were you familiar with the Michael Jackson "grab the crotch"?

0:27:250:27:29

No, I was not familiar with that at all!

0:27:290:27:31

It's all through the whole piece.

0:27:310:27:33

The whole thing, it's all throughout.

0:27:330:27:34

Within the moves, it's right, I mean, what can I say?

0:27:340:27:37

-The way he's moving.

-But it was a surprise, though, right?

0:27:370:27:40

Yes, it was, yeah.

0:27:400:27:41

# You know I'm bad, I'm bad

0:27:410:27:44

# You know it

0:27:440:27:46

# You know I'm bad, I'm bad

0:27:460:27:48

# You know it, you know... #

0:27:480:27:50

He took what was formatted as a choreography,

0:27:500:27:56

and he learned it to the point where he could break out of it when

0:27:560:27:59

he wanted to, and get right back into it, without skipping a beat.

0:27:590:28:03

Michael would just spin and snap out of it, and grab himself, "Hooooo!"

0:28:050:28:09

We never knew any of this was going to happen,

0:28:110:28:14

and that goes to show you his genius.

0:28:140:28:15

What makes one go out and mug a person?

0:28:150:28:18

I mean, there's so much involved in a person who does that.

0:28:180:28:21

Insecurities, frustration, resentment, all of these things.

0:28:220:28:27

In one movement, I had him lifting the leg up, with that feeling

0:28:300:28:34

of wanting to fly, like we all want to do, we want to fly, and the

0:28:340:28:37

next movement, it's just anger, and the next movement, its tenderness.

0:28:370:28:42

Michael's seen West Side Story.

0:28:420:28:44

Michael knows Jerome Robbins' choreography, I mean, I know

0:28:440:28:47

he does, because that's where that looked like it came from, to me.

0:28:470:28:51

Gregg, he contributed, because he's a technical dancer, you know,

0:28:510:28:55

he's into jazz, and stuff like that, so all the really

0:28:550:28:58

West Side Story-looking stuff is what Gregg put into the piece.

0:28:580:29:00

I tried to keep some street stuff in it.

0:29:000:29:03

HE GRUNTS

0:29:030:29:05

You see those type of moves in there.

0:29:050:29:07

# You know I'm bad, I'm bad

0:29:090:29:12

# Shamone

0:29:120:29:13

# You know I'm bad, I'm bad... #

0:29:130:29:15

-The crane down...

-Oh, yeah.

0:29:150:29:17

Low ceiling, I mean, the ceiling was low.

0:29:170:29:19

# You know, you know Come on

0:29:210:29:23

# And the whole world has to answer right now

0:29:230:29:25

# When I tell you once again... #

0:29:250:29:27

-There it is.

-Oh, my God!

0:29:270:29:29

I get that it wasn't funny, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.

0:29:290:29:32

Something my daughter, when she saw this, she said,

0:29:320:29:35

"Dad, you were in jail?" I said, "No, no, no, no!"

0:29:350:29:38

It was my intention to make this dance move throughout this

0:29:380:29:41

subway, I wanted things to move.

0:29:410:29:43

The big issue of course, ultimately, was for such a master of dancing,

0:29:450:29:49

the concern was to show from head to toe.

0:29:490:29:51

I had to try and convince him

0:29:510:29:52

that I think the camera moves could work all together.

0:29:520:29:56

# And the whole world has to answer right now

0:29:560:29:59

# When I tell you once again Who's bad? #

0:29:590:30:02

It does come back at the end to a reality in which they split.

0:30:020:30:06

And of course, it's all summed up, which is an interesting idea,

0:30:060:30:09

that Jackson came up with, to do what he calls a breakdown.

0:30:090:30:13

A breakdown which turned out to be in the tradition of a preacher,

0:30:130:30:16

doing a sermon. And we did that three cameras, live.

0:30:160:30:20

And Michael goes, "OK, guys, I want you to just follow me."

0:30:220:30:25

I think I had to be one of the only singers in the group,

0:30:250:30:27

because a lot of the guys were studying dance.

0:30:270:30:29

-Who's bad? ALL:

-Who's bad?

0:30:290:30:31

-Who's bad? ALL:

-Who's bad?

0:30:310:30:33

Oh, my God, it was church, it was James Brown.

0:30:340:30:38

If any place reaffirmed him, or if he was trying to reaffirm to

0:30:380:30:41

people who he was, and where his roots were...

0:30:410:30:44

HE SCREAMS FOLLOWED BY BACKING SINGERS

0:30:440:30:46

And the soulfulness that he has, and frankly,

0:30:460:30:49

the blackness that he was, it is those last 30 seconds...

0:30:490:30:54

-# You know

-You know

0:30:540:30:55

-# You know it

-You know it

0:30:550:30:57

-# You know

-You know

0:30:570:30:59

-# You know it

-You know it... #

0:30:590:31:01

-Sometimes he lost us, you know...

-HE GARBLES SPEECH

0:31:010:31:04

THEY CHANT

0:31:040:31:06

"So, guys, naaa, naaa, na..."

0:31:060:31:07

-# Ask your mother

-Your mother

0:31:070:31:10

-# Ask your sister

-Your sister

0:31:100:31:12

-# Ask me

-Ask me

0:31:120:31:14

-# You've been doing wrong

-You've been doing wrong

0:31:140:31:16

-# You're doing wrong

-You're doing wrong

0:31:160:31:18

-# You're doing me wrong

-You're doing me wrong

0:31:180:31:20

-# You're doing wrong

-You're doing wrong... #

0:31:200:31:22

And this is something that he envisioned,

0:31:320:31:35

and he was feeling, and it finally got to that...

0:31:350:31:38

HE HISSES

0:31:380:31:39

So, that's the way it goes down, hey?

0:31:540:31:55

There was a lot of talk at first of doing a different thing,

0:32:200:32:22

maybe everyone smiling, and being happy with it.

0:32:220:32:25

18 apple, take three.

0:32:250:32:27

And action.

0:32:280:32:30

Yo, it's cool, all right.

0:32:330:32:35

I mean, there ain't no hard feelings or nothing.

0:32:350:32:38

But then I just said, "It just doesn't seem to work."

0:32:410:32:44

The fellas have to more or less except him,

0:32:440:32:46

and they accept them, and they go their own way, that's it.

0:32:460:32:49

Last week Michael Jackson re-entered human history,

0:32:500:32:53

to gladden mankind with his latest album,

0:32:530:32:56

thus triggering a wave of media silliness and cross-promotion.

0:32:560:33:00

CBS television let off the festival of foolishness Monday night.

0:33:000:33:04

IT broadcast a half-hour special on Jackson and his new album.

0:33:040:33:08

I mean, when that video comes on Monday night,

0:33:100:33:12

everyone's going to be glued to their TV screen,

0:33:120:33:14

with their friends saying,

0:33:140:33:16

"did you see that? Did you see that? Did you see that?"

0:33:160:33:18

It was before the age of the internet, I mean,

0:33:180:33:20

the most that I could do was call somebody else's house

0:33:200:33:23

to have three-way, who called another friend to have three-way,

0:33:230:33:26

like seven of us watched this short film, one three-way, in dead silence.

0:33:260:33:34

I was just transfixed in front of the TV.

0:33:340:33:38

We took all the documentary footage we could find on Michael,

0:33:380:33:41

from the very early stages, when he joined Motown records,

0:33:410:33:45

it ended with a video clip of him in London,

0:33:450:33:50

with hundreds of girls screaming and yelling, and we put this rumble

0:33:500:33:55

track underneath the screaming and yelling to really enhance it.

0:33:550:33:58

It was just like this with the Beatles.

0:33:580:34:01

And Michael just loved this comment

0:34:010:34:06

by this woman of comparing him to the Beatles.

0:34:060:34:10

He lit up when he saw that, he just turned to me from the chair

0:34:100:34:13

and said, "I love it, Larry. I love it."

0:34:130:34:16

If you saw it, you witnessed one of the great bold-faced

0:34:160:34:20

masterpieces of promotional hype in this hype-splattered decade.

0:34:200:34:24

This video is sending out some

0:34:240:34:26

very strange and mixed signals, social signals,

0:34:260:34:29

the cry for some critical analysis in the media.

0:34:290:34:32

Some people in the press got down on it because,

0:34:320:34:35

firstly they were making fun of Michael Jackson in it,

0:34:350:34:40

and then some people got onto the note of, "Is this racist?

0:34:400:34:46

"Are you exploiting a tragedy for the sake of a music entertainment?"

0:34:460:34:51

You know, Marty's in Morocco,

0:34:510:34:53

Quincy Jones is on the red carpet somewhere

0:34:530:34:55

and I'm the idiot in Long Island that getting all the calls.

0:34:550:34:59

"No, it's not racist, what are you talking about?!" Freaking out, like a good liberal.

0:34:590:35:04

There was a ballad that was released,

0:35:040:35:06

the first track from Thriller, which was a duet with Paul McCartney.

0:35:060:35:10

He duplicated that by doing a duet with Siedah Garrett.

0:35:100:35:13

25 years ago, I sat at this very spot,

0:35:130:35:17

and played this very piano to record I Just Can't Stop Loving You.

0:35:170:35:21

MICHAEL: I just wanna lay next to you for a while.

0:35:210:35:23

You look so beautiful tonight.

0:35:260:35:29

Your eyes are so lovely.

0:35:310:35:33

Your mouth is so sweet.

0:35:330:35:36

A lot of people misunderstand me.

0:35:370:35:40

That's because they don't know me at all.

0:35:400:35:43

I just want to touch you.

0:35:450:35:47

And hold you.

0:35:470:35:49

I need you.

0:35:510:35:53

God, I need you.

0:35:530:35:55

I Just Can't Stop Loving You is an interesting song

0:35:570:35:59

because it's the first single released off the album,

0:35:590:36:03

and so the firing squad was ready.

0:36:030:36:05

They would have ripped anything apart because they were ready,

0:36:050:36:07

they were ready to attack whatever he threw out there.

0:36:070:36:11

In spite of that, it goes number one.

0:36:110:36:13

To me, I Can't Stop Loving You is like,

0:36:130:36:15

close to his Burt Bacharach song.

0:36:150:36:18

It was actually intended as a duet with Whitney Houston.

0:36:180:36:21

This award honours you for your consistent artistic

0:36:210:36:24

and technical excellence in all forms of video

0:36:240:36:27

and for raising the standard of the art form to new horizons.

0:36:270:36:30

-Thank you, Whitney.

-You're welcome.

0:36:300:36:32

To all the fans around the world, thank you very much, and I love you.

0:36:320:36:36

So Arista Records says, "We don't want Whitney to be over-exposed."

0:36:360:36:40

Clive Davidson!

0:36:400:36:42

CHUCKLING

0:36:420:36:43

When I see Clive, I'm going to give him hell.

0:36:430:36:46

Just kidding, just kidding, everybody calm down.

0:36:460:36:50

I remember when it came out I was really disappointed

0:36:500:36:52

because I was like, you're going to put out a slow song

0:36:520:36:56

after this whole run of Thriller and all these songs,

0:36:560:36:59

you're going to put out a slow song?

0:36:590:37:01

Come on, this is the big comeback. Where's the music video?

0:37:010:37:06

And who's that girl singing?

0:37:060:37:08

I only later found out it was Siedah Garrett.

0:37:080:37:10

And there weren't very many people in the studio.

0:37:100:37:13

It was just Michael, Quincy, Bruce Swedien and me.

0:37:130:37:17

And Quincy just sort of over his shoulder said,

0:37:170:37:20

"Hey, Sid, you like the song?"

0:37:200:37:22

And I'm going, "Yeah." Knitting. "Yeah, I like it."

0:37:220:37:26

He said, "You think you can sing it?" I'm like, "Yeah."

0:37:260:37:30

So I walked in this room and I see these two mic stands

0:37:300:37:34

and there's music sheets on the mic stands

0:37:340:37:36

and in the moment that I saw the music sheets where it said,

0:37:360:37:40

"Michael, Siedah, Michael, Siedah," that was the moment I realised,

0:37:400:37:44

oh, my God, I'm doing a duet with Michael Jackson!

0:37:440:37:49

# I hear your voice now

0:37:490:37:52

# You are my choice now

0:37:520:37:55

# The love we bring

0:37:550:37:58

# Heaven's in my heart

0:37:590:38:01

# At your call, I hear harps

0:38:010:38:04

# And angels sing. #

0:38:040:38:07

I'm singing, my eyes are closed, # You know how I... #

0:38:070:38:10

And Michael started tossing, I think it was popcorn.

0:38:100:38:15

I'm singing, my eyes closed and I'm feeling this,

0:38:150:38:18

and then Quincy, all Quincy sees is me, you know,

0:38:180:38:21

he said, "Sid, this is studio time, you're wasting time, Siedah,

0:38:210:38:24

"you're wasting an expensive studio."

0:38:240:38:26

And Michael is cracking up.

0:38:260:38:28

I Just Can't Stop Loving You started at 3am.

0:38:280:38:32

That's one of those you get the phone call to wake up

0:38:320:38:34

and, "We need to record right now."

0:38:340:38:37

And we were done probably in an hour and a half.

0:38:370:38:40

On the album version of I Just Can't Stop Loving You,

0:38:400:38:44

you make some very strong sensuous remarks to a woman

0:38:440:38:47

that you're lying next to.

0:38:470:38:49

-I was in a bed when I was doing that.

-Really?

-Yeah.

0:38:490:38:53

I was lying in bed, the cover and everything.

0:38:530:38:56

# At night when the stars shine

0:38:570:39:00

# I pray in you I'll find

0:39:000:39:03

# A love so true

0:39:030:39:07

# When morning awakes me

0:39:070:39:10

# Will you come and take me?

0:39:100:39:13

# I'll wait for you

0:39:130:39:14

# You know how I feel

0:39:160:39:19

# I won't stop until

0:39:190:39:22

# I hear your voice saying "I do"

0:39:220:39:24

# I do

0:39:240:39:26

# This thing can't go wrong

0:39:260:39:29

# This feeling so strong

0:39:290:39:31

# My life ain't worth living if I can't be with you. #

0:39:310:39:36

When I was recording my bits, I didn't need any charts,

0:39:360:39:41

I would just listen to the demo,

0:39:410:39:43

really, internalise the parts that way

0:39:430:39:45

and in talking a little bit with Michael and getting his wishes across, musically,

0:39:450:39:50

I just translate all that and play it.

0:39:500:39:52

# Hee-hee-hee, won't you, girl. #

0:39:540:39:57

APPLAUSE

0:40:100:40:12

I was slated to be on the Bad tour.

0:40:120:40:15

I was convinced by my record company and other people

0:40:150:40:18

that I needed to do a record cos the duet had just come out.

0:40:180:40:21

I'd rehearsed with them for a week

0:40:210:40:23

when I decided I wanted to do my record so I pulled out.

0:40:230:40:28

# At night when the stars shine

0:40:280:40:30

# I pray that I'll find

0:40:300:40:33

# A love so true. #

0:40:330:40:35

The band used to bet on whether Michael was getting excited

0:40:350:40:39

during the song. Now...

0:40:390:40:41

-Singing to you?

-Yeah. I say that's a stretch.

0:40:410:40:45

# I'll wait for you

0:40:460:40:49

# You know how I feel

0:40:510:40:53

# I won't stop until... #

0:40:530:40:55

Working with Michael and doing the duet is really, it's intense.

0:40:550:40:59

Every time we do that, it's a different experience, you know.

0:40:590:41:03

And he draws you in so much and just singing a song into his eyes

0:41:030:41:06

and having him look at you, it's really exciting.

0:41:060:41:09

# This feeling so strong

0:41:090:41:12

BOTH: # My life ain't worth living

0:41:120:41:14

BOTH: # If I can't be with you

0:41:140:41:17

# I just can't stop loving you

0:41:170:41:21

# Oh! I just can't stop loving you

0:41:210:41:25

# And if I stop, tell me just what will I do?

0:41:260:41:32

# I just can't stop loving you. #

0:41:330:41:36

Michael Jackson has such a great instinct for the groove,

0:41:360:41:42

like the groove in Michael Jackson, he was rocking at all times,

0:41:420:41:46

he could hear the groove.

0:41:460:41:48

So if you take that groove and you put it to orchestration,

0:41:480:41:52

it makes it bigger, it makes it more powerful.

0:41:520:41:55

Quincy Jones/Michael Jackson collaboration was historic.

0:41:550:41:59

It was a match made in heaven because first of all,

0:41:590:42:04

there was a tremendous amount of mutual respect.

0:42:040:42:08

There is no-one in popular music history like Quincy,

0:42:080:42:13

as an orchestrator, as a composer.

0:42:130:42:17

Coming from all of his background, Count Basie,

0:42:170:42:20

Frank Sinatra, Dinah Washington, playing trumpet in Lionel Hampton's band.

0:42:200:42:24

The most beautiful part about the love affair, and that's what it is,

0:42:240:42:28

the love affair between a producer, whatever you want to call it,

0:42:280:42:32

the person that's on the other side,

0:42:320:42:34

a person that loves that artist enough to never want to see him in trouble,

0:42:340:42:37

and only wants to see the best for that artist,

0:42:370:42:40

to come up with the best results,

0:42:400:42:44

is an incredible trust, where you can say,

0:42:440:42:48

"Jump, Michael, there's no parachute, there's no net,

0:42:480:42:51

"there's nothing there, there's 34 stories down, jump."

0:42:510:42:55

One of the great things about Quincy is that he has this ability

0:42:550:43:01

of mixing all kinds of different genres

0:43:010:43:06

and personalities into one beautiful blend.

0:43:060:43:09

Because he only uses the best, the creme de la creme of musicians.

0:43:090:43:13

Working with Quincy was like being at school.

0:43:130:43:16

I learned so much about separation,

0:43:160:43:19

in trying to make a record where everyone,

0:43:190:43:22

he used to say, "Everybody can't come in the door at the same time."

0:43:220:43:25

And he used to always say, "You can't polish doo-doo."

0:43:250:43:28

You can't polish doo-doo. You know, you've got to have a great song at the beginning.

0:43:280:43:32

When we look at the end of a day and I have goosebumps,

0:43:320:43:36

and Michael has goosebumps and Bruce Swedien, the engineer, has goosebumps,

0:43:360:43:39

then I think we've got something special.

0:43:390:43:41

And Quincy just puts his little fairy dust over it

0:43:410:43:45

and it's a Quincy Jones project and it's kind of, as he says,

0:43:450:43:49

"Leave space for God to walk through the door and create some magic."

0:43:490:43:52

Michael Jackson had been into champagne music.

0:43:520:43:55

You know how in St Tropez when you order champagne

0:43:550:43:57

they bring the sparklers out with the champagne? Michael saw that 20 years ago ahead and made a sound.

0:43:570:44:03

Michael Jackson made the sound of fabulous. Him and Quincy.

0:44:030:44:06

And Michael was one of those sources of energy where he brought so much,

0:44:060:44:10

so much originality but also an amazing collaborator.

0:44:100:44:14

He's so disciplined and he's got that perfect balance

0:44:140:44:18

of soul and science. He knows the working parts of his craft.

0:44:180:44:23

And he has total trust in an intuitive part of his craft,

0:44:230:44:27

and so that's the balance. The head and heart.

0:44:270:44:31

Off The Wall, Thriller, Bad.

0:44:310:44:33

They created three hurricanes that basically went through the globe

0:44:330:44:38

and everybody got caught up and danced.

0:44:380:44:41

Well, we're here today to try to finish up a session

0:44:410:44:46

with Michael Jackson singing in Spanish and in French.

0:44:460:44:52

We've spoken about this for years and years,

0:44:520:44:54

from when we were doing Off The Wall and we were doing Thriller,

0:44:540:44:58

but we never got around to it because by the time

0:44:580:45:01

we finished the album, we'd do disco versions and we'd do videos et cetera

0:45:010:45:06

and I think inside we weren't really sure whether we could make it work.

0:45:060:45:10

# Como la briza... #

0:45:100:45:12

The one thing I didn't think was possible

0:45:120:45:16

was just to do a translation of the song.

0:45:160:45:19

-Word for word, you mean, right?

-Yes.

0:45:190:45:22

So what I said was, "Let me understand the song

0:45:220:45:26

"and I'll be as close as I can to what the song was about."

0:45:260:45:31

# Tu me haces sentir

0:45:310:45:33

# Deseos de vivir

0:45:330:45:36

# Junto a ti por siemp're

0:45:360:45:38

# Tu amor es mi suerte. #

0:45:380:45:40

One more. I think I need more level in the phones,

0:45:400:45:43

like I'm drowning the track out.

0:45:430:45:44

It was a privilege for me to watch the way he performed

0:45:440:45:48

and the way he handled this.

0:45:480:45:51

He felt perhaps a bit vulnerable.

0:45:510:45:53

I'm sorry. You can continue. Here we go.

0:45:560:46:00

When you control the whole thing,

0:46:000:46:01

all of a sudden now somebody's telling you how to do something

0:46:010:46:05

in a language that is not yours, and so you are vulnerable.

0:46:050:46:09

And I made it my main effort to make him feel comfortable,

0:46:090:46:13

not to feel that I was in any way mocking him because it's not easy.

0:46:130:46:17

This is the first time he ever tried to do anything in Spanish that I know of.

0:46:170:46:21

I wanted Michael to sound like, you don't know who that is.

0:46:210:46:25

The pronunciation was so good,

0:46:250:46:30

that...I was stunned.

0:46:300:46:34

# Y cuando no estas

0:46:340:46:36

# No hay felicidad. #

0:46:360:46:38

Both of them: "Mi vida no es vida."

0:46:380:46:41

My life is not a life. Si tu te vas, if you leave.

0:46:410:46:44

# Si tu te vas. #

0:46:440:46:47

Todo me amor eres tu - all my love, you are all my love.

0:46:470:46:52

# Todo mi amor eres tu. #

0:46:520:46:56

When people found out that Michael Jackson had sung a song in Spanish,

0:46:560:47:01

they were very, very, very proud and happy.

0:47:010:47:05

Well, The Hayvenhurst studio is located in a guest house here

0:47:090:47:12

at the Jacksons' property, at their home,

0:47:120:47:16

and the studio was used for recording demos

0:47:160:47:20

and I worked with Michael recording and developing his ideas, his songs,

0:47:200:47:24

his arrangements, his productions for the Bad album.

0:47:240:47:27

Over a two, three year period of time,

0:47:270:47:29

it was just a non-stop work in progress.

0:47:290:47:32

The number of demos that we worked on for Bad was 60, maybe 65 demos.

0:47:320:47:39

When I received the demos, they were in really good shape at that time.

0:47:390:47:44

I guess I didn't realise at the time but what we were doing

0:47:440:47:48

was we were forming the B team.

0:47:480:47:49

Quincy always called his team the A-Team. His engineer, Bruce Swedien...

0:47:490:47:53

John Robinson on drums...

0:47:530:47:55

-..arranger Jerry Hayes...

-..Nathan East on bass...

0:47:550:47:59

Keyboards would have been Greg Phillinganes.

0:47:590:48:02

I started with Michael here at Hayvenhurst.

0:48:020:48:05

We were the kind of initial team which was John Barnes,

0:48:050:48:08

myself, Michael, Bill Bottrell, Chris Currell.

0:48:080:48:11

And then at times other musicians would come in,

0:48:110:48:14

most prominent would be David Williams, who is no longer with us.

0:48:140:48:17

And in some ways I think Michael kind of liked that vibe.

0:48:170:48:21

He kind of liked the vibe of, you know, having a little competition

0:48:210:48:25

to see who could come up with the best thing.

0:48:250:48:28

I think this is one of the things that he learned from his Motown days,

0:48:280:48:32

something he learned from Berry Gordy.

0:48:320:48:33

We weren't making demos, we were making records.

0:48:330:48:36

Anybody else would be perfectly happy

0:48:360:48:40

to accept a Michael demo as a finished record,

0:48:400:48:43

let me put it that way.

0:48:430:48:45

We would work every single day on creating individual sounds for songs

0:48:450:48:50

that were going to ultimately be on the record.

0:48:500:48:54

We'd record them, re-record them, different keys,

0:48:540:48:58

different speeds, different instrumentation,

0:48:580:49:01

and so that became kind of an experiment in how far can we push.

0:49:010:49:05

Michael would say, "You know, it starts in this very room."

0:49:050:49:11

And from this room it goes out and it spreads over the entire world.

0:49:110:49:16

It's...quite an experience to be back here,

0:49:160:49:21

at Hayvenhurst studio,

0:49:210:49:23

just as it was when I last left it, almost 25 years ago.

0:49:230:49:28

DOG BARKS

0:49:280:49:30

We never knew what we were going to do when we showed up.

0:49:300:49:33

If Michael was inspired, we followed it.

0:49:330:49:36

So this is Michael singing multiple harmony parts.

0:49:360:49:40

This is Michael double-tracking, the mid, the low, the high parts.

0:49:400:49:45

There is actually ten tracks of Michael singing his own backgrounds on this song.

0:49:450:49:50

# The way you make me feel

0:49:500:49:52

# You really turn me on

0:49:540:49:56

# You knock me off my feet. #

0:49:590:50:00

You can hear the difference in sound quality from being out here

0:50:000:50:04

in the music room, to walking into the bathroom.

0:50:040:50:07

Now this room was one of Michael's favourite places

0:50:070:50:09

because of the nature of the surfaces in this room.

0:50:090:50:12

One of the things that we would do is we would record with the door to the shower open,

0:50:120:50:18

much more reflective, a lot of what we call early reflection,

0:50:180:50:22

a lot of brightness, a lot of reinforcement to how things sound.

0:50:220:50:26

HUMMING AND SCATTING AN APPROXIMATION OF THE LYRICS

0:50:350:50:39

# I like the style of your walk your talk, your dress

0:50:470:50:51

# I feel your fever from miles around

0:50:510:50:54

# I'll pick you up...

0:50:560:50:57

# ..paint the town

0:50:580:51:00

# Just kiss me baby and tell me twice

0:51:000:51:03

# That you're... # I know this part!

0:51:030:51:06

# The way you make me feel. #

0:51:060:51:09

Ha, I know that!

0:51:090:51:10

# It really turns me o-o-on

0:51:100:51:14

# Knocking me off of my feet now, baby

0:51:150:51:19

# Lonely days are gone. #

0:51:190:51:22

I met with Quincy, Quincy Jones and Frank,

0:51:250:51:29

to find out what they were looking for in the video.

0:51:290:51:33

And they said, basically, we want to take Michael to another level,

0:51:330:51:36

especially with his relationships with women.

0:51:360:51:39

And then I talked to Michael and I said, "Where do you want it to happen?" He said, "Skid Row."

0:51:390:51:43

We wrote a long prequel, just like they did in Bad.

0:51:430:51:45

-I contacted August Wilson.

-Yeah?!

-Yeah.

0:51:450:51:48

Cos I'm from Pittsburgh and so was he.

0:51:480:51:50

-What did August say?

-No. He said no.

0:51:500:51:53

I did this little documentary about the guys on the street,

0:51:530:51:57

real, real stuff, and showed it to Michael.

0:51:570:52:02

He looked at it and actually said,

0:52:020:52:04

"Can we make the video look like this?" Because it was all handheld and jerky.

0:52:040:52:08

And I said, "If that's what you want. You're sure you want that?" He said, "yeah."

0:52:080:52:11

Get out of here, man!

0:52:110:52:13

Check out that rear end! Whoo!

0:52:130:52:16

Don't touch my head! No!

0:52:160:52:19

You're acting like a little tramp!

0:52:190:52:20

And we actually used real gang members in the video.

0:52:200:52:24

We had the V13s down here on this corner

0:52:240:52:27

and the Crips on this corner, and some of the guys were smoking

0:52:270:52:32

and Michael came and he said, "Jo, the guys are smoking down there.

0:52:320:52:36

"It's kind of bothersome." And I just turned and said,

0:52:360:52:40

"Will you fucking guys quit fucking smocking?!"

0:52:400:52:43

And Michael, he almost panicked, he almost hid behind me

0:52:430:52:46

because this is all these gang members,

0:52:460:52:48

we had cops everywhere, though. It wasn't a problem.

0:52:480:52:50

Hey!

0:52:500:52:51

When he sees the girl, he did a thing with his fingers going...

0:53:040:53:07

FINGERS CLICKING

0:53:070:53:08

It happened once, my brother was operating the camera and caught it. I said, "Oh, my God, thank God."

0:53:100:53:14

Michael had the best-sounding fingers, didn't he?

0:53:140:53:17

I don't remember which song it is,

0:53:170:53:19

but on Bad he has a credit for finger snaps.

0:53:190:53:22

One of the most amazing moments that I remember was Michael walking,

0:53:230:53:29

walking, walking, and catches up to Tatyana,

0:53:290:53:34

and sings for the first time...

0:53:340:53:37

# You knock me off of my feet now, baby, hoo!

0:53:370:53:42

Everything stopped. We had to stop shooting because people just froze.

0:53:420:53:47

They actually froze.

0:53:470:53:50

# Hoo! #

0:53:500:53:52

To play a shuffle like that for 12 minutes is not easy.

0:53:550:54:02

Michael's mother, she has this song in mind.

0:54:020:54:05

She says, "Michael, you've got to come up with a song

0:54:050:54:08

"that has this real shuffling kind of rhythm."

0:54:080:54:11

And Michael says, "OK, I'll see what I can come up with."

0:54:110:54:15

Shuffles have a unique rhythm. Most songs you hear are kind of linear.

0:54:150:54:20

Shuffles have an extra rhythmic element going on.

0:54:200:54:25

You can have a cowbell underneath the backbeat to reinforce the sound.

0:54:250:54:29

None of the backbeat that you hear on that album

0:54:290:54:33

is going to have just a basic, typical snare drum sound.

0:54:330:54:36

I recorded the drums on a wooden platform.

0:54:360:54:40

It minimises what is called secondary pick-up,

0:54:400:54:43

which is where the other mics in the room

0:54:430:54:46

pick up from those sound sources.

0:54:460:54:49

And then we got the idea,

0:54:490:54:51

why doesn't Michael stand on that when he sings?

0:54:510:54:54

And he did, and it sounds glorious.

0:54:540:54:57

# Hey, pretty baby with the high heels on

0:54:570:55:00

# You give me fever like I've never ever known... #

0:55:020:55:06

This was my first album ever as a little girl.

0:55:060:55:09

I cried and cried to my mom, begged her to please buy this for me.

0:55:090:55:15

I would play this like crazy, and dance with it.

0:55:150:55:20

I mean, this was a dream come true. This was something I had fantasised

0:55:200:55:25

and dreamed about since I was five or six years old.

0:55:250:55:27

# You're the one for me

0:55:270:55:29

# The way you make me feel... #

0:55:290:55:32

The girl that we finally chose, Tatiana, wasn't in my first five.

0:55:320:55:37

I didn't like her.

0:55:370:55:39

And I showed Frank DiLeo, his manager, the casting tape

0:55:390:55:43

and he said, "That girl's running around with Prince.

0:55:430:55:46

"If Michael finds out, he'll be upset.

0:55:460:55:48

"And that girl's running around with so-and-so,

0:55:480:55:50

"I'm not going to name names."

0:55:500:55:52

He said, "I can't say." Cos it was Quincy Jones.

0:55:520:55:54

I think. As I remember.

0:55:540:55:57

She seemed physically to be the female version of Michael Jackson.

0:55:570:56:01

There may have been, in his head, an interesting idea about,

0:56:010:56:05

"Wow! This is almost kind of my perfect complement."

0:56:050:56:08

# I like the feelin' you're givin' me

0:56:080:56:11

# Just hold me, baby and I'm in ecstasy

0:56:110:56:15

# Oh, I'll be workin' from 9 to 5... #

0:56:150:56:19

She was the finest thing around at that time. I wanted to be Michael.

0:56:190:56:22

I wanted to be Michael, walking right beside her,

0:56:220:56:25

standing on cars and being... I wanted to be Michael that day.

0:56:250:56:28

# Promise, baby, you'll love me for ever more

0:56:280:56:32

# I swear I'm keepin' you satisfied

0:56:320:56:36

# Cos you're the one for me

0:56:360:56:39

-# The way you make me feel

-The way you make me feel

0:56:390:56:42

-# You really turn me on

-You really turn me on

0:56:420:56:47

# You knock me off of my feet now... #

0:56:470:56:49

I first got hooked up with Quincy through a band I was playing in,

0:56:490:56:53

in Los Angeles, called Seawind.

0:56:530:56:55

We were playing at a club.

0:56:550:56:57

Quincy, always being at the forefront of finding new talent,

0:56:570:57:00

heard about us as a horn section, called up one night.

0:57:000:57:04

"Jerry, this is Quincy Jones." "What?"

0:57:040:57:06

"Yeah, you want to play on a record?" "Of course."

0:57:060:57:09

"You want to do an arrangement?" "Oh...OK."

0:57:090:57:12

He said, "And how about tomorrow?"

0:57:120:57:15

And that was kind of the beginning

0:57:150:57:17

of this 30-plus year relationship with Quincy.

0:57:170:57:21

Our horn players are two saxophone players,

0:57:210:57:25

Kim Hutchcroft and Larry Williams. The trumpet player, Gary Grant.

0:57:250:57:29

The trombone player, Bill Reichenbach.

0:57:290:57:32

Vamp out.

0:57:320:57:34

MUSIC: "The Way You Make Me Feel"

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Again, two trumpets, two saxes.

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The day of the audition, I wore a dance skin,

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a black dress with boots and bracelets, bangles,

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which was kind of like my signature thing at the time.

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And I heard that Michael liked my look.

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He liked the whole style of what I had done, so he kept that.

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We created a complete look for her.

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Hair extensions, we changed her make up completely.

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I had two dresses at that time. One was pink, one was black.

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And the black one was kind of reminiscent of a Tatiana dress.

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That's the way I was living.

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# Go on, girl

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# Go on

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# Ow!

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# Go on, girl

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# Oooh!

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# Ooh! #

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The Way You Make Me Feel video, um, you know, when he's chasing

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the girl around, that was kind of how I pictured my Baby video.

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We kind of based it off of that.

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In my video, you can see I'm in a bowling alley

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but it's kind of like a modern version.

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I'm chasing her around, trying to get her to like me.

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# The way you make me feel

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# The way you make me feel

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# You really turn me good... #

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Mike called me and said, "I told Joe Pytka,

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"who's directing it, that I wasn't doing any dancing.

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"But the more I listen to it, I think I want to put some dancing in there.

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"Could you go to a studio and work on some stuff,

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"then I'll come in and join you."

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Joe came in to see, heard this music going on

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and was like, "What the heck's going on in here?"

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I see this beautiful piece being choreographed,

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but the idea that I'd had for the video didn't have a place for that.

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We had to very quickly improvise where to put that.

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That's where the fire hydrant idea came from.

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HE SCREAMS

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# The way you make me feel

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# You really turn me on

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# You knock me off my feet...#

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Fans were always bombarding me with the question,

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"Why does he chase you throughout the video only for a hug and not a kiss?"

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Joe Pytka, the director, he whispered in my ear right before the

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very last scene where we hug, and he told me, he said, "Don't kiss him."

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I thought the kiss was too corny.

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I'm not even sure I wanted him to get that close.

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I wanted him to maybe stop like here.

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But it worked out with the caress and the hug.

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He says, "Because you were originally supposed to kiss,

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"but Michael is too shy for that so don't kiss him."

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When Michael did finally come out and we got close and we hugged,

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I could smell like a minty, minty fresh scent from his breath.

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< That was a signal!

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I kind of think he came prepared but...

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Being told not to kiss him, and that he couldn't handle it,

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he was too shy, I didn't want to take advantage like that.

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Oh, listen, Tatiana was not shy. She was not a shy girl.

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And in fact, going on with this story is little bit,

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she was told, "Definitely don't kiss Michael onstage."

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He was complaining she'd become too aggressive on stage and everything.

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I made a joke, "Is this going to be X-rated, this thing?"

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I said, "Michael, why don't you just go fuck her? Fuck her one night.

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"Get it over with."

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He started laughing and Frank said, "What the hell are you doing?

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"I've got enough Goddamn trouble without you trying to get him

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"involved with this girl."

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But for me, it became policy because I said,

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"OK, if Michael doesn't kiss in the video,

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"I don't think anybody should kiss in the video."

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So since that day, I always edit out kisses in videos

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and one in particular, Justin Bieber made a video.

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He was going to kiss the girl and I went crazy.

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And I went crazy, A - because he wanted to kiss the girl,

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and B - she was a black girl.

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And I was like, "OK, you're about to mess up your whole thing, man."

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HE LAUGHS

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Oh, oh, look, Granny. It-it's...

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Ah...it's-it's... Mmm...mmm...ah! M-M-M...

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Mantovani?

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No. Michael Jackson!

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ALL: Michael Jackson!

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Speed Demon is a song that maybe people aren't as familiar with

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on the album, but actually serves as a metaphor for the entire album.

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Because what Michael is trying to do with this album is escape,

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escape from all the things that are confining him,

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all the things that are suffocating him.

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There he is! Hey, buddy, how about an autograph?

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THEY LAUGH

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Would you autograph my tummy? THEY LAUGH

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Speed Demon was my song.

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I'm a percussionist and that song was 100% syncopated adrenaline.

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In the James Brown mode of rhythm arrangement where you use

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instruments as percussion.

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# Speed Demon

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# Speed Demon... #

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It was pretty much clay-mation, you know,

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matted into live action settings. It was a real mix.

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The whole idea of that music video, that short,

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was really to merge live action and clay-mation together.

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There was one place in the story where, you know,

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he turns into our character Spike Rabbit,

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you know, as a way to sort of get away from the paparazzi and so forth.

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Our Spike character wanders through in this incredible chase,

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but when they come back and they separate, they separate like this and

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so Spike's still there and Michael's right there and they do a duet.

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A little dance thing.

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So we had to make Spike Rabbit dance right alongside Michael.

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That was really, really fun because, for one thing,

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we had to work out the choreography between what he was going to do

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and how we were going to do it, and figure out exactly how the

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moves were going to work, and work it right to the music and so on.

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Instead of easing into it, maybe just really hit it. Full load.

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I wish I could. I feel so limited. This stuff is so tight on me.

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Upon finishing with Speed Demon, he called up one day,

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he got around to saying how much he loved the California Raisin

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commercials, so I realised where he was going.

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And I said, "Michael, you should be a raisin."

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"Yeah!"

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'Will, I really need you to call me pertaining to the backup guys,

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'the character's got to be much stronger.

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'It doesn't hit it right on.

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'This is very important. Thank you. Bye.'

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The rap raisins materialising behind me,

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I want to define their character.

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And from his expression, which is 99% of it.

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The one guy has the glasses, and he has the type of attitude that

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he's so cool that I'm fortunate that he's here.

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And he's much too cool for, like, one of these.

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And the other one is like a sarc...sarcasm.

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It's like, "What you looking at?"

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The other raisin would be this style. No glasses.

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So his eyes are most of the expression. Like...

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Like that.

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# I heard it through the grapevine

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# Raised in the California sunshine

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# Heard it through the grapevine, baby

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Michael!

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# Oooh

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# And I think I'm about to lose my mind

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# Oooh!

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HE GASPS

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Wow! Must have been something I ate.

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Right now on the decks I have the 12-inch single to Liberian Girl

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and Run DMC's beats to Sucka MCs.

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It sounds something like this.

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INTRO TO LIBERIAN GIRL

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Quincy wanted some kind of African little intro thing here.

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So this was Michael Boddicker on synth

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and all these effects

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are kind of giving an African sunrise sort of thing.

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# Naku penda piya-naku taka piya-mpenziwe.

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HE MIXES TRACKS

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I mean, people underestimated how radical that was.

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Nobody else was writing songs about African women

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as beautiful in 1987-1988.

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-It's so nice to see you again.

-Nice to see you too.

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I've had the time of my life here. I'd had so much fun.

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I hate to leave.

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Here's the biggest pop star in the world,

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who quote-unquote is making himself look white, and yet he's very

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engaged with beauty and the idea of Africa as a site of beauty.

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It's just speaks to the fact that Michael had a very strong

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African consciousness. He went to Africa a lot.

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He was very engaged with the continent.

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Is there a Liberian girl in your life?

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No. I wrote that at my house, in the game room.

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I guess I was playing some pinball or something.

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And the song just popped into my head.

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I think I ran upstairs, put it on tape and it became Liberian Girl.

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When it was created, it just happened like lightning.

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It was just an instant thing.

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Normally, it took a lot of time to put things together.

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That one happened in three or four hours.

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I'm a great believer in sonic fantasy.

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Not sonic reality.

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Sonic fantasy means creating a soundscape that exists

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only in your imagination. That only you can see.

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So I could see these incredible soundscapes, and I thought...

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Liberian Girl?

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-Liberian girl is...

-My man!

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..Is a perfect example.

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I did a little synth work on that.

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That part right there.

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And it's got a little bird thing happening there on the end of it.

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Quincy said, "Give me some of that bird stuff, Boddicker."

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That's got a little bit of it. The next time is even more so.

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So...there's this part that I wrote.

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I played drums Speed Demon, Liberian Girl.

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That was good, Liberian Girl was a fun song to do

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because everyone would always ask me,

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"Why did Michael write a song about a lady working in a library?"

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Yeah, there's a little sexy lady behind the counter with

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the glasses and the pencil in her hair.

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Then she drops her hair and does that thing.

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I thought that's what he was talking about.

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HE LAUGHS

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No, that's not...

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That was just...he thought that was the funniest thing he's ever heard.

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The video for Liberian Girl is probably the point where

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they may have run over budget.

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It just has a bunch of celebrities

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that are waiting for Michael to show up.

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# With two lovers in a scene

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# And she says, "Do you love me?"

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# And he says so endlessly

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# "I love you, Liberian girl"... #

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Michael was not in Liberian Girl

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because I think he got tired of making videos.

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I was talking to Walter Yetnikoff about it and he said,

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"You've got to get him in the video."

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So I called up Michael and said,

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"You've got to be in this video someplace."

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And he goes, "OK, I have an idea."

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And he goes, "You got one take. You got 15 minutes."

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One sec. Just let me tell you when I'm ready. One sec.

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-Ready?

-Almost.

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And he got in the chair, they raised it up in the air, and said, "Action!"

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Action!

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HE GIGGLES

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OK, everybody. That's a wrap.

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Cut!

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They didn't even shut the engine off.

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They got out of the car, no make up, got in the chair.

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It was one take. In, out, and Michael left.

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HE MAKES NOISES

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I'm going to mock myself.

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# I watch you on the floor

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# Cheek to cheek

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# She's getting to you

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# You didn't see her eyes on me, no... #

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More time, please.

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How did Just Good Friends make that album? Well...

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Michael or Stevie could've written a better song.

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-Exactly.

-Taken something from their back catalogue.

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An album should be built with peaks and valleys.

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Michael Jackson with Bad actually tried to achieve 11 peaks.

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I believe that in Michael's head everything had to hit you

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out the box, and absolutely become a monstrous single.

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And because they were attempting to go for the single,

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and the summit meeting between two former child prodigies

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from the Motown school, that you expected fireworks.

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You know, Just Good Friends just wound up being a little

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coffee break in between Liberian Girl and Another Part Of Me.

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I think there was a lot that did exist at that point that

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would have been...as strong or stronger.

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I mean, his vault has got to be staggering.

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-My man Stevie wonder.

-I mean, unbelievable talent.

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And he's another worker like that.

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He'd be working and recording every day.

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I had on my album that I wanted him to do...my character's album,

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which was Get It.

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So we sort of both did each other a favour, favour, favour.

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But I made sure the song he did of mine I wrote.

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HE LAUGHS

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Yeah.

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# My baby love me

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-# I'm her doggone lover

-You don't know... #

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That one, we couldn't get the right song.

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I know I didn't have the right song so...

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If somebody says that didn't work, I know it didn't work.

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-# Hoo-hooo!

-Doot-Do-Do-Doo

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-# Hoo-hooo!

-Doot-Do-Do-Doo... #

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-It's starting to get stinky now.

-I can just punch that part in.

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Excuse me? Great.

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Can we go home?

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-Is that it?

-I just ran off, didn't I?

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Another Part Of Me. My favourite cut on the Bad album.

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All the instruments incorporated in that song,

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as well as just his vocals, nobody can kind of, you know, teach that.

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I think that's just natural.

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So whatever he was on at that time, when he was just like,

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"Yo, I'm in this. I feel this. I need to do this."

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Like, I just think that's his blessing.

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The song itself actually wasn't going to make it onto the album

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because he'd recorded it earlier.

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And he actually preferred a song called Streetwalker.

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# Pretty baby I got kisses for you, lover

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# I really get it when you're next to me... #

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The litmus test is always, what song gets Michael dancing?

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So when Quincy saw Michael dancing all round the studio to

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Another Part Of Me said, "That's what makes this song go on the album."

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Michael Jackson's Bad is black music,

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dare I say, pop music's first stadium album.

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Every song, I can hear it being thought of in his head as,

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"This is what I want it to be

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"when I perform it in front of 60,000 to 80,000 people."

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Hey! Hey! Hey!

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SHE SCREAMS

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# We're taking over

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# We have the truth

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# This is a mission

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# To see it through

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# Don't point your finger

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# Not dangerous

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# This is my planet

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# You're one of us

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# We're sending out

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# A major love

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# And this is our

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-# Message to you

-Message to you

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# The planets are lining up

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# We're bringing brighter days

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# They're all in line

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# Waiting for you

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# You're just another part of me

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# Heee-heee

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# Ow!

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# Over the nation

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# Fulfil the truth

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# The final message

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# We're bringing to you

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# There is no danger

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# Fulfil the truth

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# So come together

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# We mean you

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# I'm sending out

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# A major love

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# And this is our

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-# Message to you

-Message to you

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# The planets are lining up

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# We're bringing brighter days

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# They're all in line

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# Waiting for you

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# They're just another part of me

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# Heee-heee

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# Ow!

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# Do-do-do-do

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# Ow!

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# Hee-hee-hee!

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# Hee-hee-hee!

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# I'm sending out

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# A major love

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# And this is my

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-# Message to you

-Message to you

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# The planets are lining up

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# We're bringing brighter days

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# They're all in line

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# Waiting for you

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# They're just another part of me

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# Hee-hee!

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# Ow!

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# Another part of me

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# We're taking over

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# This is my plan, baby

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# Hee-hee!

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# Ow!

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# Another part of me. #

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People forget that Michael Jackson's a soul singer.

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Michael Jackson grew up watching Jackie Wilson,

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James Brown and the whole circuit,

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so his default move is always to go raw.

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-I love Dirty Diana. That's probably one of my favourites.

-Why?

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Because it's a life story of a groupie,

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I hate to say the word groupie but that's what it is,

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and it's something that I've experienced

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and a lot of people who grew up on the road.

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Dirty Diana.

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Who knew that one day I would live that song in real life

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so many times over.

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I like Dirty Diana. I've met her. I've met Dirty Diana many times.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Michael, for making that small piece of the soundtrack

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to my life on tour.

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When we were kids, we thought, "Was he talking about Diana Ross?

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"Did he have an affair with Diana Ross?"

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No, that wasn't the case at all.

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But as kids we didn't know what was going on. Who was Diana?

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What she did dirty!

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I got a phone call out of the clear blue from Quincy

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and I thought somebody was fucking with me.

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So he goes, "Um...it's Quincy Jones.

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"We're working on Michael's follow-up to Thriller. We've got a rock track."

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I'm not a session guitar player, man.

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I don't, you know, I'm not that world.

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So I said to Quincy, "The only thing I ask is that Michael

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"be in the studio and we work together."

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He said, "Of course he'll be in the studio. It's his fucking record, man.

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"He's going to be in the studio."

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I opened up the studio door in Westlake and three guys,

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Bruce Swedien, the engineer, Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson,

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and the first thing I noticed was Michael had penny loafers on

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and they were like pristine and I was like,

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"I'll be all right. He's wearing penny loafers."

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This is the actual guitar that I recorded Dirty Diana with.

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By and large, I'd say it's probably been in the case.

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Maybe it's only been opened one time,

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I don't really play this kind of guitar that much.

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The backing track was about eight minutes long

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and as the track is playing down,

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Michael is like right here and he's going...

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HE SINGS TUNE OF DIRTY DIANA

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And he was really adamant there's that little space

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on the third phrase, it's a subtle thing

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and I didn't catch it right away.

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That little thing was

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so important to Michael, to catch that little space there.

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I was like, "Why is he making such a big thing about it not playing?"

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It's brilliant though.

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It's as important what you don't play as what you do play.

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# Dirty Diana, nah

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# Dirty Diana, nah

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# Dirty Diana, no

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# Dirty Diana... #

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It's still good.

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# ..Dirty Diana, nah Dirty Diana, no... #

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We wanted to do Dirty Diana

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and so both videos were to kind of change

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the public's perception of who he was.

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First one was to get him a girl and the second was to make him

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a heavy metal kind of guy.

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# ...Diana!

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# Diana...! #

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The original idea was to have...

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The thing finished in a monsoon or a rainstorm.

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The second day, we were going to have the whole stage blow away

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and have him finish in the rain totally...

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The wind and rain and stuff,

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and I think we were going to sweep away the audience and everything.

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But the first day he was doing these knee slides and didn't put pads on.

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He came to me the second day when we were ready for all this rain stuff

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and said, "I can't dance any more."

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So we couldn't resolve it that way, but it didn't matter.

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You see the wind and stuff on the first day,

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it starts, and I guess there was going to be a deluge after that.

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They didn't even tell me that

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the photo taken on the set would be the single sleeve, that cover.

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It showed up one day and I went, "I can't... Are you kidding?"

2:03:502:03:53

Michael always was able to think outside the box of what

2:03:532:03:57

black artists were supposed to do and create his own space.

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There was this internal mechanism that Michael had when he felt

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the music. When the rhythms were right and when the beats were

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happening, when the correct emphasis was happening and the syncopation,

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he'd have to move, he'd have to dance and when he'd start to dance,

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we would know that the balance was correct, the elements had

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the right character, the syncopation was hitting in the right fashion.

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Michael gave me the music and he said, "Listen,

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"don't impose your opinion, or your feelings, or your choreography,

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"or your thoughts on the music.

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"Let the music talk to you and tell you what it wants to be."

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First time we discussed it, he had got these

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visions in his mind of what he wanted to do.

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The robot, the car, the kids, the drugs.

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Every kid in this whole world can take drugs because of me.

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And how do we bring it all together into a story that had

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a piece in the middle, which was the song and dance.

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So we started working on some stuff, it was called Chicago Nights,

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which was really Smooth Criminal.

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He was a huge fan of Fred Astaire and wanted to make sure

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that he paid homage to Fred Astaire in the movie.

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"For Criminal Dance, look at all the great dances on tape.

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"Study the great and become greater.

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"Get all Bob Fosse movie, dances.

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"Study these inside out, knowing every cut, move, music etc.

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"Flashdance, All That Jazz, Band Wagon, girl hunt..."

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JAZZ MUSIC PLAYS

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This is a drawing titled "Criminal Jacket,"

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and you can see that he has created the basic outline for the jacket

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that he wound up wearing in that short film, including the armband.

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And he also made a note to himself that he needed to

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get his Kenny shoes now so that he could break them in.

2:06:412:06:44

But when it came to style, I showed Michael an all-time favourite

2:06:442:06:49

of mine which was The Third Man, because it's sort of gangster-ish.

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"We should shoot it in that kind of style,"

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and he just loved that style.

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And making use of the shadows that they had with that

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sort of film noir look.

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# As he came into the window It was the sound of a crescendo

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# He came into her apartment

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# He left the bloodstains on the carpet

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# She ran underneath the table He could see she was unable

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# So she ran into the bedroom

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# She was struck down It was her doom... #

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There's a story actually that Quincy told me years ago

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and what he said was that Michael had the ability to come in, he could

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lay down the lead vocal of a track and then he could sit there, listen,

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just put the time in and figure out where all the harmonies should go

2:07:502:07:54

and then do that, not leave until he had the harmonies right.

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When I think of Smooth Criminal, I will just impress again the vocal.

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He could sing bass, baritone and tenor,

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but he chose to sing mostly tenor.

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# Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. #

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He goes straight down to bass low C, that is low, that is a bust out

2:08:122:08:17

pitch and Michael would go right on down there with vibrato

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and clear up to a G above high C.

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I mean, that's enormous, that's more than three and a half octaves.

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He really didn't want to grow up. He wanted a child's voice

2:08:282:08:32

and I always tried to encourage him to use his beautiful speaking voice.

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I was in Europe one time and the phone rang and he said,

2:08:362:08:39

"Hello," in a perfectly male voice, baritone and I said,

2:08:392:08:43

"Michael, why don't you use that."

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He said, "I don't like it down there. I like it up there."

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# Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.... #

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How long you want to stick with this?

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I want to be all the way open.

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With some of the songs that he was singing,

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he needed a much wider vocal range and with the exercises that

2:08:592:09:02

Seth Riggs provides for him, it enabled

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him to open up his range so he can sing much higher and much lower.

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# Mah, mah, mah, mah, mah... #

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I had to make sure he and his voice

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was even from bottom to top.

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I have some very strange exercises

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that are different from most people's,

2:09:212:09:24

they're called speech-level singing,

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so we started doing these crazy things.

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# Brrr-brrr-brrr... #

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# Brrr-brrr-brrr... #

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# Rrr-rrr-rrr... #

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# Rrr-rrr-rrr... #

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# Gee, gee, gee, gee, gee, gee... #

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# Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh... #

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Sometimes there is...

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# Ahhhhh... #

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I sampled P.Y.T for Good Life.

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I actually met him at Leo's house.

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He said he liked my voice and then

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I think I took that too seriously

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and I did a whole singing album. HE LAUGHS

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This is the mic that are used on Michael at about this distance

2:10:022:10:09

through for all the recordings.

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Except one, Earth Song.

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-# What about yesterday?

-What about us?

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-# What about the seas?

-What about us?

-#

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This is actually a mic that is designed for narration recording,

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however, I knew that the sound of this mic would work

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well with Michael's voice.

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# Annie, are you OK?

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# Annie, are you OK? Are you OK, Annie?

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# Annie, are you OK? Annie, are you OK?

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# Are you OK, Annie? #

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I've never quite understood who Annie was and why did it matter

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if she was OK or not.

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Who is Annie? I never knew that as a kid. Let me know who Annie is.

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Over in this corner there was a green fibreglass case

2:10:502:10:55

and there was a CPR dummy in the case.

2:10:552:10:59

Michael had been given CPR lessons.

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The first thing that you do when you're going to administer CPR

2:11:012:11:05

is you make a determination of the condition of the victim.

2:11:052:11:09

He's about to do CPR on someone, he's like, "Are you OK? Are you OK?"

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Wow! Whose life did he think he was going to have to save?

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HE LAUGHS

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CPR dummies are all named Annie.

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He just kept asking was Annie OK?

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How many different ways can you say, "Annie, are you OK?"

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And he found like 15 different ways to say, "Annie, are you OK?"

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It's like, "Are you OK? Are you OK? Are you OK? Are you OK, Annie?

2:11:302:11:35

"Annie, are you OK? Are you OK? Are you OK, Annie? Annie, are you OK?"

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It's like, OK, I don't think she's OK.

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I've got to be honest, I was never a big fan of that song.

2:11:422:11:46

You know, Michael loved it to pieces.

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I remember we went to do the video on that, I never heard...

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It must have then 135 decibels. Loud! Man, ears were falling off.

2:11:532:11:57

We started with maybe like 10 or 12 dancers and he then

2:12:032:12:06

introduced me to Jeffrey and he said, "I'd like Jeffrey to be

2:12:062:12:09

"part of this and maybe there's some street stuff, because I've been

2:12:092:12:13

"working with Jeffrey privately and he is teaching me some staff."

2:12:132:12:16

The thing about it is Michael can go out to clubs and hang out

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because he's Michael Jackson.

2:12:182:12:20

So through me he was picking up what was happening in the hood

2:12:202:12:24

and I'm taking it to his gallery over at the Jackson house in Hayvenhurst.

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My name is Phyllis Brooks

2:12:272:12:29

and I want to direct my question to all you guys.

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Who taught you guys your dance steps?

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# She's gonna really blow your mind... #

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This one guy I saw on the show, Don Campbell, he changed my life.

2:12:552:12:59

He did not dance like everybody else,

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he didn't move like everybody else, he was

2:13:012:13:03

just walking to the beat, walking. Walking. Walking.

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Jump up, stop, stick out his own hand, give him some five,

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hunch his shoulders, point it, pop.

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And that was locking.

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You could see Michael doing like...

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You could see him doing those...

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He's putting this locking in his...

2:13:242:13:27

He was just incorporating little things into his...

2:13:272:13:30

Stepping like that, you know.

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Funky chicken, that's the funky chicken,

2:13:322:13:35

so these dances came from Soul Train too.

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Michael Jackson, he loves it,

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he loves the locking, he loves the popping.

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When you see him on stage and he is ticking,

2:13:422:13:47

Michael is deep into the urban contemporary dance because I don't

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call it street dance no more. It left the streets years ago.

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I'd created movement for Michael from his passage in to his passage out.

2:13:592:14:03

There were a couple of places where I said, "OK, you know, Jeffrey,

2:14:262:14:29

"why don't you do this? When he comes around the pool table,

2:14:292:14:32

"I'd love you to do something here and make this work over here."

2:14:322:14:35

I'd got this from a Bugs Bunny cartoon.

2:14:432:14:45

These gangsters with these gangster hats

2:14:452:14:47

and they are all bouncing like this, coming.

2:14:472:14:49

I was just trying to capture that kind of animated thing.

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OK, here we go, same thing. Boom, boom.

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And again right after the hat, I think it's the hand. Boom, boom.

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Bang!

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Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba!

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Bang, bang, boom!

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Some of the moves they did...

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Maybe you'll find out. I still don't know how they did that thing.

2:15:072:15:11

The whole thing with the lean - I had done the lean

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in a Paul McCartney movie called Give My Regards To Broad Street.

2:15:202:15:23

When I'm on the plane, when we take private jets,

2:15:302:15:33

we always, when it's taking off,

2:15:332:15:34

we lean forward to try to do the same move as Michael,

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so it kind of looks the same!

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So what, you want to know how it was done?

2:15:392:15:43

Even to this day,

2:15:432:15:44

I will reference the Smooth Criminal lean...

2:15:442:15:48

..and people instantly know what I'm talking about.

2:15:502:15:52

There was a break in Smooth Criminal that was never supposed to be there.

2:15:522:15:55

The music breaks down.

2:15:552:15:57

Everything gets cool.

2:15:572:16:00

They show a cat walking across the piano, the lights go blue.

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We did not know about this.

2:16:032:16:05

Ssh!

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-Oh! O-o-oh!

-O-o-o-oh!

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For that break in the middle,

2:16:252:16:27

he just wanted to let the dancers feel the set.

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I mean, we'd been shooting for quite a while by then,

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and he just said, you know, "I don't want anything to disturb us,"

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and I said, I was shooting five cameras at the time,

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plus Jerry had five cameras,

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so it was ten cameras shooting

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and you know, we didn't know how long it was going to go on for.

2:16:432:16:46

-THEY WHISPER:

-Annie, are OK? Are you OK, Annie?

2:16:482:16:51

Annie, are you OK? So Annie, are you OK? Are you OK, Annie?

2:16:512:16:54

-BUILDING:

-Annie, are you OK? So Annie, are you OK?

2:16:542:16:58

Are you OK, Annie?

2:16:582:16:59

Annie, are you OK? So Annie, are you OK? Are you OK, Annie?

2:16:592:17:03

Annie, are you OK? So, Annie...

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A lot of the songs he writes about being observed,

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either from the point of view of, he's the object

2:17:192:17:22

or that he becomes the person looking at someone like him,

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or the objective person.

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# Are you OK? Are you OK, Annie?

2:17:282:17:30

# Annie, are you OK? So Annie, are you OK?

2:17:302:17:33

# Are you OK, Annie?

2:17:332:17:34

# Annie, are you OK? So Annie, are you OK?

2:17:342:17:37

# Are you OK, Annie? You've been hit by... #

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For someone who grew up in the spotlight,

2:17:402:17:42

being watched is a very big part of how you see the world.

2:17:422:17:45

This is a guy who

2:17:452:17:47

was never not in the newspapers

2:17:472:17:49

every single day

2:17:492:17:51

being ridiculed, "Wacko Jacko,"

2:17:512:17:53

I mean, he's a kid - on the inside, he's a kid.

2:17:532:17:55

How that stuff doesn't penetrate you and hurt you, hurt your spirit.

2:17:552:17:59

"Michael Jackson's got a shrine to Elizabeth Taylor.

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"He's got an amusement park. He's had a lot of facial surgery,"

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so I said, "Michael, when you're in the school yard

2:18:052:18:08

"and you are the smallest and you get teased a lot,

2:18:082:18:11

"it's really only fun to tease you if it bothers you.

2:18:112:18:13

"If it doesn't bother you, they move on,

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"so why don't we just take all this crap being said about you

2:18:162:18:21

"and why don't we say at? Why don't we put it to visuals?"

2:18:212:18:24

Leave Me Alone - it was a lot of fun to play that. It had that intro.

2:18:242:18:28

But there was also a string part

2:18:362:18:37

that kind of played the same thing but was just accenting that...

2:18:372:18:40

And he was just kind of saying, "Dig in," you know.

2:18:402:18:43

I remember him standing right next to me, going...

2:18:452:18:48

See, a lot of people that misunderstand me,

2:18:522:18:54

it's because they don't know me.

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I guess that's true.

2:18:572:18:59

People probably have a lot of crazy stories they read.

2:18:592:19:02

You ever want to lash out in any type of way

2:19:022:19:05

and say, "Hey, that's not true"?

2:19:052:19:07

Yeah, a lot of times.

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# I don't care what you talking about, baby,

2:19:082:19:11

# I don't care what you think... #

2:19:112:19:14

You can see, you know,

2:19:142:19:16

how he's starting to feel like he's a spectacle.

2:19:162:19:19

In the video, he's tied down.

2:19:192:19:22

It's inspired by Gulliver's Travels

2:19:222:19:24

and he's tied under a roller coaster

2:19:242:19:27

and you see these dogs with corporate suits,

2:19:272:19:29

banging the pegs, trying to tie him down

2:19:292:19:32

in this big kind of amusement park setting.

2:19:322:19:35

I only got a glimpse of what his life must have been like

2:19:362:19:39

when I would be in Europe

2:19:392:19:41

and our limousines would be attacked by mobs,

2:19:412:19:44

with them thinking that Michael was in our limousine

2:19:442:19:47

and if that's your initial introduction to the universe,

2:19:472:19:51

when you're a five-year-old,

2:19:512:19:53

then that has got to inform what you feel like the world is like.

2:19:532:19:58

I'm waiting for Michael, and a guy comes up

2:19:582:20:00

and I don't see Michael. He goes, "Hi, Jeffrey, how you doing?"

2:20:002:20:03

"All right." He says, "Are you ready to start?"

2:20:032:20:05

I go, "Yeah," but I'm not looking at Michael.

2:20:052:20:07

I'm looking at these bushy eyebrows,

2:20:072:20:09

a short Afro wig and these sideburns and this make-up on.

2:20:092:20:13

Michael had been out going door-to-door

2:20:132:20:15

for his Jehovah's Witnesses. He put on a disguise,

2:20:152:20:18

so people wouldn't know Michael Jackson was knocking on their door.

2:20:182:20:21

I'm sure some people were slamming the door in his face,

2:20:212:20:23

like, "Jehovah's Witness, get out of here!"

2:20:232:20:25

Sometimes I want to sneak into places

2:20:252:20:28

and not have any hoopla or, you know...

2:20:282:20:32

and it doesn't work all the time.

2:20:322:20:35

I went to the shrine auditorium

2:20:352:20:36

and a guy tapped me on the back

2:20:362:20:39

and I turned around and it was an old man.

2:20:392:20:42

I said, "What is this?" He said, "It's Michael!"

2:20:422:20:45

I said, "Man, you scared the mess out of me!"

2:20:452:20:49

I have incredible disguises.

2:20:492:20:50

I can fool my own mother

2:20:502:20:53

and I enjoy doing it

2:20:532:20:56

because I get to see life the way it really is sometimes.

2:20:562:20:59

One day, he said, "You know, my brothers are in town

2:20:592:21:02

"so I'm going to see them tonight." I said, "That's cool, all right."

2:21:022:21:05

So the next day I came onto the set

2:21:052:21:07

and Michael goes, "Yeah, I waited for my brothers all night.

2:21:072:21:10

"I fixed my hair and everything but they didn't show up."

2:21:102:21:14

Sorry this bothers me,

2:21:152:21:18

but he said, "I would give anything just to be able to go to a party

2:21:182:21:22

"and stand in a corner somewhere,

2:21:222:21:24

"stand behind a curtain and put my head out and be able to see

2:21:242:21:28

"what it's like for real people to just be real people."

2:21:282:21:31

# The choice that we make and the choice you will take

2:21:312:21:34

# Who's laughing, baby?

2:21:342:21:37

# Just leave me alone

2:21:372:21:39

# Leave me alone! Leave me alone... #

2:21:392:21:41

When you see that film,

2:21:412:21:43

with all of those images,

2:21:432:21:45

every image that you see of Michael

2:21:452:21:47

started out as 35mm movie film,

2:21:472:21:49

which then turned into a stack of photo prints this tall,

2:21:492:21:53

which people sat around for two weeks, cutting out.

2:21:532:21:58

There was one guy whose job was just cutting out Michael's hair.

2:21:582:22:01

The Charlie Chaplin ball and chain idea was Michael's.

2:22:012:22:06

We knew we had a sequence where

2:22:062:22:08

we wanted to have a dance sequence with the Elephant Man's bones,

2:22:082:22:11

and so Michael showed up the day of the shoot with that piece.

2:22:112:22:14

Leave Me Alone was extremely ahead of its time.

2:22:172:22:22

Leave Me Alone was my favourite video and song off that album.

2:22:232:22:26

Just, even the amusement park setup

2:22:262:22:29

and the way they chop the graphics up.

2:22:292:22:31

There is nothing that compares to that, even to this day,

2:22:312:22:35

as far as visuals go.

2:22:352:22:37

Michael's quest for creative independence,

2:22:382:22:40

which started when he and his brothers left Motown,

2:22:402:22:43

continued through Off The Wall and Thriller,

2:22:432:22:46

reached a high point with the Bad album and the Bad tour.

2:22:462:22:49

He didn't tour with Thriller,

2:22:492:22:51

and then with Bad, he finally had an opportunity

2:22:512:22:53

to create the kind of show he wanted to create,

2:22:532:22:55

the kind of show that represented him as a solo artist.

2:22:552:22:57

It was Michael's first solo tour

2:22:572:23:00

and in fact, it was the only tour in the US that Michael ever conducted.

2:23:002:23:04

What a night! What a crowd,

2:23:042:23:06

what a gig, what a venue.

2:23:062:23:07

Who'd have thought Wembley Stadium,

2:23:072:23:09

the home of Live Aid, the home of Nelson Mandela

2:23:092:23:12

and now, the home of the king of it all!

2:23:122:23:15

It's a gruelling tour.

2:23:172:23:19

It starts in September 1987 and goes until January 1989.

2:23:192:23:23

He did 15 different countries,

2:23:232:23:26

123 different shows,

2:23:262:23:28

and it proved to be one of the most successful concert tours in history.

2:23:282:23:31

The Bad world tour set three Guinness Book of World Records.

2:23:312:23:35

One was the highest grossing tour of all time,

2:23:352:23:38

the most attended tour in history

2:23:382:23:40

and then, the shows that he did at Wembley in London

2:23:402:23:43

were the most consecutive shows an artist had ever sold out in history.

2:23:432:23:47

The tour generated a lot of income

2:23:472:23:49

and Michael Jackson donated a lot of that income

2:23:492:23:52

to charities of his choice.

2:23:522:23:53

We're making a very, very large contribution

2:23:532:23:56

to the Prince's Trust fund

2:23:562:23:57

and it will go to the Ormond Street Hospital.

2:23:572:24:00

Camp Goodtimes, Ronald McDonald House...

2:24:002:24:02

The United Negro College Fund

2:24:022:24:04

and the Burns Center, the Michael Jackson Burns Center.

2:24:042:24:07

I love you!

2:24:072:24:08

CHEERING

2:24:082:24:11

This is hard, um...

2:24:192:24:22

My brother, the legendary King Of Pop, Michael Jackson,

2:24:222:24:27

passed away on Thursday, June 25,

2:24:272:24:29

2009 at 2.26pm.

2:24:292:24:33

I...

2:24:332:24:35

had performed about a year or so before then in Australia,

2:24:352:24:40

and I remember having this dream

2:24:402:24:43

that I was listening to the radio and...

2:24:432:24:46

..on the radio came that Michael Jackson had died.

2:24:472:24:50

Then I woke up, you know, sweating and nervous

2:24:502:24:53

and just really going crazy.

2:24:532:24:54

Where were you when you heard Michael died?

2:24:542:24:57

Um, I was in Montreal.

2:24:572:24:59

I was directing a project for Cirque du Soleil.

2:24:592:25:02

I was sitting here in this chair in this room.

2:25:022:25:06

I was in Savannah, Georgia.

2:25:062:25:08

I was at my own studio.

2:25:082:25:10

When he died, I was supposed to go meet him.

2:25:102:25:12

I was supposed to see him at the Staples Centre.

2:25:122:25:14

I think I was in a car.

2:25:142:25:16

I was actually driving in the car.

2:25:162:25:18

I know I was home that day.

2:25:182:25:19

So I turned on the radio.

2:25:192:25:21

Then I hear...

2:25:222:25:23

I was on a radio promo tour and I was just in the car,

2:25:232:25:26

going to my next radio station.

2:25:262:25:28

I was on the set.

2:25:282:25:29

I was shooting...um, Boardwalk Empire.

2:25:292:25:34

At my job, Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.

2:25:342:25:37

I was in London, going to get some bottled water from the store.

2:25:372:25:41

I was at my house in LA.

2:25:412:25:43

Los Angeles. No, no, no. I was in Panama.

2:25:432:25:47

I was actually working.

2:25:472:25:49

I had a Blackberry I picked up in Moscow and the person said,

2:25:492:25:54

"He's gone."

2:25:542:25:55

Wow. I was in Sony when I heard Michael Jackson passed.

2:25:552:26:03

I was in my office, having an audition with some artists.

2:26:032:26:08

My doorman said to me,

2:26:082:26:10

"Mrs Robinson, Michael Jackson died".

2:26:102:26:12

Actually, my security guard at that time came in and told me that

2:26:122:26:16

and he's just wrong all the time.

2:26:162:26:18

I just didn't buy into it for one second.

2:26:182:26:20

I couldn't believe it and there was nothing on the news up there,

2:26:202:26:23

telling me that this was true.

2:26:232:26:25

I said, "What? Come on... Don't listen to that."

2:26:252:26:27

I didn't believe it.

2:26:272:26:28

It just didn't seem real.

2:26:282:26:30

I thought it was...a lie.

2:26:302:26:32

I couldn't believe it.

2:26:322:26:33

People must've called, I must've gotten 50 calls.

2:26:332:26:35

Don't call me and tell me that!

2:26:352:26:39

Because it's not true!

2:26:392:26:40

I think I started crying on the spot.

2:26:402:26:42

I couldn't even breathe, man.

2:26:422:26:44

I couldn't even breathe, I just collapsed right there on the ground.

2:26:442:26:47

We all kind of stayed in a daze.

2:26:472:26:49

Everything just became a blur.

2:26:492:26:51

I immediately called my friend Bruce Swedien...

2:26:532:26:57

and he was in shock as well.

2:26:572:26:59

Everything stopped. Couldn't do anything.

2:26:592:27:02

(Sorry.)

2:27:212:27:22

It was like...

2:27:262:27:28

Sorry.

2:27:302:27:31

Sorry, man. I...

2:27:342:27:36

I really loved the guy.

2:27:362:27:38

I miss his hugs.

2:27:592:28:01

Just his friendship.

2:28:012:28:04

Um...

2:28:042:28:07

Just being around him.

2:28:072:28:09

Uh...

2:28:092:28:11

Just to know he's around.

2:28:112:28:13

And I had just seen Berry Gordy several days earlier

2:28:132:28:16

and we sat at the Mandarin Oriental hotel and we were just talking

2:28:162:28:21

and I said, "Think Michael's going to do those shows in London?"

2:28:212:28:26

And he went, "I don't know."

2:28:262:28:27

I, er, was at the funeral, and I sang...

2:28:272:28:32

I've never sung at a funeral before, ever.

2:28:322:28:34

So, this is Michael Jackson's funeral, and they come in

2:28:342:28:38

and go, "Mariah, you're on first."

2:28:382:28:40

I Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer was a song that myself

2:28:402:28:43

and Syreeta Wright -

2:28:432:28:45

well, she was my first wife, Syreeta - wrote together.

2:28:452:28:49

When I sang it, at Michael's...homecoming service,

2:28:492:28:55

I never, ever imagined that I would be outliving Michael Jackson.

2:28:552:29:01

Um...

2:29:012:29:02

It's very, very painful.

2:29:022:29:03

It's still unbelievable to me that he's actually dead

2:29:032:29:07

and we should all be ashamed. Each of us to a one.

2:29:072:29:11

And I don't know who to look at.

2:29:112:29:14

Michael said, I guess, look at the man in the mirror.

2:29:142:29:16

Just like when John Lennon died, people turned to Imagine,

2:29:162:29:20

when Michael Jackson died, people turned to Man In The Mirror.

2:29:202:29:23

It really doesn't have that inspirational pop anthem on it,

2:29:372:29:40

like Greatest Love of All, Whitney Houston, Saving All My Love For You,

2:29:402:29:43

that kind of thing, and it's interesting that Bad does.

2:29:432:29:47

We kept talking about how nice it would be to get an anthem

2:29:472:29:50

that had a good feel to it, you know, just like

2:29:502:29:52

some sunshine on the world.

2:29:522:29:53

So he called a meeting with his West Coast songwriters,

2:29:532:29:56

I think there were like, six of us.

2:29:562:29:58

He said he wanted something upbeat,

2:29:582:30:00

he said he wanted something that felt good...

2:30:002:30:03

Whitney Houston's second solo album was storming the charts

2:30:032:30:06

and I think she provided a little bit of heat,

2:30:062:30:09

and I think that the label was concerned about how to kind of

2:30:092:30:12

appeal to this audience that had gravitated to Whitney Houston.

2:30:122:30:16

Went to Glen Ballard's house, who was my writing partner at the time,

2:30:162:30:20

I said, "This is what Quincy wants".

2:30:202:30:21

He said, "Well, let's just see what we come up with".

2:30:212:30:23

He stands up, goes over to the keyboard,

2:30:232:30:25

turns on the keyboard

2:30:252:30:27

and starts playing...

2:30:272:30:29

HE PLAYS INTRO

2:30:292:30:30

So I'm flipping through my lyric book...

2:30:302:30:33

While he's playing these...

2:30:332:30:35

Just getting sounds on the keyboard.

2:30:352:30:37

Cut to two years before this meeting.

2:30:372:30:40

I'm writing with John Beasley, jazz pianist.

2:30:402:30:42

His phone rings,

2:30:422:30:43

and he picked the phone up instead of letting the machine pick it up.

2:30:432:30:47

"Yeah, what's happening? I'm not doing nothing.

2:30:472:30:50

And I'm thinking, "He's doing something!"

2:30:502:30:53

And I'm flipping through my book,

2:30:532:30:55

no, he didn't say he's not doing nothing. No, he didn't.

2:30:552:30:57

So I'm flipping through this book and I hear him say, "The man?"

2:30:572:31:01

"What man? Oh, the man in the mirror."

2:31:012:31:05

I wrote, "man in the mirror".

2:31:052:31:08

So two years later, I'm at Glen's house and the phrase

2:31:082:31:11

"man in the mirror" just popped out at me

2:31:112:31:14

and I started writing these lyrics

2:31:142:31:17

that I couldn't write them fast enough,

2:31:172:31:20

I couldn't get it all out fast enough and in like, 15 minutes,

2:31:202:31:23

we had the first verse and the chorus for Man In The Mirror.

2:31:232:31:27

"I'm certain there will be a change

2:31:272:31:30

"and starting with that man in the mirror..."

2:31:302:31:32

The lyrics evolved into what they are,

2:31:322:31:34

but these are the humble beginnings.

2:31:342:31:37

Glen said, "You go finish the lyrics,

2:31:372:31:40

"and I'll finish the track and we'll demo the song on Friday".

2:31:402:31:43

Friday night we finished it after the Quest publishing was closed.

2:31:432:31:47

# I'm starting with the man in the mirror

2:31:472:31:51

# I'm asking him to change his ways... #

2:31:522:31:56

So I called Quincy at home.

2:31:562:31:58

He said, "I'm having a meeting, I can't...

2:31:582:32:01

"You can't drop it off. Just take it to the office on Monday."

2:32:012:32:04

I said, "I...

2:32:042:32:06

"I can't wait till Monday.

2:32:082:32:10

"Let me just, let me just drop it... "Sied..." "Quincy, let me just..."

2:32:102:32:13

"All right, shit."

2:32:132:32:15

And I go to his house...

2:32:152:32:17

I give Quincy this really quickly, this cassette, I say just,

2:32:172:32:21

"All I ask is you just call me as soon as..."

2:32:212:32:25

He said, "All right, shit".

2:32:252:32:27

Two, three hours later, I get a call and Quincy goes,

2:32:272:32:29

"Sied, this is the best song that I've heard

2:32:292:32:34

"in ten years".

2:32:342:32:36

-And I'm like...

-MOUTHS

2:32:362:32:39

The key...

2:32:392:32:40

was one step too high for Michael,

2:32:402:32:44

so Quincy wanted me to re-sing the demo in the new key.

2:32:442:32:49

So I come here and I'm singing the demo in the new key

2:32:492:32:52

and Michael...is filming me.

2:32:522:32:55

Whenever you're ready, Miss Siedah.

2:32:552:32:58

FINGERS CLICK IN TIME

2:32:582:32:59

# Gonna make a change

2:32:592:33:02

# For once in my life

2:33:022:33:05

# Gonna feel real good

2:33:082:33:10

# Gonna make a difference gonna make it right

2:33:102:33:15

# As I turn up the collar on

2:33:182:33:21

# My favourite winter coat

2:33:212:33:24

# This wind is blowing my mind

2:33:242:33:26

# I see the kids in the street

2:33:272:33:30

# Not enough to eat

2:33:302:33:32

# Who am I to be blind?

2:33:322:33:34

# Pretending not to see their need... #

2:33:342:33:38

# A willow deeply scarred... #

2:33:392:33:41

I got that image

2:33:412:33:42

cos I was walking down the street in New York, walking past

2:33:422:33:46

this brownstone that had been torn down and it was fenced.

2:33:462:33:49

Just a lot with broken glass

2:33:492:33:52

and this tree...

2:33:522:33:53

that someone had carved their initials into this tree...

2:33:532:33:56

# ..Somebody's broken heart

2:33:592:34:01

# And one man's soul

2:34:012:34:05

# They follow each other on the wind you know

2:34:052:34:10

# Cos they got no place to go

2:34:102:34:13

# That's why I want you to know. #

2:34:132:34:16

It was really a great song from inception,

2:34:162:34:19

but I think what Michael did is he took that song

2:34:192:34:21

and he made it his own.

2:34:212:34:23

In popular music, there's often this idea that you are either

2:34:232:34:26

the songwriter of your own material

2:34:262:34:29

or you are the interpreter.

2:34:292:34:30

The interesting thing about Michael Jackson is that he was both.

2:34:302:34:33

You may not even know what he's talking about,

2:34:332:34:35

a broken bottle top, all kinds of images are floating,

2:34:352:34:39

but it's the conviction and the fervour with which

2:34:392:34:42

he brings to the song that is really spectacular.

2:34:422:34:45

He said, "Andrae, I got a song.

2:34:452:34:47

"If you were listening to this and wondered where a choir should be..."

2:34:472:34:53

He said, "I would love to have a choir and I've heard your music."

2:34:532:34:57

# If you wanna make the world a better place

2:34:572:35:00

# Take a look at yourself and then make that... #

2:35:002:35:02

"Change," I said, "Right there, you're exactly right".

2:35:022:35:05

And the choir sang...

2:35:052:35:07

# Man in the mirror

2:35:072:35:08

# Oooh oh-ooh-oh

2:35:082:35:12

-# Ow!

-Yeah!

2:35:122:35:16

Oooh oh-ooh-oh

2:35:132:35:16

Make that change... #

2:35:152:35:16

Andrae Crouch's choir seriously threw it on the end

2:35:162:35:19

and it featured all kinds of singers, including, I didn't realise the Winans were on there!

2:35:192:35:23

My brother Marvin asked him,

2:35:232:35:25

"Exactly what do, how do you want us to do it?"

2:35:252:35:27

He was whispering into Quincy Jones' ear

2:35:272:35:31

and Quincy would actually...

2:35:312:35:34

..relay the message to us

2:35:362:35:38

and my brother Marvin said, "Well, Michael, can you talk?"

2:35:382:35:42

Mike broke out of the shell, sat down on the piano,

2:35:422:35:46

started playing the part... I didn't even know Michael PLAYED piano.

2:35:462:35:50

OK, here's my favourite link, right here.

2:35:502:35:52

Whoo!

2:35:552:35:56

That's when I was hot, back in the day!

2:35:582:36:00

Man In The Mirror, Quincy said give me the masterclass.

2:36:012:36:05

Those handclaps, that's what you hear.

2:36:052:36:07

The three of us would surround the mic, we'd nail it in real-time.

2:36:072:36:11

Then, what we would do,

2:36:122:36:14

we would speed this machine up maybe 15%,

2:36:142:36:17

so the track's going by really fast

2:36:172:36:19

and we're still clapping the same thing, then when you play back at a regular speed,

2:36:192:36:22

it's fat, so we have two sets of claps - in real-time

2:36:222:36:26

and the fat claps underneath which are exactly in the same time.

2:36:262:36:29

That's why if you listen to all those records we've done -

2:36:292:36:32

some of the best clap sounds you'll ever hear.

2:36:322:36:34

Once we cut the track, Andrae Crouch and his wonderful singers

2:36:342:36:39

came in here and Bruce Swedien had them all up on this stage.

2:36:392:36:43

Bruce is such a genius - he would have them

2:36:432:36:46

actually stand along this side, then stand along the side,

2:36:462:36:49

then they'd stand in the middle, cos he wanted to get all this really incredible imaging.

2:36:492:36:53

That's why it sounded like 57,000 people!

2:36:532:36:55

# Man in the mirror

2:36:552:36:57

# You got to move, chamon... #

2:36:572:36:59

OK, now bring the choir in, gently there...

2:36:592:37:04

Yeah, baby!

2:37:042:37:06

When the session was over, everybody was going back to their cars

2:37:062:37:11

and I was listening to it with Quincy.

2:37:112:37:13

I said, "Quincy, you know what? We should have put "change" at the end.

2:37:132:37:18

He said... "Yeah".

2:37:182:37:21

They were getting into their cars in the parking lot and I whistled,

2:37:212:37:26

I said, "Come here, we've got to do something else."

2:37:262:37:28

And they came in. I said, just say...

2:37:282:37:32

# Change... #

2:37:322:37:34

And then Michael said, "Make that change!"

2:37:342:37:36

-"Make that change."

-Ah!

2:37:362:37:39

Somewhere between Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Bruce Swedien,

2:37:402:37:47

the musicians - Greg Phillinganes, and all these guys -

2:37:472:37:50

something took place in those sessions that...

2:37:502:37:53

..technically sounds better than any record ever made to this day.

2:37:542:38:00

Michael Jackson meant that the unachievable was achievable,

2:38:002:38:04

that you could be respected,

2:38:042:38:06

you could be successful on a global level as a person of colour.

2:38:062:38:11

There's no-one that will take his place.

2:38:112:38:13

The discipline imposed upon him

2:38:132:38:15

for good or for bad, from the time he was a baby,

2:38:152:38:19

it's not even legal to replicate that in today's world.

2:38:192:38:23

Michael is the most professional performer I've ever worked with in my life.

2:38:232:38:28

He made it all look so simple.

2:38:282:38:31

He made it all look so natural.

2:38:312:38:33

And he really worked so hard to do that.

2:38:332:38:35

I remember watching...

2:38:362:38:38

..him on stage, perform and how he would...

2:38:392:38:44

..just glide and...

2:38:442:38:46

..make it seem like...

2:38:472:38:49

..the music was just going through him. I mean, he would close

2:38:502:38:54

his eyes and walk across the stage

2:38:542:38:57

and I'd sometimes wonder to myself,

2:38:572:38:59

he could fall, he could trip, he doesn't know where he's going.

2:38:592:39:03

But he never did.

2:39:032:39:04

Whether it's Beyonce or Lady Gaga or Chris Brown or Usher

2:39:042:39:08

or will.i.am or Justin Bieber or Justin Timberlake,

2:39:082:39:11

there isn't a musician

2:39:112:39:13

that doesn't quote Michael Jackson as being their idol.

2:39:132:39:16

I don't think there's anybody who comes close to having

2:39:162:39:19

that type of work ethic.

2:39:192:39:20

They say that Willie Mays was one of the only five-tool players

2:39:202:39:24

in the history of baseball.

2:39:242:39:25

A player that could run, field, hit, hit for power and throw.

2:39:252:39:31

And in the music business,

2:39:312:39:33

I'm not sure there was ever a five-tool player

2:39:332:39:37

other than Michael Jackson.

2:39:372:39:39

Michael could write the songs, he could produce them,

2:39:392:39:42

he could sing them, he could certainly perform

2:39:422:39:45

and dance them and he set fashion trends with his sense of style.

2:39:452:39:50

That's six tools you just named.

2:39:502:39:52

Well, I consider performing and dancing one and the same.

2:39:522:39:55

Hey, I'm with you all the way, six tools, I'm wit' you!

2:39:552:39:58

-Willie Mays and Michael Jackson, that's great.

-There it is.

2:39:582:40:01

He did everything. He wrote, he performed, he danced,

2:40:012:40:04

he did the business part of it, he counted his royalties!

2:40:042:40:08

Sometimes, it's hard to believe he's even gone.

2:40:082:40:10

Just the amount of music that I hear,

2:40:102:40:13

the number of times that I hear people telling me

2:40:132:40:16

about children that are discovering Michael for the first time,

2:40:162:40:21

all these things, it's like this energy that just does not go away.

2:40:212:40:25

The divinity that that guy was so tapped into.

2:40:252:40:29

There was a reason that he was unique

2:40:292:40:31

and he was different than any other artist that we've ever seen

2:40:312:40:35

and he had something that was not definable to me.

2:40:352:40:38

Whenever he stepped out and sang, whenever he made that connection

2:40:382:40:40

with people, the molecules changed in the room.

2:40:402:40:45

You know, that was what he could do.

2:40:452:40:47

There are people that can go out

2:40:472:40:49

and you can be wowed by their technique,

2:40:492:40:51

but he changed the molecules.

2:40:512:40:53

No-one can quite say what the creative process is,

2:40:532:40:56

because I have nothing to do with it, almost,

2:40:562:40:59

because it's created in space, it's God's work, not mine.

2:40:592:41:02

# Gonna make a change

2:41:022:41:06

# For once in my life

2:41:062:41:08

# It's gonna feel real good

2:41:112:41:14

# Gonna make a difference

2:41:142:41:15

# Gonna make it right

2:41:152:41:19

# As I turn up the collar on

2:41:212:41:24

# My favourite winter coat

2:41:242:41:27

# This wind is blowing my mind

2:41:272:41:30

# I see the kids in the street

2:41:302:41:33

# With not enough to eat

2:41:332:41:35

# Who am I to be blind

2:41:352:41:37

# Pretending not to see their need?

2:41:372:41:41

# A summer's disregard

2:41:412:41:44

# A broken bottle top and one man's soul

2:41:442:41:49

# They follow each other on the wind, you know

2:41:502:41:54

# Cos they got nowhere to go

2:41:542:41:58

# That's why I want you to know

2:41:582:42:01

# I'm starting with the man in the mirror

2:42:012:42:04

# I'm asking him to change his ways

2:42:062:42:10

# And no message could have been any clearer

2:42:102:42:14

# If you wanna make the world a better place

2:42:142:42:17

# Take a look at yourself and then make the change

2:42:172:42:20

# Nah nah nah

2:42:222:42:23

# Nah nah nah, nah-nah, nah-nah

2:42:232:42:26

# Oh-ho

2:42:262:42:28

# I've been a victim of

2:42:292:42:32

# A selfish kind of love

2:42:322:42:34

# It's time that I realised

2:42:342:42:38

# There are some with no home

2:42:382:42:41

# Not a nickel to loan

2:42:412:42:43

# Could it be really mean

2:42:432:42:45

# Pretending that they're not alone?

2:42:452:42:49

# A willow deeply scarred

2:42:492:42:51

# Somebody's broken heart

2:42:512:42:54

# And a washed-out dream

2:42:542:42:58

# They follow the pattern of the wind, you see

2:42:582:43:03

# Cos they got no place to be

2:43:032:43:06

# That's why I'm starting with me

2:43:062:43:09

# I'm starting with the man in the mirror

2:43:092:43:13

Ooh!

2:43:122:43:13

# I'm asking him to change his ways

2:43:132:43:18

Ooh!

2:43:172:43:18

# And no message could have been any clearer

2:43:182:43:22

# If you wanna make the world a better place

2:43:222:43:25

# Take a look at yourself and then make the change

2:43:252:43:28

# I'm starting with the man in the mirror

2:43:282:43:33

Ooh

2:43:322:43:33

# I'm asking him to change his ways

2:43:332:43:37

Ooh

2:43:362:43:37

# And no message could have been any clearer

2:43:372:43:41

# If you wanna make the world a better place

2:43:412:43:44

# Take a look at yourself and then make that

2:43:442:43:47

Change!

2:43:462:43:47

# I'm starting with the man in the mirror

2:43:472:43:52

Oh, yeah

2:43:502:43:52

# I'm asking him to change his ways

2:43:522:43:56

# You better change

2:43:562:44:01

No message could've been any clearer

2:43:572:44:01

Whoo-hoo

2:43:582:44:01

# If you wanna make the world a better place

2:44:012:44:03

# Take a look at yourself and then make the change

2:44:032:44:06

# You gotta get it right while you got the time

2:44:062:44:08

# Cos if you close your heart then you close your, your mind

2:44:082:44:11

# That man

2:44:112:44:16

That man in the mirror, oh yeah

2:44:132:44:16

# I'm asking him to change his ways

2:44:162:44:20

# You better change

2:44:202:44:21

# No message could have been any clearer

2:44:212:44:25

# If you wanna make the world

2:44:252:44:27

# A better place take a look at yourself

2:44:272:44:29

# And then make that change

2:44:292:44:31

# Whoo! Whoo!

2:44:312:44:33

# Nah-nah-nah Nah-nah-nah, na-na, na-na

2:44:332:44:37

# Whoo! Whoo!

2:44:372:44:39

# Oh, yeah

2:44:392:44:42

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

2:44:402:44:42

# Nah-nah-nah, nah-nah-nah

2:44:422:44:44

# Na-na, na-na

2:44:442:44:47

# Gonna make that change

2:44:502:44:53

# Gonna feel real good, come on

2:44:532:44:57

# Change

2:44:572:44:59

# Just lift yourself, you know it

2:44:592:45:02

# You got to stop it yourself, yeah

2:45:022:45:06

-# Whoo!

-Make that change

2:45:062:45:08

# Gotta make that change today

2:45:082:45:13

Man in the mirror

2:45:112:45:13

# You got to move, you know it

2:45:132:45:16

# You know it, ow!

2:45:162:45:19

# Yeah!

2:45:192:45:21

# Make that change

2:45:212:45:23

# You know all about it.

2:45:232:45:26

# Man in the mirror

2:45:262:45:28

# You know it, you know it

2:45:282:45:30

# You, you

2:45:302:45:31

# Yeah!

2:45:342:45:36

# Make that change

2:45:362:45:38

# Man in the mirror

2:45:412:45:43

# You know it, you know it

2:45:432:45:45

# You do, you, you

2:45:452:45:47

# Yeah!

2:45:482:45:50

# Make that change

2:45:502:45:52

# Gonna make that change today, yeah

2:45:522:45:55

# Man in the mirror

2:45:552:45:57

# Na-na-na, mm, yeah, yeah

2:45:572:46:00

# Yeah, you gotta

2:46:012:46:03

# Yeah, make that change

2:46:032:46:07

# Man in the mirror

2:46:092:46:12

# You know it, you know it You, you

2:46:122:46:16

# Whoo!

2:46:162:46:21

Yeah, make that change

2:46:172:46:21

# Man in the mirror

2:46:242:46:26

# Stand up

2:46:312:46:35

Yeah, make that change

2:46:322:46:35

# Stand up for each other

2:46:352:46:38

# Man in the mirror

2:46:382:46:40

# You know it, you know it

2:46:402:46:43

# You know it, you know

2:46:432:46:46

# Change... #

2:46:472:46:53

Make that change.

2:46:562:46:58

WILD CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

2:46:582:47:02

WILD APPLAUSE CONTINUES

2:47:292:47:33

I love you!

2:47:342:47:36

MUSIC: Intro to "Bad"

2:47:362:47:38

# Hee-hee-heee

2:47:532:47:54

# Chamon! #

2:47:542:47:56

MUSIC: "Don't Be Messin' Around"

2:47:562:47:58

# Are you ready for a real good time, my love?

2:48:282:48:31

# Are you ready for a good treat?

2:48:312:48:35

# There'll be so much as it singing

2:48:352:48:38

# Uh, uh, uh

2:48:382:48:39

# You, yeah, what you mean to me

2:48:392:48:43

# So don't be messin' round

2:48:432:48:45

# Don't be messin' round with me

2:48:452:48:48

# Don't be messin' with

2:48:482:48:49

# With me, hey hey

2:48:492:48:51

# So don't be messin' round

2:48:512:48:53

# Don't be messin' round

2:48:532:48:55

# Don't be messin' with With me

2:48:552:48:58

# Hey hey

2:48:582:48:59

# Don't be startin' nothin' then if

2:48:592:49:02

# If you say this really ain't your crowd

2:49:022:49:06

# I'll be so proud if you let me

2:49:062:49:09

# Only girl let me love you for a little while

2:49:092:49:15

# But don't be messin' with

2:49:152:49:17

# Don't be messin' with

2:49:172:49:19

# Don't be messin' round with me Hey hey hey

2:49:192:49:23

# So don't be messin' with

2:49:232:49:25

# Don't be messin' with

2:49:252:49:27

# Don't be messin' round with me Hey

2:49:272:49:31

# Aha, yeah

2:49:312:49:32

# Oh-ho yeah

2:49:322:49:34

# Aha, yeah

2:49:342:49:36

# Oh-ho yeah

2:49:362:49:38

# Ooh ooh

2:49:382:49:41

# Now she's started finger-poppin' to the beat

2:49:462:49:50

# So I said, "Let's do that on the floor"

2:49:502:49:54

# She said to keep your mind on dancin'

2:49:542:49:57

# Won't be no romancing

2:49:572:49:59

# Lord no, don't mess around with me

2:49:592:50:02

# I ain't playing

2:50:022:50:03

# Don't be messin' with

2:50:032:50:04

# Don't be messin' with me

2:50:042:50:07

# Don't be messin' round with me

2:50:072:50:09

# Hey hey So don't be messin' with

2:50:092:50:12

# Don't be messin' with

2:50:122:50:15

# Don't be messin' round with me Hey hey

2:50:152:50:18

# Bridge

2:50:182:50:20

# Doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo

2:50:202:50:23

# Doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo

2:50:232:50:27

# Doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo

2:50:272:50:31

# Doo-doo doo-doo

2:50:312:50:34

# Pu pu pa-rup pa-rup

2:50:342:50:36

# Pu pa-rup pa-rup

2:50:362:50:38

# Pu pa-rup pa-rup

2:50:382:50:40

# Pa pu pa pa pu pu pa-rup pa-rup

2:50:402:50:44

# Pu pa-rup pa-rup

2:50:442:50:46

# Pa pa-rup pu pa-rup

2:50:462:50:48

# Ba-ba ba buh

2:50:482:50:52

# Chi pah chi pah chi pah chi pah

2:50:552:50:58

# Chi pah chi pah chi pah chi pah

2:50:592:51:03

# Chi pah chi pah chi pah chi pah

2:51:032:51:06

# Ooh... #

2:51:062:51:07

VOCAL IMPROVISATION AND INSTRUMENTAL CONTINUES

2:51:072:51:13

# ..So don't be messin' with

2:51:222:51:24

# Don't be messin' with

2:51:242:51:26

# Don't be messin' with me Hey hey hey

2:51:262:51:30

# So don't be messin' with

2:51:302:51:32

# Don't be messin' with me

2:51:322:51:34

# Don't be messin' with, with me Hey hey

2:51:342:51:38

# So don't be messin' round

2:51:382:51:40

# Don't be messin' with me

2:51:402:51:42

# Don't be messin' with, with me Hey hey

2:51:422:51:46

# So don't be messin' with

2:51:462:51:48

# Don't be messin' with me

2:51:482:51:50

# Don't be messin' with me Hey hey... #

2:51:502:51:53

This is the thing.

2:51:532:51:55

VOCAL IMPROVISATION

2:51:552:51:58

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2:52:332:52:38

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2:52:382:52:40

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2:52:432:52:46

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2:52:462:52:47

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