Roger Spy
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Last night my friend Rex Newmark took me to David Gest's concert "David Gest...My Life" at the Hammersmith Apollo in London.
The concert was hosted by David himself and featured several performers from the Motown period including the last survivor of the Temptations. The atmosphere was great and throughout the show everybody kept on standing up and dancing. David was also on stage most of the time to share his stories and introduce the acts.
At the beginning of the second part there was a video tribute to Michael. It started with footage of David, Tito and Katherine followed by a little clip which I had never seen before, from The 7th American Cinema Awards in 1990.
http://www.mjjpictures.com/bad/awards/aca/aca.html
He showed a 10 second clip of his speech and in it he said "I'm just making a long speech because this is not on television (laughs in the cutest way), I would also like to thank David Gest", then the screen faded out to black.
"David Guest Interviews Michael Jackson"
The Interview is on the same set as the ET one from 2001 after the two NY shows. Michael is wearing a blue shirt and shortish hair. Some of the footage had been seen before, some was totally new. The interview was intertwined with MSG 30TH Anniversary clips, Billie Jean and Can You Feel It.
The end of the video montage was another clip from David interviewing Michael and he says "I think the David Gest production did a wonderful job and David was organized (starts to smile) for once..." then both of them burst into an hysterical laughter. I don't think I've ever seen Michael laughing so hard! It was so funny! It was like a 10 second laughing moment between the two and Michael was banging his hand on his own leg and covering his lips.
There was a huge ovation when the video ended.
After that David came back on stage, said that Channel 5 bought the rights for the show and that they're gonna air a 2 hour special soon. He also added that he had just put together a 1 hour and half special of MJ interviews that he has from over the years "where you will hear him speaking with his deep voice" and that we'll be seeing that soon too.
After the show I met David and Tito Jackson who was in the audience. I actually met Tito before the show and asked him to sign the MSG 30th Anniversary programme which was being sold there and met him during the second part.
He said yes right away when I asked him if I could take a picture with him (I forgot my camera was set for no flash, so that's why the pic is so 'noisy') thanked him and told him "God bless you and Katherine", he shook my hand and wished me all the best.
David Gest and Roger Spy
Tito Jackson and Roger Spy
30th Anniversary programme signed by David Gest
30th Anniversary programme signed by Tito Jackson
David Gest...My Life programme
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Thank you*
RS
The concert was hosted by David himself and featured several performers from the Motown period including the last survivor of the Temptations. The atmosphere was great and throughout the show everybody kept on standing up and dancing. David was also on stage most of the time to share his stories and introduce the acts.
At the beginning of the second part there was a video tribute to Michael. It started with footage of David, Tito and Katherine followed by a little clip which I had never seen before, from The 7th American Cinema Awards in 1990.
http://www.mjjpictures.com/bad/awards/aca/aca.html
He showed a 10 second clip of his speech and in it he said "I'm just making a long speech because this is not on television (laughs in the cutest way), I would also like to thank David Gest", then the screen faded out to black.
"David Guest Interviews Michael Jackson"
The Interview is on the same set as the ET one from 2001 after the two NY shows. Michael is wearing a blue shirt and shortish hair. Some of the footage had been seen before, some was totally new. The interview was intertwined with MSG 30TH Anniversary clips, Billie Jean and Can You Feel It.
The end of the video montage was another clip from David interviewing Michael and he says "I think the David Gest production did a wonderful job and David was organized (starts to smile) for once..." then both of them burst into an hysterical laughter. I don't think I've ever seen Michael laughing so hard! It was so funny! It was like a 10 second laughing moment between the two and Michael was banging his hand on his own leg and covering his lips.
There was a huge ovation when the video ended.
After that David came back on stage, said that Channel 5 bought the rights for the show and that they're gonna air a 2 hour special soon. He also added that he had just put together a 1 hour and half special of MJ interviews that he has from over the years "where you will hear him speaking with his deep voice" and that we'll be seeing that soon too.
After the show I met David and Tito Jackson who was in the audience. I actually met Tito before the show and asked him to sign the MSG 30th Anniversary programme which was being sold there and met him during the second part.
He said yes right away when I asked him if I could take a picture with him (I forgot my camera was set for no flash, so that's why the pic is so 'noisy') thanked him and told him "God bless you and Katherine", he shook my hand and wished me all the best.
David Gest and Roger Spy
Tito Jackson and Roger Spy
30th Anniversary programme signed by David Gest
30th Anniversary programme signed by Tito Jackson
David Gest...My Life programme
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Thank you*
RS
Guess how much much I would LOVE to the clips where he breaks into a laughing frenzy? That must have been so cool to see.
