Re: December 5 - 7 News and Mentionings
More Michael Jackson Mentionings for December 6, 2008:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article5294265.ece
At secondary school, she sang in the choir and dreamt of being an opera singer. “I was into opera. I really wanted to be Maria Callas, but I realised that’s not my voice — I had a very small voice.”
At home, she sang along to Michael Jackson records “and made up little dances”. But another larger-than-life musical icon had a great influence on the young Hannigan. She vividly recalls a television commercial for a toy typewriter, the Petite that used Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5 as its soundtrack. Whether it was Parton’s voice or the simple, no-nonsense end line — “just like a real typewriter” — Hannigan knew she had to have one, and remains convinced to this day that she could have written her first novel on it had it not been for “shoddy workmanship”.
http://gapersblock.com/transmission/2008/12/06/fall_out_boy_rocks_the_chicago/
Although the concert was to promote
Folie à Deux, the band still ran through some classic tunes and older cuts. I was happy to see their Christmas classic "Yule Shoot Your Eye Out" make an appearance, and I'd be lying if I didn't admit to pumping my fist along to the entirety of "Chicago is So Two Years Ago."
The band went full throttle when they busted out their hit cover of Michael Jackson's "Beat It." Stump's vocal range really shines on the cover, and what band doesn't love to play a favorite cover song? They then surged into their breakout hit, "Sugar We're Going Down," making it the rowdiest and most infectious song of the night.
http://www.azcentral.com/ent/music/articles/2008/12/07/20081207godsmack.html?&wired
' Apparently he couldn't see everything wrong with himself, as he compounded his rock balladeering on
Carry On, which contained a comatose version of
Billie Jean that made Michael Jackson's original seem like alternative macho in comparison.
http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/thegeekfiles/2008/12/tribute-to-genre-legend-who-co.html
ACTOR and literary agent Forrest J Ackerman, who is credited with inventing the term 'sci-fi', has died of heart failure at his Los Angeles home at the age of 92.
Ackerman, a widower with no children, had bit parts in numerous films, including Queen of Blood, Dracula vs Frankenstein, Amazon Women on the Moon, Vampirella, The Howling and the
video for Michael Jackson's Thriller.
http://www.sundayworld.co.za/swzones/sundayworldNEW/entertain/entertain1228588798.asp
The young lad also made Congo drums with different sized tins of paint.
His love and passion for music began when he sang at his father’s church and imitated
Michael Jackson.
Fiso left home for Jozi to search for a recording deal. He played the piano at the Dian Whiks’s Presbyterian Church until he was introduced to Blondie Makhene.
http://movies.iexplorehere.com/news/1039/Farhan-Akhtar-rocking-as-a-host-now.html
Kicking off with a high voltage performance of hit music from his film 'Rock On', Farhan moves effortless into his role as host with a friendly tête-à-tête with his buddy Hrithik, giving audiences an insight into a very personal side of this superstar. Find out about how he met his wife Suzanne, his experiences on his recent holiday to the islands of Bora Bora,
his experience of meeting with Michael Jackson and much more. Not letting him off that easy, Farhan has a whole host of surprises in store for Hrithik
http://urbanmecca.net/news/?p=4968
As producer and conductor of the historic “We Are The World” recording (the best-selling single of all time),
Michael Jackson’s multi-platinum solo albums, Off The Wall, Bad and Thriller (the best-selling album of all time), and the multi-Grammy winning “Album of the Year” Back On The Block, Quincy Jones stands as one of the most successful and admired creative artist/executives in the entertainment world.
http://news.stv.tv/entertainment/58694-miranda-kerrs-chicken-love/
'Candy Shop' singer 50 Cent demanded a bucket of KFC chicken and a well-done expensive fillet mignon steak be in his dressing room at every British concert venue he played at last year.
Rihanna and rumoured boyfriend Chris Brown were also offered a lifetime supply of KFC food after they were photographed at one of the fast food chain's restaurants in Miami earlier this year.
Michael Jackson and Jennifer Lopez are also among the other celebrity fans of KFC
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entert...all/2008/12/06/alien-warriors-86908-20949656/
Fans included Tony Blair, who was pictured in his office holding an Alien Wars mug, but not all celebrities were brave enough to go through it. Gary said: "Even Rambo chickened out. Sylvester Stallone was thinking of coming along in London, but he didn't fancy the press he would get if he screamed his head off.
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Michael Jackson was the same. He sent his bodyguards along to check it out when he played Glasgow in 1992, but they asked to be let out halfway through.
Michael Jackson HIStory for December 6, 2008:
1995 - Michael Jackson's album "Off The Wall" was certified 7 times Platinum.
1995 - Michael Jackson was hospitalized after collapsing in a New York theater while rehearsing for a TV special.
2004 - The defense and prosection exchanged all evidence gathered in the Michael Jackson child-molestation case.