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I hope you're all well
It's Friday!!! which means it's nearly the weekend!! :wild:
Here's the news thread start for the weekend! :kickass2:
Michael Jackson News:
Haven't got anything groundshaking to report at the moment.
Most news articles are either around the wheelchair photos in Las Vegas or the rumours of a collaboration with "New Kids on the Block"
Check back later for updates :flowers:
Michael Jackson Mentionings:
Strength in numbers
Bonachela … "I have to go for it."
Photo: Tamara Dean
Valerie Lawson
July 12, 2008
THREE boys, three countries and one transforming moment.
Rafael Bonachela in Spain, Akram Khan in England and Carlos Acosta in Cuba - each has told the story of how Michael Jackson's Thriller set them on their dancing path.
To be like ***** in a red leather jacket, leading a chorus of zombies in a hip-swiveling, eye-popping routine. That was the thing. Jackson could really move.
The hit video of 1982 led the three to become dancers and two - Khan and Bonachela - to branch out into choreography.
Perched on a sofa at the Sydney Dance Company, Bonachela recalls the Thriller moment. Aged 10, in La Garriga, outside Barcelona, he saw the Jackson video and "I copied. I called it, 'Let's make steps.' Then [the movie] Fame came out on TV, and that was my first realisation that, 'Oh my God', you can go to school to learn to sing, to learn to tap. I bought the book. I bought the CD."
Bonachela directs his own small dance company in London but is in Australia for two months to create a new work, 360°, for the Sydney Dance Company. With dynamic energy, he demonstrates what he wants from his 18 dancers. "I'm so exhausted by 6.15. I'm going, going, going. I'm doing it. I say [to the dancers] if I can do it, you can do it."
Tattooed on his lower left arm are the words "a por mas suenos", which he translates as "and now for more dreams".
FULL ARTICLE LINK
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Jeremy Spencer of Fleetwood Mac fame on stage again -- and performing in Belleville
Katjusa Cisar — 7/11/2008 8:31 am
Guitarist Jeremy Spencer is something of an enigma. He hasn't performed in the United States since he left Fleetwood Mac in the early '70s. In fact, he hasn't played in front of a general audience since then, either, instead focusing on performances for charities and events sponsored through the Family International, a religious movement that he joined around the same time he unexpectedly left Fleetwood Mac. (Legend has it he told the band he was going out to get a magazine at a nearby bookstore and never returned.)
MJ PART:
In a 1977 BBC interview, members of Fleetwood Mac commented on how your onstage persona (rock musician) was so different from your offstage persona (quiet, withdrawn Bible reader). How would you describe your onstage vs. offstage presence?
It's a mystery to me and to others to this day! But I understand that this quandary is not altogether unusual. Some big stars like Michael Jackson, B.B. King and even Elvis were painfully subject to their rather shy or withdrawn off-stage personalities! I'm thankful, however, that with God's help, I have a little more confidence meeting people in my latter years. I still prefer small, quiet company, though, to crowds and partying rah-rah!
FULL ARTICLE LINK
Michael Jackson HIStory:
1989 - Michael Jackson's album "Ben" was released.
1994 - Michael Jackson's spokesman, Lee Solters, denied that Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley were married.
2005 - Prescient Acquisition Group, Inc. filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against Michael Jackson. The claim was that Jackson owed the company $48 million for financial services it had provided since November 2004.
I hope you're all well
It's Friday!!! which means it's nearly the weekend!! :wild:
Here's the news thread start for the weekend! :kickass2:
Michael Jackson News:
Haven't got anything groundshaking to report at the moment.
Most news articles are either around the wheelchair photos in Las Vegas or the rumours of a collaboration with "New Kids on the Block"
Check back later for updates :flowers:
Michael Jackson Mentionings:
Strength in numbers
Photo: Tamara Dean
Valerie Lawson
July 12, 2008
THREE boys, three countries and one transforming moment.
Rafael Bonachela in Spain, Akram Khan in England and Carlos Acosta in Cuba - each has told the story of how Michael Jackson's Thriller set them on their dancing path.
To be like ***** in a red leather jacket, leading a chorus of zombies in a hip-swiveling, eye-popping routine. That was the thing. Jackson could really move.
The hit video of 1982 led the three to become dancers and two - Khan and Bonachela - to branch out into choreography.
Perched on a sofa at the Sydney Dance Company, Bonachela recalls the Thriller moment. Aged 10, in La Garriga, outside Barcelona, he saw the Jackson video and "I copied. I called it, 'Let's make steps.' Then [the movie] Fame came out on TV, and that was my first realisation that, 'Oh my God', you can go to school to learn to sing, to learn to tap. I bought the book. I bought the CD."
Bonachela directs his own small dance company in London but is in Australia for two months to create a new work, 360°, for the Sydney Dance Company. With dynamic energy, he demonstrates what he wants from his 18 dancers. "I'm so exhausted by 6.15. I'm going, going, going. I'm doing it. I say [to the dancers] if I can do it, you can do it."
Tattooed on his lower left arm are the words "a por mas suenos", which he translates as "and now for more dreams".
FULL ARTICLE LINK
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jeremy Spencer of Fleetwood Mac fame on stage again -- and performing in Belleville
Katjusa Cisar — 7/11/2008 8:31 am
Guitarist Jeremy Spencer is something of an enigma. He hasn't performed in the United States since he left Fleetwood Mac in the early '70s. In fact, he hasn't played in front of a general audience since then, either, instead focusing on performances for charities and events sponsored through the Family International, a religious movement that he joined around the same time he unexpectedly left Fleetwood Mac. (Legend has it he told the band he was going out to get a magazine at a nearby bookstore and never returned.)
MJ PART:
In a 1977 BBC interview, members of Fleetwood Mac commented on how your onstage persona (rock musician) was so different from your offstage persona (quiet, withdrawn Bible reader). How would you describe your onstage vs. offstage presence?
It's a mystery to me and to others to this day! But I understand that this quandary is not altogether unusual. Some big stars like Michael Jackson, B.B. King and even Elvis were painfully subject to their rather shy or withdrawn off-stage personalities! I'm thankful, however, that with God's help, I have a little more confidence meeting people in my latter years. I still prefer small, quiet company, though, to crowds and partying rah-rah!
FULL ARTICLE LINK
Michael Jackson HIStory:
1989 - Michael Jackson's album "Ben" was released.
1994 - Michael Jackson's spokesman, Lee Solters, denied that Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley were married.
2005 - Prescient Acquisition Group, Inc. filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against Michael Jackson. The claim was that Jackson owed the company $48 million for financial services it had provided since November 2004.
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