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Limonali said:
Yes I was there and yes she did something she called Michael Jackson songs medley - played her guitar part on a few songs she played with Michael (APOM, Thriller, SC among them). And then at the very end of the night after everyone asked - she did Beat It solo. It really was amazing to see her doing that live... like so many times on the tours. I got to speak to her for a moment too ;)
I said 'thanks for the last solo' and she said 'well, I kinda screwed it up anyway' :p

I have both recorded so as soon as I get it off my camera it will be on yt.
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Sounds Cool post the link here when you have them up, were there many MJ fans there, did she say anything about her time with Michael? I'd say beat it was class. Did the crowd sing beat it? Yeah it was a bit of a joke the way TII was released in America, you had to buy a couple of versions to make sure you had all the extras the add for lidl just says there is one type but that could just be lidl.
 
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Limonali that is sooooo cool! Can't wait to see vids!
 
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Emerald said:
Is this really Dublin? If so, what hotel is that that Michael was staying in?!
Amazing performance!!
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For some reason i think it was the four seasons at the RDS, i don't know why i think that but i just have it in my head, i know it was JULY 25TH and he went to euro disney the next day and then came back to Ireland for another night before he continued on to London.
 
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Gottobethere said:
Did anybody see the lidl magazine that you find in all the papers, the back page is huge add for TII which they will have for sale on the 19th. It's a good add, calling it an event that the music industry has never seen before.
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ya my da just told me about that.
ive already got it ordered from amazon...
but im gona get this too.... :D :D
 
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Gottobethere said:
For some reason i think it was the four seasons at the RDS, i don't know why i think that but i just have it in my head, i know it was JULY 25TH and he went to euro disney the next day and then came back to Ireland for another night before he continued on to London.
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Oh wow cool, thanks for all the info!!

Here's a pic of the Four Seasons:

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Hmm, kind of looks of a different style to the balcony MJ was on. Maybe I'm wrong though.
 
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Emerald said:
Oh wow cool, thanks for all the info!!

Here's a pic of the Four Seasons:

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Hmm, kind of looks of a different style to the balcony MJ was on. Maybe I'm wrong though.
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That was the four seasons i was thinking of so i'd say it is me who is wrong.
 
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Gottobethere said:
That was the four seasons i was thinking of so i'd say it is me who is wrong.
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The video could have been misleading though, and that balcony wasn't in Dublin at all. :)
I'm going to look up all the Ballsbridge hotels to see if any of them look like the on Michael was in in the Jam video.
 
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From my research..if that balcony is in Dublin, I think it may have been the Ballsbridge Court Hotel Michael stayed in?
Because! I looked it up and it's on Pembroke Road which looks like this:
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Kind of looks like fans in the video were gathered to the right of this pic!
 
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Emerald said:
The video could have been misleading though, and that balcony wasn't in Dublin at all. :)
I'm going to look up all the Ballsbridge hotels to see if any of them look like the on Michael was in in the Jam video.
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Sorry i just watched the whole video there and while most of the video of him on stage was probably Ireland i think a lot of the fan scenes are from other concerts and i don't think the balcony is Dublin either.
 
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Ahh! That could be it. It's a shame if the balcony isn't Dublin! They had it under the Dublin heading.
But anyway this is the best pic I could find of the Ballsbridge Court Hotel:

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I worked for a month in the Court Hotel (restaurant).
IF he stayed there and I didn't know - when I could ACCESS ALL ROOMS I am going to shot myself :giggle:
When I was there, Muhammad Ali stayed there on his trip to Ireland.

But I also don't think those scenes were in Dublin. The buildings around the crowd/balcony are tall.
There isn't that many tall buildings in Dublin (compared to a typical big city of Europe).

Gottobethere - there were SOME MJ fans and yes, we were SCREAMING all of the songs she played ;)
not beat it tho cause she only did a solo.
 
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Limonali said:
I worked for a month in the Court Hotel (restaurant).
IF he stayed there and I didn't know - when I could ACCESS ALL ROOMS I am going to shot myself :giggle:
When I was there, Muhammad Ali stayed there on his trip to Ireland.

But I also don't think those scenes were in Dublin. The buildings around the crowd/balcony are tall.
There isn't that many tall buildings in Dublin (compared to a typical big city of Europe).

Gottobethere - there were SOME MJ fans and yes, we were SCREAMING all of the songs she played ;)
not beat it tho cause she only did a solo.
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Cool, are you going to Man in the Mirror in the olympia?
 
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You know that 'Reeling In The Years' series you guys had on RTE?

My girlfriend is from Limerick and she downloaded the whole thing recently, so naturally I wanted to see the years 1988, 1992 and 1997 to see if there was any mention of MJ. There was none!!

I'd have thought his visit to Cork in '88 would've been a significant focus point.
 
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bobo said:
You know that 'Reeling In The Years' series you guys had on RTE?

My girlfriend is from Limerick and she downloaded the whole thing recently, so naturally I wanted to see the years 1988, 1992 and 1997 to see if there was any mention of MJ. There was none!!

I'd have thought his visit to Cork in '88 would've been a significant focus point.
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I have the series and your right but i think that is because it concentrates on huge international event or huge Irish events which even though it was huge at the times to the people who went it probably wasn't a big national story.
 
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Gottobethere said:
It's on the 18th 19th and 20th, I'm the same as you i just don't have much heed in seeing an impersonator, it's 25 euro and you can look up the set list on http://www.mjjcommunity.com/forum/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=2616694. Can you tell me how do i put up a youtube vid.
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:lol: I never did that myself before.
But I guess when you set up a profile it just has a button that says 'upload'... :unsure:
edit: yeah it does and it also allows to share it immediately on various social networking websites.
 
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I would have loved to be there, it looked great, it's a pity about the ***** crap though.
 
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I would love to know if the cute little boy in the wheelchair (in the RTE news report) got to meet Michael. It looks like he was in a special guest seating area or something? He looked so happy!

My goodness though, Charlie Bird. How your journalistic professionalism has improved since then.

Imagine Michael was in Páirc Uí Chaoimh!
 
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Emerald said:
I would love to know if the cute little boy in the wheelchair (in the RTE news report) got to meet Michael. It looks like he was in a special guest seating area or something? He looked so happy!

My goodness though, Charlie Bird. How your journalistic professionalism has improved since then.

Imagine Michael was in Páirc Uí Chaoimh!
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Ha ha that exactly what i thought, he is probably our best reporter but when you here him then he sounds like he could be working for TMZ. He coming back from Washington by the way, jaysus between him and lee RTE can't get rid of their reporters. I love the vid though it was such a major event in Ireland.
 
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Dionne Warwick on the Late Late show is after singing Michael's praises. Saying she was very sad about it and how he was such a perfectionist but his music will live on forever. BTW it's the business having an Irish thread on here.
 
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^ Aww, it is. :) Love it! Oh thanks for the Dionne Warwick info, saw Samuel L Jackson but turned it over then.

Gottobethere said:
Ha ha that exactly what i thought, he is probably our best reporter but when you here him then he sounds like he could be working for TMZ. He coming back from Washington by the way, jaysus between him and lee RTE can't get rid of their reporters. I love the vid though it was such a major event in Ireland.
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Yeah it was so major! Love seeing everyone's reaction.
LOL so true "he sounds like he could be working for TMZ." Haha, George Lee might be back to them yet by the sounds of it..ha!!
 
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Emerald said:
"Moonwalking in the moonlight"....... :heart:
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I totally loved these vids, but the comment about Michael moonwalking in the moonlight broke my heart. I have been away several days, far, far away from here, with no access to tv, radio, news, papers, magazines, nothing... but nature. It was so healing, the best days in almost 8 months and no single tear. I was able to think of Michael with peace in my heart, with hope of ever see him again in a better place. Coming back to reality and real world has been so shocking. I will not comment on the news we all know... and then this video and this comment of him doing his moonkwalk to the moonlight... just being himself, just being Michael Joseph Jackson, the man, the father. The pain is back. I miss Michael so, so much!!!! I can't deny it :(

I am grateful to Ireland to have been such a warm and wonderful place to Michael and his kids. Thanks, thanks, thanks for sharing this. Yes, it's hard, but it is also nice to know he had his happy family times.

We love you so much, Michael!!!!
 
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Emerald said:
The puppet theatre story is just so lovely. That man is adorable "I found him to be such a charming person" He seems sad :( They had sweets and lemonade for Michael and the children. AWW. :(
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This!!!
So beutiful!! Thanks also for this one.
I am so proud and relieved to know Michael gave so much to his kids. He gave them ALL the time he could. ALL the time!!! Not just the money, but it is the time they spent together. They had such a short time together, but I am sure they have lots of funny, merry, lovely and sweet memories with daddy Mike. How many parents who have the time to do it, actually go with their kids to see a theatre story, or just to play and be together?

Michael Jackson has so much to teach to parents!! He had the chance to give his time and energy and his all to his kids and he didn't wast a minute. Wise, wise decition.

LOL... this brought to my mind the second thread that got my attention when I visited the forum for the first time: "There's something sexy about Michael being a single father" :lol:
 
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Michael liked Flahavan's porridge, this might be a little long but it's worth a read.

Friends remember Michael's special fondness for Ireland
Restless soul found tranquillity here in rural retreats away from glare of media spotlight

Sunday June 28 2009

He performed onstage to millions across the globe; entire generations grew up listening to his words, watching his every move. And yet, as the world mourns the loss of one of the greatest entertainers that ever lived, his sudden death has left his audience with one cold realisation. We never really knew him at all.

This weekend, as fans reel in shock at the news of Michael Jackson's tragic death, Irish friends of the star have begun to piece together a rare picture of the man behind the mask.

A restless soul who found the tranquillity he desperately craved in the Irish countryside. A gentle spirit who loved Flahavan's porridge, indulged in hot apple tart and cream and who only really came to life in the quietness of a Cork woodland.

These glimpses of the private Michael Jackson have materialised among dozens of tributes which have poured in from well-known Irish personalities as the world mourns the loss of one of music's greats.

For the first time, castle owner Patrick Nordstrum, who hosted Jackson during his 2006 stay in Ireland, has spoken fondly of the star he personally came to know.

Speaking about the entertainer who lived with him for two weeks at his home, Blackwater Castle in Co Cork, Mr Nordstrum described private chats that the pair had about the singer's feelings towards the vulturistic world he lived in.

"I don't think he ever had any kind of peace or normality since he was a child. I would see him as a restless soul but he felt quite homely here. He was very careful about who he trusted. He once told me how he had gone to stay at another castle to seek out privacy and he had just landed in the helicopter a few minutes when the owner took him straight inside, opened a door and there was a hundred or so people waiting there to meet him. So he was understandably very wary."

He also described how Jackson, long vilified for dressing his children in black veils and hiding them away from the world, was in fact a model father who placed his children's interests above all else.

"His children adored him and he was a very good, loving father. He brought them here because they had been hunted down in Disneyland Paris and they were looking for a place to escape. He raised them to be very well mannered and very polite and all his decision's centred on the children's best interests."

FROM CHILD STAR TO TORTURED MAN IN THE MIRROR, PAGE 18

Recalling some light-hearted memories of his time with Jackson he said, "My wife Sheila is very much into her healthy food and she had a bowl of porridge every morning so she gave some to Michael, he loved it and he insisted on having a bowl every morning from then on."

Meanwhile, magician Liam Sheehan, who was brought in to entertain Jackson's children during his stay at the castle, described his sadness upon hearing the news.

"The man that I came to know was kind-hearted and a gentleman. It is tragic that he spent his life being hunted. I hope he has found his little piece of heaven now."

He went on: "His children adored him. They would ask me if I would race their dad and tell me proudly that he would win because he was so tall and fast. You could tell they really looked up to him."

And Mr Sheehan spoke of the disciplined way in which Jackson reared his offspring. "Even at the end of their stay, when they were leaving for home, the children jumped into the limousine and Michael made them get out again and come over to thank each and every one of us for our hospitality."

Painting the picture of an ordinary character who enjoyed the simple pleasures in life, he said: "His real personality only really emerged in the privacy of the woods. The shyness left him and I saw a much more boisterous and loud spirit who loved playing with his children. That quiet-spoken Michael that you would see in the media instantly disappeared.

"He loved apple pie and ice-cream and really enjoyed being in the privacy of the castle grounds and I know he loved the friendliness of the Irish people."

Jackson played concerts in Cork in 1988 and Dublin in 1992 and 1997. Promoter Oliver Barry, who brought the singer to Ireland twice, said the music industry has lost one of a kind.

"On stage he was amazing. It is a huge loss for the business. He was a true professional. I saw Elvis Presley twice, I saw Sinatra, I saw the Beatles, the Stones, and without a doubt, when he was in his prime, he was the best I have ever seen. He had whatever the 'X' factor is times a thousand."

Paddy Dunning, who owns residential recording studio Grouse Lodge, near Moate, Co Westmeath, was host to Michael Jackson and his three children in October 2006.

The pop icon caused a sensation when he moved into the Georgian estate at Rosemount, just off the Dublin-Galway road.

"Michael had originally only intended staying in Westmeath for a month, but ended up living here for five months," says Dunning who's abiding memory of the star was how he casually displayed his immense musical genius.

"Michael was an amazing guitarist, he was incredible on the drums, he stunned everyone when he got behind the piano, but most of all, you can't overstate his singing voice."

Dunning became a close confident to Michael during his stay and was in contact with the Jackson family after his death was announced. He confirmed this weekend that Jackson loved his time in Ireland so much he'd even pledged to return this autumn to open the National Wax Museum in Dublin.

"He told me that he would definitely pop over when he came for his gigs in London," Dunning said.

"He would have settled down here for while, I have no doubt about that, he loved Ireland and Westmeath."

Hollywood neighbour and friend of the singer Michael Flatley also joined the country's mourners in paying their respect to an icon that shaped a generation.

Speaking from Las Vegas, the dancer, who hosted Michael Jackson in his Cork home, Castlehyde, near Fermoy, described the star as a "wonderful" person who fell victim to unfair treatment by the world's media.

"I knew Michael as a man, not just a performer, and he was a great man. The world will miss this wonderful person and his moving performances. My heart goes out to Michael's family."

He went on: "I was shocked and saddened to hear the devastating news. He was a genius as a musician and a dancer. The press at times was horribly unfair to this man. Unfortunately, the media tend to make fun of things they cannot understand."

- NIAMH HORAN Entertainment News Reporter
 
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