The song “You are my life” from Invincible was originally called “You are my world”, this change was done literally at the last minute
“Carousel” was replaced from “Human Nature” in the final track list selection (Thriller Album)
“Stranger In Moscow” was shooted entirely in Los Angeles
Monkey Business was originally for the Dangerous album, but they rejected it because it didn’t fit with the album concept.
“Why” with 3T and “Superfly Sister”were intended to be in the HIStory album.(“Superfly Sister” recorded much earlier than 1997)
MJ hated playback album sessions for the company executives, the one and only time he attended such a session was for the HIStory album.
The uptempo tracks recorded for the “Bad” album were originally around nine minutes in length and required some major trimming for the album. Once trimmed, the edits were sped up by 6% before being made public. As a result Michael’s voice sounded ever so slightly higher on the final album versions
For the spoken intro to “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You” they built a microphone into the head of a mannequin To record the intro MJ hopped into a bed with the mannequin and spoke into its head The intro speech for “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You” liked only to MJ. Therefore all the next releases of the song (Bad Special Edition 2001, The Ultimate Collection 2004 …
did not include it.
Cancelled shows from Dangerous World Tour included, among others, Puerto Rico & New Delhi
Really strange the fact that MJ wrote “Muscles” for Diana Ross.
Both “In The Closet” and “2000 Watts” have to do with orgasm. During “In The Closet” you can hear MJ emulating orgasm, during “2000 Watts” notice the lyrics (“how low you go Just enough to make your juices flow”
There are three versions of “Streetwalker”. One was the version we know, from the 2001 “Bad” Special Edition and subsequent 2012 “Bad 25″ release. The other two were different, featuring an eerie ‘Wild West’ style intro and different ad libs.
The original cover of Invincible was a jacket made of diamonds and the words “King of Pop” written on the top
The Mystery woman you hear in the song “In the Closet” is Princess Stephanie of Monaco
During “Scream” in Sweden in 1997, the playback failed to play.
In Belgium (1997) MJ sang entirely live the “Dangerous” song due again to playback failure.
The HIStory statue arrived in each city that MJ had to perform before two days from the concert day
For the 2nd leg of HIStory Tour MJ asked for a special self-air conditioned jacket while performing
For the Invincible album MJ and R. Jerkins where in the Studio sometimes for 40 hours straight
During “Smooth Criminal” lean in Japan (1996) MJ falls.
MJ decided not to include the song 'Beat it' during the second part of his Dangerous Tour. That’s why he performed the song 'Black or White' from the cherry picker (instead of Beat it)
There is an unreleased song from Invincible Sessions called '”The Colour of my soul”
It took 6 months for Mark Ryden to complete the Dangerous album cover (which was inspired by the video clip “Leave me alone”
There is a major recording error in the song “Give In To Me’ at 0:45 - 0:46 in ALL the available releases of that song.
Unreleased songs during Dangerous sessions: “If You Don’t Love Me”, “Serious Effect (with LL Cool J)”, “She Got It”
In Holland, Canada, Germany & France there are some editions of HIStory album with a quote from MJ saying that “I love my fans and I really looking forward to come and see you in […country]
One of the reason why Invincible took so long to complete was that MJ often got cold from his kids and was away from the recording process
There were 7 look-alike stages for the HIStory concerts in order everything to be ready
While MJ stayed in Monte Carlo (1996) for the World Music Awards, many celebrities (among them Celine Dion) who stayed in the same hotel with MJ complained to the hotel's manager that they couldn't sleep because of the MJ fans who had been screaming all night long
There were over of 90 different versions (mixes) of “Billie Jean” song . The final version for the Thriller was the No. 2
Unreleased song during Invincible sessions: “Do You Want Me” (with Sisqo)
Michael collapsed in studio in Neverland during dancing (June 1990)
It was revealed straight by MJ when he was in Gstaad in 1992, that during Bad Tour MJ was near to damage permanently his phonetic strings due to the fact that those days all of his songs where performed fully live
There is an unreleased video for “Just Good Friends”
At the ending of “Who Is It” is not MJ but a person who looks like him
The HIStory CD was initially a 3-disc set, but MJ in order to keep the price down edited & re-edited night and day in order to become a 2-disc set with a lower price for his fans
Is It Scary was about to be included in the HIStory Album but MJ thought that it didn’t fit with the mood of the album
According to MJ, the India History Concert (November 1996) was one of his best concerts ever
During the HIStory concerts MJ traveled with his own CD-Movies library
The HIStory Statue was inspired by a statue placed in Volgorant, Russia
“Money” from HIStory Album was inspired from 1993 allegations.
The reason why MJ puts tape on his fingers is to show that sympathizes with the kids who are being tortured in all around the world
Listen MJ clearing his voice on “Earth Song” just after the lyrics ?What about babies?
When MJ released the HIStory Album he asked from the authorities to change the trademark on the mountains of Los Angeles from HOLLYWOOD to HIStory, but they refused saying that such a thing would cause the death of workers, something that happened there in the past
Cancelled shows for HIStory Tour 1996 (1st Leg): Casamblanka and Cairo
In a studio placed in France (during 1999-2000), MJ had thousands of images in a computer in order to decide which one to take for the Invincible cover
Back in early 1990’s MJ was sued by a man who invented the recording technique called “olofonics” and claimed that MJ used it with the wrong way while recording the albums “Bad” & “Dangerous”
In Cape Town during HIStory Concert 1997, his parents where in the stadium watching him
In the astronaut scene on Man in the Mirror (Dangerous Tour) is not the real MJ who flies away but a stuntman.
When MJ knows that in the concert are some of his closest friends he gets a little shy while performing avoiding touching his crotch area (as he did in Oslo, 1992, when in the Dangerous concert was Liz Tayror)
When his favourite snake python died, he made a whole funeral ceremony for its death inside Neverland with many guests
MJ and Shaquille O’ Neal never met each other for the song “2 Bad”.
“Blood on the dance floor” is (among others) dedicated to Elton John because MJ felt very badly when he stayed in his house but forgot to thank him
In early 1990’s MJ visited Benny Hill in hospital and said that “Benny is probably the only one person that makes me still to laugh”
For the shooting of “They don’t care about us” video 1.500 policemen were asked to keep away the people from MJ
When the first pressing of the single “Scream” was released, a convoy of police cars followed the car with the single inside from the studio to place where it was supposed to be
During MJ’s stay in Mexiko for the Dangerous Tour there was vomit all over his presidential suite (due to his critical health and state of mind).
“We’ve had Enough”, “Fall Again”, “Beautiful Girl”, “The Way You Love Me” were left out from the Invincible final track list (you can hear them in “The Ultimate Collection 2004”
Behind rap lyrics in “Black Or White” is Bill Botrell, the person who produced “Give In To Me’
The original cover image for Invincible was MJ’s face painted gold. Sony rejected it.
“You Rock My World” was the only song from Rodney Jerkins that MJ kept. All the rest that Jerkins gave him was in a style similar to the “Off The Wall” album. MJ wanted a futuristic melody and style for his songs in Invincible to gain new fans from the new millennium.
There is a non-revealed woman doing background vocals in the rap part of “This Time Around”.
40 tracks were recorded for “HIStory” album before 15 of them made the final track list.
Streetwalker was about to be included in the BAD album instead of Another Part Of Me (there was a strong disagreement over which one to choose)
One reason why HIStory Tour in Munich has never been released is that during Smooth Criminal lean one of the dancers reveals the secret
The final track list legth of HIStory album (new songs) was 7 minute longer than the capacity of a CD.
The original title for the unreleased Monkey Business is Too Much Monkey Business
Janet Jackson recorded her part of the Scream song in her studio in Minneapolis
MJ actually wanted a mixed version of the video clip They Don’t Care About Us that would included both shots from prison and brasilian neighbours.
Give In To Me was initially recorded as a dance song, later it was transformed into a rock one.
MJ and Prince met each other briefly and in private during a HIStory session.
MJ wears contact lenses on the BAD cover (in order to make his eyes look glossier)
There is a major recording error on the Bad song at 00:06 (Special Edition 2001)
MJ perfomed the Dangerous song during the second part of Dangerous Tour (1993) with the aim of looking more masculine in order to contradict the allegations (thus the sexy female silouette during the song)
The sounsd of cars and horns in the song She Drives Me Wild are not real, they are from a sample CD that Teddy Riley had brought with him.
There is a printing error on the Invincible booklet (missing second lines of the song Whatever happens)
Dangerous Special Edition (2001) has not any bonus material because -like the original- the songs cover the full capacity of a CD (howerer MJ and Matt Forger had unreleased tracks in their hands -Serious Effect, for example- in case there would be a second disc)
For the photoshoot of the Triller cover, MJ arrived to the studio without having a clue until then what to wear. He grabbed on the spur of the moment an abandoned white suite from a chair. That suite was about to be the most famous suite of all times.
During 30th Anniversary Celebration in Madison Square Garden (2001) Sony didn’t allow MJ to perform new songs from Invincible and no spot that would promote Invincible aired on TV during the show. MJ answered to that by not performing on the Cry video.
Cancelled HIStory concerts included shows in Slovenia and Barcelona,
During Jam in Russia (Dangerous Tour 1993) MJ could not dance and just walked carefully due to water that remained ot the stage from heavy rain
Rodney Jerkins played exclusively (as a dj) in a party in Harlem few days before its official release the song You Rock My World
MJ during Dangerous sessions had all the studios he recorded in hired and locked at the same time even though for time periods when they were not used in order to avoid tracks leakage.
In the royal concert in Brunei (1996) MJ sings the wrong lyrics in the second verse during Beat It.
Starlight was the original title for Thriller song
Little Susie has its roots back in 1978 when MJ recorded the song Susie
All the revenues from the concert in India (1996) were given to charity events
Another unreleased duet with LL Cool J (apart from Serious Effect) is The Truth On Youth
You Are a Liar is another unreleased song during Invincible sessions
Just before the start of Liberian Girl you can hear the Speed Demon ending because they thought back then that they fit perfectly together
The hardest songs in the HIStory album were Little Susie & They Don’t Care About Us (the vocals were recorded and re-recorded numerous times).
Minutes before his show in Vienna (1997) MJ had terrible pains in his stomach and the show was very close to cancellation.
During the show in Valladolid (1997) 3T attended the concert
The famous Billie Jean intro dance moves were inspired by MJ in his kitchen the night right before the Motown 25 performance (March 1983)
Prince rejected MJ’s offer to appear on the BAD video
MJ never really liked the song To Satisfy You that Bryan Loren produced for the Dangerous album so MJ gave it back to him to put it in his album called Music from The New World
Elton John inspired the title Blood On the dance floor
Teddy Riley was called to participate during the last sessions of Invincible project
Got The Hots, a song that was about to be included in the Thriller album, appears in the Thriller Special Edition (2001) but only on the Japanese version
Hot Fever was the original title for The Way You Make Me Feel
Face & Fear are unreleased songs from HIStory album
Much Too Soon was the original title for Gone Too Soon
In The Back was intended to be in the Blood On The Dance Floor album
“Carousel” was replaced from “Human Nature” in the final track list selection (Thriller Album)
“Stranger In Moscow” was shooted entirely in Los Angeles
Monkey Business was originally for the Dangerous album, but they rejected it because it didn’t fit with the album concept.
“Why” with 3T and “Superfly Sister”were intended to be in the HIStory album.(“Superfly Sister” recorded much earlier than 1997)
MJ hated playback album sessions for the company executives, the one and only time he attended such a session was for the HIStory album.
The uptempo tracks recorded for the “Bad” album were originally around nine minutes in length and required some major trimming for the album. Once trimmed, the edits were sped up by 6% before being made public. As a result Michael’s voice sounded ever so slightly higher on the final album versions
For the spoken intro to “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You” they built a microphone into the head of a mannequin To record the intro MJ hopped into a bed with the mannequin and spoke into its head The intro speech for “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You” liked only to MJ. Therefore all the next releases of the song (Bad Special Edition 2001, The Ultimate Collection 2004 …
did not include it. Cancelled shows from Dangerous World Tour included, among others, Puerto Rico & New Delhi
Really strange the fact that MJ wrote “Muscles” for Diana Ross.
Both “In The Closet” and “2000 Watts” have to do with orgasm. During “In The Closet” you can hear MJ emulating orgasm, during “2000 Watts” notice the lyrics (“how low you go Just enough to make your juices flow”
There are three versions of “Streetwalker”. One was the version we know, from the 2001 “Bad” Special Edition and subsequent 2012 “Bad 25″ release. The other two were different, featuring an eerie ‘Wild West’ style intro and different ad libs.
The original cover of Invincible was a jacket made of diamonds and the words “King of Pop” written on the top
The Mystery woman you hear in the song “In the Closet” is Princess Stephanie of Monaco
During “Scream” in Sweden in 1997, the playback failed to play.
In Belgium (1997) MJ sang entirely live the “Dangerous” song due again to playback failure.
The HIStory statue arrived in each city that MJ had to perform before two days from the concert day
For the 2nd leg of HIStory Tour MJ asked for a special self-air conditioned jacket while performing
For the Invincible album MJ and R. Jerkins where in the Studio sometimes for 40 hours straight
During “Smooth Criminal” lean in Japan (1996) MJ falls.
MJ decided not to include the song 'Beat it' during the second part of his Dangerous Tour. That’s why he performed the song 'Black or White' from the cherry picker (instead of Beat it)
There is an unreleased song from Invincible Sessions called '”The Colour of my soul”
It took 6 months for Mark Ryden to complete the Dangerous album cover (which was inspired by the video clip “Leave me alone”
There is a major recording error in the song “Give In To Me’ at 0:45 - 0:46 in ALL the available releases of that song.
Unreleased songs during Dangerous sessions: “If You Don’t Love Me”, “Serious Effect (with LL Cool J)”, “She Got It”
In Holland, Canada, Germany & France there are some editions of HIStory album with a quote from MJ saying that “I love my fans and I really looking forward to come and see you in […country]
One of the reason why Invincible took so long to complete was that MJ often got cold from his kids and was away from the recording process
There were 7 look-alike stages for the HIStory concerts in order everything to be ready
While MJ stayed in Monte Carlo (1996) for the World Music Awards, many celebrities (among them Celine Dion) who stayed in the same hotel with MJ complained to the hotel's manager that they couldn't sleep because of the MJ fans who had been screaming all night long
There were over of 90 different versions (mixes) of “Billie Jean” song . The final version for the Thriller was the No. 2
Unreleased song during Invincible sessions: “Do You Want Me” (with Sisqo)
Michael collapsed in studio in Neverland during dancing (June 1990)
It was revealed straight by MJ when he was in Gstaad in 1992, that during Bad Tour MJ was near to damage permanently his phonetic strings due to the fact that those days all of his songs where performed fully live
There is an unreleased video for “Just Good Friends”
At the ending of “Who Is It” is not MJ but a person who looks like him
The HIStory CD was initially a 3-disc set, but MJ in order to keep the price down edited & re-edited night and day in order to become a 2-disc set with a lower price for his fans
Is It Scary was about to be included in the HIStory Album but MJ thought that it didn’t fit with the mood of the album
According to MJ, the India History Concert (November 1996) was one of his best concerts ever
During the HIStory concerts MJ traveled with his own CD-Movies library
The HIStory Statue was inspired by a statue placed in Volgorant, Russia
“Money” from HIStory Album was inspired from 1993 allegations.
The reason why MJ puts tape on his fingers is to show that sympathizes with the kids who are being tortured in all around the world
Listen MJ clearing his voice on “Earth Song” just after the lyrics ?What about babies?
When MJ released the HIStory Album he asked from the authorities to change the trademark on the mountains of Los Angeles from HOLLYWOOD to HIStory, but they refused saying that such a thing would cause the death of workers, something that happened there in the past
Cancelled shows for HIStory Tour 1996 (1st Leg): Casamblanka and Cairo
In a studio placed in France (during 1999-2000), MJ had thousands of images in a computer in order to decide which one to take for the Invincible cover
Back in early 1990’s MJ was sued by a man who invented the recording technique called “olofonics” and claimed that MJ used it with the wrong way while recording the albums “Bad” & “Dangerous”
In Cape Town during HIStory Concert 1997, his parents where in the stadium watching him
In the astronaut scene on Man in the Mirror (Dangerous Tour) is not the real MJ who flies away but a stuntman.
When MJ knows that in the concert are some of his closest friends he gets a little shy while performing avoiding touching his crotch area (as he did in Oslo, 1992, when in the Dangerous concert was Liz Tayror)
When his favourite snake python died, he made a whole funeral ceremony for its death inside Neverland with many guests
MJ and Shaquille O’ Neal never met each other for the song “2 Bad”.
“Blood on the dance floor” is (among others) dedicated to Elton John because MJ felt very badly when he stayed in his house but forgot to thank him
In early 1990’s MJ visited Benny Hill in hospital and said that “Benny is probably the only one person that makes me still to laugh”
For the shooting of “They don’t care about us” video 1.500 policemen were asked to keep away the people from MJ
When the first pressing of the single “Scream” was released, a convoy of police cars followed the car with the single inside from the studio to place where it was supposed to be
During MJ’s stay in Mexiko for the Dangerous Tour there was vomit all over his presidential suite (due to his critical health and state of mind).
“We’ve had Enough”, “Fall Again”, “Beautiful Girl”, “The Way You Love Me” were left out from the Invincible final track list (you can hear them in “The Ultimate Collection 2004”
Behind rap lyrics in “Black Or White” is Bill Botrell, the person who produced “Give In To Me’
The original cover image for Invincible was MJ’s face painted gold. Sony rejected it.
“You Rock My World” was the only song from Rodney Jerkins that MJ kept. All the rest that Jerkins gave him was in a style similar to the “Off The Wall” album. MJ wanted a futuristic melody and style for his songs in Invincible to gain new fans from the new millennium.
There is a non-revealed woman doing background vocals in the rap part of “This Time Around”.
40 tracks were recorded for “HIStory” album before 15 of them made the final track list.
Streetwalker was about to be included in the BAD album instead of Another Part Of Me (there was a strong disagreement over which one to choose)
One reason why HIStory Tour in Munich has never been released is that during Smooth Criminal lean one of the dancers reveals the secret
The final track list legth of HIStory album (new songs) was 7 minute longer than the capacity of a CD.
The original title for the unreleased Monkey Business is Too Much Monkey Business
Janet Jackson recorded her part of the Scream song in her studio in Minneapolis
MJ actually wanted a mixed version of the video clip They Don’t Care About Us that would included both shots from prison and brasilian neighbours.
Give In To Me was initially recorded as a dance song, later it was transformed into a rock one.
MJ and Prince met each other briefly and in private during a HIStory session.
MJ wears contact lenses on the BAD cover (in order to make his eyes look glossier)
There is a major recording error on the Bad song at 00:06 (Special Edition 2001)
MJ perfomed the Dangerous song during the second part of Dangerous Tour (1993) with the aim of looking more masculine in order to contradict the allegations (thus the sexy female silouette during the song)
The sounsd of cars and horns in the song She Drives Me Wild are not real, they are from a sample CD that Teddy Riley had brought with him.
There is a printing error on the Invincible booklet (missing second lines of the song Whatever happens)
Dangerous Special Edition (2001) has not any bonus material because -like the original- the songs cover the full capacity of a CD (howerer MJ and Matt Forger had unreleased tracks in their hands -Serious Effect, for example- in case there would be a second disc)
For the photoshoot of the Triller cover, MJ arrived to the studio without having a clue until then what to wear. He grabbed on the spur of the moment an abandoned white suite from a chair. That suite was about to be the most famous suite of all times.
During 30th Anniversary Celebration in Madison Square Garden (2001) Sony didn’t allow MJ to perform new songs from Invincible and no spot that would promote Invincible aired on TV during the show. MJ answered to that by not performing on the Cry video.
Cancelled HIStory concerts included shows in Slovenia and Barcelona,
During Jam in Russia (Dangerous Tour 1993) MJ could not dance and just walked carefully due to water that remained ot the stage from heavy rain
Rodney Jerkins played exclusively (as a dj) in a party in Harlem few days before its official release the song You Rock My World
MJ during Dangerous sessions had all the studios he recorded in hired and locked at the same time even though for time periods when they were not used in order to avoid tracks leakage.
In the royal concert in Brunei (1996) MJ sings the wrong lyrics in the second verse during Beat It.
Starlight was the original title for Thriller song
Little Susie has its roots back in 1978 when MJ recorded the song Susie
All the revenues from the concert in India (1996) were given to charity events
Another unreleased duet with LL Cool J (apart from Serious Effect) is The Truth On Youth
You Are a Liar is another unreleased song during Invincible sessions
Just before the start of Liberian Girl you can hear the Speed Demon ending because they thought back then that they fit perfectly together
The hardest songs in the HIStory album were Little Susie & They Don’t Care About Us (the vocals were recorded and re-recorded numerous times).
Minutes before his show in Vienna (1997) MJ had terrible pains in his stomach and the show was very close to cancellation.
During the show in Valladolid (1997) 3T attended the concert
The famous Billie Jean intro dance moves were inspired by MJ in his kitchen the night right before the Motown 25 performance (March 1983)
Prince rejected MJ’s offer to appear on the BAD video
MJ never really liked the song To Satisfy You that Bryan Loren produced for the Dangerous album so MJ gave it back to him to put it in his album called Music from The New World
Elton John inspired the title Blood On the dance floor
Teddy Riley was called to participate during the last sessions of Invincible project
Got The Hots, a song that was about to be included in the Thriller album, appears in the Thriller Special Edition (2001) but only on the Japanese version
Hot Fever was the original title for The Way You Make Me Feel
Face & Fear are unreleased songs from HIStory album
Much Too Soon was the original title for Gone Too Soon
In The Back was intended to be in the Blood On The Dance Floor album
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