Michael Jackson #50 - Rehearsal footage out now

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Op vrijdag 3 juli 2009 15:25 schreef Bevin het volgende:

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Idd, wat een waus Dacht ie dat hij 50% korting kreeg ofzo

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Op vrijdag 3 juli 2009 15:26 schreef matthijst het volgende:
Ja, maar dan had Paul nog maar $400.000.000 dollar op de bank gehad, in plaats van $450.000.000....
Dat kan je zo'n man toch niet aandoen

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Op vrijdag 3 juli 2009 15:26 schreef matthijst het volgende:
Ja, maar dan had Paul nog maar $400.000.000 dollar op de bank gehad, in plaats van $450.000.000....
Dat kan je zo'n man toch niet aandoen

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Op vrijdag 3 juli 2009 15:30 schreef matthijst het volgende:
Zeker, had dubbel zo veel kunnen zijn, als die knieperd niet zo op zijn centen had gezeten.
Maar wat doet meneer: gaat een beetje boos in een hoekje zitten miepen dat MJ zijn nummertjes heeft gejat...

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Op vrijdag 3 juli 2009 16:19 schreef Larry-Laffer het volgende:
Is er al bekend welke plaatsen Michael in gaat nemen in de hitlijsten komende week?

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Op vrijdag 3 juli 2009 15:34 schreef Robijn1961 het volgende:

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Weet je.
Hoe het precies is gegaan weet je niet. Dus laten we dit topic niet vervuilen door te roddelen. Kee?

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Paul McCartney adds additional statement in tribute to Michael Jackson

"It's so sad and shocking. I feel privileged to have hung out and worked with Michael. He was a massively talented boy man with a gentle soul. His music will be remembered forever and my memories of our time together will be happy ones.

I send my deepest sympathy to his mother and the whole family and to his countless fans all around the world."

Memories of Michael

I first heard from Michael when he phoned me over the Christmas holiday season in 1980 and my initial reaction was “who is this and how did he get my private telephone number?”. Michael laughed and explained who it was and, as we talked and I asked him why he was ringing, he said “Do you wanna make some hits?” and that was the start of our adventure together.

He came over to England with his close friend and minder, Billy and they visited our house in the country many times as Michael and I put together the ideas for our songs together. First of all, we came up with and finished an idea for a song I had started which became Say Say Say. We recorded in Air Studios, London with George Martin producing and eventually went to California to make the video for the song. Funnily enough, I was staying at the ranch that Michael later bought and made into Neverland.

My memories are of his great sense of humour and we seemed to spend most of the time playing around and having a laugh. He became very friendly with my family and we had lots of great times together. Although we drifted apart in later years I will always remember fondly the fun we had working and playing together. My family and I send our deepest condolences to his family and, like them, we know that his great talent will never be forgotten.

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Q: How have you been holding up since Michael Jackson's death?
A: Oh, man. It's surrealistic. I went to Shanghai for the movie festival over there—I took Halle Berry—and then went back to Luxembourg, and in three days I lost Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and Michael. And Michael's thing is still surrealistic to me. I can't process it, man. I don't know how to process it. It's just unbelievable—him leaving before me. I can't believe it.

Q: How did you learn that he had died?
A: Well, everybody in the world called me. I got 500 e-mails. I've never seen anything like it in my life. At first they said they'd taken him to the hospital, then they said he'd had a stroke or a heart attack—it just kept going back and forth and we didn't know what was really happening. And at first I thought he was just kind of freaked out by the coming concerts, because I was in London when they announced the 50 concerts and they sold out in four hours. . . We'd see each other all the time, and I just can't believe he's not here.

Q: Have you been crying?
A: Oh, man, it's more than that. It's way more than that. It hurts my soul, man. It's just a lump down there.

Q: You were there to witness the strange evolution in Michael's appearance. Did you ever step in and saying anything about it?
A: Oh, we talked about it all the time. But he'd come up with, "Man, I promise you I have this disease," and so forth, and "I have a blister on my lungs," and all that kind of b.s. It's hard, because Michael's a Virgo, man—he's very set in his ways. You can't talk him out of it. Chemical peels and all that stuff.

Q: Did you believe him about the disease?
A: I don't believe in any of that bullshit, no. No. Never. I've been around junkies and stuff all my life. I've heard every excuse. It's like smokers—"I only smoke when I drink" and all that stuff. But it's bullshit. You're justifying something that's destructive to your existence. It's crazy. I mean, I came up with Ray Charles, man. You know, nobody gonna pull no wool over my eyes. He did heroin 20 years! Come on. And black coffee and gin for 40 years. But when he called me to come over to see him when he was in the hospital on his way out, man, he had emphysema, hepatitis C, cirrhosis of the liver, and five malignant tumors. Please, man! I've been around this all my life. So it's hard for somebody to pull the wool over my eyes. But when somebody's hell-bent on it, you can't stop 'em.

Q: But it must've been so disturbing to see Michael's face turn into what it turned into.
A: It's ridiculous, man! Chemical peels and all of it. And I don't understand it. But he obviously didn't want to be black.

Q: Is that what it was?
A: Well, what do you think? You see his kids?

Q: Did you ever discuss it? Did you ever ask, "Michael, don't you want to be a black man?"
A: No, no, no, please. That's not the way you do it.

Q: But he was beautiful before?
A: Man, he was the most gorgeous guy.

Q: But he seemed to have some deep-seated issue with how he looked?
A: Well, that comes about a certain way. I'm not sure how it happens. I'm just a musician and a record producer. I'm not a psychiatrist. I don't understand all that stuff. We all got problems. But there's a great book out called Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart. Did you see that? That book says the statute of limitations has expired on all childhood traumas. Get your stuff together and get on with your life, man. Stop whinin' about what's wrong, because everybody's had a rough time, in one way or another.

Q: I've heard you say that you wanted Michael to sing "She's Out of My Life," the great pop ballad from Off the Wall, in part because you felt like he had to deal with reality.
A: I just wanted to hear him deal with a romantic relationship with a human being rather than a rat. I'm saying that facetiously, but it's true. I saw him at the Oscars very emotional about "Ben." I wanted to hear him get in touch with a real human relationship. "She's Out of My Life" was written by Tommy Bahler from a very bad ending to a marriage. So it was very real. I was saving it for Sinatra. But I gave it to Michael. And Michael cried during every take, and I left the tears in.

Q: It's interesting you mention this, because I was just watching a clip on YouTube where you're sitting on a couch with Michael and he's petting a snake the whole time.
A: Oh, I remember that. Yeah, that was Muscles.

Q: Muscles?
A: Muscles. That's a big boa constrictor he had. Muscles used to wrap around my leg in a record session and crawl across the console. I was never comfortable with that. It was a choice between that and Bubbles—you know, the chimp.

Q: Did you ever meet Bubbles?
A: Are you kidding me? He bit a hole in my daughter's hand! Rashida's hand. Rashida Jones—did you see I Love You, Man? That's my daughter. She was a little girl. And Bubbles bit her hand. Michael used to bring Muscles and Bubbles by the house all the time, you know.

Q: What did you think of that? Wasn't that a little weird?
A: I don't know, man. Everybody does his own thing. I've met every freak in the business. Everybody has their idiosyncrasies. I try not to judge it, you know. I know all women are junkies for little dogs and bags and purses. Ha ha ha ha!

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Op vrijdag 3 juli 2009 18:08 schreef Koploperkopper het volgende:
Vreemd interview met Quincy Jones:
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http://men.style.com/details/features/landing?id=content_9937

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Op vrijdag 3 juli 2009 18:25 schreef DrDentz het volgende:
Zullen we vandaag nog een filmpje krijgen?

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Op vrijdag 3 juli 2009 18:08 schreef Koploperkopper het volgende:
Vreemd interview met Quincy Jones:
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http://men.style.com/details/features/landing?id=content_9937

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Op vrijdag 3 juli 2009 15:25 schreef Bevin het volgende:

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Idd, wat een waus Dacht ie dat hij 50% korting kreeg ofzo

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Op vrijdag 3 juli 2009 20:32 schreef Djeez het volgende:
Het is nu een week geleden, maar ik sta er nog bijna elke minuut bij stil.

maar ik huil gelukkig niet meer sinds dinsdag

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Tickets to Jackson memorial to be free.
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Fans must register online for a lottery to win tickets to the Michael Jackson memorial Tuesday at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, organizers said Friday.
People who do not have one of the 17,500 free tickets to be handed out should stay away and watch the event on television, the Los Angeles acting mayor, Jan Perry, and a Los Angeles police official said.
Jackson family spokesman Ken Sunshine said no details would be released Friday about what fans will see at the memorial.
"It's still be being developed," Sunshine said about the Jackson memorial.
Eleven thousand tickets will be for seats inside the Staples Center. Another 6,500 will be for the Nokia Theatre next door, where the service will be broadcast.
To register for a ticket, patrons are being asked to go to staplescenter.com

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Op vrijdag 3 juli 2009 21:04 schreef DrDentz het volgende:

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1147mileycyrus (7 seconden geleden)
are you really michael jackson please answer me back