There are two things which the NAACP stands for, which are the most important things in my life; freedom and equality. In every person there is a secret song in their heart. It says ‘I am free.’ It sings ‘I am One.’ This is the natural feeling of every child, to be free as the wind, to be one with every other child. All the troubles in the world is caused by forgetting this feeling, and when I perform, my connection is with people just to remind me of that; to be free, and to be one.
~ Michael Jackson
NAACPーNational Association for the Advancement of Colored Peopleー が表明するふたつの大切な柱 ーそれは私の人生で最も重要な事でもあるー 自由そして平等 全ての人の心にある'秘密の歌' それは'私は自由'と言い、 それは'私はひとりの人間'と歌う 風のように解き放たれ 他者と共にあるひとつの人格であるということ、 それは全ての子供達の中の自然な感覚である 世界中の厄災はみなそれを忘れるところから起きる 私がパフォーマンスをする時、 自己に自由であり一個の人間である事にまた気付く そしてそうした感覚でもって、 私は人々と繋がっているのだ
'Big Boy' was the first single ever released by The Jackson 5, in January 1968, through Steeltown Records before moving to Motown Records. These songs were thought to be lost, but they were rediscovered more than 25 years later. They were remastered and reissued in 1995. The Jackson family gathered around a radio to hear the song broadcast for the first time. Michael Jackson—who was 9 years old at the time— said of the experience, "The family all laughed and hugged one another. We felt we had arrived."
'Big Boy'は、Motown Recordsへ移る以前、 1968. 1月にSteeltown Recordsからリリースされた The Jackson 5として初めてのsingleである。
The Carol Burnett Showは、 Carol Burnetーactress, comedienne, singer, dancer, writerーをhostessに 1967～1978まで続いたシリーズで、 幾多のEmmy Awards・Golden Globe Awardsに輝いた 'The last successful major network prime-time variety show'と称される 伝説のTV variety-showです。
showのguestsは、season1～11にわたり、 まるで'70代U.S.のshow business sceneのcatalogを観るような gorgeousなmemberでした。
MJは The Jackson5としてSeason 8 (1974–1975)、 The JacksonsとしてSeason 9 (1975–1976)、 何度もmain guest star をつとめました。
Following on from Michael’s photo-shoot and interview with Ebony magazine to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of ‘Thriller’, Ebony have posted on their web site some of the two hundred questions they have received from fans all over the world along with answers.
Included in their answers is the following:
The photo-shoot was eight months in the planning, and took over six hours to complete. Michael made five costume changes into clothes from designers such as Roberto Cavalli, Valentino and Cesare Paciotti, plus he wore over $2 million worth of diamond jewellery.
Michael, who attended with Blanket, grooved to his music while posing, and even danced a little. When the shoot was over, he left to put the children to bed.
The next day, the Ebony team went to Michael’s hotel and he spoke to them for an hour and a half.
The final question asked if there are plans for another Ebony/Jet/ Michael Jackson collaboration in the near future and the answer…”As they say, “stay tuned.” We are planning one more cover, this time on our sister publication, Jet magazine, to come out in mid-December. It is a weekly magazine, so keep an eye out for it on your newsstand. We may even have some breaking news in it, too!
A: Motown was preparing to do this movie called The Wiz… and Quincy Jones happened to be the man who was doing the music. Now, I had heard of Quincy before. When I was in Indiana as a child, my father used to buy jazz albums, so I knew him as a jazz musician. So after we had made this movie–– we had gotten pretty close on the film, too; he helped me understand certain words, he was really father-like ––I called him after the movie, out of complete sincerity ––’cause I’m a shy person, ESPECIALLY then, I used to not even look at people when they were talking to me, I’m not joking––and I said, ‘I’m ready to do an album. Do you think… could you recommend anybody who would be interested in producing it with me or working with me?’ He paused and said, ‘Why don’t you let ME do it?’ I said to myself, ‘I don’t know why I didn’t think of that.’ Probably because I was thinking that he was more my father, kind of jazzy. So after he said that, I said, ‘WOW, that would be great.’ What’s great about working with Quincy, he let’s you do your thing. He doesn’t get in the way. So the first thing I came to him with was from Off the Wall, our first album, and Rod Temperton came in the studio, and he came with this killer––he’s this little German guy from Wurms, Germany––he comes with this … ‘doop, dakka dakka doop, dakka dakka dakka doop’, this whole melody and chorus, Rock With You. I go, WOW! So when I heard that, I said, ‘OK, I really have to work now.’ So every time Rod would present something, I would present something, and we’d form a little friendly competition. I love working like that. I used to read how Walt Disney used to, if they were working on Bambi or an animated show, they’d put a deer in the middle of the floor and make the animators kind of compete with different styles of drawing. Whoever had the most stylized effect that Walt liked, he would pick that. They would kind of compete, it was like a friendly thing, but it was competition, cause it breeds higher effort. So whenever Rod would bring something, I would bring something, then he would bring something, then I would bring something else. We created this wonderful thing.
