Foday musa suso biography of michael jackson

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Off The Wall At 37: The Album That Forever Changed Michael Jackson’s Career

Yesterday,Michael Jackson’s 1979 album Off The Wall celebrated its 30th anniversary. The album was reissued on CD with its full cover art for the first time in the new millennium in the US. A special bonus edition also features Spike Lee’s documentary film ‘Michael Jackson’s Journey From Motown To Off The Wall’. Personally I’ve come to view Off The Wall this way: the people who love MJ’s most musical aspects love this album,whereas those who appreciate him more as a commercial phenomenon showcase his finest album as being 1982’s Thriller.

Before 1979,Michael Jackson was mainly the charismatic lead singer for The Jackson 5/Jacksons. He had a four album solo career on Motown in the early/mid 70’s too. Still,that album was very much connected to the music he was doing with his brothers. It was becoming more apparent as he grew that he would again have a solo career. Not sure if anyone anticipate that after 1979,MJ would become the Sammy Davis Jr. of his day-only one where the post civil rights era really allowed him to shine more as performer. On that musical level,here’s the content of a review I wrote about it six years a

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David Breskin

Picture Week

MUSIC WEEK

By D.B. Atkins

►PEARLS VS. SWEAT

On the back of her new album, Eaten Alive, Diana Ross can be seen biting a string of pearls while hugging a dead tiger (who is also gnawing on the pearls). There is a handwritten note from a friend: “You are truly Supreme, good to be with you again. I love you. Michael J.” The fact that no one else’s name appears on the jacket, and that Michael Jackson was playing with a baby tiger on the gatefold of Thriller, may lead purchasers to think Michael had something major to do with this. Not true. He makes only a cameo appearance on the title track, and this LP is an altogether different animal: Michael had a live tiger with Thriller, Diana has a piece of furniture with Eaten Alive.

Above all, Ross needs strong songs and sensitive production to create any impact these days, and here she receives neither. Bee Gee Barry Gibb did the tiger’s share of the producing, and the Brothers Gibb wrote most of the material. It’s a grab bag of current pop styles—pockmarked with those chirpy, Munchkinesque background vocals that the Bee Gees have made infamous and undermined by an anemic-voiced Ross straining to sound as glamorous as she looks. Eaten Alive is mostly just mediocre, but at times, as