What I keep coming back to about Michael's 1987 trip isn't a stage or a crowd. Midway through the BAD World Tour he stepped away for a day and gave about seven hours to Zhongshan, Guangdong, in mainland China, and that…
Michael Jackson in Zhongshan 1987
The $125,000 check Michael Jackson handed to the Motown Historical Museum in 1988 is the part I keep coming back to. It was the net from the first of three sold out Palace of Auburn Hills shows, and the money went toward…
Michael Jackson $125,000 Motown check 1988
The pen prank is what gets me every time. Tony Cox was telling how Michael, in character as Hooter on Captain EO, kept wandering over mid-improv, cracking up and riffing with him, which somehow kept putting Tony on the…
Tony Cox on Michael Jackson Captain EO stories
High-speed running and a Michael Jackson Moonwalk are both on the demo list from KAIST in South Korea, where a humanoid robot showed off athletic movement alongside its object handling. Pushing stuff up to 35 kg and…
KAIST humanoid robot Moonwalk demo
Thinking about Hooter while watching Captain EO just left me overwhelmed 😩
Captain EO Hooter reaction
If you only remember one piece of advice from the Jacksons catalog, make it the one in "Enjoy Yourself": stop staring into space worrying about what you can't control, let yourself go and enjoy the night while the music…
The Jacksons Enjoy Yourself single
Loozecanon, the Michael Jackson impersonator, just went viral for a freestyle
Loozecanon Michael Jackson freestyle
That voice still lands with a force nothing else quite matches, and the reason goes back to something Michael said when he was only 11: whatever he sang, that was what he really meant, and he wouldn't sing it if he…
Michael Jackson on singing what he means
A quarter century back, Michael Jackson put together a benefit called United We Stand at RFK stadium in Washington, D.C., only weeks after September 11th, with the country still raw. He wrote What More Can I Give for the…
Michael Jackson United We Stand RFK
That smile hits different #MichaelJackson
Jaafar Jackson is set to receive the Actor Award, Film at the 9th Annual Critics Choice Celebration of Black Cinema & Television. This honor marks his acting debut as Michael Jackson in the project titled Michael,…
Michael Jackson's stop in Hong Kong during the BAD World Tour in 1987 started as a quick layover between Japan and Australia but ended up lasting nearly three weeks. He explored the city, visited the Shaw Brothers Studio…
Michael Jackson Hong Kong BAD World Tour
How could anyone not love Liberian Girl? Michael completely left Earth on this track.
Michael Jackson Liberian Girl
The thing Shawn Stockman keeps coming back to about the Boyz II Men day at Neverland Ranch isn't the bumper cars or the Ferris Wheel, though those were part of it. What stayed was being treated like family from the…
Shawn Stockman on Boyz II Men at Neverland Ranch
Chile received Michael with near presidential honors during the Dangerous World Tour, and the arrival at Pudahuel Airport in Santiago from Brazil in 1993 proved it. The tarmac erupted as children dressed as huasos waited…
