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Whitney Houston! : the spectacular rise and tragic fall of the woman whose voice inspired a generation
A biography of Whitney Houston, a number one recording star, a film star, and a concert superstar, discussing her rising career, her personal turmoil, and her sudden death at forty-eight that shocked the world.
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Famous friends in his life
Most of Michael Jackson's friends have show-business careers. His closest friend is Diana Ross.
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MICHAEL JACKSON; FAMOUS FRIENDS IN HIS LIFE; LAST OF FIVE PARTS
Another is Liza Minnelli. \"She's like me, an old show-biz kid. Add her to that list of my favorite people. I just love her to death. We get on the phone and we just gossip, gossip, gossip. What I like about Liza is that when we get together it's all show talk. I show her my favorite step, and she shows me hers. She's a show- stopping performer, too. She has real charisma. In the future I'd like to record her. \"I would say the people who have influenced me the most were mainly Motownartists, but especially Stevie Wonder,\" [MICHAEL JACKSON] says. \"I've learnedso muchfrom him. Sitting in on his sessions and talking to him and listening. You can't explain what Stevie does. The way he creates lyrics and melodies so effortlessly. He hears your voice, and even if you're trying to disguise it, he knows you. I'll come in the door, and he'll start singing my name and just instantly create a song.\" \"I see dancing as the most wonderful thing of all time because people communicated through bodily movement before anything. Moving your body is an art. Dancing is really showing your emotions through bodily movement. It's a wonderful thing to get out on the floor and just feel free and do what you want to and just let it come out. When I dance, I really feel it, and I just let my instincts take over . . . I've always said this: discos will never die. People love to party, they love to dance, and you need rhythm, beat of the drum, to dance . . . Everybody dances, everybody clowns, and it's a wonderful thing.\"
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Aretha Franklin : the queen of soul
\"A frank examination of Aretha Franklin, Mark Bego's definitive biography traces her career accomplishments from her beginnings as a twelve-year-old member of a church choir in the early 1950s, to recording her first album at the age of fourteen and signing a major recording contract at eighteen, right up through untimely passing in 2018. Originally positioned to become a gospel star in her father's Detroit church, Aretha had a privileged urban upbringing; ;stars such as Mahalia Jackson, Dinah Washington, and Sam Cooke regularly visited her father, Rev. C. L. Franklin. It wasn't long before she was creating a string of hits, from \"Respect\" to \"Freeway of Love\"; and becoming one of the most beloved singers of the twentieth century. This New York Times bestselling author's detailed research includes in-person interviews with record producers Jerry Wexler, Clyde Otis, and Clive Davis, Aretha's first husband, several of her singing star contemporaries, and a rare one-on-one session with Aretha herself. Every album, every accolade, and every heart-breaking personal drama is examined with clarity and neutrality, allowing Franklin's colorful story to unfold on its own. With two teenage pregnancies and an abusive first marriage, drinking problems, battles with her weight, the murder of her father, and tabloid wars, Aretha's life was a roller coaster. This freshly updated and expanded biography will give readers a clear understanding of what made Aretha Franklin the \"Queen of Soul.\"--Back cover.
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Strutting his stuff on video
Not only will 1983 be remembered for \"Thriller,\" but it will also be recognized as the year MTV made its mark on America.
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Supreme glamour
With the assistance of her close personal friend Mark Bego, founding Supremes member Mary Wilson tells the complete story of the group both on- and off-stage, from their beginnings as The Primettes in June 1959 to their 1964 breakthrough Motown hit--Where Did Our Love Go--and from the departure of Diana Ross to the group's comeback in the mid-1970s. Bego's narrative text is packed with personal ancedotes and reflections from Mary herself, and accompanied by rare archive photography and ephemera, much of which is taken from Mary's personal collection.
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MICHAEL JACKSON; STRUTTING HIS STUFF ON VIDEO; FOURTH OF FIVE PARTS
The opening to \"Billie Jean\" shows a spy in a trenchcoat snuffing out the butt of his cigarette onto the pavement of a grimy city alleyway. Cut to a shiny silver dollar being flipped into the hazy evening air. The picture turnsfrom black-and-white to color as it focuses on a two-toned pair of shoes stepping into view. Cut to the silver dollar, still flipping in and out of the hand. Cut to [MICHAEL JACKSON], watching his hand flip the coin. While all this is going on, his actions are being viewed and noted by the spy hiding in the darkness. The footage of \"Beat It\" begins moments before the thumping beats of the song's intro. It finds us in a greasy diner following the steps of two mean dudes in hats and leather, stepping out into a hot Los Angeles summer night. Outside, six colorfully dressed gang members appear and then turn, jump and run toward the street. Suddenly people crawl out of every pore of the city to see the fight that is to ensue. There's a rumble in the wind. As the gang leader dressed in white struts toward the designated battlefield of action, Jackson's opening lines begin.
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MICHAEL JACKSON; TO THE TOP OF THE CHARTS; THIRD OF FIVE PARTS
In 1982, [MICHAEL JACKSON] was involved in three different recording projects. He produced and wrote the song \"Muscles\" for Diana Ross; he narrated and sang on the storybook album \"E.T. The Extra- Terrestrial,\" and he recorded \"Thriller,\" his second solo album for Epic Records. Since he had such luck with his collaboration with Quincy Jones on \"Off The Wall,\" Jackson chose to team with Jones again for both \"Thriller\" and \"E.T.\" One of the first things recorded for \"Thriller\" was the song that teamed him with Paul McCartney, the duet recording of Jackson's composition \"The Girl Is Mine.\" At the same time, Jackson and McCartney also created two additional songs, \"Say, Say, Say\" and \"The Man\" for McCartney's \"Tug Of War\" follow-up album. McCartney commented before its release, \"The song I've just done with Michael Jackson - you could say it's shallow. There was even a word, doggone,' that I wouldn't have put in it. When I checked it out with Michael, he explained that he wasn't going for depth - he was going for rhythm, he was going for feel. And he was right. It's not the lyrics that are important on this particular song - it's much more the noise, the performance; my voice, his voice.\" The film was such a smash that suddenly there were \"E.T.\" lunchboxes, \"E.T.\" games, \"E.T.\" T-shirts, \"E.T.\" notebooks, \"E.T.\" picture books, \"E.T.\" coloring books, \"E.T.\" dolls, etc. etc. etc. Despite the over- merchandising of the little man from space who looked like a \"Naugahyde\" chair with eyes the size of golfballs, the story was genuinely touching and everyone could identify with it.
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'Michael!'--Part 2
Gary, Ind., is a very gray industrial town south of Chicago. It was there that Joe Jackson and his wife, Katherine, lived with their nine children.
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