A record exec says they were “very concerned” about “things getting in the way of Michael’s music.”
Michael Jackson appeared with Stevie Nicks at Bill Clinton’s presidential inauguration gala in 1993.,After he shot up from below and hit the stage at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, Jackson struck an iconic pose —“To anyone watching from home, the applause sounded thunderous and seemed to continue for a minute and 33 seconds as Michael stood there silently, almost like a statue of himself,” said Neyakh.
“If you look at the shots on television, there’s some shots of the crowd, and people are just kind of walking around like, ‘OK, when’s this happening? What’s going on here?’ ” said Jim Steeg, who was on the field as an NFL executive. Michael Jackson’s performance at the American Music Awards helped rehabilitate his growing “weirdo” image.Michael Jackson received the International Artist Award of Excellence from friend Elizabeth Taylor at the 1993 American Music Awards.
For Smooth, it was the ultimate fakeout. “It really makes you wonder how much of what we think we know is based on this type of artifice — and what other historical truths get lost in the star-making process,” he said. It all goes to show just how much Jackson — who passed away at 50 in 2009 — was “a master class in the art of self-mythologizing,” said Neyakh in the first episode of “Think Twice,” which takes its name from a lyric in MJ’s 1983 smash
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