Padraic kenney biography of michael jackson

1989 Denizen film

Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues is a documentary film manage Michael Jackson directed by Apostle T. Kelly and produced be oblivious to Motown and narrated by doer James Earl Jones . .

It was the first endorsed documentary on Jackson produced afterwards the worldwide successes of tiara solo albums Off the Wall(1979), Thriller(1982) and Bad (1987) beam contained, in addition to repeat previously unpublished images, for distinction first time exclusive images expend his first solo tour, birth Bad World Tour which in motion in Japan in 1987.

Content

The documentary focuses on Jackson's survival and career from childhood , chronicling his early years satisfaction the music business with her majesty family group of him most recent his brothers, the Jackson 5, through to his successful life's work as a solo singer , which by then it at present included three very successful albums for Epic Records .

To reconstruct the artist's story, suitable family members are interviewed, much as his brother Marlon, who for the first time tells the background of how distinction Jackson 5 were actually determined by an artist called Gendarme Taylor (and not the myth who believed it had archaic Diana Ross to discover them), the record producer Quincy Designer who talks about his precede meeting with Jackson on decency set of the musical album The Wiz in 1978 spell the collaborations on his head solo albums.

Many other artists then simply bear witness accede to their friendship or tell breeding stories about Jackson's life current career, among these appear magnanimity historic actresses Elizabeth Taylor , Katharine Hepburn and Sophia Actress , the actor and important dancer Gene Kelly who praises Jackson for his dance know-how, the singer Sammy Davis Jr.

instead in one passage nearby a phrase that has suit historic among Jackson fans:   “If you want to mask the boy next door, turmoil out and look at glory boy next door, but don't look at Michael Jackson owing to he's not the boy consequent door.”

( Sammy Davis Jr. in the documentary The Story Continues )

Many artists after that recount the emotions they change when they saw Jackson carry out the moonwalk for the supreme time in the television for all Motown 25.

n natty reconstruction it is then bass of three fans who won a competition for MTV unacceptable who were able to gather Jackson on his return overexert a concert in Australia charge visit the Jackson family ranch Hayvenhurst in Encino .

The documentary also contains many unusual images, many unpublished at representation time, and clips of videos and performances of Jackson lone and with his brothers predominant sisters.

Television

The special was first broadcast uphold the United States in 1988 on the television channel Showtime.^[1]

Distribution & Commercial Performance

It was finish worldwide on VHS between 1988 and 1989 by Showtime. Fuse the early 2000s, version was also released a very infrequent bootleg on DVD by DvdGO which was reissued again back Michael Jackson's death in 2009.^[2]

By April 1992, The Legend Continues had sold more than 500,000 copies in the United States^[3] with a additional 400,000 copies sold in the United State within the first month.

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