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Peinlicher Auftritt von Michael Jackson

London (dpa) - Aus dem Thriller wurde ein Desaster. Wird Michael Jackson sich von dieser Peinlichkeit je erholen können? Das fragten sich Fans, nachdem der einstige "King of Pop" in der Nacht zum Donnerstag den wohl schlimmsten Bühnenauftritt seines Lebens hinlegte.

Die ohnehin von Pleiten, Pech und Pannen in fast der gesamten Organisation verfolgte Aufzeichnung der diesjährigen World Music Awards könnte als das traurige endgültige Aus für die Karriere von Michael Jackson in die Popmusikgeschichte eingehen.
120 Pfund (180 Euro) - so viel hatte Jackson-Fan Martina Chavez (22) für die Bahnfahrt und die Eintrittskarte bezahlt. Nach der Show, den Tränen nahe, ließ sie ihrem Ärger freien Lauf: "Ich bin extra aus Birmingham gekommen. Jacko sah aus wie Gevatter Tod. Ganze drei Verszeilen hat er gesungen. Dabei sollte er doch mit "Thriller" sein Comeback einleiten."

So hatte es in manchen Zeitungen gestanden. Entsprechend hoch flogen die Fan-Hoffnungen. Seit Jackson im Juni 2005 vom Vorwurf des sexuellen Kindesmissbrauchs frei gesprochen worden war, lebte er zurückgezogen, meist in dem arabischen Kleinstaat Bahrain. Doch in den letzten Monaten war das Gewisper um einen Comeback-Versuch lauter geworden.
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Einflussreiche Radio-DJs wollten wissen, dass Jackson an einem neuen Album arbeite, einem "mit europäisch-asiatischem Flair". Dann gab Jackson der US-Fernsehshow "Access Hollywood" ein Interview. Ein Satz von Show-Gastgeber Billy Bush machte die Runde: "Er will zeigen, dass er nach vorn blickt und genau das macht, was er am besten kann."

Fans wollten nur allzu gern glauben, dass ihr gefallenes Idol wieder aufsteht. Hunderte campierten trotz Nieselregens schon vom Morgen an vor dem Musiktempel Earls Court im Londoner Westen, um sich die besten Positionen am Roten Teppich zu sichern.

Rund 24 Jahre sind vergangen, seit Jackson sein Super-Erfolgsalbum "Thriller" veröffentlichte. Es setzte vor allem durch das Videoclip mit der berühmten Totentanz-Szene Maßstäbe, an denen sich fortan Musikvideos messen lassen mussten. Michael und eine Freundin werden in dem Video umringt von Zombies. Erst der Schrei des unschuldigen Mädchens lässt sie aus diesem Albtraum erwachen.
Doch so ein Befreiungsschlag war dem Auftritt Jacksons im Earls Court nicht vergönnt. Der Albtraum war die Realität. Es begann damit, dass Jackson sich fast zweieinhalb Stunden verspätete. Dann enttäuschte er wartende Fans und ließ sich durch einen Nebeneingang einschleusen. Nachdem die schöne Beyoncé ihm schließlich den "Diamond Award" als Anerkennung für den Verkauf von mehr als 100 Millionen Alben überreicht hatte, hofften viele auf ein Revival der berühmten Jackson-Nummer "Thriller".

Der Star erklärte, er widme den Preis seinen "wundervollen Kindern Paris, Prince und Blanket für ihre bedingungslose Liebe". Er sang nicht. Jackson verschwand - unter heftigen Buhrufen - von der Bühne. Statt des einstigen "King of Pop" versuchte sich der US-Sänger Chris Brown an "Thriller".
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Später kehrte Jackson zurück. Aber es wirkte schon fast verzweifelt, als er sein Jackett ins Publikum warf und rief "I love you". Umringt von 50 Kindern sang er ganze zwei Mal den Refrain des Benefizliedes "We Are The World" mit. Selbst für diese schwache Nummer habe Jackson fast auf die Bühne getragen werden müssen, hieß es in britischen Medien.
Rund eine Stunde hätten Veranstalter hinter den Kulissen auf den einstigen Superstar eingeredet, der sich plötzlich geweigert habe, auf die Bühne zu gehen. Die Zeitung "Daily Mirror" fasst das Dilemma - in Anlehnung an einen Jackson-Hit - in einer Balkenüberschrift so zusammen: "He's Bad." Auf Deutsch heißt das "Er ist schlecht", wobei man "bad" aber auch mit "krank" übersetzen kann.

Quelle: GMX

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Fans buhen Michael Jackson aus

Zum ersten Mal seit langer Zeit hat sich Popstar Michael Jackson wieder auf eine große Bühne gewagt. Sein Auftritt bei den World Music Awards in London wurde zum Debakel: Jackson ließ auf sich warten, sang nur kurz und verließ unter Buhrufen den Saal.
London - Hunderte Fans haben gestern Abend in London den einstigen "King of Pop" Michael Jackson enttäuscht ausgebuht. Bei einer von Pannen und Chaos gezeichneten Aufzeichnung der diesjährigen World Music Awards wurde dem 48-Jährigen ein Sonderpreis für Künstler überreicht, die mehr als 100 Millionen Alben verkauft haben.

Statt sich mit der vorher groß angekündigten Darbietung eines seiner Hits für den "Diamond Award" zu bedanken, den ihm die US- Sängerin Beyoncé überreichte, ging Jackson zunächst von der Bühne. Sein Hit "Thriller" wurde zur Enttäuschung der Fans von Chris Brown dargeboten. Später kam Jackson zwar erneut auf die Bühne und sang zusammen mit Kindern ein paar Verse des Wohltätigkeitsliedes "We Are The World" mit. Dabei brach jedoch die Musik vorzeitig ab. Die Veranstaltung, die in einigen Medien als Comeback-Versuch des einst überaus erfolgreichen Jackson angekündigt worden war, hatte wegen einer erheblichen Verspätung des Ex-Stars weit später als geplant begonnen.
Zu den Opfern des allgemeinen Chaos gehörte auch die deutsche Band Tokio Hotel. Weil die Show schließlich wegen arbeitsrechtlicher Vorschriften um 23 Uhr abgebrochen werden musste, konnten die Band nicht mehr auftreten. Die Auszeichnung als derzeit erfolgreichste deutsche Band konnte Tokio Hotel daher nur hinter der Bühne entgegennehmen.
Jackson allerdings ließ sich von großen Emotionen nicht abhalten: "Es gibt so viele Menschen, die mich geliebt und zu mir gehalten haben", sagte der 48-jährige US-Sänger bei seinem Auftritt. "Ich liebe euch alle vom Grunde meines Herzens." Bei seiner Ankunft wurde Jackson noch von kreischenden Fans begrüßt. Inmitten des Lärms sprach er auch kurz mit Journalisten, allerdings mit so leiser Stimme, dass er kaum zu verstehen war. Auf die Frage, wo er wohne, sagte er: "Überall." Seit dem Freispruch im Juni vergangenen Jahres verbrachte Jackson einige Zeit in Bahrein und Irland.
Für "Thriller" wurde Jackson mit acht Grammys ausgezeichnet. Am Dienstag hatte er vom "Guinness-Buch der Rekorde" auch acht Zertifikate für Rekorde erhalten, darunter den des "Erfolgreichsten Entertainers aller Zeiten."
Vor Jacksons Auftritt hatten sich Musikexperten und britische Zeitungen skeptisch geäußert. Jackson habe seit mehr als zehn Jahren keinen großen Auftritt mehr gehabt. "The Sun" erwartete vom früheren Kinderstar und ehemaligen "King of Pop" eine "demütigende Freak-Show, die er bereuen wird". Jackson sehe schlimm aus, hieß es. Die Massen von Fans, die vor dem Londoner Hotel des Stars stehen und hoffen, einen Blick auf Jackson zu erhaschen, sollten nicht überbewertet werden, betonte Gareth Grundy, Redakteur des britischen Musikmagazins "Q". "Ich glaube, die Leute werden von dieser Freak-Show immer fasziniert sein", sagte Grundy. "Ich denke, Jackson ist ein Prominenter, aber kein Künstler."
Der US-Sänger hat sich mit seinen Kindern und etwa 50-köpfigem Gefolge in einem Luxushotel der britischen Hauptstadt eingemietet. Fotografen hatten den sonst zurückgezogen lebenden Star in den vergangenen Tagen bereits bei einer nächtlichen Einkaufstour abgelichtet.
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Hier mal ein Artikel, der, wie ich finde wirklich hier rein gehört........warum zieht ihr Euch freiwillig diese ganze Schei*e rein?????? Naja

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Raymone K Bain Must Resign

A while ago, when Raymone K Bain took over Michael's Management I was worried. If I was a stockholder of the Michael Jackson Stock I would have Sold and Sold Short Forever. Even As a publicist, I was a little suspicious of her conduct during trial. Suspicious because I, As a Fan, I was in complete synchronization with what Tom Meseareau was doing and great faith in his abilities. She may be a good friend of Michael's and I actually believe she might have his best interests at heart, but thus far she has failed miserably in rehabiliating Michael's image and should step down

Now, I understand that this may be impossible for anyone to do. I could venture to guess that Michael may be quite paranoid with trusting any corporate Management Teams After the parasitic backstabbers He has Been through. But again,(damn again) He's trusting the wrong people in the handling of his affairs. I know, I know, it's his Business but the WMA's disaster could have prevented. Raymone could and should have said "No Thriller, No Big production performance, just accepting an award." She said nothing and let the producers fill what would have Been empty seats. Again, Michael was used and was screwed and Raymone let it Happen. For Michael, this Kind of Publicity is more Bad Publicity.

She is pretty good ON the talk shows but Management and PR strategy she is weak and for a Michael Jackson He needs either a former military specialists or someone who thrives in the heat of combat. As I alluded to a couple of years ago, Michael has Been blackballed and conventional PR tactics will be sabatoged. I hope Michael consults some of his friends that He has left behind in America who will tell it to him like it is. Something tells me He has Been alienated From them. Raymone seems like a First-class woman and I enjoy listening to her defend Michael. However, she fumbled the Ball and lost a golden opportunity to bring back Michael with dignity. Step down and maybe help him draft a real Team.

John Karrys

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Hier noch 2 interessante Beiträge von Fans im MJJF:

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It was her fault that she did not call MJJF staff and admin back. It was her fault that Michael did not know He was expected to perform. He SAID clearly that He did not know, and it is Raymone's Job to keep him informed. Had He Been informed, the rumor could have Been squashed much earlier. These may be innocent errors, but it is my opinion that Michael deserves better than that.

I think Raymone could've easily said "Michael will not be performing, just accepting an award". Why wasn't that done in a Press release? She's' the General Manager of his company, she needs to get things right in my opinion.

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I believe that she said this, because she said the Same thing to ME, ON the phone. Straight out, and for real. Why do you think I have Been so suspicious and negative toward her for all this time? Now my fears Are being played out. I would never have posted this ON the board except this latest fiasco was SOOOOO Bad, and some of you still Are ON the Raymone bandwagon without knowing this vital information.

As God is my witness and may I burn if this is not the truth, she said, and I Quote: "I do not care about Michael Jackson." Now put THAT in your pipes and smoke it.

Also ich war ja immer eigentlich für die Bain, aber langsam ist es geschafft mich in die Opposition zu treiben.

Wer das auf Deutsch gekürzt zusammenfassen könnte. Dem wäre ich zu Dank verpflichtet:ehre

GREAT EXPECTATIONSMichael Jackson at the 2006 World Music Awards
November 15th 2006
An Exclusive Report for MJJ Forum by Robin Meltzer, London, UK
With the exception of the BRIT Awards, which have tried in recent years to shed their image of chaos and disorder, the UK does not play host to many music industry awards ceremonies. So when it was announced that the World Music Awards (WMAs) – unique among award ceremonies for its focus on sales alone – were coming to London, interest was aroused.
Interest went through the roof when it was revealed that the star guest would be Michael Jackson, who would be presented with the Diamond Award - a World Music Award presented infrequently to artists who have sold over 100 million albums in their career.
Michael Jackson could actually have been presented with seven diamond awards because it was revealed in the run-up to the ceremony by Raymone Bain, Michael’s manager/press office, that the WMAs would recognise an astonishing 750 million records sold since he was eleven.
The day before the ceremony, it was announced by the Guinness Book of World Records that the album ‘Thriller’ alone had sold 104 million copies since its release at the end of 1982.
Those statistics would have been enough to almost guarantee some positive news for Michael following his rare public appearance to the UK to attend the awards. That should have been the story: factual, precise, undeniable.
However, in the two weeks prior to the event, staff at the World Music Awards used Michael’s attendance shamelessly to create a sense of expectation that spiralled completely out of control. Earls Court is a large venue – one of Britain’s very biggest – and it was not quite full. It would have been even less full had the WMA website not placed Michael’s name and image at the top of their list of performers. Of course fans would have attended and been extremely grateful to have seen the man in person, but it would not have been the kind of event that it eventually became.
In addition, a confusingly worded press release issued by the WMA promised that Michael Jackson would “appear on stage as part of a spectacular tribute to ‘Thriller’ produced by Quincy Jones”.
What exactly did that mean? He would take to the stage and perform the song “Thriller”? Alone? With others? One song out of many from the ‘Thriller’ album? Or just that song? Who was in the tribute? What was Quincy Jones’ involvement? Would he produce the spectacular, or was that just a reference to the fact that he produced the album?
Staff at the ceremony, and informal contacts of Michael’s, also confirmed to fans and fan clubs that Michael would be performing but there were mixed rumours as to what he would perform.
Fans went crazy, waiting in line outside Earls Court box office when they were mistakenly told by organisers that no standing tickets would be available on line or on the phone. In the event, the tickets were issued through the normal channels so the waiting was unnecessary. But fans shrugged it off – “so what if some of us had to queue in the cold for tickets,” they probably said. “This is a Michael Jackson performance!”
None of this is particularly surprising on its own. Events of this size are frequently beset by ticketing chaos – with misinformation occurring as a result of the number of people involved in making money from the public. Promoters, tickets agencies and of course the WMAs themselves – all these were getting a slice of the action and this was not the first time that such establishments had demonstrated their communication problems.
No, the astonishing thing – especially now in hindsight of course but actually some of us were already saying this in the lead up to the show – was how no-one in Michael’s camp, nor from the WMAs, sought to dampen some of the press expectation that was only ever going to lead to disappointment.
By Monday, two days before the ceremony, anyone conducting a Google news search for Michael’s name would have been presented with a choice of some 300 news stories about his upcoming performance of “Thriller”. Of course most of those stories were just replicas of each other, but nevertheless, the news was out there – and it was becoming an international event. Notably, many of the stories were largely positive – or at least neutral.
Michael had arrived in London on the Sunday before the Wednesday night ceremony, and the British press were definitely interested. His smiling face and the mobbing fans featured extensively in the press, on the internet and even on the television news. There were the usual stories about eccentricity and ‘wacko’ behaviour but essentially the press were playing along. Here was a true world star, back in our country, and about to perform here for the first time in nine years.
At some point during this period of fun, unnamed WMA officials told journalists that the performance Michael was due to give was “something of a comeback”. Not attributed, but never denied.
This bandwagon kept on rolling. It picked up more and more people as the Wednesday night of the show approached. Before long, the incredible career accomplishments that Michael was actually in London to celebrate were taking a back seat. Few seemed to care that he had sold 750 million records. Incidentally, even fewer seemed to care that it was ludicrous to bill Michael’s performance as part of a 25th anniversary of ‘Thriller’ when it was actually 23 years and 11 months since the album’s release. No, the important thing here was the ‘COMEBACK’.
As far as I have been able to discern, at no point did anyone from Michael Jackson’s team try to protect their employer by maintaining a normal relationship with the press in order to play the oldest game in the PR rulebook – managing expectations. Rarely has this complete lack of any public relations strategy had more damaging effect for Michael’s status as an artist. Put quite simply, there is more to public relations than issuing rebuttals to crazy tabloid stories. That’s part of it. But you also have to manage the journalists, court them, give them information and treat them with respect – even if you have to hold your nose when you do it. It is completely inexcusable that no-one sought to calm the hysteria that the media and the staff at the World Music Awards conspired to build.
The final proof of the ineptitude with which this entire project was managed occurred of all places on the red carpet in the entrance to the ugly Earls Court building in London SW5. Incidentally, organisers had told media the day before that Michael would be arriving on the red carpet – so the media were camped outside the venue as well as inside it. The mania surrounding him was, by all accounts, so intense that it would have been impossible for him to stop and chat to fans in the same manner that Tom Cruise always does when he attends films premieres in Leicester Square. The media and the public are particularly excitable in the presence of Michael Jackson, so if the reports of Michael Jackson fans booing him as he entered are true, it is difficult to excuse such rude behaviour because his movement would have been severely limited. It is more likely that those who booed were simply ‘red carpet whores’ who wait to get a glimpse of anyone with more charisma than them, and not predominantly fans, who would have been inside the venue waiting for the great ‘comeback’.
So, as he arrived, journalists managed to ask Michael if he was performing. Some asked if he was singing. Others asked if he was singing Thriller. And here we have the most ridiculous and humiliating part of this entire saga:
It was left to Michael Jackson himself to tell journalists, 90 minutes before he was due on stage, that there had been “a misunderstanding” about his appearance on stage.
A catalogue of failures on the part of the people he employs combined with an excitable media being fed blatant untruths by the World Music Awards had led to the indignity of surely the most famous person on the planet having to correct days of inaccurate reporting himself. I do not know Michael Jackson so I have no idea if he appreciates the ridiculousness of that, nor whether it dawned on him that he should not have been the person that had to issue that press announcement. But I’m pretty confident that, at the very least, he must have been aware that something was not right.
Is it any wonder that the overwhelming mood in the media lounge after that was bewilderment? That the negative headlines were penned even before Michael took to the stage? That the audience in the venue who checked the internet on their mobile devices and saw those headlines spread the word around the arena that Michael was about to disappoint?
How can it be that an audience in London, watching an American super-icon accept an award officially confirming his status as the most successful entertainer of all time, was about to descend into boos some moments later?
Can it all be explained by the combination of factors I have outlined above?
Well, no. There is also the fact that after accepting his award, Michael took to the stage again to close the show by joining a choir who had already sung two choruses of We Are The World. He shook hands with members of the choir, sang a couple of choruses with them and then appeared to have his microphone switched off due to what was later claimed to be a ‘curfew’ issue at Earls Court?
There are so many things wrong with this scenario that it’s hard to know where to begin.
Firstly, the choir and Michael were singing over the commercially available version of We Are The World. You can buy an instrumental version of that song on eBay for five bucks. Bob Dylan’s dulcet tones were heard echoing around the arena before Michael even entered the stage. This was the type of thing that people expect at school concerts. “Oh, let’s just sing over the original track, it’ll be fine.” How has the man who has worked with the world’s greatest producers and sound engineers been put in this position, and who is responsible? Where are the people, either in his own organisation – whatever is left of it – or in the WMAs who tried to prevent it?
It is baffling that Michael’s microphone appeared to be cut off. It allowed the press the next day to speculate (wrongly, of course) that it had been cut to save the embarrassment of his bum notes! If there was a curfew to consider, had no-one thought about this beforehand?
The great thing about We Are The World was that Michael took the time to fully interact with the fans that had spent the entire day in line at the venue waiting to get near the stage. He walked right down the catwalk, with the choir behind him, threw his jacket out to the adoring crowd, took some banners and let himself be touched by his fans. These are the things he does naturally. He would have done that whether he was performing or not.
There was simply no need for the people around this superb artist and this lamentable ceremony to build up the idea of a performance if Michael was unable or unwilling to deliver more than a chorus of We Are The World. It turned what should have been a celebratory evening for Michael as a world-record breaker into a disappointment for thousands of people.
Michael Jackson’s position as a living legend was consolidated when Beyoncé presented him with the Diamond Award. She said that without Michael Jackson, she would never have become a performer and she said that an enormous amount of other performers all over the world feel the same. Michael responded with a short but sweet speech, thanking his family and those who had stood by him. At the end of it, looking at him holding his award, it was apparent what a legacy this was for Michael and how unobtainable his achievements are to any other artist.
He should have been floating on air that night.
Unfortunately, in the eyes of many, he also consolidated his image as someone whose time has passed. Many of the people who had come to see the show to get a rare glimpse of Michael performing would not describe themselves as ‘fans’ – they are just music lovers who are interested in seeing a legend in the flesh. When Chris Brown attempted to recreate the ‘Thriller’ video before Michael received his award, no-one could deny his talent but neither could anyone deny the disappointment of seeing him dressed in the red ‘Thriller’ suit and performing a song made famous by the man who was waiting in the wings dressed in very different clothes for a night of award-receiving rather than performing. There was also the uncomfortable feeling or fear that they would never again be able to see Michael performing like Chris Brown.
And yet surely those people were wrong. In months or years to come, of course Michael Jackson can release more music and entertain people in sold out arenas – if he wants it. The over-riding impression left by the World Music Awards 2006 is that right then, he didn’t want it.
So why on earth did everyone else connected to this poorly-produced production allow the myth to perpetuate that he did want it? Why was it left to Michael himself to correct that myth? Why don’t the people who care about Michael as a person take the actions that are necessary to protect him as an artist?
Until those questions can be answered, we should be gravely concerned about the ability of Michael to overcome the hurdles necessary to take to the stage properly – when he really does want it.

du hast recht...ganz schön frustrierend kann das wohl jetzt für ihn sein... glaubt ihr,dass das irgendjemand aus seinem lager oder er selbst noch irgendwie klarstellen wird? wäre doch notwendig...er wird doch interviews gegeben haben nach dem auftritt oder ist die access hollywood geschichte schon gelaufen? hat der billy bush nicht noch nach dem konzi mit ihm geredet? warum wehrt sich ein michael jackson nicht? unsereins tut das halt in der seele weh, so eine ungerechtigkeit...er hat das beste fraus gemacht...diese ärsche wollen ihn echt am boden sehn...