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Zitat von Screamlouder

Peter Lopez ist auch im Musikmanagement aktiv gewesen für Michael, wie es scheint...das überschneidet sich ja. Es scheint ja eine rechtlich nicht ganz einfache Situation zwischen Michael und Sony gewesen zu sein und ich denke Lopez hat da was angeschoben, von dem beide profitieren...in sofern ist der der Kopf hinter diesem Thriller 25-Projekt. Wenn du mal ins Booklet guckst und siehst was Michael Richtung Lopez schreibt, macht das ja doch nen positiven Eindruck auch was die Zukunft angeht... Auf alle Fälle ist er mal ein 100% Profi genau wie die Presse-Tante von Epic, die sich um Michaels Belange kümmert. Das ist ja auch was Roger sagte: Vor einem Comeback müssen die Amateure weg und Profis ran...das scheint zumindest passiert zu sein. Die große Frage ist eben, ob es das nun mit Thriller 25 schon wieder war, oder ob noch mehr kommt. Rein vom logischen her macht es wenig Sinn, wenn die nur für Thriller 25 da gewesen sind, weil es da für Michael selber wenig zu tun gab. Er hat sich ja nun fast völlig aus der Promo und diesen Sachen rausgehalten...also liegt die Vermutung nahe, dass da noch was kommt. Fingers crossed*

Ok, hoffen wir, dass sein Management-Talent dem von Dileo gleich kommt. Manager müssen ja nicht nur rechtlich, sondern auch wirtschaftlich voll auf der Höhe sein und gute Verhandler geben. Na, wir hoffen es mal! Und gut wäre wirklich, wenn Mike wieder ein professionelles Team bekommen würde.

Vielleicht kommt ja was. Wer weiss

No Jackson for Quincy Jones Tribute

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
By Roger Friedman

Michael Jackson may have made his three best albums with Quincy Jones, but the former King of Pop was nowhere to be seen last night at the ASCAP Tribute to the legendary producer in New York.

Instead, that part of Jones’s extraordinary career was covered by singer Siedah Garrett, who performed the hit she co-wrote with Glen Ballard for Jackson’s “Bad” album and which Jones produced: “Man in the Mirror.” She got a standing ovation. Insiders told me that it was easier simply not to contact Jackson than get involved with his notorious mishegos.

The tribute to ‘Q’ — he’s the only person in the biz who is known by one letter — was one of those wonderful warm nights that recalls the heyday of what used to be a great business.

For example, just in the audience there was Bebe Winans, Sire Records founder Seymour Stein, famed Blondie and Go Go’s producer Richard Gottehrer, Russ Titelman (he produced classic records by Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor, Cyndi Lauper, Phoebe Snow), legendary Bacharach lyricist Hal David, and Marilyn and Alan Bergman, who wrote, among other things, “The Way We Were” with Marvin Hamlisch.

Did I mention the great Johnny Mandel, Elvis Presley producer Mike Moran (and wife Linda, head of the Songwriters Hall of Fame), and opera star Kathleen Battle?

These were just the people who watched (Whoopi Goldberg came by too, so did “Bella” star Eduardo Verastegui ) as ASCAP’s Karen Sherry (with Greg Phillinganes) produced a series of show stoppers from Valerie Simpson and Nik Ashford, Roberta Flack, Patti Austin, James Ingram, Al Jarreau, Gloria Estefan, Savion Glover and the cast of “Stomp,” Tevin Campbell, Tamia, Take 6 and honest to god legends like James Moody and Clark Terry.

Tony Bennett waited patiently through cocktails and dinner, through many performances, before just ambling up on stage and knocking out “Maybe this Time” as if he were a gun slinger who’d come in, gotten the job done neat, and wanted to get home in good time. Amazing.

Did you know that Quincy produced Lesley Gore’s classic pop hits “It’s My Party” and “You Don’t Own Me” when she was 16? She belted out both songs last night like time stood still. That he first heard Patti Austin sing when she was 4 and was introduced to her by Dinah Washington? The under appreciated R&B star nearly stole the show last night with her long time duet partner James Ingram on “How Do You Keep the Music Playing?”

Of course, Q — who turned 75 last month — sported what seemed to be a sheared mink sportcoat and looked as spectacular as ever. His six decade career could never be reviewed in one night — I mean, he was once Sinatra’s orchestrator and arranger! — and even the man himself was overwhelmed when he finally got to the stage. He reminisced about many of the performers, saying he’d worked with them “before there was electricity.”

Jones did allude to several things we didn’t know, like Gloria Estefan’s penchant for telling dirty jokes. (She wouldn’t tell us any later.) He did tell one shaggy dog story from the early 80s about going on a Saatchi yacht and being forced into cross dressing with MTV co-creator Bob Pittman and Madonna’s original producer Jellybean Benitez (he’s the guy she omitted from her speech at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame).

“Page Six in the New York Post got wind of it and said we looked more like the O’Jays than the Supremes,” Quincy laughed. He refused to tell a story about Tony Bennett, however. “Tony would die if I told you,” he said.

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Zitat von TLC

No Jackson for Quincy Jones Tribute

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
By Roger Friedman

Michael Jackson may have made his three best albums with Quincy Jones, but the former King of Pop was nowhere to be seen last night at the ASCAP Tribute to the legendary producer in New York.

Instead, that part of Jones’s extraordinary career was covered by singer Siedah Garrett, who performed the hit she co-wrote with Glen Ballard for Jackson’s “Bad” album and which Jones produced: “Man in the Mirror.” She got a standing ovation. Insiders told me that it was easier simply not to contact Jackson than get involved with his notorious mishegos.[/url]

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Mensch Mike Das wärst Du dem guten Q aber eigentlich schuldig...

Zitat von Speed_Demon

Mensch Mike Das wärst Du dem guten Q aber eigentlich schuldig...

Aber Hallo !

wie war das das gehört alles zu sienem comeback "plan"

ne is klar

Zitat von Dirty Diana 298

wie war das das gehört alles zu sienem comeback "plan"

ne is klar

Na, was denkst Du denn? Alles Taktik!

Er möchte doch die 1. perfomace doch für das brandneue Material aufheben!

Zitat von Speed_Demon

Na, was denkst Du denn? Alles Taktik!

Er möchte doch die 1. perfomace doch für das brandneue Material aufheben!

Also garnicht:sneddi

Zitat von Fatih

Also garnicht:sneddi

Der Bodygurad aus Toronto sagt aber was anderes

Na der muss es ja wissen :lol

das finde ich...echt ungut. genauer gesagt KACKE.
mike, ein bissle mehr stil hätte ich dir schon zugetraut.
nicht nachvollziehbar, dass mike da nicht ganz weit vorne mit dabei ist.

einmal mehr spiegelt das seine momentane einstellung wider...traurig
where have you gone mike?!

er sucht seine mitte, denke ich. und das ist jetzt nicht als witz gemeint....

Isses nicht eher ein "Mir ist allet Scheißegal" und "ick komm nich klar!" Verhalten?

Zitat von Screamlouder

Isses nicht eher ein "Mir ist allet Scheißegal" und "ick komm nich klar!" Verhalten?

Hell Yeah !

lest doch mal richtig bitte... gefriedelt wird:

"Insiders told me that it was easier simply not to contact Jackson than get involved with his notorious mishegos."

wenn das stimmt, kann man michael kaum vorwerfen,
dass er sich nicht selber eingeladen hat.

Naja...aber ist doch eben so ein alles-sagendes-Statement...

Den alten Mike werden wir wahrscheinlich niemals wieder bekommen, aber damit müssen wir uns abfinden!
Und wer weiß, vllt irren wir uns ja doch, was ich sehr hoffe, aber stark bezweifle...!

Vultures Circle at Michael Jackson's Neverland

Friday, April 25, 2008
By Roger Friedman

Forget the stories of Michael Jackson making a new album. Not only is he not working, he's also not paying attention to the rapidly approaching Neverland auction.

The auction is set for May 14, and I am told the vultures are circling with cashier's checks. Among them: at least some form of the original loan holder, Fortress Investments.

"I know they want it," says a source, "and there are three or four others."

Bidders will show up on May 14 at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse.

Meantime, a mortgage company in Virginia is questioning whether an approach made to it originally by Jackson's former manager Raymone Bain has any validity. The owner of the company, who's asked me to keep her name out of it for the moment, thought she had a deal to take on Jackson's $24 million loan from Fortress.

But the deal, like the one I told you about last month, has fallen into the abyss. The mortgage broker, who is quite legit, says she has a mountain of signed paperwork from Bain and some others, including Steve Mortensen, CFO of Ron Burkle's Yucaipa Companies, stating that each of them is in charge of Jackson's finances.

Bain, however, pulled out of the deal on March 10, suddenly. But the others are still involved, she says, including Jackson's music attorney, Peter Lopez.

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Ohje, Fridelschniedel ist wieder aktiv...

Palms Hotel

Wednesday, April 30, 2008
By Roger Friedman

Meanwhile, Lindsay’s little sister, Ali, age 14, is in the studio recording her own album for another branch of UMG: Jimmy Lovine’s Interscope via Maloof Music. The latter is owned by the Maloof Brothers of Las Vegas, whose Palms Hotel is a hotspot on the strip. The Maloofs are not only underwriting the album but also the reality series Ali and mom Dina are starring in for “E!”

The brothers let the Lohans stay at the Palm, just as Michael Jackson and his brood have been living in another part of the hotel. It makes you wonder if there are any paying guests in that place.

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