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MICHAEL JACKSON's 30th Anniversary Celebration, the Solo Years--a two-night, self-thrown tribute to be held at Madison Square Garden in September--is bound to be a cornucopia of good taste. Liza Minnelli will perform You Are Not Alone with a 300-voice gospel choir; Marlon Brando will make a rare live non-nude appearance; and the JACKSON 5--older and stiffer but surely just as cute--will reunite. Indeed, five Jacksons will reunite--but not all are original. Citing "the exorbitant prices being charged" for the event, Jermaine Jackson is a conscientious objector. Jermaine claimed that...
...What?s the difference between religious and sexual ecstasy, between philosophical and emotional anguish? In the Church of Charles, not much. As Donald Clark observes in his grand sweep of pop, "The Rise and Fall of Popular Music," several Charles songs were blues adaptations of gospel airs: from "Talkin? ?Bout Jesus" to "Talkin? ?Bout You," from "This Little Light of Mine" to "This Little Girl of Mine," from "How Jesus Died" to the Doc Pomus composition "Lonely Avenue." The first number was Charles? most popular tune thus far; the second was covered, and nicely revamped as rockabilly, by the Everly...
...GENIE Blinded at six by glaucoma, schooled in classical, gospel and every form of popular music, Charles came to Atlantic in 1953, when Ertegun bought his Swingtime Records contract for $2,500. Ray brought with him a pioneering blend of gospel melodies, R&B raunch, a suavely swingin? piano groove ? la Nat Cole and the imposing sound of a big band behind him (though typically he worked with only six sidemen). Oh, and an epochal vocal style that would make him the dominant and longest-lived soul singer of the century. Was Charles, as one of his own albums...
...with fanfare and frippery. Fifteen tall ships docked along the Detroit River, filling the aquatic expanse with vibrant colors from Detroit to Windsor. Dignitaries representing France and twelve Native American nations converged upon the city to celebrate its heritage. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra performed outdoors with an 800-person gospel choir...
...Wood—cherished because thousands have had their picture taken in the crosswalk, because millions have looked into someone else’s eyes and seen George’s “Something,” and because the world entire has been converted to the gospel of the album’s penultimate song: In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make...