All Michael Jackson

Thriller 25th Anniversary Album from Michael Jackson

2007-10-18T06:47:00.000-07:00

I've just read a story at Fox News regarding new material from Michael.

It gives rise to the possibility that Michel isn't planning to do an album of new material at all. The article mentions all the names of current music stars we have heard of lately, including Will I AM, Kanye West, Akon, but not as regards working on new music, insteading remixing old Thriller tracks, for a 25th Anniversary Edition of Thriller.

The album may have new tracks, however these tracks are likely to be old tracks thought not good enough to make the original album. Bruce Swedien is quoted as mentioning a killer called "Don’t Be Messin’ Around" a likely addition.

It also states Michael has no interest in performing or touring, saying that he feels he's done that.

I have no idea if there is any truth to the above news. However, it wouldn't surprise me if it's all true. I do wonder why Michael doesn't perform at all at the events he goes to, he doesnt sing a note (barring the WMA 2006, remember what that caused). If he does a new album of new material is he going to want to promote it? Does he even like going out in public anymore than he has to? Earlier this year he was ill when shipped over to London to make an appearance for a mega rich businessman from the Middle East. He's appearance barely lasted.

There's no doubt he could counjour up publicity one way or another to promote an album and its quite possible that publicity would boost the sales of old classics (or the newer remixes), rather than sell any new music.

Michael ordered to pay $175,000 by U.S judge

2007-10-16T08:34:00.000-07:00

Michael Jackson has been ordered to pay $175,000 in overdue fees to a U.S law firm for services they provided during his 2005 court case.

This is on top of $256,000 that Michael was ordered to pay earlier this year in July 2007, bringing the total now ordered to pay to just over $430,000.

Michael's financial matters continue to make the news more than his music and entertainment news.

Michael's letter to Fans

2007-10-11T11:09:00.000-07:00

Michael Jackson this week released a letter to his fans via various fan clubs:

Here's how it read:

TO MY FANS AROUND THE WORLD:

I would like to thank you for the beautiful cards, photographs, messages, videos, and gifts, sent to me on my birthday.

I was overwhelmed by your kindness.

Your continued love and support means so much to me. I really love and appreciate you all... from the bottom of my heart.

I've been really busy lately. Hopefully, you've all seen the results of my recent photo shoot with L'Uomo Vogue.

Soon, I will be sharing exciting and surprising news with you from my other efforts.

Please know again, that I love and appreciate each and every one of you, and send to you my heartfelt thanks and warm wishes".

Sincerely,

Michael Jackson

Michael not Signed up to X - Factor

2007-10-10T14:03:00.000-07:00

Apparently according to posters in a couple of MJ forums, Michael's spokesperson Raymone K. Bain has denied reports that Michael will be part of the X-Factor.

I'm not surprised in the slightest seeings as it was an "insider" who leaked the story he had signed. I'm pretty sure if he had then there would have been alot more secrecy around it and a big build up.

Anyway, I'm not to sure what Simon Cowells take on Michael is, I'm pretty sure he panned Michaels last album Invincible.

They do get big A-list stars on these shows so I don't think it would be beneath Michael to appear, plus its huge publicity here in the UK.

Michael Jackson to appear on X factor???

2007-10-08T13:44:00.000-07:00

I have heard reports today and over the weekend that Michael Jackson has supposedly signed up to X Factor, the TV talent finding show, a date of December 1st was mentioned.

I have no idea if its true and it seems a bit out the blue if it is. Earlier this year there were rumours Michael would make an appearance on American Idol, but they turned out to be false. That came about because there was alot of hype about amazing superstar guests.

One thing I do notice about X - Factor is that in many recent episodes, of which all so far have been auditions, they play a Michael Jackson songs. This Sunday they played one of my favourites, You Are Not Alone.

I have often thought it would be amazing if Michael did something like X Factor or American Idol. It would literally put him into millions of homes. It would be totally awesome if they had a Michael Jackson week and all the contestants sang Michael songs. A whole new generation of youngsters would be introduced to his music.

Personally I'll believe it when I've heard it confirmed from one of Michael's spokesman.

Michael's Advice to Donny Osmond

2007-10-06T15:51:00.000-07:00

I caught the end of a TV programme this week featuring Donny Osmond, he was being interviewed by Piers Morgan
on "You Can't Fire Me, I'm Famous".

It was quite interesting how Donny and Michael's careers had run so parallel in the early 1970's but then took vastly different directions after a few years.

Both were child singing stars, both as solo artists and with there brothers and then went to star on TV shows, Michael most notably with his brothers in the Jackson's CBS TV Specials and Donny with his sister in Donny and Marie.

However Michael continued to have great hits and Donny's career took a huge nose dive, hitting an altime low when his Broadway show was cancelled after the first night after it recieved such bad critism, mostly of Donny himself. After that couldn't get a record deal or anything.

Donny stated how around 1979 he spoke to Michael and asked him, how does he get hit single and back in the charts. Obviously Michael at this time had released the hugely successful "Off the Wall" album. Michael told Donny to "change your name".

May seem a crazy and an extreme comment. Of course Donny didn't change his name.

However, interestingly it wasn't until 1988 or 1989 that Donny had another hit record. The interesting aspect was that radio stations were playing it without telling the listeners who it was singing. The single "Soldier of Love" was highly requested and eventually Donny was bought on the radio to announce after alot of speculation that he was the singer. After that the single and follow ups become huge hits and he continued to have more success in his career.

It was just interesting how Michael was spot on and proved right that for Donny to have a hit he would have to overcome the stigma of his name.

Also interesting was when Donny was asked whether he would have preferred a normal life or the tough life he had as an entertainer. I missed the beginning of the show so I won't speculate as to why and how tough it was. However, Donny, very emotionally said he would have preferred the non famous lifestyle. Just goes to show that the life of a young star was very tough, the very same lifestyle Michael also had at such a young age. Something the vast majority of us may never even come close to understanding.

New Amazon aStore

2007-10-06T15:22:00.000-07:00

I decided today it was about time I spruced up the store pages of the site, which as it turns out were full of alot of products no longer stocked by the stores I was linking to.

Instead of going through the time consuming process of adding individual Amazon links I went for the fairly new Amazon aStore.

Basically it creates all the store pages for you. For example I decided I wanted a page on Michael Jackson Posters, so I just search there products, clicked "Add" for each poster I wanted and its imported into the store. I then did the same for a number of other categories.

Then all I had to do was place the link in an iframe and the store page shows up on my own webpage, all nicely designed by myself to fit in with my colour scheme. Amazon itself doesn't actually let you know you can link to the individual categories you create, so I was pleased when I tried it that it worked and looks greats. Each of my individual pages shows the right products.
No doubt if I didn't have individual store pages created I would just link to the new astore index.

I also added a large block of store adds at the base of the index page. These are set to open the store in a new window and if anything looks better this way than my actual own store pages with the iframe.

Whether they increase salesonly time will tell. I'll be suure to keep you informed.

Back In Business

2007-05-27T04:44:00.000-07:00

I've moved the site to a new web hosting company this week which lead to some images not displaying most of the week which makes the site look like a ghost town.

The new host offers me loads more web space and tonnes more bandwidth, so that bandwidth usage will no longer be a problem.

My previous bandwidth problems were ridiculous. I had to make hundreds of changes in an effort to lower bandwidth usage as advised by my web host. I was resizing and lowering quality of images, inserting anti- hot linking code etc. What a waste of time the changes had virtually no effect on my bandwidth usage. I should have just jumped ship and gone with a better web host. Its not as if it has cost me much extra.

Anyway, I'm back in full swing with a few weeks of up dates to get on top of. There hasn't been too much of interest going on the last couple of months. Other than usual rumours and the pending Michael Jackson and Jackson family memorabilia auction which has been surrounded by alot of gossip.

Anyway that auction is taking place this coming week so I will get the site back up to speed before then, and more importantly - keep it up to speed!

Michael Arrives In Japan

2007-03-05T13:12:00.000-08:00

Wow, what a reception Michael got on arriving in Japan. I added a video which captures the excitement of the large number of Japanese fans when Michael and his 3 children arrived.

Who knows what it must be like for his children, even though they were safely out of harms way.

A statement was released prior to Michael arriving, letting fans know where and when he wasarriving so they obviously wanted Michael to recieve a warm welcome. Must make a huge difference after such long aeroplane journeys, to be greeted so warmly.

I also added a gallery of pictures of Michael arriving in at Narito Airport.

Hotlinking update

2007-03-02T08:48:00.000-08:00

I have implemented a new HotLink Protector on the site server this week which will stop other sites being able to show my images and using my bandwidth.

When I looked at my site stats it was astounding how many different MYSpace pages had taken an image, it was hundreds. Its a compliement that these people like my site and I'm sure the vast majority don't realise they are doing anything wrong by hotlinking.

Before doing the server changes I did have a little fun with some of the images. On one MYspace account it had one of my large Michael Jackson pic below "Who I would like to Meet", so I searched google images for "ugly man" and then replaced that with the MJ file. A nice big picture, and wow he sure was ugly, I felt sorry for the guy, someone who actually has to live his life living looking like that.

New Galleries

2007-03-02T08:40:00.000-08:00

This week I added a whole range of new Michael Jackson picture galleries to the site.

I'v been collecting the pictures and photos over the last few months so its was just a matter of arranging them and getting them added to the site.

I have covered every era of Michaels career from the Jackson 5 up to the Invinclible Era.

I've also added galleries for all the missing tours, mainly those pre Bad tour.

The actual picture gallery page looks amazing, that page alone speaks volumes aboout Michael career and how he has evolved as a musical artist.

There is one problem, as soon as I put the galleries up they proved hugely popular and sent my bandwidth through the roof, so Im going to have to review alot of the image sizes.

For now I'm sure many fans will truly appreciate this part of the site, a part which was very much needed, as many of the individual pictures say so much. I fully intend to go through each one and write a little info about each picture.

New Music Videos Section

2007-02-22T14:36:00.000-08:00

Well its taken me long enough but I've finally (with a little help) completed the new Michael Jackson videos section! I never seen anything like this before, so I'm the first site to offer so much information combined with Youtube videos of each of his actial videos.

I've basically created a page for every music video Michael has ever produced as well as information on each one and the accompanying video via YouTube.

What a great collection, starting from his very first, the disc video for Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough , through to Billie Jean the first video played on MTV featuring a black artist! Yes, Michael changed that as well!

Then there's Thriller, the one that changed how the music industry viewed music videos forever. Michael was the first to spot and fully utilize the potential of the music video to sell records.

When a new Michael video was due to be released it would be a huge event, especially if it was the first one from an album. I remember the excitement before and when Bad, Black or White
videos were released.

Michael really had to do something special for the first release from the HIStory album, and with Scream it was expensive at $7 million! But Wow, what a video!

One of my personal favourites is the You Rock My World video . It was that song, combined very much with the video that inspired me to create this very site.

I think this will be hugely interesting section to any new fan. They can see, hear and learn a bit about every video all from within my site.

One problem is going to be the fact that some of the videos will be removed from YouTube quite frequently, so I will have to keep an eye on this and hopefully fans will contact me if a video isn't working.

Updates

2007-02-20T14:31:00.000-08:00

I've mainly been cleaning up the site the last few days, for example the Thriller album page was just one block of text so I've paragraphed it and added tracklistings. I don't think it needs much more information than that. I did the same for the other album pages.

Also, late last night I went through the Michael Jackson 30th Anniversary Celebrations and added a one line caption for each picture.

I did this for 2 reasons, firstly to see if the extra words used made any difference to the Google AdWords displayed, for which I have to wait 48 hours to find out. At the moment every page of that section displays the same ads, as you would expect given every page is very similar to a search engine like Google, as they don't see the image.

Secondly I think the captions will be useful and interesting to anyone visting the gallery. Whether I'll do them for other galleries I don't know yet. Have to see.

Behind the scenes I've been working on a new galleries. However, rather than do a bit of one gallery and then upload it and add pictures to it another day I prefer to go all out and find as many pictures as possible for a specific category and then upload the gallery and then leave it at that.

I'm going to upload all the main key galleries in one hit and I'm sure it will make a big difference to the site as fans love to browse picture galleries.

Back to Adsense, I placed a block of Ads quite high up on the page underneath the latest pics.
I think they fit in very well and hopefully don't take anything away from the content of the site.

Actually one of the sites in the block of Ads went to a site that on its front page had my Michael Jackson biograpghy, word for word!!!!

Hmm, just thinking what to do about.

Hotlinking My Images

2007-02-19T14:18:00.000-08:00

Its obvious Ive been really busy as 12 days later I'm just picking up from where I last left off!

Hotlinking
My site bandwidth usage has been huge the last few weeks. Only now have I got round to fully investigating why. Obviously the site gets alot of daily visitors and many of those visitors have there own webspace for example via MYSPACE, and it turns out many of these people like some of the Michael Jackson images hosted on my site!

Not only that, but they like the moving gif images, which are actually huge files and use alot of bandwidth from my site alone, let alone being on other peoples.

Not being to tech minded, or when I do find a technical solution its either doesn't work or wasn't designing for my sever, typical! I'm having to go through my new site stats and workout website offenders and the worse image offenders.

Hotlink is actually a form of bandwidth theft. Not that the people doing it probably actually realise this. In a way its flattering that they like the images from my site.

The moving gif images were a great way to bring some life to certain pages, for example I used them on my Michael Jackson dance page to show the moonwalk in motion. Anyway, I think some of these pages could be improved by replacing the gifs with relevant YouTube videos or similar and they don't use any of my bandwidth! :)

Help with the site

2007-02-07T04:16:00.000-08:00

I need more time or help
Finding time to improve the site is proving difficult. I'm sure in the old days I used to be able to get much more done in a day but these days I just end up with lists of ideas and jobs to do that seem to take forever to get through. For every job I do I add 2 more to the list.

I left a message in a forum this week asking for help with the site. I've been fortunate enough to have had some interest, so hopefully that will be a big step forward in building and improving the site further. It's not easy trying to cover over 30 years of the greatest ever living entertainer in just a few hours a week.

Traffic and bandwidth issues
This week the guy who hosts my site was ringing me letting me know the site was using alot of bandwidth. He thought it was the recent YouTube streaming videos I added. This seemed strange to me and I researched and posted on some message boards and everyone said that the embedded YouTubes would not use my bandwidth.

I did a little checking and found that some other sites had copied whole pages of my site and were hotlinking the images. God knows how many other images have been hotlinked over the years. Some of them were big gif image files that I used to highlight Michael in movement, for example doing a specific dance move. I can now replace these with actual YouTube videos. Although even that can present problems because some YouTube videos get removed for copyright reasons.

Michaels Latest Comeback News
Well the Michael Jackson comeback seems to be definetly in the planning stages if a recent news article I recieved today is anything to go by, this motivates me even more to get the site the best in can be in time for any future Michael projects.

I just hope he doesn't get a long term gig in Las Vegas and end up a reclusive in some hotel. Look what it did for Elvis. Albeit Las vegas is a great place, I've had the fortune to visit there myself and I loved it on the Strip.

Jermaine Runner Up In Celebrity Big Brother

2007-01-29T16:02:00.000-08:00

Wow, how time flies (since my last post).

Jermaine Runner Up
Jermaine Jackson finished runner up to Bollywood superstar Shipa Shetty in this years Celebrity Big Brother 2007.
He seemed very pleased with the result and complimenting Shilpa as a deserving winner.
I did personally carry on watching the show since my last post, but only half watching it while doing other things. I realised I wasn't really going to get much of an insight into Michael or the Jackson family. Plus the show did become very distasteful for a while, so I didn't feel like blogging about it. After all, this is my Michael Jackson site blog, not a general rant on the world blog.

I did see one headline report on the net saying David Gest had said Michael was watching alot of the show. Well in a way I hope he wasn't watching too much as the younger British women in the house were a disgrace to our country.

As for Jermaine, he was very quiet and had to put up with questions like, "Was Billie Jean based on the tennis player?". That from a former popstar. Oh well.
Jermaine certainly conducted himelf with great dignity. It was great though when he did the Jackson 5 song, "I Want You Back".

Jermaine also stated he will be in London for a while working on a show based on his family. Well thats certainly one to watch out for.

Site Updates
I have a great new section to upload shortly, I just need to add some finishing touches and prefer to upload it it as a completed section in one go.
It will liven up my site a bit more and certainly provide alot of information on one specific aspect of Michael's career where he has led the way.
Actually, I had an email question about one aspect of it today and let them see a page of it, so it's definetly going to be of interest and informational to a large number of fans.

Jermaine caught up in the racism of the Celebrity Big Brother

2007-01-17T12:45:00.000-08:00

Well there's been a whole lot of headlines on the evening news channels, our Prime Minster Tony Blair and the Indian Prime Minister have both commented on the programme and some Indians in Indian have taken to the streets to demonstrate against percieved racism.

Jermaine was the first to spot the racism against Shipa Shetty. Actually going back to the start of the programme I was quite surprised when Jermaine said he was glad when he saw Shilpa Shetty enter the house because it was another non white person. Even a star as big as Jermaine still felt consious of his being because of his colour. I won't go into possible reasons for him thinking this.

Jermaine hit upon the fact that Shilpa was being victimised by Jade for an action of voting a contestant out, even though a fellow white friend of hers, Jo from S Club 7 had also voted in the same way as Shilpa.

Jermaine had previosly put the issues down to being differences of class.

Is there racism in the house? Jermaine definetly put the issues down to colour. Ian, (H from Steps) had recognised there was bulying going on. So is it bullying or racism?

Channel 4 say its not racism. However I believe when you look down at another race and comment on why they are all skinny, that they eat with there hands, they don't cook or eat properly, use body language to let the person know they are not liked or welcomed in a group, its racism. This and more has gone on in the house.

Channel 4 may not choose to think its racism because no one has walked up to Shilpa Shetty and called her a racist name, but theres alot more to racism than that!

Anyway, somehow Shipa Shetty has managed to carry on with the show and no doubt has been helped by Jermaine who has constantlly there to reassure her she is not the one who has the problem and she is fine as she is.

Anyway I certainly made a complaint to OFCOM, and today I heard there's been over 15,000 complaints.

January 17th 9pm Showing of Celebrity BB
Now this was pure distasteful. Shipla certainly questioned in tonights airing of the show whether she was the victim of racism. At one point Jermaine put it down not to being racist but a difference of class, something he has said before.

I questioned tonight why Jermaine and Shilpa even stay in the house.

Anyway with regards to the reason I continue to watch it and blog it (for any insights into Michael and his family) Jermaine did mention his family upbringing, that although strict it has certainly helped him in good stead throughout his life.

Tonight was Jermaine Jackson and Jackson 5 Night!!!

2007-01-14T14:16:00.000-08:00

Tonight was the night for Jermaine Jackson in Celebrity Big Brother.

Big Brother announced a Battle of the Bands contest. The 2 captains were Jermaine Jackson who was to head a Jackson 5 tribute band and Ian from Steps, who was to lead a Steps tribute band.

Well Jermaine picked Shilpa the bollywood star, Cleo (Kenny Everets 80's sidekick), Dirk Benedict (The A Teams Face), and Danielle Lloyd (former Miss Great Britain).

We saw them rehearsing the dance moves learning some of the lines. Then we were treated to the full performance of "I Want You Back", the first Jackson 5 Mowtown hit, and one of my personal favourite songs of all time. Both bands were dressed in full authentic band clothing. The Jackson 5 had typical high heeled boots, chequered coloured (strange) 1970's pop star clothing and of course the big Afro wigs.

It was great on all counts. Jermaine took lead role and sang most of the song. He still has a great voice and its so great to see him perform. His voice is very soft and full of star quality. The whole performance was hilarous and great entertainment. Even Jermaine was laughing within the song. All memebers of the group were great.

The footage was shown live yesterday and online streaming viewers voted for the winners. Jermaine's, Jackson 5 tribute band won 75% of the vote.

All housemates were later awarded a Jackson 5 theme party. Jermaine seemed alot happier as did all the housemates in general. We heard the orginal "ABC" blasting during the party out with Michael Jackson singing, which lead to some crazy dancing by Dirk.

It was a good show tonight and finished on a couple of the housemates (Jade and her boyfriend) talking about asking Jermaine for his autograph after the show. I think his star quality shone very bright!!!

Jermaines progress in Celebrity Big Brother

2007-01-14T08:25:00.000-08:00

Jermaine Jackson revealed this week he had told himself that he entered the house with dignity and he shall leave with dignity. Not as easy as it sounds for most people, especially Leo Sayer who completeley lost it before busting out a fire exit door and leaving.

I only found this out yesterday, that on entering the house and asked what he would bring to to house Jermiaine said "Peace". Well that is certainly true, although maybe "peace and quite" would have been more fitting.

He has admitted to Shilpa that if he knew what the show was really like he wouldn't have done it. Also stating it was much harder than anyone on the outside could have imagined.

He seemed very disappointed that Leo Sayer had left, and even without saying goodbye. The two had known each other over the years, although from what I saw they barely spoke much. Its also worth noting that Leo left because Big Brother didn't give him clean underpants. However Jermaine, who has been a bigger star for longer than Leo, albeit as part of a group and a few solo hits. However he has been handwashing his own underwear.

Jermaine certainly has a good strong bond with Shipa. After Leo left one of the housemates said they might expect Jermaine to leave, and Shilpa said he Jermaine leaves, she will go with him. This was something they had spoke about when Jade and her family first enter the house.

Jermaine is certainly one of the calmest housemates I've ever seen in the house. In this Celebrity big Brother he is by far the wisest in terms of the entertainment industry. He has had to give Shilpa some sound advice when she has fallen out with the other girls in the house. Not really due to any of her own doing, mainly because of lack of respect and understanding from some of the lower class housemates, the ones proud to be dumb, i.e Danielle Lloyd and Jade Goody.

I heard yesterday that Jermaine was given a task to lead half the group in a band competition against the other half of the group. They were then treated to a Jackson 5 style party. I haven't seen the footage yet but I hope it proves fun and interesting.

2 New Michael Jackson Tracks

2007-01-09T19:05:00.000-08:00

Today I discovered 2 new Michael Jackson tracks.

The first is a demo of a beautiful song from the Thriller era called Love Never Felt So Good. A pretty simple song and one perfect for Michael Jacksons voice. I'm not sure how long it's been out in the public domain but until now I've not heard of it.

While looking up some info on the above song I also discovered another new track which heavily features Michael Jacksons backing vocals. The song is either called Gangsta or No Friend of Mine. I gather the song is fairly new although I have no idea yet as to when Michael recorded his vocals.

There's a stark contrast between the vocals on both tracks. The Michael's Gangsta vocals sound recent, but I'm most interested in exactly how recent.

I really like both tracks. Although I think Love Never Felt So Good would have broader appeal. Michael singing in his soft fresh voice. Whereas the harsher style doesn't generally appeal to the older generation who just think music like that is a racket.

Of course I like both songs, although I felt the first song a much better discovery musically and the second more interesting as I'd like to know when it was recorded as it might show some direction Michael may want to take with his eagerly anticipated comeback.

Jermaine Quizzed by Jade Goody

2007-01-08T09:36:00.000-08:00

Still can't beileve I've got Jade Goody in my blog.

Anyway, somehow Jermaine has managed to stay in the Celebrity Big Brother House with Jade and her family. Actually Jade isn't so bad I suppose although I begrudge having to watch her on telly. Her boyfriend, Jack, is just boring, so boring it's not problem as we simply never see him. Jade's mum, Jackie, well you need an award for living with her.

After Jades family entered it wasn't long until Jermaine was whipsering in the toilets with Shilpa about leaving. Since then 2 celebrity contestants have left by there own accord.

Still haven't seen too much of Jermaine. I've seen him laughing alot at bedtime at Jackies loud farting. Although I read he was very displeased by her loud farting in the day, especially in the kitchen!

He did face a few questions from Jade, who jokingly accused him of "putting it about" after he told her about some of his many children with different mothers. One of his children is called Jermaine and another Jermajesty.

Jade also fired some questions about Michael. She questioned in her typical way about Michael's appearance being white, and asked if both his parents black. Of course Jermaine said he had a skin condition, although he couldn't remember what it was called (Vitiligo). She also asked about the way he has changed his face and Jermaine said that Michael had changed things but he was still "Michael the person".

At some point Jermaine also talked of Neverland and how beautiful it was. He said he had been and stayed there very recently.

Jade also said she had watched a programme which looks at celebrities finances and the conclusion it gave was that Michael Jackson was bankrupt. Well thats certainly a headline I read every couple of weeks one way or another. Jermaine said "No, not at all. That's what they (the media) want you to think"

La Toya to be in Reality Show Armed and Famous
On another note I read today another of Michael's family is to take part in a reality show. La Toya Jackson is to appear in Armed and Famous where she will be trained to become a reserve police officers for the Muncie, Indiana police department.

According to latest reports from the show La Toya has helped deliver a baby!

She would probably make an interesting contender on a show like Celebrity Big Brother and if I knew a Jackson was going to appear she would have been the one I thought it most likely to have been.

Jermine Big Brother Update

2007-01-05T15:41:00.000-08:00

Apparently one of Jermaine Jackson's reasons for going into the Celebrity Big Brother House was to help overcome his shyness.

Well, boy is he shy! This is certainly a trait he shares with his brother Michael. I've never really seen that much of Jermaine and find it difficult to imagine him so shy. I think he needs a few tasks to really get him up and out in front of everybody otherwise he is quite content to get away with sitting quietly in a corner.

I have only watched the highlights so he may well be more active but I did see a piece on the offical site saying how other housemates were discussing how quiet he was.

He has also escaped the latest big shakeup in the house. He has become part of Jade Goody's adopted family and will be waited on hand a foot for a few days by 8 of the other celebrity housemates along with the Good family, Ken Russel and the beautiful Shilpa Shetty . I think he got away with this mostly for respect as an elder and also his star status. However, I think it would have been more fun to see him as a waiter, as apparently he has servants in real life.

How will Jermaine cope living with Jade and her mother? Well that will be interesting!

Jacksons Reality TV Takeover!!!

2007-01-03T12:39:00.000-08:00

Ok, first one, Tito Jackson. For some reason I wasn't overally surprised yesterday to see Tito Jackson as a judge (with bowler hat) for the TV show Just The Two of Us.
I'd seen him recently on I'm a Celebrity as a friend of David Gest, so maybe this appearance stems from that, as an appearance of a Jackson family member usually generates some extra interest.

Tito comes across very nice and friendly. Although harsh in some of his scoring he doesn't seem to like to give scathing critism like some of the other judges.

Now for the next one, which to be honest was a total shock and a huge surprise. Jermaine Jackson was the first celebrity in the Uk's Celebrity Big Brother. Its a huge surprise because he is probably the second most well known of the Jackson 5/Jacksons. Also Celebrity Big Brother is huge exposure, on camera 24 hours a day for I think 3 weeks, if he stays in that long.

I missed the very beginning of the show so I missed Jermaines reasons for doing it. Of course I hope he does very well. Hopefully he wins it. Of course I wonder what he'll say about Michael, hopefully they'll be a couple of good insights.

Its going to be a very interesting couple of weeks.

A New Year - New Goals

2007-01-03T07:23:00.000-08:00

It's good to be back in the New Year 2007.

What will 2007 hold for Michael Jackson and also my website.

Michael Jackson 2007
I read today that Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.i.am has annouced he is to work on Michael Jackson's next solo album. I was most pleased to read he said "Man, he still sings like a bird".

I know we have seen and heard a bit about Will.i.am, most notably in the Access Hollywood interview. Although at the time, you never know for sure if they were just testing out a few ideas and then maybe Michael moves on to test out ideas elsewhere.

Also I'm a fan of the Black Eye Peas music, well I have there last 2 albums. They produce some great singles liked by both youngsters and clubbers. If thats the wide range Michael wants to appeal to then it seems like a great partnership.

Michael is going to be 49 years old in 2007. Madonna is the same age and she had a great year in 2006, one her best in a long while. So I'm sure Michael can do even better if he wants to.

Will Michael release an album in 2007? Thats a big question. I remember all to well waiting for Dangerous and HIStory albums to be released. I kind of gave up waiting for Invincible.

I'm not pinning any hopes on a new album in 2007. I know Michael's a perfectionist. He'll no doubt need to record a hundred songs before hes happy with a selection for an album. I have no idea how long all that would take. By all accounts its taken him years per album in the past and now he has 3 children so I guess it would take longer.

AllMichaelJackson.com
I started this site after Michael Jackson released his Invincible album. I wanted to present Michael the talent and provide a useful resource for new fans. There's no doubt young people are discovering the talents of Michael Jackson every single day. Many will have known him a some kind of freak as portrayed by the tabloids and media. My site was to show the TALENT. The ENTERTAINER.

I think it's even more important at this time. Not only is he misportrayed as a freak but now many young people will only know the negative news surrounding his trial.

So therefore its even more important I produced the best alround Michael Jackson site and show what Michael Jackson is really all about.

There's so much more information I want to add. Most importantly I want to make the site a little more fun and add lots of videos to really illustrate his life and talents. Video streaming is something still fairly new and only over the last 12 months did YouTube really appear. Now its full of videos I can use to show Michael Jacksons talents as I have done on my Dance Moves page or how I show the first Moonwalk. Well there will be plenty more of these over the next year. I think it's great to be able to read about a song or performance and then WATCH IT or HEAR IT!!

Currently my Alexa ranking is 193,061. I'll be intending to get my ranking alot higher so its the most visited Michael Jackson website on the net! Most important of all I want everything in place before the release of any new single or album.

37 New Song Lyrics Added

2006-12-29T06:08:00.000-08:00

The last few days I have been working on expanding the song lyrics section of allmichaeljackson.com. Until now I just had the lyrics to all the songs on Michaels solo albums as an adult artist from Off The Wall to Invincible.

Alot of people seem to check out the lyrics section of my site so I thought it was high time I improved this and bought it fully up to date with lyrics for every song I can think of that Michael has produced as an adult artist. Some of the lyrics I added are for unreleased songs that have been leaked one way or another.

Actually I still haven't heard all these unreleased songs. I could probably find them all on the net in just a couple of hours but I like to discover new things over time. One song I discovered this week was "If You Dont Love Me" which is an outake from the Dangerous album. Its one of my favourite unreleased songs, pretty catchy as well. I'll add it to the site in due course.

In total I've added the lyrics to 37 new songs, so thats increased the section by nearly 50%!

One thing I'm undecided about is whether to add the lyrics to Michaels first solo albums he made with Mowtown, such as "Got To Be There" and "Ben". It would then make my lyrics section the complete Michael Jackson song lyrics, although I orginally made the site to be looking at Michael as an adult artist where he was in control of what songs he chose to sing etc, which wasn't the case when he was at Motown.

If anyone has any views feel free to let me know.