Tag: Michael Jackson

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Rod Temperton, the British songwriter behind Michael Jackson‘s huge hit single Thriller, has died.

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While Adele‘s ‘25‘ is currently in the process of breaking all sales records, or so it feels like anyway, Michael Jackson‘s pop classic ‘Thriller‘ has given a timely reminder of what a real cultural phenomenon looks like by becoming the first album to go 30x platinum in the States.…

The Black Keys are trailing a new posthumous Michael Jackson release in the race for the latest UK number one album.

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Bastille have decided to remember one of the Brit Awards’ more memorable moments by bringing together Michael Jackson‘s ‘Earth Song‘ and Pulp‘s ‘Common People‘ for BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge series.

If you so wish, it’s streaming on YouTube and can be heard below.…

Tracks recorded by Queen frontman Freddie Mercury and pop superstar Michael Jackson way back in 1983 could finally see the light of day later this year, reports The Times newspaper.

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The Official Charts Company have compiled the ultimate list of top selling albums in the UK. The top 40 list was put together for the BBC.

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Happy Birthday to Paul Weller, who celebrates his 52nd birthday today. To mark the event we take a look through his extraordinary career, which is going as strong as ever over thirty years since he first burst onto the music scene.

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Myspace polled more than 1000 of its music fans and asked them to vote for the most influential videos in pop music history.

Not surprisingly reuters reports that Michael Jackson’s video for his hit single “Thriller” has been voted the top video, according to the results of a poll released …

The Michael Jackson documentary “This Is It” , which is released by Sony, raked in an amazing $7.4 million in estimated first-day box office on Wednesday.

Industry forecasts project the music documentary to take in more than $40 million through Sunday.

The movies two week theatrical run was a campaign …

Paul McCartney has denied he is dissapointed to have not been left the rights for The Beatles catalogue following the death of Michael Jackson. Rumours suggested McCartney would be handed the rights back after Jackson won a bidding war for the songs back in 1984.

Speaking on his website, McCartney …

1983 hit single for Paul McCartney& Michael Jackson, producer: George Martin. RIP King of Pop.

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Concert promoter AEG Live faces the daunting task of refunding $85 million in ticket sales in the wake of Michael Jackson’s untimely death on Thursday. The King of Pop was slated to play 50 sold-out concerts this summer in London at the O2 Arena.

The Los Angeles Times reports that …