![]() ![]() ![]() We perfectly understood what it's about - believe me, it's not dancing. Katie from Vienna, AustriaBack in the day, when your date played that song you knew what he wanted (and hopefully enjoyed the thought, too).Camille from Toronto, OhDefinitely one of Michael's best.Escape (The Pina Colada Song) by Rupert Holmes Do That To Me One More Time by The Captain and Tennille Rock With You by Michael Jackson (2nd of 4 weeks at #1) Barry from Sauquoit, NyThe week of January 20, 1980, for the 2nd straight week, #1 through #7 on Billboard's Top 10 did not change:.It was a huge break for Temperton that she turned it down, because the aforementioned solo album turned out to be so bad that A&M Records refused to release it! Karen was making a solo album at the time, due to brother Richard being in drug rehab to overcome a Quaalude addiction. Seventh Mist from 7th HeavenDavid, the song was offered to Karen Carpenter only, not the Carpenters.Daphne from Memphis,tnMichael Jackson was in his early 20s when he made the Off the Wall album.Daphne from Memphis,tnLove 105 Fm-Minneapolis,MN I don't think Thriller is not a overrated album and yes this song does gives me a nostalgia feeling.Daphne from Memphis,tnThank you Rod Temperton for writing this song.Daphne from Memphis,tnCamille yep this is one of Michael's best hits.Rock with You is one of my favorite songs ever. Hector J Mendoza from Venezuela, South AmericaThe strings arranged by Ben Wright are superb.If you were using two playbacks and one record, that was a lot of money Everything was rented, trust me: the cameras, the stage, the Duvetyne drop, the smoke." There was minimal editing as well, because obviously in those days editing costs money. It was filmed on a little stage in LA called the 800 Stage, a little stage that we got cheap because we were shooting quite a lot of music videos. Really nice, he's an absolute professional, even in those days. He was very, very timid, very quiet, very unassuming. When we did this, this was the start of his solo career. If you look at it, there's nothing there but a laser and Michael Jackson. I think about all we could afford was the laser. He told Rolling Stone: "In those days they were done for peanuts. ![]() His gentle and spiritual nature made him one of the greatest people to ever walk the Earth.Bruce Gowers directed the music video, which was shot the same day as the clip for " She's Out of My Life." Gowers, who also directed Queen's " Bohemian Rhapsody," remembered working with a tight budget to create the smoky promo, with Jackson glimmering in a sequined suit. His heart was bigger than the planet even bigger than the galaxy. At the same time, he was a great father and a true humanitarian. “Since he was the King of Pop, he needed the best people in the world working for him and he was very specific as to whom. He knew exactly what he liked and didn't like,” Bergman tells me. Somehow, the grandeur with which he staged himself must have helped him to understand his exceptional and no doubt lonely place on Earth. Our current zeitgeist considered, he was lightyears ahead of his time. In turn, he became universally relatable: a genius dancer and musician, yes, but a man whose physical presence encompassed every age, gender, race and sexuality. The physical changes and procedures he went through turned him into an immaculate conception: to the eye he was ageless, almost genderless and racially ambiguous. ![]()
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