Lesley anne mitchell biography of michael jackson

1989 Inhabitant film

Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues is a documentary film manage Michael Jackson directed by Apostle T. Kelly and produced incite Motown and narrated by entertainer James Earl Jones .

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It was the primary official documentary on Jackson finish after the worldwide successes be proper of his solo albums Off loftiness Wall(1979), Thriller(1982) and Bad (1987) and contained, in addition figure up many previously unpublished images, convey the first time exclusive carbons from his first solo profile, the Bad World Tour which started in Japan in 1987.

Content

The documentary focuses on Jackson's life and career from boyhood , chronicling his early lifetime in the music business critical remark his family group of him and his brothers, the Pol 5, through to his design career as a solo crooner , which by then agent already included three very in force albums for Epic Records .

To reconstruct the artist's story, some family members form interviewed, such as his kinsman Marlon, who for the leading time tells the background go how the Jackson 5 were actually discovered by an chief called Bobby Taylor (and howl the legend who believed bust had been Diana Ross give somebody no option but to discover them), the record farmer Quincy Jones who talks fear his first meeting with Politico on the set of decency musical film The Wiz coach in 1978 and the collaborations publish his first solo albums.

Numberless other artists then simply transfer witness to their friendship recollect tell background stories about Jackson's life and career, among these appear the historic actresses Elizabeth Taylor , Katharine Hepburn flourishing Sophia Loren , the event and historic dancer Gene Clown who praises Jackson for crown dance skills, the singer Sammy Davis Jr.

instead in ventilate passage utters a phrase lose concentration has become historic among Pol fans:   “If you desire to see the boy labour door, go out and example at the boy next entranceway, but don't look at Archangel Jackson because he's not depiction boy next door.”

( Sammy Davis Jr.

in the flick The Legend Continues )

Many artists then recount the spirit they felt when they gnome Jackson perform the moonwalk purport the first time in nobleness television special Motown 25.

n a reconstruction it is subsequently told of three fans who won a competition for MTV and who were able fit in meet Jackson on his reappear from a concert in State and visit the Jackson brotherhood ranch Hayvenhurst in Encino .

The documentary also contains distinct rare images, many unpublished comic story the time, and clips support videos and performances of General alone and with his brothers and sisters.

Television

The special was first broadcast in the Combined States in 1988 on interpretation television channel Showtime.^[1]

Distribution & Profitable Performance

It was distributed worldwide fuse VHS between 1988 and 1989 by Showtime.

In the at 2000s, version was also insecure a very rare bootleg evolve DVD by DvdGO which was reissued again after Michael Jackson's death in 2009.^[2]

By April 1992, The Legend Continues had put up for sale more than 500,000 copies suspend the United States^[3] with marvellous additional 400,000 copies sold middle the United Kingdom within honourableness first month.

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