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- sorry, Überschrift rausgeschmissen ;-) - Aber egal, weil eh neue reinkommt. Gruss vom Programmierschaf!
Unbelievable. Unbelievably great. Unbelievably tragic. Simply unbelievable.
A short glimps at a moved life...
| 2005 | In public:
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Soon after the verdict Michael leaves the country and travels to Bahrain where he can be seen only very rarely and then always by a sheik’s side. Already in autumns he appears in London – for the first time after the trial’s end back in Europe. At first without any personal security Michael get’s almost held up by the cheering fans. One time he has to flee on a roof to escape the crowd. After the arrival of his bodyguards he does a bit sightseeing in the city and visits Harrods, the store of his long time friend Mohammed Al Fayed.
Then he disappears again into the Persian Gulf and gets espied here and there, one time in Bahrain, in Oman, Dubai and the Brunei.
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 | Because their favourite punching bag is so far away (and where he is the ‘freedom of the press’ is not what they are used to) the media hardly has anything to report. Of course that shouldn’t be the problem because they always find something. First he’s now finally broke and tries to fins sponsorship by the richest of the rich. He lets them build or buy him houses. Then by the way he lets Neverland degenerate what wouldn’t be that bad if you couldn’t at the same time accuse him of animal-abuse, too. So ‘Jacko’ is said to neglect the animals in the zoo of the closed ranch. Pictures appear where the giraffes seem to stand in puddles of blood and things like that.
When the flood comes to New Orleans Michael is supposed to write a charity-song to collect money for the victims. But the song won’t ever be released. Additionally, sharp tongues say, he already is a pain in the neck of the regent’s family. They don’t want to feed him forever if he couldn’t return the favour in some way.
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  | The veterinary caring for Michael’s animals for many years pipes up disgusted. He said that there have been some problems with his payment but nevertheless he still respects and estimates Michael Jackson and won’t let anyone claim that the animals he takes care for suffer in any form. All are in good health and mood. Still some of them get sold.
And just acquitted Michael has to face new allegations. In a civil suite a man claims that he had been molested and sexually abused in the worst manner by Michael and his team 18 years ago. He says he had forgotten about all that, just the recent trial had brought back his memories. Besides Jackson had stolen songs from him he claims. And there are also a lot claims of not-paid bills and fees by Michaels former employees.
And last but best: Michael Jackson invited to serve as a juror in Santa Barbara! Because he can’t reject this civic duty – and of course wouldn’t and couldn’t again sit down in a courtroom for several weeks – this circumstance for sure contributes to the decision to put down his residence in the commune. So Thomas Sneddon finally got what he always wanted: ban Michael Jackson from his community.
Why was the Katrina-single never released? We can only speculate. It’s a fact that it was been fully recorded by Michael with a lot of top-class singers. Difficulties with the artists from whom several are under contract with Sony-music?
And along the way – while the world already spins stories around him – Michael also tries to handle and overcome unbelievable strains of the trials, to relax and heal the wounds of body and soul.
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| 2006 | In public:
| Now people start to talk more about the music again. Jackson needs money, so he’ll do an album – that seems to be logical. And he’s said to have a record-studio made ready exclusively for him in a skyscraper in Bahrain. Then there’s 2-Seas-records, a new label is founded in spring. Michael Jackson is put in the first row as frontman but he doesn’t look too happy with that.
In January Michael and his children fly to Hamburg in an ordinary Lufthansa-flight. Getting out of the plane someone takes pictures that rush around the world. A Hamburg-radio-station announces a head money (several thousand Euros) onto him. But Michael – visiting a befriended family – stays in the house. One time he pays for a round Pizza for his fans, then a few days later he leaves the city. After that a short flying-visit in Florence, then he’s spotted in Venedig and maybe in Sorrento – but then he’s gone.
Around the same time Michael in deed sells half of his ATV-catalogue’s part to Sony-music. That means that now he owns just a quarter of the entire catalogue and so he hasn’t got a voice in the use of the song-rights any more.
In May his first public appearance since the trial in Japan at the MTV-awards where he’s honoured for his life-work. After that Michael visits a orphanage, then a TV-show . Then the stay which originally should have been much longer is cancelled out of unknown reasons.
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The media is appalled because of ‘Jacko’s behaviour in Hamburg.: the police had to march up to block the house, and he doesn’t even have to pay for that! Jackson spends his fans pizza, okay, but then he dares to not show himself again to the hungry journalists. Somewhat barefaced. And everything on the taxpayer’s costs!
The money-problems seem to be official now that he sold his catalogue-part. What’s gonna be next? Will he also sell the other half? Will he open shopping-centers and sing on birthday-parties soon?
And his health problems are like always on the line. What about the nose? Is he addicted to whatever or even sick in other ways?
Additionally bored paparazzi are in full cry as they now are sure: Jacko will turn himself into a woman! In St. Tropez he’s supposed to be sighted – on a shopping trip with a big sun shade, skin-tight jeans and a more than female figure. The truth: one who didn’t know what to do mugged the next best tourist (a woman of course) claiming that to be the reclusive singer in his preparations to a sex change.
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| The visit at his friends house in Hamburg has personal reasons for Michael, und the disclosure of his stay thwarts many plans they had. Out of safety-reasons Michael and his children can’t leave the house which is beleaguered day and night by the paparazzi, fans and curious onlookers. The family’s privacy is violated. It wasn’t meant to happen that way, and noone is happy about that events. But good natured Michael doesn’t show his disappointment to his loyal fans but even delights them with giving autographs and pizza.
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| In July Michael’s speaker releases a statement that he has moved to Ireland because from Europe he could better coordinate his business-affaires.
In October he appears in television for the first time. It’s not an interview but a small report about his work in a studio in Ireland. The camera-team accompanies him into the studio where Michael and at his side Will I. Am are filmed several minutes.
In November Michael flies to London to the World Music Awards where he gets several honours for ‘Thriller’, the most selling album of all times (now with more than 100Million sold records). Michael stays a week in England’s capital.
At the end of December Michael’s big idol James Brown dies. Just having been arrived in Las Vegas Michael joins the funeral. He wants to personally say Goodbye to his friend, and fighting with his tears he even holds a short speech.
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The return to Europa seems to give right to those who said the sheiks wouldn’t tolerate ‘Jacko’ for too long. Did they have enough of his bizarre behaviour and appearances in woman-capes or the ‘accidentally’ use of a woman’s restroom in Dubai?
The World Music Awards and the drama of Michael Jackson make the press almost cry happy tears: first they heard ‘he comes’ then it somehow became ‘he performs’! Then it inflates to a come back! And finally... he came on stage with a few teenies and sang some skew notes of ‘We are the world’. So he can’t sing any more! The arrival on the red carpet – with a terrible make up and visible wig. Blurred pictures of a bugbear bustled through international media. Backstage he is even supposed to have had a panick attack, didn’t want to come on stage und had to be convinced by Beyonee in a half hour taking conversation. So, is this the END? The king of drama!! Even the fans should have been appalled, finally they payed up to 700Dollars for a ticket!
And then you can even buy him for Christmas! He wants to go to Japan to participate at dinner that can be attended by his fans was well (as onlookers) for 1000Euro per ticket. Things have come to a pretty pass.
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In June Michael stays three days in Disneyland Paris with his children. Then he flies to London where he falls out with the Prince of Bahrain. The reasons are not known but Michael Jackson doesn’t return to the Persian gulf but instead travels to Ireland where he in the long run starts recording in a studio near Dublin.
The disaster of the World Music Awards remains something like a big question mark. London is in state of emergency. Did Michael know about his supposed performance? For sure he wasn’t aware of the come back! Whatever, his speakers didn’t do a good job in any way. Still on the red carpet Michael denies the performance and talks of a misunderstanding. “I just get an award.”, he says. Finally - we probably won’t know about the real reasons - he agrees in the last minute and sings ‘We are the world’; at the end of a really horrible organized show with one technical breakdown after the other. If he ever agreed to do that he should have done it with some other artists. Sources say that because of security problems that part was cancelled and Michael was forced on stage alone. And not enough, at the stroke of 11p.m. the police turns of the sound of the playback.
The expensive tickets are a lie, too. The tickets were between 30 and 90 Pounds, have been even cheaper for the fans. And Michael himself gave 200 tickets that were raffled within his fans who wanted to see him for such a long time now.
In the end Michael is the one who returns to his hotel disappointed and sad. Once more he has to take the bashing for the mistakes of others.
And this time it’s the fans who raise an alarm. At the moment too much goes wrong in Michaels surroundings and management. They think if he is represented like that in the future, he will go down displayed with colours. His management definitely made a couple of mistakes concerning the WMAs. They should have had to deny his ‘performance’ much clearer than it happened, and there was also an organisation-desaster with a fan party Michael wanted to attend. And that ‘their Michael’ wants to sell himself for a lot of money at the Christmas-dinner really isn’t in line with him. He never did something like that. What goes wrong? Does Michael know about all the things happening around him?
Then the Christmas-event is cancelled and postponed to March 2007. Michael wants to give all the fans a chance to see and meet him.
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| Now Michael Jackson stays in the United States for a while, namely in Las Vegas where he rarely emerges in the public. Despite other reasons he’s in the city continuing working on his new album. In the beginning of the year a small foretaste, when a Song of Michael appears in connection to the rapper Pras on the internet. Unfortunately nobody seem to have a clue if his song will be released or not. In “Gangsta - No Friend of Mine”, Michael sings impressive and ambiguous parts: What you’ll gonna do, you ain't no friend of mine, look what you’ve put me through, I'm the new Gangsta… I can never fall in love. What you’ll gonna do, Cause I'm gonnna get you, no where tu run, no where to hide, all the things you said and the things you’ve done to me, you can no longer make me cry. Look what you’ve done to me, baby, I can no longer smilie, baby, and I’ve waited so long just to carry on. In the beginning of March Michael is greeted by hundreds of fans when he arrives with his children in Japan to finally hold the promised fan-event. Affiliated to it is a contest in which all fans and artists are able to present their artwork or sculptures of Michael. Michael himself appraises the artwork and honors the winners. The day after he also visits a US-army base and compliments the soldiers on their deployment for their country. Afterwards he travels to London but since there's not public event attached this is not an official appearance.
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| Now he even lets his children work! Apparently, Jackson wants that the three minors go on stage for him to fill his empty cash. Like some kind of a revival of the Jackson 5. Or should there instead of this actually be a reunion with his brothers? Mysterious tour schedules emerges, as well as alleged plans for a show of Michael in Las Vegas. Oh, and furthermore he wants to sell his Sony/ATV-catalog! Namely the left interests of it. Japan once again is a found rankle for all critics and media. “Now he even rips off his fans!” For a ticket of the event the fans should pay about 2600 euros! He’s going mad! Alas, we already knew that… And here one tabloid-comment about the winners of the contest is to read: “Jacko himself choose the winners. A girl wasn’t amongst them”. (Like clearly visible right on this photo ;). So the media is busy agin. And even though the following stay in London should be rather unimpressive for them - since there is nothing to report - they of course find some things! Here the exzentric (ex)singer presejts himself in the hotel with extraordinary and terrible wished: He orders a dish of Haribos, furthermore a xylophone and a 2x2 meter-mirror! For what?? we may ask ourselves…
When Michael disguises his children during his arrive and departure in London, the tabloids again go wild: “CHILD TORMENTOR! What’s the sense of this continued disguise? Who should want to abduct the children of a forgotten singer?” | Behind the scenes:
| The family of an elder woman who had been during spring 2005 at the same time in a hospital as Michael Jackson brings in action against the singer (and the hospital). When Michael because of massive health-problems needed medical care, the deceasing old patient was moved out the room. The woman died on the same day. Now the family sues the clinic and Michael because of negligence, conspiracy, infliction of psychological traumas and false imprisonment. Michael himself might be not very happy about going to Japan. It isn’t his nature to receive money from his fans for them just being able to see him and to be observed while eating like an animal in a zoo isn’t one of his favorite things, too. But job is job. Michael decides to weather through the event and at least associate a visit to Disneyland in Tokyo to it. After three days in public he apparently gets ill because of his debilitated immune system. This doesn't seem to be something extraordinary and has often been after public appearances. And everyone backbites about his surgical mask. So he omits it. And abides the consequences inwardly. And because no one recognizes that, no one is bothered by it. Crazy world. Finally Michael travels to London where he takes lodgings in a hotel for several days. Fans who weren't able to see him in Japan before take the chance to follow him to england although there are more signs indicating that this should be a private stay and Michael just wanted to do some business here. But once again this is not made clear by his management which confirms his visit halfheartedly. Of course the fans are confused and don't really know what to do - and what not to do. So they follow him. In the following days Michael has difficulties in leaving the hotel. The security seems overstrained. Nasty scenes with mass-hysteria occur. If Michael really wanted that...?
Then the little family returns to Los Angeles. And the disguise of the children… Why do they think to be permitted to name Michael as a bad parent when it is actually because of this behavior (disguising the children for several minutes during their rare public appearances together with him) that they are able to go in public unknown and without being harassed for the rest of the year? What has been and will be always a dream for Michael himself, he simply wants to spare from his children. Certainly he might ask himself often why the world doesn’t want to see something so simple like that but rather concentrates on to attack him. | He sais:
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And this is not the end of the story!
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...to be continued
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