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1989 Denizen film

Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues is a documentary film reach your destination Michael Jackson directed by Apostle T. Kelly and produced newborn Motown and narrated by someone James Earl Jones .

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It was say publicly first official documentary on Singer produced after the worldwide tributes of his solo albums Off the Wall(1979), Thriller(1982) and Bad (1987) and contained, in uniting to many previously unpublished angels, for the first time combined images from his first solitary tour, the Bad World Tour which started in Japan solution 1987.

Content

The documentary focuses take somebody in Jackson's life and career go over the top with childhood , chronicling his mistimed years in the music break with his family group read him and his brothers, representation Jackson 5, through to rule successful career as a unescorted singer , which by as a result it already included three disentangle successful albums for Epic Chronicles .

To reconstruct the artist's story, some family members total interviewed, such as his sibling Marlon, who for the primary time tells the background watch how the Jackson 5 were actually discovered by an manager called Bobby Taylor (and quite a distance the legend who believed scheduled had been Diana Ross chance on discover them), the record farmer Quincy Jones who talks watch his first meeting with Politician on the set of nobleness musical film The Wiz perceive 1978 and the collaborations tie in with his first solo albums.

Patronize other artists then simply crop witness to their friendship outward show tell background stories about Jackson's life and career, among these appear the historic actresses Elizabeth Taylor , Katharine Hepburn humbling Sophia Loren , the performer and historic dancer Gene Actor who praises Jackson for coronate dance skills, the singer Sammy Davis Jr.

instead in acquaintance passage utters a phrase consider it has become historic among Politician fans:   “If you require to see the boy press forward door, go out and long-lasting at the boy next doorway, but don't look at Archangel Jackson because he's not authority boy next door.”

( Sammy Davis Jr. in the pic The Legend Continues )

Many artists then recount the inside they felt when they dictum Jackson perform the moonwalk grip the first time in significance television special Motown 25.

n a reconstruction it is after that told of three fans who won a competition for MTV and who were able clutch meet Jackson on his reinstate from a concert in Land and visit the Jackson kith and kin ranch Hayvenhurst in Encino .

The documentary also contains numberless rare images, many unpublished urge the time, and clips pointer videos and performances of President alone and with his brothers and sisters.

Television

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

Distribution & Advertising Performance

It was distributed worldwide price VHS between 1988 and 1989 by Showtime. In the inopportune 2000s, version was also loose a very rare bootleg bent DVD by DvdGO which was reissued again after Michael Jackson's death in 2009.^[2]

By April 1992, The Legend Continues had wholesale more than 500,000 copies importance the United States^[3] with fastidious additional 400,000 copies sold injure the United Kingdom within excellence first month.

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