It's clear that this thread needs some love and attention. A lot of the links have either expired or been miss-labelled. With the amount of tracks there are, this is quite a practice. I have made the decision to lock this thread from further replies and to put out this notice that I will be refreshing this thread with updated links and guidance where needed.
I will update the thread on multitracks and the first post with any forth coming updates about this in due course. For information - I have also disabled user registrations to do some tidyup. Stay tuned.
That's amazing! Thank God for lyrics in the liner notes, eh?
I was never a fan in the non-internet era. It was just starting out when I was a kid, but I remember the early days on internet fora, and how exciting it was to discuss topics with fans across the world!
Those were the days! I used to live for MTV MJ Weekends. I’d always have a VHS at the ready to record those weekends and any clips of MJ on any channel. Any Bad Tour footage was Holy Grail stuff and I lost my mind when they aired the Another Part of Me documentary which is only about 20 odd minutes but the footage of MJ is golden.thanks, I need to take some more photos of my pre internet fan stuff.
fun fact, Brad Sundberg wrote most of the liner notes lyrics, it was one of his jobs at the studio. I haven't told him yet that alot of them are wrong, and thats why I did the play , pause , write a line!!
Other pre internet things were the fan club magazines. I never got any of Adrian Grants first magazine OFF THE WALL, but I have a stack of KING magazines from MJNI, as well as MJ WORLD NETWORK's mini magazines and some German and French Black and White magazines.
For me in the late 80's and early 90's, TV was my main source for Michael.
MTV had Michael Jackson weekends, not just back to back music videos but Bad and Dangerous tour documentaries.
UK TV had Top of The Pops every Thursday at 7pm, as well as Saturday morning kids shows such as Going Live.
Irish TV had The Beatbox on Sunday mornings
I taped huge amounts from all the various TV stations onto VHS video tapes, which I still have.
Also SMASH HITS , a UK teen music magazine was an amazing source. It was published every 2 weeks and had everything from news and updates to interviews, and song lyrics.They also had various collectibles free with the magazine over the years, such as posters, trading cards, stickers etc. At the end of every year, they did a readers survey. They published a huge list of various awards and readers could post the completed survey. They then had a big award show / concert in London which was shown on TV called The Smash Hits Poll Winners Party.
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