Post by timmy84 on Nov 2, 2006 0:08:46 GMT -5
In celebration of Michael Jackson making his rare appearance to accept an award from the World Music Awards where he'll be awarded with the Diamond Award for selling more than 100 million albums, I'm gonna do a special timeline on the King of Pop himself like I did for the Jackson 5. (((Cleo))) or (((Hitsville))) or whomever, you can do whatever you like on this if you see it.
Michael Jackson timeline
1958
-August 29: Michael Joseph Jackson is born on this day in Gary, Indiana. He's the eighth of ten born to Joseph and Katherine Jackson.
1963
-December: Michael makes his performing debut at the age of 5 at his elementary school Christmas recital.
1964
-Summer: Michael joins older brothers Jackie, Tito and Jermaine as a percussionist for the Jackson Brothers.
1966
-June: Changing their name to the Jackson 5 (now including older brother Marlon to complete the quintet), the group - with Michael lead singing - performs the Temptations' "My Girl", at Gary's Roosevelt High School. They win first place and father Joe makes the group's transition from amateur act to professional act by having them perform in bars, clubs and local (and national) venues.
1967
-The Jackson 5 performs on the Chitlin' Circuit - an infamous rock & roll set of concerts and performances by black acts.
-June: Michael and his brothers win the first of six victories at the Amateur Night competition at the Apollo Theater.
-November: The Jackson 5 signs to Steeltown Records.
1968
-January: The Jackson 5's debut single, "Big Boy", is released.
-June: Michael and his brothers dazzle the Motown audience during an audition videotape showcase at Motown's Hitsville, USA studios. After seeing the tape himself, Berry Gordy begins negotiating with the Jacksons to get them signed to his label.
1969
-March: The Jackson 5 are signed to Motown.
-October: The Jackson 5's debut single, "I Want You Back", charts. It eventually becomes their first of four #1 pop singles. Over the course of a two-decade career, the Jacksons would have not only been the first group to have their first four records hit number one, but also have a succession of a dozen top ten pop hits, more than a dozen R&B hits, seven #1 R&B hits, and sell millions and millions of copies around the world becoming one of the most successful acts in music history.
1971
-November: Motown issues Michael's debut solo single, "Got to Be There". The song reaches #4 on the Billboard Hot 100.
1972
-February 13: Michael's debut solo album for Motown, Got to Be There, is released.
-Summer: Michael has a hit with the Leon Ware-composed single, "I Wanna Be Where You Are", which reaches #2 R&B.
-August: Michael's third solo single, the cover of the '50s single, "Rockin' Robin", establishes the singer as a teen idol as the song hits #2 on both the pop and R&B singles chart.
-September: Michael releases his best-selling and most successful Motown single to date with "Ben". The song is his first #1 pop single and results in a Golden Globe award and an Academy Award nod. The same month, Michael makes solo spots on both "The Dating Game" and "The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour" and Michael issues his second Motown solo album, Ben.
1973
-April: Michael releases his third solo album, Music & Me, which features a modest hit cover of Stevie Wonder's "With a Child's Heart".
1974
-January: Michael and fellow teen idol Donny Osmond co-host the first American Music Awards telecast.
-February: Michael popularizes "The Robot" while performing the J5 hit "Dancing Machine" on Soul Train.
1975
-January: Michael issues his final Motown studio album, Forever, Michael, which features his biggest solo singles in two years: "We're Almost There" and the top 40 Brian Holland-composed "Just a Little Bit of You".
1978
-October: Michael portrays the Scarecrow on the film adaptation of The Wiz with Diane Ross portraying Dorothy. Michael and Diane's duet, "Ease on Down the Road", becomes a modest dance hit. Production on The Wiz eventually leads to Michael hooking up with legendary musician/producer Quincy Jones.
-December: Michael begins work on his first solo album for Epic Records.
1979
-July: Michael's "Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough" charts. It eventually reaches #1 on the pop and R&B singles chart.
-August 10: Michael's Off the Wall is released. Produced by Quincy Jones, other hits include "Rock With You", the title track and "She's Out of My Life". Along with "Don't Stop...", Michael makes history as the first solo artist to have more than four top ten pop records. It eventually sells more than twenty million copies worldwide.
1980
-January: Michael's "Rock With You" hits #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The same month, Jackson wins an impressive three American Music Awards for his work with Off the Wall.
-June 10: Michael and his brothers rejoin to see their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1981
-March: Michael's Motown ballad, "One Day in Your Life", hits #1 in the UK.
1982
-December 1: Michael's mammoth masterpiece, Thriller, his second collaboration with Quincy Jones, is released. The album eventually breaks sales records, becomes one of the longest-lasting charted albums ever, yields seven straight top ten pop singles and yields Michael Jackson to mainstream domination as the best-selling pop artist of the 1980s.
1983
-January: Michael's second single off Thriller, the classic "Billie Jean" charts. It eventually reaches #1 on the pop and R&B singles chart and becomes one of Jackson's best-selling singles yet and one of his premier signature singles.
-March 10: Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" music video becomes the first video by a black artist to air regularly on MTV.
-March 25: Michael performs at the Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever telecast, first reuniting with the Jacksons and then performing his solo smash "Billie Jean".
-April: Michael's rock breakthrough, "Beat It", helps the singer to further smash racial barriers on MTV with it being one of the most heavily rotated and requested videos on the channel. It's also the first video to showcase his sense of theater with his videos often being referred to as "mini-movies". The song also hits #1 on the pop and R&B singles chart and, unbelievably, makes the rock chart peaking at #14 there.
-May 16: 47 million viewers see Michael Jackson make television history after the singer introduced mainstream audiences to the backslide while performing "Billie Jean" on Motown 25; traditionally a break-dancing move among the inner city, the media coins it "the moonwalk".
-December 2: A day and a year after the release of Thriller, the title track's 13-minute, horror-filled mini-movie airs as a world premiere and soon is hailed as one of the greatest music videos of all time.
1984
-January: Michael and brother Jermaine helped Berry Gordy's son, Rockwell, reach #2 pop and #1 R&B with the one-hit wonder, "Somebody's Watching Me".
-February: Michael wins a record eight Grammy Awards mostly for his work on Thriller.
-May: The Guinness Book of World Records announces that Michael Jackson's Thriller is the biggest-selling album of all time.
-July: Michael reunites with his brothers on the "Victory" tour and album.
-November 27: Michael gets his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
-December: At the end of the "Victory" tour, Michael announces his split from the Jacksons after 20 years with them.
1985
-March: Michael's co-penned humanitarian benefit single, "We Are the World", which was also co-written by Lionel Richie, hits #1 and its success eventually results in donation of $63 million for famine relief in African countries.
1987
-April: Michael's duet with Siedah Garrett, "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" becomes the first of five #1 singles Jackson scores on his upcoming Bad album.
-June: CBS debuts the release of the "Bad" mini-movie, which co-stars a then-unknown Wesley Snipes as the gangster brother of Michael's character. The video is directed by Martin Scorsese. The single becomes Jackson's second #1 single that year.
-August 25: Michael releases his third Epic solo album, Bad. The album goes on to become, at the time, the second best-selling album of all time worldwide behind Thriller, a record Michael holds until the end of the 1980s.
-September: Michael's "The Way You Make Me Feel" charts. His third straight #1 in 1987, the video becomes legendary as the scenes of Michael flirting with a pretty woman would be repeated in videos by Chris Brown, Justin Timberlake and Omarion.
-October: Michael goes on his first solo tour for "Bad" starting in Japan.
1988
-March: Michael publishes his autobiography, Moonwalk. The book that talks about Michael's musical background and dissolves rumors made about the singer becomes a best-seller.
-March: Michael gives his first and only Grammy performance on this month performing "The Way You Make Me Feel" and his current #1, the gospel-fueled "Man in the Mirror". Michael's performance leads to a standing ovation by the audience.
-June: Michael's rock tune, "Dirty Diana", becomes the fifth number one pop single off the "Bad" album leading Michael to become the first artist to have five number one pop singles.
-July: Michael's "Moonwalker" movie debuts on MTV. The movie includes one of Jackson's greatest music videos with the 1930s inspired "Smooth Criminal" music video. The video would be memorized years later on Chris Brown's "Gimme That".
1989
-Michael makes headlines performing a tribute song for Sammy Davis, Jr. for celebration of the 64-year-old entertainer's 60 years in show business.
1991
-August: Michael's "Black or White" music video debuts on FOX, BET, MTV and VH-1. The video is reportedly viewed by 500 million viewers worldwide making it the most watched music video in history. The song itself becomes a massive hit reaching #1 pop making Jackson the first artist to have #1 hits in three consecutive banner decades. The same month, Michael performs live on the tenth anniversary celebration of MTV.
-November 13: Michael Jackson releases his fourth Epic solo debut, Dangerous. The album becomes his fourth consecutive multi-platinum album and becomes a best-seller in more than 20 countries yielding the hits "Black or White", "Remember the Time", "Jam" and "In the Closet". It's also Jackson's first album without Quincy Jones, this time hooking up with Teddy Riley of the group Guy.
1992
-February: "Remember the Time" charts, eventually reaching #1 R&B and #3 pop. The African royalty-inspired video for the song also debuts on FOX, BET and MTV and features Eddie Murphy and Iman.
-June: Michael's "Jam" charts and peaks at #4 R&B while the video for it includes Michael Jordan.
-August: Michael's video for his third top ten hit off Dangerous, "In the Closet", showcases a different Michael Jackson flirting around with model Naomi Campbell. The song itself peaks at #1 R&B and #6 pop.
-October: Michael's taped concert at Bucharest airs on HBO.
1993
-Michael charts throughout this year with the singles "Who Is It?" and "Will You Be There?"
1994
-Michael accepts a special honor at the NAACP Image Awards.
1995
-May: Michael's first US single in two years, a dance duet with sister Janet, "Scream", charts. The legendary music video airs around this time and helps the song make the biggest, at the time, charted debut in Billboard history debuting (and peaking) at #5 pop. Michael will break his own record several months later.
-June: Michael releases his HIStory album. The album goes on to sell more than eighteen million copies worldwide.
-September: Michael makes history again by having his R. Kelly-penned "You Are Not Alone" become the first song to debut at #1 on the singles chart.
1996
-September: Michael begins a worldwide tour supporting HIStory.
1997
-May 6: Michael and his brothers reunite to be inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
2001
-March 13: Michael is inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist.
-August: Radio stations all across the country world-premieres Michael Jackson's latest single, "You Rock My World", produced by Rodney Jerkins. The song eventually reaches #10 on the pop singles chart.
-September 7: Michael surprises a national audience by dancing with N-Sync at the MTV Video Music Awards.
-September 10-11: Michael celebrates his thirtieth anniversary as a solo act with a concert at Madison Square Garden first reuniting with his brothers and then performing his solo act.
-September 25: Michael's video for "You Rock My World" debuts on MTV, VH-1 and BET.
-October: Urban radio begins playing Michael's neo-soul single, "Butterflies".
-October 30: Michael releases his sixth Epic solo album, Invincible. The album debuts at #1 in thirteen countries and eventually sells over eight million copies worldwide.
-November: Michael's MSG performance is televised on CBS. It's one of the highest-rated specials of the year.
2002
-February: Michael performs on the 50th anniversary of "American Bandstand". The same month, his "Butterflies single, peaks at #2 R&B and #14 pop.
-April: Michael performs at a Democratic Party-promoted benefit at the Apollo Theater, his first performance there since he and his brothers performed there in 1968.
-June: Michael is inducted to the Songwriter's Hall of Fame.
2006
-November 15: Michael will accept the Diamond Award for selling over 100 million albums at the World Music Awards in London.
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Michael Jackson timeline
1958
-August 29: Michael Joseph Jackson is born on this day in Gary, Indiana. He's the eighth of ten born to Joseph and Katherine Jackson.
1963
-December: Michael makes his performing debut at the age of 5 at his elementary school Christmas recital.
1964
-Summer: Michael joins older brothers Jackie, Tito and Jermaine as a percussionist for the Jackson Brothers.
1966
-June: Changing their name to the Jackson 5 (now including older brother Marlon to complete the quintet), the group - with Michael lead singing - performs the Temptations' "My Girl", at Gary's Roosevelt High School. They win first place and father Joe makes the group's transition from amateur act to professional act by having them perform in bars, clubs and local (and national) venues.
1967
-The Jackson 5 performs on the Chitlin' Circuit - an infamous rock & roll set of concerts and performances by black acts.
-June: Michael and his brothers win the first of six victories at the Amateur Night competition at the Apollo Theater.
-November: The Jackson 5 signs to Steeltown Records.
1968
-January: The Jackson 5's debut single, "Big Boy", is released.
-June: Michael and his brothers dazzle the Motown audience during an audition videotape showcase at Motown's Hitsville, USA studios. After seeing the tape himself, Berry Gordy begins negotiating with the Jacksons to get them signed to his label.
1969
-March: The Jackson 5 are signed to Motown.
-October: The Jackson 5's debut single, "I Want You Back", charts. It eventually becomes their first of four #1 pop singles. Over the course of a two-decade career, the Jacksons would have not only been the first group to have their first four records hit number one, but also have a succession of a dozen top ten pop hits, more than a dozen R&B hits, seven #1 R&B hits, and sell millions and millions of copies around the world becoming one of the most successful acts in music history.
1971
-November: Motown issues Michael's debut solo single, "Got to Be There". The song reaches #4 on the Billboard Hot 100.
1972
-February 13: Michael's debut solo album for Motown, Got to Be There, is released.
-Summer: Michael has a hit with the Leon Ware-composed single, "I Wanna Be Where You Are", which reaches #2 R&B.
-August: Michael's third solo single, the cover of the '50s single, "Rockin' Robin", establishes the singer as a teen idol as the song hits #2 on both the pop and R&B singles chart.
-September: Michael releases his best-selling and most successful Motown single to date with "Ben". The song is his first #1 pop single and results in a Golden Globe award and an Academy Award nod. The same month, Michael makes solo spots on both "The Dating Game" and "The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour" and Michael issues his second Motown solo album, Ben.
1973
-April: Michael releases his third solo album, Music & Me, which features a modest hit cover of Stevie Wonder's "With a Child's Heart".
1974
-January: Michael and fellow teen idol Donny Osmond co-host the first American Music Awards telecast.
-February: Michael popularizes "The Robot" while performing the J5 hit "Dancing Machine" on Soul Train.
1975
-January: Michael issues his final Motown studio album, Forever, Michael, which features his biggest solo singles in two years: "We're Almost There" and the top 40 Brian Holland-composed "Just a Little Bit of You".
1978
-October: Michael portrays the Scarecrow on the film adaptation of The Wiz with Diane Ross portraying Dorothy. Michael and Diane's duet, "Ease on Down the Road", becomes a modest dance hit. Production on The Wiz eventually leads to Michael hooking up with legendary musician/producer Quincy Jones.
-December: Michael begins work on his first solo album for Epic Records.
1979
-July: Michael's "Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough" charts. It eventually reaches #1 on the pop and R&B singles chart.
-August 10: Michael's Off the Wall is released. Produced by Quincy Jones, other hits include "Rock With You", the title track and "She's Out of My Life". Along with "Don't Stop...", Michael makes history as the first solo artist to have more than four top ten pop records. It eventually sells more than twenty million copies worldwide.
1980
-January: Michael's "Rock With You" hits #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The same month, Jackson wins an impressive three American Music Awards for his work with Off the Wall.
-June 10: Michael and his brothers rejoin to see their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1981
-March: Michael's Motown ballad, "One Day in Your Life", hits #1 in the UK.
1982
-December 1: Michael's mammoth masterpiece, Thriller, his second collaboration with Quincy Jones, is released. The album eventually breaks sales records, becomes one of the longest-lasting charted albums ever, yields seven straight top ten pop singles and yields Michael Jackson to mainstream domination as the best-selling pop artist of the 1980s.
1983
-January: Michael's second single off Thriller, the classic "Billie Jean" charts. It eventually reaches #1 on the pop and R&B singles chart and becomes one of Jackson's best-selling singles yet and one of his premier signature singles.
-March 10: Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" music video becomes the first video by a black artist to air regularly on MTV.
-March 25: Michael performs at the Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever telecast, first reuniting with the Jacksons and then performing his solo smash "Billie Jean".
-April: Michael's rock breakthrough, "Beat It", helps the singer to further smash racial barriers on MTV with it being one of the most heavily rotated and requested videos on the channel. It's also the first video to showcase his sense of theater with his videos often being referred to as "mini-movies". The song also hits #1 on the pop and R&B singles chart and, unbelievably, makes the rock chart peaking at #14 there.
-May 16: 47 million viewers see Michael Jackson make television history after the singer introduced mainstream audiences to the backslide while performing "Billie Jean" on Motown 25; traditionally a break-dancing move among the inner city, the media coins it "the moonwalk".
-December 2: A day and a year after the release of Thriller, the title track's 13-minute, horror-filled mini-movie airs as a world premiere and soon is hailed as one of the greatest music videos of all time.
1984
-January: Michael and brother Jermaine helped Berry Gordy's son, Rockwell, reach #2 pop and #1 R&B with the one-hit wonder, "Somebody's Watching Me".
-February: Michael wins a record eight Grammy Awards mostly for his work on Thriller.
-May: The Guinness Book of World Records announces that Michael Jackson's Thriller is the biggest-selling album of all time.
-July: Michael reunites with his brothers on the "Victory" tour and album.
-November 27: Michael gets his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
-December: At the end of the "Victory" tour, Michael announces his split from the Jacksons after 20 years with them.
1985
-March: Michael's co-penned humanitarian benefit single, "We Are the World", which was also co-written by Lionel Richie, hits #1 and its success eventually results in donation of $63 million for famine relief in African countries.
1987
-April: Michael's duet with Siedah Garrett, "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" becomes the first of five #1 singles Jackson scores on his upcoming Bad album.
-June: CBS debuts the release of the "Bad" mini-movie, which co-stars a then-unknown Wesley Snipes as the gangster brother of Michael's character. The video is directed by Martin Scorsese. The single becomes Jackson's second #1 single that year.
-August 25: Michael releases his third Epic solo album, Bad. The album goes on to become, at the time, the second best-selling album of all time worldwide behind Thriller, a record Michael holds until the end of the 1980s.
-September: Michael's "The Way You Make Me Feel" charts. His third straight #1 in 1987, the video becomes legendary as the scenes of Michael flirting with a pretty woman would be repeated in videos by Chris Brown, Justin Timberlake and Omarion.
-October: Michael goes on his first solo tour for "Bad" starting in Japan.
1988
-March: Michael publishes his autobiography, Moonwalk. The book that talks about Michael's musical background and dissolves rumors made about the singer becomes a best-seller.
-March: Michael gives his first and only Grammy performance on this month performing "The Way You Make Me Feel" and his current #1, the gospel-fueled "Man in the Mirror". Michael's performance leads to a standing ovation by the audience.
-June: Michael's rock tune, "Dirty Diana", becomes the fifth number one pop single off the "Bad" album leading Michael to become the first artist to have five number one pop singles.
-July: Michael's "Moonwalker" movie debuts on MTV. The movie includes one of Jackson's greatest music videos with the 1930s inspired "Smooth Criminal" music video. The video would be memorized years later on Chris Brown's "Gimme That".
1989
-Michael makes headlines performing a tribute song for Sammy Davis, Jr. for celebration of the 64-year-old entertainer's 60 years in show business.
1991
-August: Michael's "Black or White" music video debuts on FOX, BET, MTV and VH-1. The video is reportedly viewed by 500 million viewers worldwide making it the most watched music video in history. The song itself becomes a massive hit reaching #1 pop making Jackson the first artist to have #1 hits in three consecutive banner decades. The same month, Michael performs live on the tenth anniversary celebration of MTV.
-November 13: Michael Jackson releases his fourth Epic solo debut, Dangerous. The album becomes his fourth consecutive multi-platinum album and becomes a best-seller in more than 20 countries yielding the hits "Black or White", "Remember the Time", "Jam" and "In the Closet". It's also Jackson's first album without Quincy Jones, this time hooking up with Teddy Riley of the group Guy.
1992
-February: "Remember the Time" charts, eventually reaching #1 R&B and #3 pop. The African royalty-inspired video for the song also debuts on FOX, BET and MTV and features Eddie Murphy and Iman.
-June: Michael's "Jam" charts and peaks at #4 R&B while the video for it includes Michael Jordan.
-August: Michael's video for his third top ten hit off Dangerous, "In the Closet", showcases a different Michael Jackson flirting around with model Naomi Campbell. The song itself peaks at #1 R&B and #6 pop.
-October: Michael's taped concert at Bucharest airs on HBO.
1993
-Michael charts throughout this year with the singles "Who Is It?" and "Will You Be There?"
1994
-Michael accepts a special honor at the NAACP Image Awards.
1995
-May: Michael's first US single in two years, a dance duet with sister Janet, "Scream", charts. The legendary music video airs around this time and helps the song make the biggest, at the time, charted debut in Billboard history debuting (and peaking) at #5 pop. Michael will break his own record several months later.
-June: Michael releases his HIStory album. The album goes on to sell more than eighteen million copies worldwide.
-September: Michael makes history again by having his R. Kelly-penned "You Are Not Alone" become the first song to debut at #1 on the singles chart.
1996
-September: Michael begins a worldwide tour supporting HIStory.
1997
-May 6: Michael and his brothers reunite to be inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
2001
-March 13: Michael is inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist.
-August: Radio stations all across the country world-premieres Michael Jackson's latest single, "You Rock My World", produced by Rodney Jerkins. The song eventually reaches #10 on the pop singles chart.
-September 7: Michael surprises a national audience by dancing with N-Sync at the MTV Video Music Awards.
-September 10-11: Michael celebrates his thirtieth anniversary as a solo act with a concert at Madison Square Garden first reuniting with his brothers and then performing his solo act.
-September 25: Michael's video for "You Rock My World" debuts on MTV, VH-1 and BET.
-October: Urban radio begins playing Michael's neo-soul single, "Butterflies".
-October 30: Michael releases his sixth Epic solo album, Invincible. The album debuts at #1 in thirteen countries and eventually sells over eight million copies worldwide.
-November: Michael's MSG performance is televised on CBS. It's one of the highest-rated specials of the year.
2002
-February: Michael performs on the 50th anniversary of "American Bandstand". The same month, his "Butterflies single, peaks at #2 R&B and #14 pop.
-April: Michael performs at a Democratic Party-promoted benefit at the Apollo Theater, his first performance there since he and his brothers performed there in 1968.
-June: Michael is inducted to the Songwriter's Hall of Fame.
2006
-November 15: Michael will accept the Diamond Award for selling over 100 million albums at the World Music Awards in London.
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