hello and welcome to the simplicity and lifestyle channel my name is Psyche and today Michael
Jackson is receiving an award from Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Murphy this happened in 1989
so without much further ado let's get straight in with the psyching titles and let's get watching mj
receive his award it's named for the man who has long been universally recognised as the greatest
all-around entertainer in the entire world it's being presented for the first time this year
and will be awarded annually at the soul train music awards to the artists whose live concert
performances have made the greatest impact upon public audiences during the previous years even
those of you who know Sammy Davis Jr. personally you could not imagine how delighted he was when
informed that an annual award would be established here in his honor and in his name though he could
not be here in person he was gracious enough to send us his personal congratulations
from Norway ladies and gentlemen my friend the best mr Sammy Davis Jr thank you dear
you know since my childhood i've heard every superlative used to describe my own personal
ability on stage but the standards we were able to set back in the old days have been somewhat
redefined by a young man by the name of Michael Jackson wow and i am personally delighted over his
selection as the first recipient of this award as you know he has just finished doing probably the
most exciting and the most successful concert tour in modern musical history Michael Jackson to me
is simply one of the most amazing entertainers i have ever seen in my life and in 60 years in show
business i've seen quite a few i'm one of his biggest fans and i love him dearly as a friend
and Michael I personally would like to say something to you i regret being unable to
be with you on this occasion but as you know as i'm talking to you now on tape
at this very moment i'm in Oslo Norway but I'm honored to have you accept this award
and i'll certainly have a handshake and a big hug for you as soon as you get we get back together
again in my absence however we've invited a mutual friend and a brilliant young talent in his
own right who will make the presentation of the first samurai ladies and gentlemen mr Eddie Murphy
As most people know by now Michael Jackson over the past year appeared before more
people and toured more countries of the world than any other artist the Michael
Jackson world tour went to 15 countries in all and grossed more than 121 million
dollars and we're seeing upwards of 4 million fans for another perspective
on Michael Jackson's phenomenal career i'd like to introduce you to one of Michael's closest
friends and wonderful actress whom i've admired for quite some time now Miss Elizabeth Taylor
Thank you Eddie i'd like to say a few words about a wonderful human being who is also one
of my dearest friends i would adore Michael Jackson whether he was the world's biggest
greatest star or not but it so happens that he is the greatest and perhaps one of the most
gifted music makers the world has ever known what makes Michael even more unique maybe maybe the
fact that all of his accomplishments his rewards his have not altered his sensitivity and concern
for the welfare of others or his intense caring and love for his family and friends and his fans
and especially all the children all the world over Michael Jackson is indeed
an international favourite for all ages an incredible force of incredible energy
the art of music a pacesetter for quality of production
a vanguard for high standards of entertainment what is a genius what is a living legend
what is a mega star Michael Jackson that's all and just when you think you know him he gives you more
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he's fantastic it's beautiful
anywhere
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he's not coming back
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huh ladies and gentlemen the 1989 heritage award and sammy davis jr award recipient
and in my estimation the true king of pop rock and soul mr michael jackson
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thank you
thank you very much elizabeth taylor thank you thank you eddie murphy
first of all i'd like to this is yours too oh i'll hold it
okay first i'd like to thank god who makes all things possible
I'd like to thank my mother and father who I love very much Joseph and Catherine Jackson
I'd also like to thank Quincy Jones who's in the audience i don't see him somewhere
he would right there but he was right there but thank you Quincy i thank Bill bray John Brenca
the Epic family Walter Yetnikov and Larry Stesso and Glenn Brandman i love you thank you very much
Oh my goodness wowI thought that was great and I hope that you watched all of it
because we shouldn't really just spin to the Michael Jackson bit sometimes it's really good
to appreciate how it leads up to you know the main event so if you did spin through please go
back and just watch it from the beginning and i think it's nice to sort of see you know artists
like Elizabeth Taylor because some people who are born now never knew about her or you know
didn't know she existed or didn't know she existed and it's nice to see her again so there's lots of
little things we can learn along the way there was a young Eddie Murphy there he was
almost at the top of his game there he was hot hot hot hot um and it's just so nice to see
where he was when he was up there he's still up there now but this was you know when he
first sort of broke out and he became really really massive uh he did beverly hills cop
and incidentally that role from what i hear was actually offered to Sylvester Stallone
but he turned it down so thank god for that in a way because otherwise you know it might take
Eddie a bit longer but he still would have got there anyway because he's just full of talent and
just a wonderful wonderful human being anyway but yes did Michael Jackson look gorgeous wow
and he you know i just love the way he talks he's just so gentle isn't he he just
you know when you hear all these things and so on and so forth i look at him and i really study him
and he's so consistent with his delivery and the way he is constantly consistent and when he speaks
he is always always so softly spoken so gentle and he wouldn't know how to fly you know he's just
so beautiful he's just so beautiful the way he's it's so soft and so gentle and it's not a put on
that's him because the whole Jackson family actually are very very um demurring their delivery
of things aren't they they're not aggressive people they don't talk in aggressive tones at all
you know um it's like Janet when she talks she's just so beautiful and you know when they start off
or when somebody talks to you like that it kind of disarms you and it just makes you feel very um
calm and that's what i liked about Michael when he came on the stage i mean he sort of had his
banter with Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Murphy um but he's just so gentle and he just took it and
he even said sorry you know i thought oh i want to argue and he looked great too didn't he absolutely
fantastic and i think Elizabeth Taylor said it best with everything she said about him you
know he loves his family he loves his friends he loves his fans he loves all the children around
the world he wants to highlight you know problems and make the world a better place
um you know everything he did was for the love of mankind and animals and stuff you know anything on
planet earth basically and he deserved that award so i hope you liked watching it because i when
i tripped on it i thought i'd really like this i hope my subscribers like it too because it's nice
to see all the performances and stuff but it's also nice to sort of see injection from other
people about what they think about Michael Jackson and just to hear him speak sometimes rather than
sing so i hope you like that anyway that's it for now i'm done so i hope you will subscribe
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