The American Music Awards
Michael Jackson. 'Off the Wall' Michael Jackson.
Thank you Quincy Jones. Thank you,
program directors and record buyers and disc jockeys.
I love you and I'm very happy. Thank you so much.
Goodbye.
He just had blockbuster success with his album 'Off the Wall'.
Ladies and gentlemen,
my baby, Michael Jackson
I love you.
I knew that you were going to be a giant star.
We really did. Well, thank you.
But I didn't know.
What I didn't know is that you were going to get so sexy.
You're embarrassing me.
Well, I always knew you would.
What?
Be sexy.
Do you guys think she's sexy?
And here are the singing and acting
costars in 'The Wiz', glamorous Diana Ross and the handsome
Michael Jackson. Diana Ross and Michael Jackson,
and it's nice to have you both here tonight.
How are you doing, Diana?
Michael? This is your escort tonight. I can't hear you.
Is he your escort tonight?
Absolutely.
This is my date, look.
Tonight is a night for film.
What are your plans in film? Coming up?
We're going to do something soon,
he's going to play my son.
How do you feel about that?
It's great.
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Michael was interested in writing with me and he rang me.
He rang me this time which was different.
He rang me up and
I didn't believe it was him.
I said, Who's this? It's Michael.
Are you sure? Michael who?
Anyway, I had a joke about that kind of thing.
And he said, yeah, I'd like to come over write with you.
So I said, great, because I really love his voice.
He's a great singer and dancer, so I'm very impressed with him anyway.
So he came over and he came to England and we just sat down.
I thought, well, it's not easy to just sit down with anyone
you don't know and just write, sort of songwriting chemistry.
But I thought, well, it is Michael,
you know, I mean, I'll just try. If it doesn't work, we'll just throw it away.
We made 'Thriller' in eight weeks.
We did Paul McCartney first. One thing that I think worked for us is we
didn't have time for paralysis from analysis.
It's a question of doing something over and over and over and over again,
in till you get it right and you figure out what it's about.
Anybody who's worked with him
notices this. The way he'll make you do a thing until it's perfect.
He'll say it's beautiful.
We have a take. But then he'll say, but can you give us one more
Your hair is really long, isn't it?
I don't know, I guess.
A better place, there?
If it gets like afro. What do you want?
You don't want to make it
It looks better when I keep it down.
When I keep my hair down
because it could be blended.
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E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.
A specially produced photobook album, with dialogue and music.
From the Academy Award winning movie, narrated by Michael Jackson.
Exciting dialog from the original Steven Spielberg movie.
Narration by Michael Jackson, a story told in colour pictures
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