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Michael Jackson dances again on one billion Pepsi cans

by Michael2011 on May 4, 2012

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(Reuters) – Michael Jackson is dancing again, on Pepsi cans.        The soft drink maker and the estate for the late pop star on Thursday unveiled plans to put the singer’s silhouette on one billion soft drink cans in a global pop culture ad campaign.

The late King of Pop, who pitched Pepsi in 1980s commercials as “the choice of a new generation”, will appear in some of his iconic dance poses for the promotion, which will also coincide with the 25th anniversary of the singer’s “Bad” album.

The limited edition Pepsi cans will go on sale first in China, starting on Saturday, and then in the United States later this month. They will be rolled out in Asia, South America and Europe later in 2012.        Fans of the singer, who died in June 2009, will also be able to enter contests for tickets to Cirque du Soleil’s show “Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour.”

Pepsi, Jackson’s estate, and his Sony Music record company are also teaming up to share new mixes of music from the “Bad” album as part of the campaign.

“We are thrilled to bring Michael and Pepsi back together, as they were in 1988, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the ‘Bad’ album and tour and to put Michael on one billion Pepsi cans,” John Branca and John McClain, the executors of Jackson’s estate, said in a statement.

The Jackson cans are part of Pepsi’s new “Live for Now” campaign, which seeks to harness pop culture to boost sales. Pepsi-Cola is currently No.3 in the United States, behind Coca-Cola and Diet Coke in a declining market for carbonated drinks.        Pepsi said earlier this week that rapper Nicki Minaj would feature in a commercial as part of the campaign.

Jackson has been associated with Pepsi since 1983 when he appeared alongside his Jackson 5 brothers in his first Pepsi campaign.      But the memories are not all good. Jackson’s hair famously caught fire while filming a Pepsi commercial in 1984 in Los Angeles, scorching his scalp. The incident was later blamed for triggering Jackson’s addiction to painkillers that caused him to enter rehab in 1993.

Jackson, 50, died in Los Angeles from an overdose of the anesthetic propofol and sedatives. His personal doctor is serving a four-year jail sentence in Los Angeles for involuntary manslaughter.

(Reporting By Jill Serjeant; Editing by Piya Sinha-Roy and Bob Tourtellotte)      (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2012. Check for restrictions at: http://about.reuters.com/fulllegal.asp

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Madison and Michael Jackson Memories

by Michael2011 on April 21, 2012

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by Madison J. Gray,       The one lesson I have learned in the past week is that life is far too fragile to take for granted.   As I sat with my friend Reggie, just over a week ago, we talked and laughed over the old days in elementary school, our antics back in our neighborhood on the west side of Detroit, and the characters we encountered. It really did seem like yesterday when we were listening to Michael Jackson and he laughed at me trying to mimic his moves.

When I left Regg, I told him I loved him and that he was my brother. Then I exited the hospital.
Three hours later he died.     Now, with the news of Michael also making his transition, it all comes into perspective for me.

Michael’s music was basically a large part of the soundtrack to my childhood. Whenever my friends and I were hanging out, there was music playing from old Jackson 5 records, or Off the Wall or Thriller, and later Bad. Come to think of it, by 1983 there was no point where you could turn on your radio and not hear a Michael Jackson song playing.

In fact, if you were born between 1962 and 1980, then your early life was probably influenced in some way by Michael Jackson. The truth is the music is what drove us. His music was a bridge between the R&B days of Motown and the hip-hop era.

Regg was right there with the rest of our crew blasting it all out of our distorted boomboxes, practicing our beatboxing and lockpopping. We used to laugh at all of the androgynous pop stars with their long hair and tight pants, who made us dance anyway. Now of the three kings of the early 80s, Michael, Rick James and Prince, only his Royal Badness is left.

Perhaps it can be argued that none of is Icarus, and that if you fly too close to the sun, your wax wings will melt. If that is actually a fitting analogy of Michael’s fall off the precipice of fame, I’ll leave for you to judge. But it should remind us all that we are human, even if we get bigger than bigger than life the way Michael did.      Looking back on how we saw the King of Pop, the more eccentric Michael became, the more we made fun of him, but ridiculing pop stars is one of the many goofy things teenaged boys do. In a strange way it helped us to bond even more. For us there were no Facebooks, Twitters, Blackberries or iPhones, to lock us down in the technological tempest we find ourselves these days; just me banging on his door asking if he wanted to play one of our noisy games of baseball or football in the street — if nothing else, that is genuine friendship. But as the years go by, you never really think that it would all come to an end so abruptly.

And your life becomes a little bit more empty for the loss.     So this morning, as I look in the faces of people on the subway shedding tears for their favorite pop star, my sadness is amplified by the loss of my homeboy, who participated in the silliness of those days which I can now clearly say was magic.      RIP MJ        RIP Reggie              http://www.bvblackspin.com/2009/06/26/michael-jackson-the-passing-of-a-legend/

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My Michael Jackson Story by Blue Sky

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michael jackson memories anecdotes stories remembrancesr Here’s the best anecdote I have about the impact of Michael Jackson in my life.  courtesy of bluesky.blogspot.com I went to high school in northern Colorado. For those who don’t know the area, imagine Wyoming or Montana. Very rural, mostly small towns and long dusty roads that connected them. [...]

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