Darren Mcgown wrote: Oi shut the fuck up about michael whats he done to u
Don't you mean, "Oi Shut The Fuck Up About Michael[sic] Whats He Done To U"?
I was reading through these posts hoping I'd be the one who got to say that. But either way, thank you.
Or, should I say - I Was Reading Through These Posts Hoping I'd Be The One........
iGSM wrote: What's he done to me? Owned the rights to most of the Beatles catalogue.
that (just about) did it for me too!!!
greedy c*nt!
and there's the is he/isn't he? a child-molesting paedo issue too!
there are some cases that are clear-cut and YET the guilty party STILL gets off
OJ Simpson for one...it seems nowadays that all you need is a fat wad of cash and you can buy a lawyer capable of getting Stevie Wonder a driving licence.
You criticise him for buying the Beatle's catalogue, but a) it is great business sense, even more so if he still had hundreds of millions, and b) it was Paul McCartney who suggested he invest in someones back catalogue. He shot himself in the foot completely.
Just becuase you like the Beatles doesnt mean it is wrong for him to have done that. Paul McCartney, last I checked, owns the rights to Buddy Holly, but just becuase I'm a fan of Buddy Holly and not the biggest fan of Paul McCartney and I'm fed up with a lot of Greatest Hits collections over and over, doesnt mean it is wrong for Paul to own these rights.
i didn't critcise him for owning the back catalogue - he DOESN'T!
he owns the publishing rights, he bought them from ATV.
what i criticise him for is the shitty products he allows classic songs to be associated with. and the almost prostitution of the beatles legacy so that MJ can make squeeze another ride into neverland (oh, and you can take that either way - fairground ride, or 13yr old ride)
fyi - the beatles publishing rights WILL be owned by Macca and Yoko very soon....as at last estimate MJ was almost $100m in debt...he'll need every penny he can get his hands on
well, this is tough for me to comment on, given that i am a fan of michael's. His music is amazing, though i don't care too much for his personal life or anything like that.
Okay, we all know that Thriller is pretty much the best-selling album in history, right? Right.
And he's still making millions from it. Every time they play a song of his on the radio or something, he gets money. And there's a LOT of songs to be played.
Plus, he does own part of the publishing rights to the Sony/ATV catalog, which includes the Beatles' back catalogue. He doesn't own the songs, but he gets the final say when it comes to selling the songs for movies, advertisements, and such. So he's making a lot of money from that, too.
So, there you have it. He's not broke. He may be in debt, but he'll clear that up. In fact, is it true he doesn't even live in the US anymore? I heard he left...
<font color=green>Bren<font color=orange>ski wrote: i didn't critcise him for owning the back catalogue - he DOESN'T!
he owns the publishing rights, he bought them from ATV.
what i criticise him for is the shitty products he allows classic songs to be associated with. and the almost prostitution of the beatles legacy so that MJ can make squeeze another ride into neverland (oh, and you can take that either way - fairground ride, or 13yr old ride)
fyi - the beatles publishing rights WILL be owned by Macca and Yoko very soon....as at last estimate MJ was almost $100m in debt...he'll need every penny he can get his hands on
I have read svereal NEW interviews in the last 2 months in Mojo, Q, Uncut with Paul McCartney where the interviewer specifically pointed out that now that MJ is in serious financial trouble, how does macca feel about what happened with Northern Songs (the Beatles pub. co. owned by ATV and MJ).
Macca has stayed cool as a cucumber in every interview and said that MJ was a real s**T about sneakily buying and abusing the use of the Beatles songs...and so Macca is quite glad, that if MJ does not pay back the multi million dollar loan he took out to buy Northern Songs....
...then in a few years..the publishing rights will automatically revert BACK to Macca! Yeah!
me_and_my_innuendo wrote:
Okay, we all know that Thriller is pretty much the best-selling album in history, right? Right.
Wrong. The Eagles' Their Greatest Hits is the best-selling album in history. Everyone knows that.
I think it might be in america, but world-wide (and america really is nothing compared to the rest of the world) Thriller is estimated the highest selling, and Dark Side Of The Moon The seccond highest.
Also, His music is excellent, so I listen to it. Micheal Jackson may have commited those crimes, but his music didnt. Some of the best pop ever, if not the best.
Rockyuk wrote: Also, His music is excellent, so I listen to it. Micheal Jackson may have commited those crimes, but his music didnt. Some of the best pop ever, if not the best.
True.
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He can sell the stuff he has to pay off his debt or perform for money.