[[tmz:video id="0_e1okkxkt"]] Bobby Brown can reminisce about teaching Michael Jackson to moonwalk, allegedly ... but that's about it. We got the R&B legend outside the Dream Hotel in Hollywood Thursday night where our photog went looking for a freebie -- a dance lesson from the man who this week claimed he taught Mj the iconic move. By the way, Bobby's story is highly disputed. Michael's own sister, La Toya Jackson, says it was Shalamar member Jeffrey Daniel,...
- 9/8/2017
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Thirty years ago today, Michael Jackson took a few stylized, backward steps, igniting a global dance phenomenon.
The King of Pop's first public moonwalk occurred during the airing of a Motown 25th anniversary special on March 25, 1983. The now-legendary move came at the end of a performance of his hit song “Billie Jean,” and it elicited shrieks from the enthusiastic crowd.
Although Jackson certainly launched the moonwalk's peculiar shuffle to international fame, he did not invent the move.
Rolling Stone notes that James Brown had been moonwalking years before the Motown tribute, but the origins of the dance actually date further back than Brown. (Some credit a tap dancer named Bill Bailey with coining the move.)
But Jackson may have learned the move from '80s dancer Jeffrey Daniel, a member of the soul trio Shalamar.
Yahoo!'s Chris Willman points to an interview in which Latoya Jackson admitted her brother...
The King of Pop's first public moonwalk occurred during the airing of a Motown 25th anniversary special on March 25, 1983. The now-legendary move came at the end of a performance of his hit song “Billie Jean,” and it elicited shrieks from the enthusiastic crowd.
Although Jackson certainly launched the moonwalk's peculiar shuffle to international fame, he did not invent the move.
Rolling Stone notes that James Brown had been moonwalking years before the Motown tribute, but the origins of the dance actually date further back than Brown. (Some credit a tap dancer named Bill Bailey with coining the move.)
But Jackson may have learned the move from '80s dancer Jeffrey Daniel, a member of the soul trio Shalamar.
Yahoo!'s Chris Willman points to an interview in which Latoya Jackson admitted her brother...
- 3/25/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Rob Zombie announced through his Facebook account earlier that yet another cast member has joined his upcoming project The Lords Of Salem. Zombie stated that Billy Drago will portray "Judge Samuel Mather, a key role in the history of the Lords". Billy has been seen in other features such as The Hills Have Eyes remake as well as Pale Rider. He joins such other names as Ernest Thomas, Meg Foster, Dee Wallace, Sheri Moon Zombie, Jeffrey Daniel Phili…...
- 10/7/2011
- Horrorbid
Yes, he was the punchline of approximately a quarter-million Tonight Show jokes. But Michael Jackson's stop-on-a-dime dance moves and sensual soprano have influenced generations of musicians, dancers and entertainers, and the man was so much more than what the tabloids made him out to be. One of entertainment's greatest icons, he was incredibly gifted, and like most gifted individuals he was an equally troubled genius who kept us captivated at his most dazzling, and at his most appalling moments. The New York Times once described him as one of the six most famous people on the planet. I'd like to up the ante: he was the most famous person on the planet. He influenced artists ranging from Justin Timberlake to Madonna, and genres from rock to pop to R&B to even rap. No other artist has been as unifying. Jackson also helped elevate the music video, turning it...
- 6/28/2009
- by Kyle Reese
- SoundOnSight
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