Dick Clark's Rock, Roll, And Remember #207 (USP) Radio Broadcast Album *4LP Set* (USA)

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United Stations Programming Network, Show #207.  Airdate 1/25-1/26/85.  Comes in a special record jacket with cue sheets.  The Jackson Five are the featured artist on this four record set, including seven interview segments of Michael (as interviewed by Dick Clark in 1984) and one of Jermaine.

1) Michael tells the story of how the brothers first began to sing and perform in Gary, Indiana.  He tells how Joe whipped Tito for using his guitar without his permission, and how the brothers learned by singing “old folk songs like “Cotton Fields Back Home”…some of the old Ray Charles stuff, and James Brown” with his father’s group, the Falcons.

2) Michael recalls how Gladys Knight and Bobby Taylor brought them to Motown and performing for Berry Gordy at his Detroit house (near the swimming pool).  Michael tells the story of how he moved to California to live with Diana Ross for a year and a half before going into the studio to record their first songs.

3) Michael credits Stevie Wonder as the man who influenced him the most creatively: “God, I learned so much from him by just sitting in on his sessions and talking to him and listening…he is phenomenal! I had an interview with George Harrison in London…and he said “Stevie Wonder makes me want to retire!”…I feel the same way about Stevie, the way that he creates.”

4) Michael talks about how he was “brought up on stage and on tour, not the ordinary child life” and says that there is “nothing like being on stage, you can’t put it in words.”

5) Michael talks about performing on stage through dance: “Dancing is the most wonderful thing of all time because people communicated through bodily movement before anything…Dancing is really showing your emotions through bodily movement…When I dance, I really feel it, I feel free, and I do what I feel.”

6) Jermaine talks about why he stayed with Motown.

7) Michael talks about his lack of privacy, and why he likes staying at home.

8) Michael talks about being human and not being any better than anyone else, and why it is important to not have an ego: “There are lots of people in my field who are like that…and most of those people, they fall…because they begin to treat people who helped them badly, and to forget where they came from and forget about those who helped them get where they are.  It’s real important.  That’s why I thank all those.  I thank everybody.” 

Songs featured include: The Love You Save, ABC, Mama’s Pearl, I Want You Back, Never Can Say Goodbye, I’ll Be There, Got To Be There, Enjoy Yourself, Shake Your Body, Dancing Machine, Lovely One, Let’s Get Serious (Jermaine), Rock With You, Human Nature, Beat It, Billie Jean.

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