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don t stop the music 3rd period 7th grade rock and roll research 2011

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interview with michael jackson what s up my peoples it s your girl cocoa king oh my goodness i am sitting right in front-that s right baby right in front-of the fantastic spine chilling king of pop himself michael jackson there are so many question to ask and so many to be answered we might just dig up some unknown secrets who knows so lets get this show on the road shall we me hi nice to meet you m.j nice to meet you me thanks ok you must get this a lot but i am a huge fan of yours m.j why thank you very much i appreciate that me your welcome are you ready to start m.j ready me ok my first question what was it like to be a jackson m.j uhm it was very complex i ll just start from the beginning start from the beginning when i was a kid i had a passion for singing i loved to listen to a lot of r&b soul and funk uhm someone who inspired me was marvin gaye i liked to participate in school talent shows as well when i sang solo in one of the talent shows i got a standing ovation uh lets see i had a big family we had 6 boys and 3 girls we would ve had 10 members but one of my brothers twin died at birth we had some pretty cool pets like a giraffe boa constrictor and a chimpanzee my mom katherine loved us and thought music would keep us all from getting hurt on the streets so that s what we did so me and a select few of my brothers started singing together it was pretty fun we sang so well that we were introduced to motown now we actually sang for a man named gladys knight and he introduced us to the motown executive but everyone thinks it was diana ross who introduced us motown also lied and said that me and my brothers were 2 years younger than actual so are career set off also another thing it wasn t just me and my brothers in the jackson 5 my sisters played some instruments for us too we also had our own cartoon show which was pretty cool to see ourselves animated one night when we got done singing at the motown fred astaire complimented me on my performance even though i got good praise there at home it was a different story my dad was very physically and emotionally abusive but he denied it we were always pressured by him i ll just keep it simple and say that we did not have a good relationship but it was hard also being a super star and a jehovah witness me wow some of those things i never new about you wow ok now for my second question i want to know like what was it like just everything in general m.j ok uhm well i split from my brothers and went solo i had lots of sold out concerts and a lot of my albums got good feedback uhm some of the songs that got the best feedback were billie jean thriller bad and i had a really fun time making those songs there wasn t actually a billie jean though i just pulled some real life experiences from my brother and made it into a song actually thriller got into the guinness book records let me see oh the moonwalk wasn t actually my idea it was just a break dance move but i incorporated it in my performance and it just became mine the glove is a big part of me too because everyone wore two gloves i wanted to be different so i just wore one my life outside of music was different i dated girls like tatum o neal and brooke shields paul mccartney was one of my really good friends i would love hang with him and write songs together i played the scarecrow in the wiz which was really fun then later on things started falling apart my hair caught on fire on the pepsi commercial i was accused of being a child molester i mean it just had to happen to me you know but i still lived my dream and sold out many concerts what can i say i love what i do me wow talk about a mouthful ha-ha well thanks for getting personal with me i have to say the coolest thing you told me was that you had a pet giraffe that s so rad today is june 25 2009 we have just received information that michael jackson has died of cardiac arrest at the age of 50 the silence and sorrow is immense and dark lets have a moment of silence michael jackson will be missed deeply by his fans and family members we will never forget why he was and inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame his music is not just for blacks its not just for whites its for everyone that s why he will always remain the king of pop -cocoa k

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creedence clearwater revival dear diary i met stu and cosmo in junior high we all went to a san francisco school outside of el cerrito in 1959 our first band was the blue velvets in the days of the british invasion we changed our name by a label executive to the golliwogs~a more english sounding group i john forgety played guitar stu played bass and cosmo was the drummer my brother sang and we played a lot of local dances in 64 we signed to fantasy records we recorded 7 singles for fantasy that went largely unheard by the general public finally the label re-released the last of the golliwogs singles then we changed our name to creedence clearwater revival i was firmly helm as the guitarist,singer,songwriter and producer dakota r.

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interview with madonna q so madonna how did you go from being known as madonna ciccone to just madonna a i was born with that name when i started making records madonna ciccone was just too long q do you know what madonna means a i actually looked that up last night on www.kabalarians.com it means i am a capable leader and organizer and my desire is to be successful q that sounds a lot like you do you agree a actually not really q why not i think it sounds just like you a:i don t know i just never thought when i was little that i would be as famous as i am today q oh okay so who is alvin ailey and pearl lange a alvin ailey is a dear friend of mine we danced together long before i was a mega-star and pearl lange is as well a dear friend she was an amazing teacher she died of a heart attack during a hip replacement surgery q so how many movies have you been in since you ve started your career a well i ve been in a certain sacrifice vision quest desperately seeking susan shanghai surprise who s that girl bloodhounds of broadway ,dick tracy ,truth or dare ,shadows fog ,a league of their own ,body of evidence ,dangerous games ,four rooms ,blue in the face girl 6 ,evita the next best thing ,swept away die another day ,i m going to tell you a secret ,arthur and the minimoys q wow someone s been a busy movie/music star a yes well being famous isn t easy q well thanks for coming i hope to see and hear from you soon by alexis c

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tito 7-25-1964 well i wrote another song for the band i think i m going to call it destiny well dads calling he probably wants me to do something for michael its like the whole world revolves around him jermaine 8-27-1964 well i rally don t know what to do because i only just came into the family band not to be rude or anything but i think tito is trying to be better than michael jackie 6-7-1969 i m so excited my new song i want you back just came out and a lot of people are buying it well i m on the road heading back to my home town gary indiana dad said we are performing the song the next concert marlon 6-19-1989 well we are leaving motown records and going to epic records we already signed our contracts back in 75 well we have a farwell party later so i have to go its going to be radical randy 7-14-1989 well i m going to get married to eliza shaffe and well its sad that ill i do for the band is play the piano i wish i could sing like michael the piano is just like in the background i feel like i am the only one who cant sing michael 11-21-1989 well i m very excited about a school naming it after me well today eddie murphy gave me a heritage award i almost cried well this is tour diary of the jackson five i found it in my basement the jackson 5 is a pop band from the 1967 2000 or so they were the best selling band in the 1900 s you may remember them from their songs abc ,if you were my woman dancing machine _jasmine f

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ashia w interviewing billy joel in the bronx new york on air it is really sunny out there really hope that this goes great so we should get started before we run out of time q what was it like when you grow up a i was born in 1949 cold war kid in mccarthy time i wrote a song first lived in south bronx an white neighborhood at the time then my family moved again to long island my father s name is howard joel he is from germany my mom rosalind hyman is born in england later on in life my family got divorced and then my dad moved to eastern europe q what is it like to be a famous person a well at first i thought that it would be some thing that i would want to do for life but at times i have down times when i struggle q what kind awards did you get a well i actually have quite a few cash box new male vocalist grammy awards best albums ascap awards grammy legend award ,american music awards and a lot of other awards q how did you get started on writing your song a.i started playing the piano when i was 4 years old then after 7 years of trying to make it as a rock star i wanted to do this for a life time thing q what music did you write songs a its still rock and roll to me movin out just the way you are big shot say good bye to hollywood q when did you get into the hall of fame a well the beatles have told me that there was something that i should start online where everyone can see what my bio is and look at videos that i have made then i went and checked it out and i decided to go on in 1986 q what was the first major album that you came out with a well the first one that i actually came out with was piano man that came out in 1973 that was the best one that i have came out with in the whole time that i have been writing these well it was very nice talking with you today i hope that you keep writing your songs i am sure that many and millions of people are just waiting for you to come up with new songs and i best they will be as good as all the other ones maybe even better then what the other are

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my interview with prince hey what up everybody i m here interviewing the prince of pop prince rogers nelson he agreed to have the interview right at his own home to have full affect lets see what s going on me :prince i do have one very important question to you as a musician what inspired you to start singing prince well you know one thing would have to be that my father was a jazz musician and his music always made me feel happy i guess another would be that when i was 18 i got my first sign to a record company moon sound records it was a the beginning of my music career the next year i released two albums with them me what awards or other accomplishments have you won in your life prince:i have really only won to awards like my grammy for news in 2003 and i won an oscar for purple rain you know my movie i made in the 1984 and i also had 3 platinum s in 1993 me what about your personal life do you have any secrets to tell people prince well as you may know i am a jehovah s witness i believe strongly in god and jesus and i m a vegan you know i don t eat any animal products another thing most people do not know about me is that i had epilepsy as a child and through out my teenage years but i overcame it well there you have it people the amazing world of prince rogers nelson has been unveiled david d

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bob marley tour diary 1834 the slavery was gone in 1834 because of me the black people and their descendants made the blacks own life style with half remembered black traditions the customs were made from the british 1980 i was a hero to some people in the world i was the whole world and the wailers tour in 1980 brought in the largest amount of people at that time for any musical act in europe later that year people started calling me the the godest of music monday may 11 1981 i hurt my toe playing football my wound became cancerous and needed badly treated i died in a miami hospital i died from a cancer in my foot thursday may 21 1981 my brother robert nesta marley gave me a big funeral by the people of jamaica the prime minister and the leader of the opposition both came to my funeral than after the funeral they took me to my birth place at nile mile i now rest in a mausoleum that is what my life was before i got cancer and when i had cancer so that is the story of my life -nick a.

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december 21st 1946 today i was born december 21st 1946 i am the best little kid my pop always said but i didn t know i know this isn t a lot of writing but hey i m only a week old what am i supposed to do and i know you re a diary and can t answer my questions but i will write back when i m a little older dear diary july 4th 1983 okay i know i haven t written in a while but i can explain see i was too bummed and busy with the band today i would have never guessed the u.s secretary of the interior jams watt banned us from performing at the washington monument and the worst part is he invited wayne newton to perform instead i was very upset and so was everybody else we never thought we would get banned form performing but hopefully we will have another shot at something bigger and better dear diary december 28th 1983 today was the worst day of my and the bands life my brother dennis carl wilson died by drowning while swimming off his boat in marina del rey california he was young and shouldn t have died this way when he was 39 years old we didn t know if we could move on from this but we had to step up and move on even though he was a big part in our band we just couldn t take it but somehow someway we have to move on dear diary february 6 th 1998 today was my last day surviving i died today february 6th of 1998 i had the best life best band and most of all best friends and family they helped me through everything weather it with music bullies through life girls ha ha and battles through life they were there for me i died young at 51 but i had the best life a guy could ask for i lost my battle with cancer 2 months after my mother audree wilson dear diary july 4th 1984 today is the big day the first lady nancy regan personally invited us the beach boys to return to washington d.c to perform at the washington monument for real this time and you will never guess how many people came 750,000 people came we were all very exited and we did the biggest show of our lives dear diary,

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james hetfields tour diary -october 1981 three weeks ago i met a man named lars ulrich looking for another person that wants to find another person who is as dedicated as him to make his dreams of a metal band true when i saw his ad in the newspaper by him i had to answer it since my ads for the same exact request weren t being responded to now three weeks later i am in lars garage with lars on the drums dave mustaine on guitar ron mcgovney on base and me on vocals and still playing some guitar i think we re going to make a living out of this but i m not sure if ron and dave are gonna make it all the way through with lars and i james hetfield -april 11 1983 dave has to leave his drug and drinking problems are getting out of control sure we all drink some but he does it at all the wrong times and all the wrong places today he wrecked our tour bus into a ditch because he was drinking thankfully no one was hurt but we cant keep him when he s getting in the way we sent on a bus back to los angeles earlier today he s enraged and furious eventually he ll get over it but i feel somewhat bad about it james hetfield -1984-everyones still shaken from the car accident although everyone walked away besides cliff it scarred all of us with a memory we will never forget he was only with us for almost 5 years as our bassist and no doubt one of the best i ve ever seen he played the bass like a guitar after all the auditions and requests to replace him and we still have found the right one today we are going to play one of our songs called orion at cliffs funeral there s no singing in it but i m still going to play at it with the guitar the rest of us were fine when the bus crashed but our bass player cliff died instantly james hetfield -june 22 2010-today we re going to bulgaria india on the big four concert that includes us megadeath anthrax and slayer one of the bands we re playing on stage with is megadeath which was started by dave mustaine who was kicked from our band because of his drug and drinking problems some people said to me that dave made megadeath when he was enraged at us and said he would try his hardest to make a band better than metallica it s somewhat awkward playing with a band that was created for the sole purpose of being better than us james hetfield it is stated in some known articles and books that black sabbath created heavy metal in the 70 s metallica redefined it in the 80 s started by james hetfield and lars ulrich metallica revolutionized the name heavy metal and instantly was a hit and is still a long lasting monument in musical history with its memorable thrash metal music for over twenty years metallica has been recognized from generation to generation austin c

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fleetwood mac interviewing mick fleetwood for many years fleetwood mac has been touring and rocking out to their hit songs with plenty of enthusiasm which is something that some bands are too young to do the band remains strong and is famous for the inspirational songs they write from real-life problems today i will be interviewing mick fleetwood the drummer of the band question fleetwood you and the band have been touring for many years and your band is fantastic when and how was your band formed and how was the name decided answer well it all started with a man named peter green he was actually in a band called the blues breakers but decided to form a band of his own peter found me jeremy spencer and a few others and we started up to have a pretty good band however our band members were on again off again lots of them had personal problems our band was formed in 1967 in april the name originally was named peter green s fleetwood mac but peter decided that he didn t want his name in the title question you ve had lots of great songs which was your biggest hit answer hey it depends its really all about the opinion some say its black magic woman and some say tusk our hit album was rumors in my opinion we sold over ten million copies world wide question amazing so what do you think was your most crazy on stage moment answer a lot of strange things have happened but once in scranton two items were thrown on stage the two of the items thrown on stage in scranton were a zebra print cowboy hat and a rainbow feather boa i m going to wear them to greet the band as they come in at the next gig i like trying to make them laugh now all i need are fishbowl platforms and some gold spandex yeah baby question wow that is strange but another strange thing is that people are saying stevie nicks is a witch is that true answer as weird as it sounds people are starting to believe that just because of the songs rhiannon and gold dust woman also because of her publishing company called welsh witch music but as a close friend of hers i can definitely confirm that she is not a witch she s a creative and fun-loving person question well thanks for everything fleetwood i think we have uncovered a lot of interesting facts answer thanks for having me i had a great time bye rhiannon

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diary of freddie mercury i think i might of found the perfect band we really get along great and we are making some great music i just know that were going to go far i think a really good name would be queen freddie mercury,july,1971 1973 this year may be one of the biggest years of my life we were officially signed by emi our first album queen was released this year too it was a major hit we also did our first tour in the uk and also our first tour in the u.s so far we have a bright future -freddie mercury 1980 well its been quite a few years since i ve written in here but we just released the game and went platinum 5 times just in canada i cant believe it i d say its time to go party and celebrate this miracle another single we released was another one bites the dust so far its our best selling single ever -freddie mercury 1981 its gonna be a tough year since we really set our expectations high last year with a total of 45 million albums sold worldwide well were on our way home now after finishing touring the far east we also became the first band to make a stadium tour of south america it was unbelievable we played to 13100 people in sao paolo it was the largest paying audience for any band in the world it was really nerve racking -freddie mercury october 1991 well i think its time to tell the world about a secret i ve been keeping for way too long i have to announce that i have aids i m afraid that i m dying so i might as well just get it out this will also be my last journal entry good bye -freddie mercury by nate h

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born in tupelo mississippi presley moved to memphis tennessee with his family at the age of 13 he began his career there in 1954 when sun records owner sam phillips eager to bring the sound of african american music to a wider audience saw in presley the means to realize his ambition elvis presley was the first real rock and roll star question what instruments did you play answer i play vocals guitar and piano question what genres do you sing or play answer i play or sing rock and roll pop rockabilly country blues gospel and r&b question what do you think about how you sing answer i don t sing like nobody taylor s.

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diary 1977 hello there i m stewart copeland the drummer of police me and my friends gordon sumner and henri padovani we replaced him later with andy summers just made the band i myself came up with the name police but most people call it the police we should be good i mean all of us have been in bands previous to this one so this is not much new the only thing new is the fact that we made the band well much said see you later diary april 1978 hello there again we just released a song we recorded called roxanne and we are working on can t stand losing you we also signed or going to sign our first record deal with a&m records and our manager miles copeland pursued us to tour what seems to be every where hope to tour everywhere and make it big i guess see what happens see you later diary 1984 been a while since i wrote but sadly the band just broke up and it looks like gordon sumner is going to go by sting and have a solo career rather sad but we did have a amazing time won three grammies and song of the year for every breath you take toured what seems to be around the world topped the charts or came close had many songs that were big hits and dyed our hair blonde what a time maybe one day we will come back and play a couple songs for our fans well see you later -kyle m

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