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Wie viele Interviews wollen die eigentlich noch geben?? Haben die kein eigenes Leben...Kommentar
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Ja ehrlich mal, anscheinend ist das ihr Leben, sie brauchen das um sich wichtig und gut zu fühlen, och nöö, haben wahrscheinlich, selbst ein unspektaculäres Leben und müssen sich dann mit fremden Federn schmücken, oder wie auch immer, ich finde es wird zu viel drüber geschrieben und die Sache wird nahezu zertreten und es nervt mich einfach nur ab...wie soll der arme MJ da in Frieden Ruhen? Müssen sie sich alle noch und noch was vom großen Kuchen abschneiden...Diese gierigen, unmenschlichen Wesen...
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... blödsinn .. sorry .. müsstest du dein eigenes buch oder whatever vermarkten, würdeste auch zusehen dass die PR stimmt! Geschäft ist geschäft und da gehört klappern zum handwerk. Etz mal nur vom kaufmännischen standpunkt betrachgtet
Nix für ungut Marzel 
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Rein kaufmännisch gesehen gebe ich dir selbstverständlich Recht. Aber allein, DAS jeder ein Buch schreibt sagt irgendwie schon allesZitat von rip.michael Beitrag anzeigen... blödsinn .. sorry .. müsstest du dein eigenes buch oder whatever vermarkten, würdeste auch zusehen dass die PR stimmt! Geschäft ist geschäft und da gehört klappern zum handwerk. Etz mal nur vom kaufmännischen standpunkt betrachgtet Nix für ungut Marzel
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Michael Jackson, Through His Brother's Eyes
by NPR STAFF
text size A A A September 21, 2011
In the 1960s, five brothers — from a family of nine children — formed a music group in their living room in Gary, Ind. Their voices soon gained world stardom with songs such as "ABC," "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing," "Boogie Man" and "I'll Be There." They were the Jackson 5: Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael Jackson.
Their lives took different directions, but many of them stayed in the entertainment business. They pursued solo music careers, ran record companies and produced television series.
Michael Jackson, the group's youngest member and lead vocalist, ruled the pop and rhythm and blues charts throughout the 1980s with his own work. In his early 20s, he came out with Thriller, the album that earned him smashing success. But in the 1990s, the King of Pop's career took a downturn as he was accused of child abuse. In the 2000s, he was charged and arrested for child molestation, but was later acquitted. On June 25, 2009, he died in Los Angeles from an overdose of the powerful anesthetic, propofol. As a criminal trial continues to explore how he died, those who loved him are still grappling with why.
His older brother Jermaine Jackson is also trying to come to terms with the loss and has a new book titled You Are Not Alone: Michael: Through a Brother's Eyes. He joins Tell Me More host Michel Martin for an interview.
Interview Highlights
On his favorite story of Michael
"The one that sticks out in my mind all the time, and sticking on Michael's mind too, was singing, looking out the window — the snow was falling — and wanting Christmas. And we weren't allowed to [celebrate Christmas] because we were Jehovah's Witnesses. But that's when we were singing a lot of Christmas carols.
"Those were the moments and stories of just how we were just kids and on the road. Stories of me bringing girls in the room, and thinking Michael and Marlon were asleep, and they're not asleep. And Michael's just being a kid — very mischievous and just all over the place."
On Michael's upbringing, Neverland Ranch and advocacy for children
"You get so big, and then the media is looking for something to exploit and to create sensationalism. With Michael, it became his undying love for children, because of him not really having a childhood. So even when he became an adult, he was looking at children through a child's eyes, and the world looking at him through adult eyes, and the misleading things they were saying about him with children and all these things. What I've done with chapter 17, it's called 'Body of Lies,' shows you exactly what happened.
"When we grew up, there was nothing different about a stranger, about everybody. The neighbor's kids sleeping on the floor, making beds. The kids, little boys, little girls, friends, this and that ... we were watching TV and having fun. Nothing about abuse and none of this kind of stuff. Michael never left that. Even when we were growing up in our room, we were five boys in one little room. There were triple bunk beds: Tito and I at the top, Michael and Marlon in the middle and Jackie at the bottom. Psychologically, he never left that.
"Now, it's like growing up not having a childhood and then wanting to relive that. That's the whole purpose of Neverland. Neverland was lit up like a Christmas tree 24 hours a day, 365 days out of the year. There were wheelchair ramps up going up to rides because he wanted children to have fun who were terminally ill of cancer. That's where his charity work came in. There were beds — a special suite in his theater — where kids that needed oxygen, where they can watch movies and things like that. And that was misunderstood and misinterpreted."
On Michael's personal physician Conrad Murray, and Michael's death
"He trusted the doctor. And every doctor takes an oath to take care of their client — not to take their life. And whatever the doctor was putting in him, which was propofol, it wasn't administered in a proper setting. Propofol is OK if it's in the right hands, meaning an anesthesiologist. But when it's given to someone and they're not that — he was a cardiologist — and it wasn't in the proper setting, then it becomes a weapon.
"When I wrote in the book about his body being half cold and half hot, him repeating himself all the time, him not knowing right from left ... these are signs of toxic poisoning. They're trying to say these were self-administered. The autopsy reported that was not the truth. Michael had a problem with sleeping, but he's never had these symptoms before. Michael had pain from the Pepsi burn [an injury he suffered while filming a 1984 commercial and subsequently took painkillers for] so there was the situation of Demerol in 2001 or 2002, but that didn't kill my brother. What killed my brother was propofol being in the wrong hands and negligence.
"We'll never get closure. When something like this ends ... you learn to live with it, but you'll never get over it. Because we lost a good brother. He was a good father. His daughter, Paris, said that during his memorial. My mother lost a great son. Nephews lost an uncle. And it's something ... he'll never come back, and you look who he was — he was a misunderstood person because of old-fashioned values."
On Murray's trial
"Put it like this — whether it's fair or not, I do believe they are going to paint my brother out to be the most horrible person. And that's why I documented who he was in this book. He's a wonderful human being.
"He was pure. He was real, and he cared. And when you look in his eyes, you could tell that this is a good, great human being. That's what I want people to remember him as — a human being. Yes, he had incredible success, and God knew who to bless with the success, because he knew he was going to give back to the people. He was doing God's work through his music and his songs."Kommentar
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... jeder? ... von der family sinds grad mal LaToya und Jermaine, wobei LaToya längst vor M tod ihr buch begonnen hat zu schreiben. Im zweiten teil widmet sie sich u.a. Michael, der erste ist rein L.Toya biographisches, wo sie ein paar wenige male auf Michael eingeht. Wie sich's halt ergibt, wenn ihre geschichte ganz direkt mit der M.s verwoben ist.Zitat von Marzel Beitrag anzeigenRein kaufmännisch gesehen gebe ich dir selbstverständlich Recht. Aber allein, DAS jeder ein Buch schreibt sagt irgendwie schon alles
Oder geht dein letzter satz auf die ziemlich müde leier ein, dass eh jeder nur geld mit MJ verdienen will.
Dem kann man persönlich gut abhelfen, kaufen oder nicht-kaufen. Okay, das argument ist auch schon ausgeleiert, aber ich hab kein besseres.
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Ein Wettbewerb der besonderen Art.....Der Gewinner bekommt ein OTTO von Jermaine, na wenn datt nix IS weiß ich auch nicht weiter....
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jermjackson5 Jermaine Jackson
For European fans, my book is coming to France early nxt year and other countries soon, inc Germany, Netherlands, Italy. Will keep u updated
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Von Charles Thomson
Through A Brother's Eyes: Jermaine Jackson Speaks - Part One
Posted: 10/18/11 01:33 PM ET
Updated below.
It's mid-September and Jermaine Jackson is winding up a grueling U.K. book tour, which has seen him spend the last four days making back-to-back television and radio appearances. Securing an interview slot has taken three days of negotiation between Jermaine, his publicist and publishing reps on both sides of the Atlantic. When his car picks me up in Wood Lane, London and drives us into the BBC Studios, he has just appeared on Loose Women -- Britain's answer to The View -- and is on his way to be interviewed by BBC Radio Five's Richard Bacon.
As we're led inside, several dozen students on a BBC walkabout lose all interest in their tour guide as they spot Michael Jackson's brother passing through the building. I feel self-conscious as their stares follow us through the foyer but Jermaine appears not to notice. It comes with the territory. As one of the figureheads of America's most famous family, he's become accustomed to outsiders constantly looking in. The problem, though, is that what they see is often warped; a fragmented simulacrum presented by the media. This, he says, is why he has written his new book, You Are Not Alone: Michael Through A Brother's Eyes.
"How was Loose Women?" I ask him, as we wait for an elevator.
"Well..." He half-grins and exhales loudly. "They were loose."
The Loose Women interview, like many Jermaine has conducted in recent weeks, was somewhat combative. As Jermaine attempted to speak about his brother from a firsthand perspective he was repeatedly interrupted by the hosts. 'But Jermaine, I think it's fair to say he was quite a complex character...' 'But... there must have been something going on with Michael. He must have been a sick person.'
The assumption by many that they know more about Michael Jackson than his own family is a bug-bear of Jermaine's. This attitude, he says, is the result of a decades-long battle against inaccurate media coverage. "This would become a recurring theme for the family," he writes in the book, "a showdown of fact versus perception -- and fact would always be the underdog."
According to Jermaine, even his initial attempt to write a book, all the way back in 2003, fell flat because publishers were unwilling to print a factual account of his brother's life.
"I had tried to write something with Judith Regan with Harper Collins in New York and they weren't interested in the truth then," he tells me as we sit down in an empty radio studio. "They were interested in the gossip and all the things that were not true. They wanted dirt and I said, 'I have no dirt', so they turned me down."
Eight years later, Harper Collins has come around to Jermaine's way of thinking. His book is described by the publisher as "an intimate, loving portrait of Michael Jackson." But Jermaine hasn't forgotten the 2003 debacle entirely. "They tried to put me on the Judith Regan show on this book tour," he says. "I said, 'No way.'"
In 2006 a document purporting to be Jermaine's 2003 book proposal was leaked to the media and caused a furor. In it Jermaine allegedly branded his brother a 'stubborn', 'harsh', 'cold', 'calculating' and 'devious' drug addict who "purchased children like a sanctioned black market," and "changed his skin color."
For this, Jermaine blames his co-writer Stacy Brown, who he says changed the rejected manuscript to make it more saleable and then circulated it -- all without Jermaine's permission.
"That wasn't my manuscript," says Jermaine. "It was just horrible. My manuscript was registered with lawyers and we had proof. I said, 'My manuscript is totally different from what this guy's saying'.
"Because of that, publishers for this book, for verification purposes, wanted to see that proposal beforehand. I showed them my original proposal about what I wanted to do and it's completely in line with the proposal for this book. So that was completely hijacked by somebody else."
Jermaine isn't the only person to accuse Stacy Brown of such behavior. In 2005 Brown co-wrote a book with disgruntled Jackson employee Bob Jones. When Jones was asked about the book under oath in Michael Jackson's 2005 trial, he admitted that it was only "factual to a degree." Of Brown's work he said, "My co-writer also has included things that I didn't approve of," and added, "I've changed millions of things that were inaccurate that I didn't say."
Even the new book has been mired in controversy. As Jermaine flew to London to begin promotion, a storm was brewing over a story he tells in his prologue. Speaking about his brother's 2005 child molestation trial, Jermaine recalls how he was so paranoid that Michael could fall victim to a terrible injustice that he hatched a secret escape plan in case it looked like a guilty verdict could be on the cards. He arranged for a private jet to be on standby at the nearest airport, ready to whisk his brother to Bahrain, where he couldn't be extradited.
However, many journalists -- apparently too lazy even to read Jermaine's eight-and-a-half page prologue in full -- got it monumentally wrong. Stories wrongly stated that the Jackson family had planned to spirit Jackson away to the Middle East after he was convicted; a clearly nonsensical claim.
Nevertheless, copy and paste journalism took hold and the story was replicated hundreds of times by newspapers including the New York Post, NY Daily News, Denver Post and Washington Times. Among the more brainless headlines was this honker, which comes courtesy of Britain's Daily Mail: 'How Michael Jackson's family planned to fly singer out of U.S. to Bahrain if he was jailed for child molestation'. Even the Press Association ran with the inaccurate version.
The nonsensical story made Jermaine's book look like a work of fiction, a situation worsened when the subsequent controversy prompted Michael's 2005 defense attorney Thomas Mesereau to speak out against the misquoted claims.
"One of the reasons I wrote the book was so that my words would stand for themselves, in context," says Jermaine. "But even in the newspapers' coverage of my book, my words were misreported. There was never a plan to get Michael out of the country 'if convicted'. Thomas Mesereau had to issue a denial based on something that wasn't true in the first place. That one change of context showed how one inaccuracy can snowball and how myths are made. I sat back and thought 'This is what Michael faced all the time'."
Update: Stacy Brown denies changing Jermaine Jackson's 2003 manuscript. Responding to this article, he said, "Jermaine did indeed want to write a positive book and it was indeed sabotaged - but he knows it wasn't me who sabotaged it. Jermaine's money-hungry girlfriend changed the manuscript and he and I were left holding the bag."
To be continued...Zuletzt geändert von Lena; 22.10.2011, 16:30.Kommentar
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Stimmt nicht. Katherine auch. Und vor Michaels Tod hat der Rest der "Familie" auch schon Bücher veröffentlicht, in denen Michael...na sagen wir mal, nicht gerade eine unwichtige Rolle gespielt hat.Zitat von rip.michael Beitrag anzeigen
Außerdem meinte Marzel vielleicht nicht nur speziell die "Familie". Jeder andere Depp, der irgendwie im Laufe seines Lebens mal Michael die Hand geschüttelt oder ihm ein Pausenbrot gebracht hat, meint jetzt, ein Buch darüber schreiben zu müssen.Kommentar
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Eine Buchrezension des Schweizer Forums
Jermaine Jacksons “You Are Not Alone – Through a Brother's Eyes”
Jackson.ch Review
cover_bookyouarenotalone-b.jpg Wenn manche von Euch bei La Toyas Autobiographie “Starting Over” die Geschichten und Anekdoten aus der gemeinsamen Kindheit und Jugendzeit mit Michael vermisst haben, dann kommt Ihr hier voll auf Eure Rechnung. So erzählt uns Michaels älterer Bruder Jermaine bewegende und zum Teil sehr unterhaltsame Geschichten aus der gemeinsamen Kindheit in Gary, in der sich die Familie und vor allem die Brüder sehr nah standen – und dies nicht nur, weil sie sich zu sechst ein Schlafzimmer teilen mussten. Ich muss gestehen, dass ich bei vielen Geschichten und Anekdoten, v.a. über den kleinen und jungen Michael, immer wieder schallend rausgelacht habe. Es ist ja bekannt, dass Michael schon immer ein kleiner Rebell war und sich nicht viel von andern gefallen und sagen liess, auch nicht von seinem Vater. Und scheinbar war das Rebellengen bei klein Michael schon frühzeitig ausgeprägt. Denn bereits im zarten Alter von vier Monaten, so erinnert sich Jermaine, warf Michael seinem Vater die Milchflasche an den Kopf. Auch die anschliessende Zeit, als die Familie nach dem Vertragsabschluss mit Motown nach Kalifornien übersiedelte, ist illustrativ beschrieben. Man hat immer das Gefühl, dabei zu sein und das Ganze mit Michael und seiner Familie mitzuerleben. Man schmunzelt, man lacht, man weint, man schüttelt den Kopf.
Das Buch ist in drei Teile eingeteilt: (1) Der Anfang – die frühen Jahre; (2) Der Mittelteil – die Hayvenhurst Jahre; (3) Das Ende – die Neverland Jahre. Es hat auch tolle Fotos, von denen einige das erste Mal veröffentlicht wurden wie zum Beispiel das letzte private Foto von Michael mit seiner Familie Mitte Mai 2009 bei der grossen Familienzusammenkunft zur Feier des 60. Hochzeitstags von Katherine und Joseph Jackson. Gewiss, es könnte gern noch einige Fotos mehr haben, aber vermutlich hätte es aus Sicht der Fans wohl nie genug Fotos von Michael. Das Buch ist (unter Mithilfe eines Ghostwriters) sehr gut geschrieben und trotz seiner Länge von 450 Seiten gut zu lesen. Am Anfang fällt es einem schwer, es aus der Hand zu legen. Gegen Ende wird es dann etwas leichter. Dies ist aber wohl dem Umstand zuzuschreiben, dass Michael in den letzten Jahren seines Lebens nicht mehr viel Kontakt zu seiner Familie hatte und so unterbricht dies natürlich automatisch den Erzählfluss und Jermaine muss dann gezwungenermassen von einem (ihm bekannten) Ereignis zu nächsten hüpfen. Dies sei aber auch positiv zu bewerten, da Jermaine es unterlassen hat, Geschichten aus Michaels Leben wiederzugeben, die ihm persönlich nicht bekannt sind. Ferner sei auch betont, dass Jermaine viele seiner Schwächen offen zu gibt und er hat auch die schwierigeren Momente in seiner Beziehung mit Michael nicht ausgelassen oder schön geredet, sondern sich damit auseinandergesetzt. Es gab nur wenige Momente im Buch, bei denen ich etwas die Stirn runzelte und mich fragte, ob dem wirklich so war, wenn man sich erinnert, was Michael zu dem Ereignis gesagt oder geschrieben hat. Aber wie ich bereits bei La Toyas Review betont hatte: Autobiographien werden aus einer subjektiven Sicht erzählt. Natürlich ist ein (guter) Autobiograph um eine wahrheitsgetreue Erzählweise bemüht, aber am Ende ist und bleibt es eine Geschichte, die aus Sicht einer bestimmten Person erzählt wird und gerade dies macht ja Autobiographien so interessant und packend. Massgebend ist, dass der Autor seine Geschichte nach bestem Wissen und Gewissen wahrheitsgetreu wiedergegeben hat und diese Absicht stelle ich bei Jermaine nicht in Frage. Auf der Rückseite des Einbands las ich am Anfang “If you love Michael Jackson, this is the only book you will want to read” und ich dachte da, “na ja...”. Nun, da ich es gelesen habe, kann ich sagen: es ist zwar nicht das einzige Buch, aber definitiv ein Buch über Michael, das ich nicht missen möchte und das ich immer wieder gern zur Hand nehmen werde.
Patricia von jackson.ch
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Kann ich nur bestätigen!Ich muss gestehen, dass ich bei vielen Geschichten und Anekdoten, v.a. über den kleinen und jungen Michael, immer wieder schallend rausgelacht habe. Ich bin gerade beim Mittelteil gelandet und ja, der erste Teil ist wirklich hinreißend geschrieben. Nachdem der Prozess nun erst einmal beendet ist, bin ich tatsächlich froh, in die Welt dieses Buches zu schlüpfen und endlich ein wenig Abstand von den aktuellsten Ereignissen nehmen zu können, in dem ich in dieses wirklich schön geschriebene Buch eintauche.
Ich hatte keine zu hohen Erwartungen an dieses Buch und bin daher doch sehr überrascht, über die wirkliche Wärme, die Jermaine in diesem Buch in Bezug auf seine Familie und besonders seinen Bruder zum Ausdruck bringt.Kommentar
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Na, das finde ich ja mal gut, dass es nicht sooo lange gedauert hat, bis dieses Buch auf deutsch erscheint!
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