2012 News Archive

The ‘Bad’ remix by Afrojack from ‘Bad25’ has reached Number two on the UK Dance charts, and is currently climbing the US Charts.

In the first week of release Michael’s ‘Bad25’ CD packages & ‘Bad’ Tour DVD have all peaked at the top of charts across the world.

Just a reminder for you to visit the ‘Michael Jackson Wardrobe Exhibition’ at the Getty Gallery, Westfield Stratford, London.

An exhibition on Michael’s life, currently displayed in Finland, includes videos, photos, gold records and objects from Neverland.

The presale date for tickets to ‘Michael Jackson –The Immortal World Tour’ in Antwerp, Belgium has been announced by MJOnline.

We received a statement from Michael’s Estate, updating fans on the progress of ‘Bad25,’ and commenting on more media nonsense.

Starcourt and Mashable have revealed the current most popular Facebook celebrities, with Michael reaching Number Five on the list.

Author Craig James Baxter has researched Michael’s body language in great depth, and has written a book discussing his findings.

Kate Allen has sent us a review on an old Michael book ‘Michael Jackson The Man in the Mirror’ by Todd Gold. Click here to read.

Michael Bush, Michael’s designer for 25 years was in the city of Bath for ‘Bath In Fashion 2012’ with a collection of his costumes

Rod Temperton, writer of ‘Thriller,’ ‘Rock With You’ and ‘Off The Wall,’ has been nominated for the 2013 Songwriters Hall Of Fame.

Conrad Murray is banned from serving the rest of his sentence under house arrest/electronic tag as he is could be a flight risk.

We have received the following statement from MJONline regarding the coming cinematic release of Spike Lee’s documentary ‘Bad25.’

Michael Bush, Michael’s wardrobe designer, has brought a collection of Michael’s personal and concert outfits to London. Read a Q&A on the UK exhibition.

MJOnline has announced the immediate presale of tickets for TIWT in Lisbon, Portugal, plus Birmingham and Manchester in the UK!

On October 27th thousands of people will join the ‘Thrill The World,’ an annual fundraiser to the sound of Michael’s ‘Thriller.’

Rochester’s Opera House will present
‘King Michael: A Glorious Tribute to the King of Pop’ on November 10th to celebrate his life

A trailer previewing Spike Lees’ ‘Bad25’ documentary debuted on ABC’s ‘The View’ and will air fully on Thanksgiving Nov 22nd.

London’s Annual ‘Thrill The World’ Simultaneous ‘Thriller’ zombie dance will take place on Saturday 27th October in Covent Garden

Michael and Whitney Houston are included in the list of 25 inductees into the new R&B Music Hall of Fame, next year on May 5th.

Jennifer Batten, who played lead guitar on three of Michael’s tours, led a a multimedia workshop on Saturday, in Ranch Sante Fe.

Spike Lee’s ‘Bad25’ Documentary just could be the greatest ‘Behind The Music’ documentary of all time, according to a new review.

MJOnline announces the presale of tickets for Cirque’s ‘Michael Jackson The Immortal World Tour,’ in both Paris & Montpellier.

Lawyers for both sides argued today over whether or not the leaked AEG emails should be used in Katherine’s wrongful death lawsuit

Dame Elizabeth Taylor has taken over Michael’s position as leader of the list of top-earning Dead Celebrities in Forbes magazine.

Michael Jackson now has 884,000 followers on Twitter, after 572 tweets were sent out by the people who manage his twitter account.

The Door is an ‘idea shop,’ working on ideas for keepsakes for Michael’s fans, including working with Spike Lee on the Bad25 doc.

All 23 episodes of the Jackson 5 cartoons from 1971 up to 1973, are going to being released on DVD and BluRay next January 15th.

Fire-eaters and a team of 20 dancers from Revue Studios performed the famous ‘Thriller’ routine in Swansea, last Saturday night!

Sunday night in chilly Lexington was the place to be to see the annual re-enactment of Michael’s ‘Thriller,’ by 1,200 zombies!

MJOnline announces the presale of tickets for Cirque Du Soleil’s ’Michael Jackson The Immortal World Tour,’ in Milan and Turin.

A new exhibit coming to Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum will explore the life and legacy of iconic entertainer Michael Jackson

Here is a link to a YouTube video which covers behind-the scenes at Cirque Du Soleil’s Michael Jackson The Immortal World Tour.

The Estate & Paul Anka are being sued by Michael Jonzun, a music producer, who says he helped remake ‘This Is It’ and was not paid

Zombies ‘Thrilled The World’ today, performing Michael’s ‘Thriller’ dance in the sunken garden at the Santa Barbara court House.

Chris Tucker was interviewed by Tom Joyner for a morning radio show about his long friendship with Michael and the Jackson family.

Michael’s Everland, the children’s home in Liberia, funded by Michael’s fans, is almost ready for occupation following some delays

In 2006 a remake of Michael’s wonderful video ‘Thriller’ was made, entirely using Lego bricks, and using the ‘Thriller’ music.

Starpulse has published an article extolling Michael’s skills as a first class songwriter, whose music IQ was “off the charts.”

Forbes has named Michael Jackson as the highest earning dead celebrity for the year October 2011 to October 2012 ahead of Elvis.

CePro.com has an article about the making of ‘Thriller,’ with the majority of the credit going to Quincy Jones, before Michael!

Judge Yvette Palazuelos rejected AEG’s arguments that the Jackson family was the source of AEG’s emails being leaked to the Press.