Michael Jackson

News, Reviews & Features
  • Leaving Neverland and our need for chaos

    TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 8th March 2019

    In the summer of 2002 Michael Jackson came to Exeter, my hometown, where I was living again having just finished university. In a series of events that are ludicrous in hindsight, some businessmen had bought Exeter City FC out of administration and installed Uri Geller as a co-chairman. Geller duly brought Jackson and David Blaine down for a public appearance, in which they drove round the pitch in an open-topped car with a load of children.

    I didn't go. But I do remember watching it on TV, noting that, despite the hit his image had taken from the Jordy Chandler trial, he was still surrounding himself with children wherever he went. And thinking: "No one in this guy's life ever pulls him aside and says, 'Listen, Mick: maybe ease up on the kids in public, eh?'"

  • Why no one should pay to see Michael Jackson's This Is It

    Movie Feature | Ali | 26th October 2009

    On Wednesday 28 October, thousands of Michael Jackson fans will flock to cinemas to see This Is It, a concert movie that is unique, because technically there is no concert to speak of. Instead, This Is It contains footage of Jackson in rehearsal for his 50-night residency at London's O2 Arena - a commitment which ultimately proved too much for him.

  • Jacko 'concert' movie to be long, lame and super wrong

    Movie News | Ali | 17th August 2009

    More details have emerged about the forthcoming film built around footage of Michael Jackson's last rehearsals - shocking reports suggest it's going to be in terrible taste.