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Andrew Lloyd Webber told CNN’s Piers Morgan that Michael Jackson wanted to play the title role in the film version of “The Phantom of the Opera.” According to Webber, the King of Pop came to see the Broadway show multiple times — years before the film came out — and he and Jackson had spoken…

It’s an old story really, but for those who do not know…. Michael Jackson hand-picked an MJ voice impersonator to sing the famous “Happy Birthday Lisa” song featured on “The Simpsons” back in 1991 … this according to Lisa herself, Yeardley Smith. Smith was outside the Red O restaurant in L.A. this weekend, when she…

Usher closed out the first day of the Essence Music Festival Friday with a rousing two hour performance in which he paid homage to the late Michael Jackson. Amidst four costume changes, and nearing the end of his show, Usher honored the two year anniversary of Jackson’s death. “I’d like to pay tribute to him,…

Janet Jackson took to the stage in London on Thursday and performed their 1995 song Scream as video of Michael Jackson played and his voice filled Royal Albert Hall. The reworked duet follows in the footsteps of jazz pianist and singer Nat King Cole and his daughter, Natalie Cole. In 1991 she turned her father’s…

Who spends $1.8 million on a lightly used red and black leather jacket? Formerly low-profile Austin businessman Milton Verret, who plans on leveraging the outfit Michael Jackson wore in the 1983 video “Thriller” for children’s charities. “In my mind, I wasn’t going to pay more than $1.2 million,” Verret said Friday about the Beverly Hills,…

This was the moment Michael Jackson’s iconic Thriller jacket was sold at Juliens Auctions for $1.8 million dollars: PRE-AUCTION THE AUCTION MILTON VERRET – THE MAN WHO BOUGHT THRILLER