Magazine Scans: TV Guide's Tribute to Michael

I describe the month of August to be a celebration of Michael's life. If Michael was with us, he will be 55 this year (August 29th). Even though Michael did not celebrated birthdays, he did like the idea of birthdays and meaning behind them. This month, I will do my version of celebrating Michael's life by focusing on the impact that he has made in the world. I want to post scannings of TV Guide's tribute to Michael from 2009. Michael has been on the cover and featured in the magazine various times. He gave two exclusive interviews for the magazine that were best sellers and read by the fans. I have to be honest, I bought the collectors issue because I loved the picture of the cover that the magazine editors have chosen. The picture reflected Michael in a respectful and reasonable way. It showed Michael the man and the legend. I want to post the parts of the issue that I felt were important. I hope you enjoy this and if not, that is OK as well. 

Michael on the cover of Tv Guide in 1999. 

X-Factor USA: Tribute To Michael

I found out the night before November 30th, X-Factor was going to do a Michael Jackson tribute show. So, as the uber fan, I could not wait for the show to start. I did missed at least 15 minutes of the show because I was coming home late from work. I did not see when Michael's brothers came on the stage and spoke about Michael. 


Here is a recap of the show - 


http://web.archive.org/web/20120618125822/http://www.thexfactorusa.com/articles/recap-michael-jacksons-s-family-proud-of-our-top-7

Ok, So Maybe

I was wrong about the Forever Michael tribute that happened in the UK on October 8th, 2011. I was wrong about how it was all going to come about. When I went on twitter and facebook that day, I was reading updates on the concerts and I was shocked that people were stating that the concert was actually good, even solid.
So, I decided to read a few articles about the tribute. I wanted to read articles that simply discussed the concert and what happened in the concert. Here is one article I read about the concert -

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/08/michel-forever-michael-jackson-concert_n_1001414.html

Michael Tributes - My Take

On Saturday October 8th, the Jackson family will participate in a tribute concert extravaganza for their beloved Michael in the UK. The promoters of the event is a promotional company known as Global Live and as the details of the tribute were being release, controversy emerged. First, Global Live decided to have the rock band KISS perform at the tribute. The main problem with that was the lead singer of the band, Gene Simmons, had terrible things to say about Michael the day after Michael died. The things that he stated I am not going to post on this blog for sanity reasons. Second, the timing of the tribute - the event will occur around the time of the Conrad Murray Murder Trial. Even though the event falls on a Saturday and court proceedings do not occur on weekends, it is still odd and downright inappropriate to do a tribute concert when the murderer (or murderers) are not in jail and justice has not been completely served. Third, not everyone in the Jackson family are supporting the tribute mainly because of the timing. Jermaine, Randy and Janet have released statements stating that they will not participate in the event. Fourth, the performers - Black Eyed Peas were in the line-up but were suddenly out of the line-up. Chris Brown was rumored to be in the show, but because of his criminal record, he was barred from entering the UK. Fifth, the tickets issue - I am not familiar with the issue with the tickets, but I can assume that the ticket situation is a mess.