![]() ![]() It was a special on CBS… Wesley Snipes was going to kill Michael Jackson.Īfrojack: On the Bad album, the best track is “Bad.” Now everyone’s talking about being gangster or being mafia or whatever but back then it was just really simple. Lee: I really remember watching the video, directed by Martin Scorsese. And you have Martin Scorsese directing the first video! At that time, 1987, other than the fact that we had gotten John Landis to direct Thriller, the notion that you would have an all-time hall-of-fame movie director… That alone told all of us this was going to be a huge album. Cover of the New York Post. I don’t have the same mentality as the New York Post.īranca: The album was great. ![]() There was nowhere in the world you could go where Michael wasn’t known and wasn’t famous. I helped him buy the Beatles catalog at that time and there was a backlash against his success. Lee: During that period, Michael had become so popular that it just seemed there was a natural backlash toward him and this album, which is unfortunate, because the album still stands today as a great piece of work.īranca: In addition to being the biggest selling record in history, culturally Michael had a huge impact. ( MORE: Michael Jackson and the Black Experience) Several people in the documentary talk about that. He would put up pieces of paper in his house, in hotels: “100 million.” He wanted to sell 100 million for Bad. He wanted Bad to sell a hundred million and told everybody about it, the president of Sony records and everybody. He wanted Bad to exceed the sales of Thriller. Lee: Great artists or whatever you want to call them perform great under pressure. He’d write that on the mirror and look at it every day. You don’t go in predicting that kind of success, even though Mike would write a certain number of sales on his mirror every day as motivation. Phillinganes: You hear it on the radio all the time and you obviously feel good about the final product, but it’s not like you go, “Right, this is going to 50 million right now.” The sales dictate that but it’s all after the fact. It was all a natural, organic progression.īranca: We always knew it was going to be a huge album. What Mike had learned in the studio from the previous two albums, he guarded that knowledge to support the new creativity that he was experiencing with Bad. ![]() Phillinganes: He evolved as a person, as we all do. 31, 1987, by Epic/CBS Records.īranca: I think Michael was really pleased with that album. Michael Jackson stands in a graffiti-filled subway car during the filming of the long-form music video for his song 'Bad,' directed by Martin Scorsese, New York, New York, November 1986.īad was released Aug. ![]()
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