Although I am a bit confused about the date. Earth day really should be held on October 23. Everyone knows that the earth was created on 23 October 4004 BC at 6 pm to be precise. Well at least according to Archbishop James Ussher.
He was born in Dublin on January 4th , 1581 in Dublin, to a well-to-do family. He was the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland between 1625 until his death in 1656.
He also calculated the dates of other biblical events, concluding, for example, that Adam and Eve were driven from Paradise on Monday 10 November 4004 BC.
Noah’s ark touched down on Mt Ararat on 5 May 2348 BC `on a Wednesday.
How did Ussher come up with these fairly specific and exacts dates? He used the chronologies in the Hebrew text of Genesis 5 and 11, together with other Bible passages.
To be fair to him he was only off by a few billion years.
But why is April 22 designated as ‘Earth Day’ ?
During a UNESCO Conference, in 1969 in San Francisco, peace activist John McConnell suggested a designated day to honor the Earth and the concept of peace, he proposed March 21, 1970, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. This day of nature’s balance was later sanctioned in a proclamation written by McConnell and signed by Secretary General U Thant at the United Nations. A month later a United States Senator Gaylord Nelson proposed the idea to hold a nationwide environmental educational forum on April 22, 1970.
This would be the date to be adopted as ‘Earth Day’ which had now goen into its 51st anniversary.
It is now an international annual event to demonstrate support for environmental protection. And includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EARTHDAY.ORG, including 1 billion people in more than 193 countries.
EARTHDAY.ORG missions statement is to diversify, educate and activate the environmental movement worldwide.
In November 1995 Michael Jackson released the single “Earth Song” I am not sure of he released it with ‘Earth Day’ in mind but I do think it is an appropriate song to finish up with.
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The guitar solo on Michael Jackson’s “Beat it” could have sounded completely different and perhaps it would not have become the massive hit it was if it wasn’t for Quincy Jones’s persistence.
Eddie van Halen was relaxing at home one day in the summer of 1982, where he suddenly received a call, The caller claimed to be Quincy Jones. Eddie thinking it was a prank, kindly told to caller to leave by using 2 words including 3 f’s. One at the start of the first word and 2 at the end of the 2nd word(I don’t mean Funny Stuff). He then put down the phone.
However he caller called 4 more times, van Halen then realized that it was indeed the legendary music producer Quincy Jones.
Quincy had just working with Michael Jackson on his mega selling album “Thriller” and he wanted Eddie van Halen to play the solo on “Beat it”
Quincy Jones and Michale Jackson took a skeleton version of Beat it up to Eddie van Halen’s place. After Eddie van Halen did some minor adjustment to the part of the song, he recorded the solo and he did it in one take.
He did not charge anything for it either, no fee no royalties, totally free. Well kind of, legend has it he did ask for a six pack of beer.
Eddie van Halen wasn’t the only legendary guitarist involved in the project, Steve Lukather from the rock band Toto also worked on the Thriller album.
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This is something that had slipped my mind but on this day in 1994, Michael Jackson married Lisa-Marie Presley.
They first met nearly 2 decades before they got married.He was introduced to her when he was 16 ans she was 6.at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Paradise, Nevada by her Elvis.
Elvis head brought her there to see the Jackson 5 perform.
The pair picked up their friendship many years later in 1992,at a private dinner held at the home of their mutual friend the artist Brett-Livingstone Strong. and two years after that, the ruler of Neverland and the heiress of Graceland were to be wed.
Although no one knew at the time. They got married in secret in n a secluded part of the Dominican Republic. The news about the wedding only leaked 11 weeks later.
Lisa Marie had been a great support to Michael Jackson,when he became the subject of child sexual abuse accusations in 1993.
Michael Jackson had proposed to Lisa Marie while she was still married to actor Danny Keough. Jackson and Presley wed on May 26, 1994, at a ceremony in the Dominican Republic.Presley had divorced Keough only 20 days before.
The whole ceremony only lasted for 15 minutes and was held by was held by Judge Hugo Francisco Alvarez Perez at his home.
The marriage only lasted for 2 years. They got divorced on August 20 1996.
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Who doesn’t know this classic Michael Jackson song? I have heard the song thousands of time and never gave the lyrics a second thought. It was not like it was controversial or anything, after all it was written by squeaky clean Michael Jackson, right??
But there is a darker side to the song, although not verified by Michael himself but by one of his biographers,J. Randy Taraborrelli, when you listen to the song it makes sense.
Michael Jackson claimed Billie Jean was based on the groupies that used to hang around Jackson and his brothers when they were in The Jackson 5.
“Billie Jean is kind of anonymous. It represents a lot of girls. They used to call them groupies in the ’60s…They would hang around backstage doors, and any band that would come to town they would have a relationship with, and I think I wrote this out of experience with my brothers when I was little. There were a lot of Billie Jeans out there. Every girl claimed that their son was related to one of my brothers.”
J. Randy Taraborrelli promoted the theory that “Billie Jean” was derived from a real life experience the singer faced in 1981. The Magic & The Madness documents how a young woman wrote Jackson a letter, which informed the singer that he was the father of one of her twins. Jackson, who regularly received letters of this kind, had never met the woman in question and ignored it. The woman, however, continued to send Jackson more letters, which stated that she loved him and wanted to be with him. She wrote of how happy they would be if they raised the child together. She pondered how Jackson could ignore his own flesh and blood. The letters disturbed the singer to the extent that he suffered nightmares.
Following the letters, Jackson received a parcel containing a photograph of the fan, as well as a letter and a gun. Jackson was horrified; the letter asked that the pop singer kill himself on a certain day and at a specific time. The fan would do the same once she had killed their baby. She wrote that if they could not be together in this life, then they would be in the next. To the mother’s dismay, Jackson had the photograph of the woman framed and hung above the dining room table of their family home. Afterwards, the Jacksons discovered that the fan had been sent to a psychiatric hospital.
Allegedly Jackson framed a picture of the stalker she’d sent to him in his home.
Finishing with the song, you can make up your own mind if it was about a groupie or deranged stalker, I am going with the latter one.
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I am deviating a bit from my regular blogs for this more quirky and lighthearted blog.Living in an English speaking country my name is quite unique so my name is automatically associated to only me(at least where I live) , but the name Michael Jackson is fairly common and yet it is only associated with one man.
However there are several men who carry the same name and are famous(sometimes infamous) in their respective professions.
Starting off with that one man, the most famous of them all.
Michael Jackson:Â American singer-songwriter, dancer and record producer.
Called the “King of Pop”,his contributions to music, dance, and fashion along with his publicized personal life made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades.
The eighth child of the Jackson family (one of whom died in infancy), Michael made his professional debut in 1964 with his elder brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, and Marlon as a member of the Jackson 5.
He began his solo career in 1971. In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music. His music videos, including those of “Beat It”, “Billie Jean”, and “Thriller” from his 1982 album Thriller, are credited with breaking racial barriers and transforming the medium into an art form and promotional tool. The popularity of these videos helped bring the television channel MTV to fame. Jackson’s 1987 album Bad spawned the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You”, “Bad”, “The Way You Make Me Feel”, “Man in the Mirror”, and “Dirty Diana”, becoming the first album to have five number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100.
He continued to innovate with videos such as “Black or White” and “Scream” throughout the 1990s, and forged a reputation as a touring solo artist. Through stage and video performances, Jackson popularized a number of complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk, to which he gave the name. His distinctive sound and style has influenced numerous artists of various music genres.Sadly he died on June 25 ,2009.
Michael Jackson is a UK male singer who was lead vocalist with the heavy metal band Satan/Pariah
This is Michael Jackson is also a singer but from the complete opposite spectrum of the music industry. As the name of his band suggests it is not as clean cut as the other singer with the same name.
Michael was born in Lancaster, Lancashire in 1964 to Estelle & Michael Jackson. He was brought up by his mother in Morecambe, Lancashire from an early age. A fanatical Queen fan Michael Jackson dreamed of being a rock singer like his idol Freddie Mercury.
Entering the Merchant Navy straight from school Michael spent 5 years sailing all over the world while singing with the band Rough Edge between assignments. Eventually he decided to answer an advertisement, learned the required songs and traveled to London for his audition with the band Satan. After a successful interview at Clink Studios, Tower Bridge, London Michael moved there to join Satan.
General Sir Michael  Jackson,GCB, CBE, DSO, DL (born 21 March 1944)
A retired British Army officer and one of its most high-profile generals since the Second World War. Originally commissioned into the Intelligence Corps in 1963, he transferred to the Parachute Regiment in 1970, with which he served two of his three tours of duty in Northern Ireland. On his first, he was present as an adjutant at the events of Bloody Sunday (1972), when soldiers opened fire on protesters, killing 13 people.
On his second, he was a company commander in the aftermath of the Warrenpoint ambush (1979), the British Army’s heaviest single loss of life during the Troubles. He was assigned to a staff post at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in 1982 before assuming command of the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment, in 1984. Jackson was posted to Northern Ireland for the third time, as a brigade commander, in the early 1990s.
Michael  Jackson (born 24 May 1956) is the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and Bishop of Glendalough since 2011.
Jackson was born in Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, the son of Church of Ireland rector (latterly appointed Archdeacon of Elphin & Ardagh), and educated at Ballinamallard Primary School and Portora Royal School, Enniskillen. Trinity College, Dublin, before going on to do postgraduate studies at Cambridge University. He is married to Inez Cooke, a medical doctor who was born in County Fermanagh, and they have one daughter, Camilla.
Michael  Jackson (27 March 1942 – 30 August 2007) was an English writer and journalist.
He was the author of many influential books about beer and whiskey. He was a regular contributor to a number of British broadsheets, particularly The Independent and The Observer.
Jackson’s books have sold over three million copies worldwide and have been translated into eighteen different languages.He is credited with helping to start a renaissance of interest in beer and breweries worldwide in the 1970s, particularly in the United States.He is also widely credited with popularising the idea of beer styles.His influential television series The Beer Hunter was shown in fifteen different countries.
He was as equally versed in the world of malt whisky as well as beer, and his book, Michael Jackson’s Malt Whisky Companion (1989) is the best-selling book on the subject in the world.
At the time of his death Jackson had been suffering from Parkinson’s disease for at least a decade. He did not declare his illness until his symptoms caused some to think he was drunk.Any beer enthusiast, like me will know his books on beer.
Finishing up with a song from the most famous of all Michael Jacksons, Michael Jackson.
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