"since its release. The music video, particularly the ""Panther Segment"", have been referenced or parodied by television shows and artists. !Country !Certification !Sales Black or White ""Black or White"" is a single by American singer and songwriter Michael Jackson. The song was released by Epic Records on November 11, 1991 as the first single from Jackson's eighth studio album, ""Dangerous"". It was written, composed and produced by Michael Jackson and Bill Bottrell. ""Black or White"" was written, composed and produced by Michael Jackson and Bill Bottrell, and was picked as the first single from the album ""Dangerous"". An alternate version"
"to be promoted on radio stations the first week of November 1991 in New York and Los Angeles. ""Black or White"" was officially released one week later, on November 5, 1991. The song has elements of dance, hip hop and hard rock music such as Bill Bottrell's guitars and Jackson's vocal style. This song is played in the key of E major, with Jackson's vocal spanning from E3 to B4, and its tempo is measured at 115 BPM. The song's main riff is often incorrectly attributed to Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash. His guitar playing is actually heard in the"
"of Eddie Van Halen's blazing break on 'Beat It'"". Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic highlighted the song. The Pazz & Jop critics' poll ranked ""Black or White"" at number 19. The Clivillés & Cole remixes for ""Black or White"", released as a promotional single in 1992, also charted on many European countries. In the UK, it reached number 14, and in Ireland, number 11. The promotional single also surprisingly peaked at number 18 in Australia. Despite the favourable European response to this remix, it was never included on a Michael Jackson album or compilation, except on the third disc of"
"and ""Black or White"". An edited version had been unveiled on AolMusic on October 31, 2011. Following the premiere on AOL, the track became available to stream at www.MichaelJackson.com and on Jackson's Facebook page. On November 1, 2011, the full track became available as a digital single on iTunes and amazon.com in EU, United States., New Zealand and Australia. The song received mixed reviews from music critics. Scott Shetler from ""Popcrash"" said, the original songs were ""left intact on this remix with only slight musical embellishments, such as a ""Michael! Michael!"" chant that appears during 'Billie Jean'"", and despite other"
"in the US, in 1989 it won a Golden Lion Award for the quality of the special effects used in its production. In 1990, ""Leave Me Alone"" won a Grammy for Best Music Video, Short Form. He received the MTV Video Vanguard Award in 1988 and the MTV Video Vanguard Artist of the Decade Award in 1990; in 1991 the former was renamed as ""Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award"" in his honor. ""Black or White"" was released on November 14, 1991. Along with Jackson, it featured Macaulay Culkin, Peggy Lipton, and George Wendt. It helped usher in morphing as an"
"""Black or White"", was an instant number-one hit upon its release that November, debuting at the top of the charts several weeks after it was released, staying there for seven weeks. It would be his only number-one single from the album on the pop charts. Jackson had four top ten singles in the United States from the album including ""Remember the Time"", which peaked at No. 3 but reached number-one on the R&B chart, his first R&B number-one since ""Another Part of Me"" nearly four years earlier; ""In the Closet"", which peaked at No. 6 on the Hot 100, but"
"the French & UK versions of Jackson's greatest hits album ""King of Pop"". The music video for ""Black or White"" premiered on MTV, BET, VH1, and Fox (giving them their highest Nielsen ratings ever at the time) as well as the BBC's ""Top of the Pops"" in the UK on November 14, 1991. Along with Jackson, it featured Macaulay Culkin, Tess Harper, and George Wendt. The video was directed by John Landis, who previously directed ""Thriller"". It was co-choreographed by Jackson and Vincent Paterson. It premiered simultaneously in 27 countries, with an audience of 500 million viewers, the most ever"
"the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, including one number-one hit ""Black or White"", ""Remember the Time"", ""In the Closet"" and ""Will You Be There"" which produced and performed by Jackson the theme for the film ""Free Willy"". In June 1995, Jackson released his ninth album, """", a double album. The first disc, ""HIStory Begins"", is a 15-track greatest hits album. The second disc, ""HIStory Continues"", contains 13 original songs and two cover versions. The album features the hits ""Scream"", a duet with Jackson's youngest sister Janet Jackson, ""Earth Song"", ""They Don't Care About Us"", and ""You Are Not Alone"". ""You Are Not"
"tracks for ""Bad"". In 1988, Bottrell co-produced his first record, ""Aliens Ate My Buick"" by Thomas Dolby. In 1989, Michael Jackson asked him to co-produce, engineer and write songs for his album ""Dangerous"", co-writing and rapping on the album’s biggest hit, ""Black or White"". The song spent 7 weeks at number one on the U.S. ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart in the fall of 1991. Bottrell's son William was born under difficult circumstances in 1990. That year, Bottrell built his own recording studio and founded a musical ""think tank"" called the ""Tuesday Night Music Club"". One of the resulting acts was"
"celebrate his accomplishments in the art form in the 1980s; in 1991 the first award was renamed in his honor. ""Black or White"" was accompanied by a controversial music video, which, on November 14, 1991, simultaneously premiered in 27 countries with an estimated audience of 500 million people, the largest viewing ever for a music video at that time. Complaints that it featured scenes of violence and a sexually-suggestive dance led to the offending scenes in the final half of the 14-minute version being edited to prevent the video from being banned, and Jackson apologized. Along with Jackson, it featured"
"out,"" Yankovic explained. Unfortunately for Yankovic, the new album hit several snags. On November 26, 1991, Michael Jackson's new album, ""Dangerous"" was released. After hearing the hit single ""Black or White,"" Yankovic approached Jackson about a potential parody entitled ""Snack All Night."" Although Jackson was a big supporter of Yankovic's work, he felt that a parody might damage the song's message. Jackson told Yankovic that he could, if he wanted to, parody another song off his album, but just not ""Black or White"". Yankovic soon turned his attention in another direction. Guns N' Roses had just released a version of"
"Relax (Das Racist album) Relax is the only studio album by American hip hop trio Das Racist. It was released by Greedhead Music on September 13, 2011. It peaked at number 111 on the ""Billboard"" 200 chart. The album is produced by Diplo, El-P, Rostam Batmanglij, and Anand Wilder, among others. It includes guest appearances from El-P, Danny Brown, and Despot. On August 2, 2011, Das Racist released ""Michael Jackson"", the lead single from the album. The music video for the song was premiered on September 9, 2011. Directed by Weird Days, the video references Michael Jackson's ""Black or White"""
"Michael Jackson's single ""Black or White"". ""It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday"" was included on Boyz II Men's first album, ""Cooleyhighharmony"", its name a reference to the film from which the song originated. The music video for the song featured archive footage of Jim Henson, Sammy Davis Jr. and Gilda Radner, who'd all passed away one to two years before. The song was also featured in the films ""Lethal Weapon 3"" (1992) and as the center of gags in ""Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay"" (2008), and in episodes of the television series ""It's Always Sunny in"
"Michael Jackson's This Is It (album) Michael Jackson's This Is It (or simply This Is It) is a posthumous two-disc soundtrack album by American singer Michael Jackson. Released by MJJ Music on October 26, 2009, ""This Is It"" features previously released music, as well as six previously unreleased recordings by Michael Jackson. ""This Is It"" was released to coincide with the theatrical release of ""Michael Jackson's This Is It"", a concert film documenting Michael Jackson's rehearsals for the This Is It concert series at the O2 Arena in London. ""This Is It"" is the sixth album to be released by"
"Michael Jackson: Live at the Apollo 2002 Michael Jackson: Live at the Apollo was a concert by Michael Jackson. The concert was performed at the Apollo Theater in New York City on April 24, 2002. The concert was a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee and former President Bill Clinton. The money collected would be used to encourage citizens to vote. It raised almost $3 million. Dave Navarro played guitar during the song ""Black or White"". This would be Jackson's final on-stage performance. So far, there has been only a one video released from the concert. That is a performance"
"and soul"". MTV, VH1, FOX, and Jackson's record label began marketing Jackson as the ""King of Pop"" to coincide with the release of ""Dangerous"" and the music video for ""Black or White"", the album's first single. On November 11, the Argentinian version of the compilation was released. It contains 2 bonustracks: the song ""Come Together"" (that is featured in Moonwalker and also the album, released in 1995) and a radio edit of the Megamix of the Thriller album. 2 tracks on the album, ""Billie Jean"" and ""Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"" were named incorrectly as ""Billy Jean"" and ""Don't"
"which was the main topic with the hit song, ""Black or White"". Other social commentary topics that Jackson had never touched as a solo artist including poverty and inner city life were discussed in the song ""Why You Wanna Trip on Me"", in which he compared social ills to his own alleged publicized eccentricities that were covered in the press at the time asking critics and tabloid media why were they focusing on him when other more social problems were going on. He addressed similar issues in the album's opening track, ""Jam"", which included rapping from Heavy D. ""In the"
"encounters in each city. He collaborated with French modern master Jean Dubuffet (the founder of ""art brut"") on Martz's critically acclaimed avant-garde/ contemporary classical symphony entitled ""The Pillory"". Martz began his music career at an early age, signing his first professional recording and publishing contract at the age of 15. An internationally known musician, composer and producer, he has recorded and toured with numerous celebrated entertainers. Millions have heard his recordings since he recorded on Michael Jackson's Dangerous and Bad albums. He played keyboards and synthesizers on the quadruple platinum #1 hit ""Black or White"" from Jackson's ""Dangerous"" album. It"
"Jackson on several occasions on stage, most notably at the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards playing with Jackson on ""Black or White"" (and the introduction of ""Billie Jean""). He made two surprise appearances during Jackson's 1992 Dangerous World Tour in Spain and Japan and supported the 1999 charity concerts MJ & Friends in Seoul and Munich playing the same set like he did for the 1995's MTV Video Music Awards. The last time Slash and Jackson shared a stage was on both 2001 concerts in New York City playing ""Black or White"" and ""Beat It"". In 1991, Slash collaborated with"
"films that transformed the entertainment industry with timeless, pop culture classics"". Disc one features videos from the albums ""Off the Wall"", ""Thriller"" and ""Bad"" and disc two features videos from the albums ""Dangerous"", """", """" and ""Invincible"". The third disc, which is a bonus disc, features seven videos. ""Michael Jackson's Vision"" includes the full-length versions of the John Landis-directed ""Thriller"" and ""Black or White"" as well as the classic ""Bad"" directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese. Also included in the boxed set are Jackson's collaborations with other noted film directors such as John Singleton, Spike Lee and David Fincher"
"Black or White (Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel song) ""Black or White"" is a song by the British rock band Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, released in 1975 as the lead single from the band's 1976 studio album ""Timeless Flight"". On occasions, the song has been titled ""Black or White (And Step on It)"". It was written and produced by Harley. After the success of their 1975 album ""The Best Years of Our Lives"", which spawned the UK number-one single ""Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)"", the band soon returned to the studio in the summer of 1975"
"the associated soundtrack. Yankovic called that ""the beginning of three years where it was kind of hard for me to recover"". He started work on a new studio album around 1990. To revitalize his career, he considered creating a parody of a Michael Jackson song, which had proven successful twice before with ""Eat It"" and ""Fat"". He had composed a parody of Jackson's ""Black or White"", titled ""Snack All Night"", but Jackson said he was uncomfortable with the parody, given that the original song was intended to be a political statement. Yankovic would later believe that Jackson's refusal was, in"
"with Eminem and Dr. Dre amid rumors of tension between Jackson and Dre. He ""recorded 20 songs to a whole different album concept"" before putting them aside, wanting his new album to have the ""aggression"" of ""Get Rich or Die Tryin"". Jackson tweeted that the album was ""80 percent done"" and fans could expect it in the summer of 2011. It was ultimately delayed a year due to disagreements with Interscope Records, with Jackson saying that he would release it in November 2011 with a different title than ""Black Magic"". Eminem would appear on the album, and Jackson said he"
"including 8 million in the United States alone. According to ""Chicago Tribune"" journalist Kelley L. Carter, it is the most successful new jack swing album of all time. It produced four singles that reached the top ten on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, including the number one ""Black or White"". After completing the Bad tour in January 1989, which spanned 123 concerts attended by 4.4 million people, Jackson developed projects for two greatest hits albums, ""Decade 1979–1989"" and ""Decade 1980–1990."" The albums would comprise songs from his studio albums ""Off the Wall"" (1979), ""Thriller"" (1982), and ""Bad"", plus four new songs."
"Immortal Megamix ""Immortal Megamix: Can You Feel It/Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough/Billie Jean/Black or White (Immortal Version)"", often shortened to just ""Immortal Megamix"", is a song by American recording artist Michael Jackson. It was released on November 1, 2011 as the first single from the posthumous soundtrack remix album ""Immortal"". In October 2011, Sony Music Entertainment announced that the soundtrack to Cirque du Soleil's show """" entitled ""Immortal"". ""Immortal Megamix"" became the debut track from this album, which was composed of four of Michael's greatest hits - ""Can You Feel It,"" ""Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough,"" ""Billie Jean,"""
"AllMusic. HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I (usually shortened to HIStory) is the ninth studio album by American singer Michael Jackson, released on June 20, 1995. It was Jackson's fifth album released through Epic Records, and the first released on his label MJJ Productions. The album was Jackson's first studio album since his 1991 album ""Dangerous"" nearly four years prior, and his first new material to be released since being accused of child sexual abuse in 1993. ""HIStory"" consists of two discs: the first, ""HIStory Begins"", is a greatest hits compilation; the"
"Enough"", ""Billie Jean"", and ""Black or White"" had been unveiled on AolMusic on October 31, 2011. Following the premiere on AOL, the track became available to stream at www.MichaelJackson.com and on Jackson's Facebook page. On November 1, 2011, the track became available as a digital download on iTunes and amazon.com. There was no television promotion or radio airplay. The week before its release, several tracks were unveiled on SoundCloud & Billboard.com: The whole album was unveiled via NPR on November 18, 2011. In the United States, an early estimate predicted ""Immortal"" would sell 50,000 copies in its first week. The"
"HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I (usually shortened to HIStory) is the ninth studio album by American singer Michael Jackson, released on June 20, 1995. It was Jackson's fifth album released through Epic Records, and the first released on his label MJJ Productions. The album was Jackson's first studio album since his 1991 album ""Dangerous"" nearly four years prior, and his first new material to be released since being accused of child sexual abuse in 1993. ""HIStory"" consists of two discs: the first, ""HIStory Begins"", is a greatest hits compilation; the second,"
"Off White Off White is a 1979 album by American no wave band James White and the Blacks. In late 1978, ZE Records co-founder Michael Zilkha approached James Chance and offered Chance $10,000 to record a disco album. Zilkha gave little direction and asked the band for its own take on the genre. Anya Phillips, Chance's manager and girlfriend, came up with the idea to rename James Chance and the Contortions to James White and the Blacks for the album. An alternate name, James White and His Blacks, was rejected by Zilkha. Phillips and the band put together outfits resembling"
"of Rebel soulfulness but the tempo is lethargic"". George Starostin retrospectively reviewed the album for his website and said: ""...but the sentimental Steve Harley doesn't scare me nearly as much as the Messiahnistic Harley of ""All Men are Hungry"" and ""Black or White"". Whatever they are about, both songs are delivered way too seriously to be in any way reminiscent of the early, cynical version of Steve Harley"". Black or White (Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel song) ""Black or White"" is a song by the British rock band Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, released in 1975 as the lead single"
"art form — helped bring the relatively new channel to fame. Music videos such as ""Black or White"" and ""Scream"" made Jackson an enduring staple on MTV in the 1990s. Due to length, some of Jackson's music videos are considered to be short films. Some of them drew criticism for their violent and sexual content, others were lauded by critics and awarded ""Guinness World Records"" for their length, success and expense. From 1979 to 2003, Jackson released thirty-six music videos. ""Number Ones"" was released in conjunction with Jackson's greatest number one hits of the same name on November 18, 2003."
"radio stations the first day of release. ""Black or White"" entered the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 at number 35. A week later it shot up to number three and in its third week, December 7, 1991, it ascended to number one, making it the fastest chart topper since The Beatles' ""Get Back"", which also won the Hot 100 in just three weeks in 1969. It closed the year at number one, and remained at the top of the singles chart into 1992 for a total of seven weeks, making Michael Jackson the first artist to have number one popular hits in"
"a worldwide concert tour. However August 1993 saw intensifying media scrutiny surrounding allegations of child sexual abuse on Jackson's part. The albums ninth single, ""Gone Too Soon"", did not perform well in the United Kingdom and Jackson's health deteriorated, which eventually led to the cancellation of the album's tenth single ""Dangerous"" but it was released with ""Remember the Time"" and ""Black or White"" on the box set Tour Souvenir Pack. An alternative version and a remix, entitled ""Roger's Rough Dub"", were both to be included on the expanded edition of ""Dangerous""–the bonus disc was later canceled. ""Dangerous"" was generally well"