"Christensen said that ""Speechless"" was ""produced by Mr. Jackson in bombastic style à la Celine Dion"". He added that as the track ended with an emotional Jackson, it drew a parallel with the singer's 1972 ode to a rat, ""Ben"". Vaughn Watson of ""The Providence Journal"" hailed ""Speechless"" as ""Invincible""s ""best song, and one of Jackson's finest of any album"". He added that with the song, the musician acknowledged the pain that accompanies isolation. In a review of ""Invincible"", ""The Wichita Eagle"" stated that ""Speechless"", ""Don't Walk Away"" and ""Cry"" were among the ""sincere ballads"" in which Jackson was exemplary."
"Ben (film) Ben is a 1972 American horror film about a young boy and his pet rat, Ben. The film is a sequel to the film ""Willard"" (1971). The theme song, ""Ben"", is performed by singer Michael Jackson. It was also included on his 1972 album of the same title. A lonely boy named Danny Garrison befriends Ben, the leader of the colony of rats trained by Willard Stiles. Ben becomes the boy's best friend, protecting him from bullying and keeping his spirits up in the face of a heart condition. However, things gradually take a downward turn as Ben's"
"Ben (song) ""Ben"" is a song written by Don Black and composed by Walter Scharf for the 1972 film of the same name (the sequel to the 1971 killer rat film ""Willard""). It was performed in the film by Lee Montgomery and by Michael Jackson over the closing credits. Jackson's single, recorded for the Motown label in 1972, spent one week at the top of the U.S. pop chart. ""Billboard"" ranked it as the No. 20 song for 1972. It also reached number one on the Australian pop chart, spending eight weeks at the top spot. The song also later"
"reached a peak of number seven on the British pop chart. In 2004 the song appeared in ""The Ultimate Collection"" ""Ben"" won a Golden Globe for Best Song. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1973, losing to ""The Morning After"" by Maureen McGovern from ""The Poseidon Adventure""; Jackson performed the song in front of a live audience at the ceremony. The song was Jackson's first U.S. #1 solo hit. Originally written for Donny Osmond, ""Ben"" was offered to Jackson as Osmond was on tour at the time and unavailable for recording. In addition to"
"August 1972. As part of promotion for the album, ""Ben"" was released as the album's lead and only single in July 1972. ""Ben"" was a commercial success worldwide, generally charting within the top-10 and top-20 positions on music charts. The song peaked at number one on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, which was Jackson's first, of what would be 13 songs, to top that chart during his career as a solo artist. ""Ben"" also charted on ""Billboard""s Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs at number three and five. ""Ben"" charted within the top-10 on the Dutch Top 40 chart,"
"colony becomes violent, resulting in several deaths. Eventually, the police destroy the rat colony with flame throwers, but Ben survives and makes his way back to Danny. The film closes with Danny, tending to the injured Ben, determined not to lose his friend. The film's theme song ""Ben's Song"" is performed by Lee Montgomery in the film and by Michael Jackson during the final scene and ending credits. Jackson's recording of the song became a #1 pop hit single. Later included as the title track on Jackson's second solo album, ""Ben"", it won a Golden Globe Award for Best Original"
"(his delivery of ""They don't see you as I do/I wish they would try to"" still tears me up) but it's all a little too thick for my tastes."" Ben (song) ""Ben"" is a song written by Don Black and composed by Walter Scharf for the 1972 film of the same name (the sequel to the 1971 killer rat film ""Willard""). It was performed in the film by Lee Montgomery and by Michael Jackson over the closing credits. Jackson's single, recorded for the Motown label in 1972, spent one week at the top of the U.S. pop chart. ""Billboard"" ranked"
"commented that ""Ben""s title track was a ""testament to his talent"" and added that the album would ""always be defined"" by that song. Adapted from AllMusic. Ben (Michael Jackson album) Ben is the second studio album by Michael Jackson, released by Motown Records on August 4, 1972, while Jackson was still a member of The Jackson 5. The album received mixed reviews from contemporary music critics. ""Ben"" was more successful on the music charts than Jackson's previous studio album, having charted within the top ten on the ""Billboard"" 200. Internationally, the album was less successful, peaking at number twelve in"
"its one week at #1 in the U.S., the song also later reached a peak of number seven on the British pop chart. ""Ben"" won a Golden Globe for Best Song. It was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1973; Jackson performed the song in front of a live audience at the ceremony. Although Jackson had already become the youngest artist to ever record a number-one (""I Want You Back"" with The Jackson 5, in 1970), ""Ben"" made him the third-youngest solo artist, at fourteen, to score a number-one hit single. Only Stevie Wonder, who"
"the environmental movement flourished. The show's theme song, “Maybe,” was written and sung by Thom Pace. The song was released as a single in Europe, where it reached number one, and in 1980 won Germany's Goldene Europa award for best song. At the beginning of each episode, part of the theme song is sung, while at the end, the entire theme song is sung. ""Mad Jack"" also introduces the circumstances of Grizzly Adams, referring to him as a ""greenhorn"", his friendship with Ben and all of the animals. After selling many products bearing the Grizzly Adams brand name, the brand"
"in hip hop it is standard to bash gays and that on every rap album he's heard the singers calls each other ""faggot"", ""as the first attack point."" While Lion was in college, a friend of his came out, and it was confusing how to react to the news. The issue started to conceptualize how the Ben that Michael Jackson sings of could be seen as LGBT people being the best friends of the hip-hop community. In the movie, and song, Ben is the best friend and the metaphor is touched again when Lion raps ""(and) to all the little"
"on her 2011 Number Ones, Up Close and Personal as a tribute to him, the 2015–2016 Unbreakable World Tour, and on several dates of her 2017-2018 State of the World Tour. ""Scream"" is a song primarily directed at the tabloid press. As far back as the late 1980s, Jackson and the press had a difficult relationship. In 1986, the tabloids ran a story claiming that Jackson slept in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber to slow the aging process; he was pictured lying down in a glass box. When Jackson bought a pet chimpanzee called Bubbles, it was reported as evidence of"
"Ben (Michael Jackson album) Ben is the second studio album by Michael Jackson, released by Motown Records on August 4, 1972, while Jackson was still a member of The Jackson 5. The album received mixed reviews from contemporary music critics. ""Ben"" was more successful on the music charts than Jackson's previous studio album, having charted within the top ten on the ""Billboard"" 200. Internationally, the album was less successful, peaking at number twelve in Canada, while charting within the top 200 positions in Australia and France. Worldwide, ""Ben"" has sold a reported 5 million units. The album released one single,"
"""Ben"" with the name also serving as an acronym for ""Better Everything Now."" The single is a part of Lion's forthcoming album ""Michael & Me"" to be released June 25, the anniversary of the death of Michael Jackson. Lion's intention was to bring focus to how homophobic expressions, common in the hip-hop community, are part of a larger problem, and that leading voices of hip hop shouldn't turn their backs on their LGBT friends and family. One of the often quoted lyrics is ""'Gay is OK' may be the No. 1 thing a rapper shouldn't say."" Equality Texas named Lion"
"of the band on the balcony right above the performers. Some of the guests and performers included Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Macaulay Culkin, Slash, Liza Minnelli, Destiny's Child, Britney Spears, Gloria Estefan, Ray Charles, Chris Tucker, Usher, and more. Jackson asked Moffett to collaborate on a song he wrote for Diana Ross entitled ""Muscles"". Moffett played both drums and percussions on the track. The song was named after Jackson's pet snake and released in 1982. It was an instant hit and reached #10 on the ""Billboard Hot 100"". Moffett was supposed to perform on Jackson's This Is It Tour (13.7.2009"
"BEN (Adair Lion song) ""BEN"" (""Better Everything Now"") is a hip hop song written by rapper, producer, and director Adair Lion (Adair Fragoso), a native of El Paso, Texas. The song samples Michael Jackson's 1972 song of the same name and gives a pro-LGBT message. One report described it as a message to the rap world, and a stance against gay discrimination. ""Towleroad"" called it a ""beautifully-spun message about doing away with homophobia in hip-hop and Christianity, and accepting gay parents."" Originally to be titled ""It Gets Benner"", in homage to the It Gets Better Project, Lion decided to use"
"the title track ""Ben"", which was a commercial success on music charts, topping both the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and the Australian ""ARIA"" charts, giving Jackson his first number-one single, domestically and internationally. ""Ben"" also charted within the top ten in other territories worldwide. ""Everybody's Somebody's Fool"" was planned to be released as the second single from the album, but was canceled for unspecified reasons. Two of the album's songs were ""stripped"" in 2009 as part of the three-disc compilation """". In January 1972, while still a member of the band, Jackson released his first studio album, entitled ""Got to"
"festivals in Memphis (Mid-South Pride) and his hometown of El Paso. Lion, who earned a degree from the University of Texas at Austin in Music with an Emphasis on Vocal Performance and Concentration in Sound Engineering, conceived and wrote the song while researching music for his upcoming full length Michael Jackson tribute album. He found an a cappella version of Jackson's ""Ben"" and centered that as the main hook, sped up the sample and made a hip-hop beat around the vocals. Ben ""wouldn't be shunned"" if everyone else knew him, as Jackson puts it, ""like I do"". Lion noted that"
"launched ""Michael's Pets"", a range of soft toys based on the animals he owned, in November 1986. The toys consisted of a frog, dog, rabbit, snake, ostrich, giraffe, llama and Bubbles the chimp. Jackson also appeared, as a bear wearing sunglasses and a fedora. ""He [Jackson] was very instrumental in designing the toys"", said Bob Michaelson, who was responsible for developing them. ""He was very instrumental in how it should be programmed... he's got tremendous intuition."" Jackson, in approving the toys, stipulated that the manufacturers donate $1 per sale to a children's charity. In 1988, the artist Jeff Koons made"
"Animal (Pearl Jam song) ""Animal"" is a song by the American rock band Pearl Jam, released in 1994 as the third single from the band's second studio album, ""Vs."" (1993). Although credited to all members of Pearl Jam, it features lyrics written by vocalist Eddie Vedder and music primarily written by guitarist Stone Gossard. The song peaked at number 21 on the ""Billboard"" Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The song was included on Pearl Jam's 2004 greatest hits album, ""rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991–2003)"". ""Animal"" originated as an instrumental demo called ""Weird A"" that was written by guitarist Stone Gossard in 1990."
"Monkey (song) ""Monkey"" is a US number-one hit song by George Michael. It was released as a single in 1988 and reached number-one on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and number 13 on the UK Singles Chart. ""Monkey"" debuted at number 42 on 9 July 1988, reaching number-one for two weeks, beginning on 27 August 1988. ""Monkey"" became George Michael's sixth solo single reaching number-one in the US, and the fourth single to do so from the ""Faith"" album. George Michael joined Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston as three artists who all had four or more consecutive number one singles"
"In 1995 singer Michael Jackson came out with the hit ""Earth Song"" which was about environmental and animal welfare. The production of the music video had an environmental theme, showing images of animal cruelty, deforestation, pollution, poverty and war. Jackson and the world's people unite in a spiritual chant—""Earth Song""—which summons a force that heals the world. Using special effects, time is reversed so that life returns, war ends, and the forests regrow. The video closes with a request for donations to Jackson's Heal the World Foundation. The clip was shown infrequently in the United States. In 2007, a massive"
"Manson's ""I'll Never Say Never to Always"" (sung in falsetto), and readings from his art books ""Rat Catching"" and ""Oak Mot"". Sample pages from these books are featured in the album's liner notes. Glover recorded a version of the Michael Jackson song ""Ben"" to coincide with the release of his 2003 film ""Willard""; the song had been written for the sequel to the original 1971 version of the film. In the music video for the song, he sings to a rat named Ben. A number of songs using Glover's name as the title have been recorded by various artists, including"
"Muscles (song) ""Muscles"" is a 1982 hit single written and produced by Michael Jackson, and performed by American singer Diana Ross. It was the first single release from Ross's Gold-certified album ""Silk Electric"". The single reached number #7 in Cash Box magazine and #10 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart. It climbed as high as #4 on the ""Billboard"" Soul chart. The kinky song, which was supposedly named after Jackson's pet snake, was written for Ross and her ""desire"" for a muscle-bound lover. It earned Ross a twelfth and latest Grammy Award nomination for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. (Although"
"song and they hope it becomes available for all Michael's fans to hear."" The song was remastered and released in its entirety along with the original Michael Jackson recording on Jackson's 2014 album, ""Xscape"". A Horse with No Name ""A Horse with No Name"" is a song written by Dewey Bunnell, and originally recorded by the folk rock band America. It was the band's first and most successful single, released in late 1971 in Europe and early 1972 in the United States, and topped the charts in several countries. It was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America."
"with a female dancer) and him performing the song in a simple white t-shirt and black hat against a white background. Some of the scenes are shown in grey scale, with the tour footage being shown with tinted blue lights all over. Monkey (song) ""Monkey"" is a US number-one hit song by George Michael. It was released as a single in 1988 and reached number-one on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and number 13 on the UK Singles Chart. ""Monkey"" debuted at number 42 on 9 July 1988, reaching number-one for two weeks, beginning on 27 August 1988. ""Monkey"" became"
"half by the Antelope Valley Freeway. They relocated to Soledad Canyon. They bought of land to build their new ranch and decided to name it Africa U.S.A. Africa U.S.A. was a training compound and a provider of animals for Hollywood (Clarence, the cross-eyed lion, and Judy the chimp in ""Daktari"", and Ben (originally named Bruno) the bear in ""Gentle Ben""). The compound was also used as location for shows such as ""Daktari"" and the original """" episode ""."" Perhaps Helfer's most famous animal he trained was Zamba, who appeared in the MGM logo as Leo the Lion from 1957 to"
"the song ""Iron Maiden"". Another notable example of a mascot in music is Skeleton Sam of The Grateful Dead. South Korean hip hop band B.A.P uses rabbits named Matoki as their mascot, each bunny a different color representing each member. Although rabbits have an innocent image, BAP gives off a tough image. Hip hop artist Kanye West used to use a teddy bear named Dropout Bear as his mascot; Dropout Bear has appeared on the cover of West's first three studio albums, and served as the main character of West's music video, ""Good Morning"". Mascot A mascot is any person,"
"Jenny Wren ""Jenny Wren"" is a song by Paul McCartney from his 2005 album ""Chaos and Creation in the Backyard"". It was also issued as the second single from the album in the United Kingdom 21 November 2005. ""Jenny Wren"" was written in Los Angeles, and is about a character of the same name from Charles Dickens' novel ""Our Mutual Friend"". It also refers to a bird known as the wren, which is reported to be McCartney's favourite. McCartney wrote the tune in the same sort of finger picking style found in ""Blackbird"", ""Mother Nature's Son"" (""The Beatles"") and ""Calico"
"and ""Ben"" and performs the moonwalk. When Homer starts mumbling in his sleep, Kompowsky tells his stuffed animal: ""Bubbles, it's going to be a long night."" Bubbles is the name of Jackson's chimpanzee. Kompowsky also says he was upset when ""his"" 1979 album ""Off the Wall"" only received one Grammy Award nomination; the writers had read that the real Jackson was genuinely upset. In its original airing on the Fox network, ""Stark Raving Dad"" acquired a 13.9 Nielsen rating and 23 percent share of the audience. It was viewed in approximately 12.8 million homes, finishing the week ranked 33rd. The"
"a picture of him lying down in a glass box; Jackson stated that the story was untrue. When Jackson bought a pet chimpanzee Bubbles, the media viewed it as evidence of Jackson's increasing detachment from reality. It was reported that Jackson had offered to buy the bones of Joseph ""The Elephant Man"" Merrick; Jackson stated that the story was false. These stories inspired the derogatory nickname ""Wacko Jacko"", which Jackson acquired the following year, and would come to despise. Jackson stopped leaking untrue stories to the press, so the media began making up their own. In 1989, Jackson released the"
"Jet (song) ""Jet"" is a song by Paul McCartney and Wings from their album ""Band on the Run"". It was the first British and American single to be released from the album. The song's title was inspired by McCartney's jet black Labrador. The song peaked at number 7 on both the British and American charts on 30 March 1974, also charting in multiple countries in Europe. It has since been released on numerous compilation albums, and has since become one of the band's best-known tracks. Reviewers have reported that the song's title was inspired by McCartney's Labrador Retriever dog named"
"""Ben"" began in November 1971, concluding by February 1972 before Jackson's voice began to deepen. It was produced by six people, and executively produced by Berry Gordy. Songwriters for the ten tracks ""Ben"" has include Mel Larson, Jerry Marcellino, Thom Bell, Linda Creed, The Corporation, Smokey Robinson, and Ronald White, among others. ""Ben"" has R&B, contemporary pop rock and soul musical styles. The album's songs have a tempo ranging from 69 beats per minute on ""Ben"", to 130 on ""Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day"". The album's title track, the theme song for the 1972 film of the same name (the sequel to the 1971"