'I Love You Michael'

mid eighties. There was no artist in the world. As big as Michael Jackson . Did he write his own lyrics he did he did he wrote -- many of his own songs and one of the reasons why thriller in the album preceding it off the wall. Became such important records is that. He chose a collaborator there was a kind of meeting of geniuses says Michael Jackson collaborating with. Quincy Jones you know great brilliant. Producer who had worked with -- artists like Frank Sinatra before that and so. It really broad popular music to another plane. When those guys started working together.

Why didn't they stop working together because it anchors Quincy Jones a minute news good -- names but. Why why the two of them stopped working again so it's --

now buried under you know a million other stories and in the Michael Jackson . Detail. Is you went in the initial sort of tragedies or are great difficulties in Michael's life with this. Desperate desire that he had to recreate thriller and he made record after record. You know attempting to. Enjoy that level of success and fame and sales again and you really only get that once. And -- I might imagine it's you know somewhat speculative -- It is somewhat like Quincy Jones -- tire of that and it you know after a while it's just make the record that you want to make. And here you can't be worrying about whether or not it's gonna sell fifty million. Copies like your last one. Why do you only Jackson 5 and go sell -- was a sudden improvement for -- deserved it just time. Well I think yet. It was very clear that Michael Jackson was an artist of a particular order you know the Jackson 5 were in I mean that's terrific. Family pack. It became clear very soon that Michael was the sort of artist who. Really couldn't go on to redefine what popular music was. I think that the Jackson 5 had -- fantastic pop hits . They really extended the Motown legacy into the seventies. Michael is an extremely. Charming. You know young performer in a lot of

hits and marked the beginning of his long professional relationship with producer Quincy Jones . Jones was also the force behind 1982 thriller. Which besides spending 37 weeks at number one and selling 46 million copies helped

do way. Retrospective. Of the weather conditions during the fifty years of Michael Jackson's life time. Well that's -- it's a bad and dangerous the weather of the Michael Jackson era the day it just seems like whenever the stuff like how hard you have to work to -- do not -- I mean what I do is -- to diminish your great communication and now I. -- let's let's call what it is Iowa basically would I turn on Larry King Live and I think can now that is really Larry King Live. As a comedian all you do is sort of add punctuation you don't really have to do any us. He was doing a show about Michael Jackson and his guests included. Live from Paris. Liza Minnelli and usher are -- Asha. And it's like what are they an item they were a sitting next to each other in front of the Arctic freon offense like why would you have lies in the net. Liza Minnelli was there -- toxicology expert on west -- there. And she was barely sentient alien to him fairly I don't -- projection Liza Minnelli is next in the come to -- if there are these there was really awkward moment because the other person they have with the disembodied voice of Quincy Jones . And Quincy was like saying lies remember. Those years ago where you me and Michael were performing in London padlock that. Took

interesting too because every every. Channel had its own version of the Michael Jackson spoke up a hole I mean you could not go to any of the cable show or any channel without objection all the time that's right. Even talk radio that normally is a left right paradigm. Everybody -- and Michael Jackson that's right and then also apparently influenced the the weather channel that's.

channels who are friends or some tangential way that's right new Michael Jackson .

because I did this thing about how like people who never met Michael Jackson fighting for air time -- is like a story that. But then tonight again I was watching my nemesis Larry King let my company announced that. And he's seriously had as a guest. Michael Jackson's doctors lawyer that was his best not the doctor. Michael Jackson's doctors -- apple has come out next. Michael Jackson's doctor hired doctor from Canada who and then the accountant of the doctors lawyers under.

And videos of people don't know Michael Jackson vying for air time exactly. -- and John Vincent -- has -- one as well. That's right claim that that. That off

last week and seems like another -- era because was before the Michael Jackson's story broke and so we don't remember it can happen. That's -- press conference with the best thing that happened in my