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Posted By scott4261 5 months, 2 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment"Don’t Stop 'til You Get Enough" was released on July 28, 1979, under Epic Records; on Jackson's first solo album away from Motown Records. Within three months of its release, the song was at the top of the charts and had been certified gold. Reaching number-one on Billboard's Hot 100 and Hot Soul Singles charts in the U.S.; it was Jackson's first solo number-one single since "Ben", seven years prior. Reaching the top of the charts in Australia, New Zealand, Norway and South Africa, the song peaked at number 3 in the United Kingdom.
Off the Wall is the fifth studio album by pop musician Michael Jackson, released August 10, 1979 on Epic Records. The album follows Jackson's critically well received theatrical performance in The Wiz. While working on the film project, Jackson and Quincy Jones became friends. Jones agreed to work with Jackson on his next studio album Off the Wall. Recording sessions took place between December 1978 and June 1979 at Allen Zentz Recording, Westlake Recording Studios, and Cherokee Studios in Los Angeles, California. Jackson collaborated with a number of other writers and performers such as Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder and Rod Temperton. Jackson wrote several of the songs himself, including the lead single, "Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough".
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scott42615 months, 2 weeks ago
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I considered submitting some of the Motown music from the Jackson 5 (which is some of the best pop music ever made, IMO).... I also considered submitting something from Michael Jackson's most iconic album, Thriller.... In the end, I chose "Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough," a song that dominated our radios and dance floors 30 years ago.... It was a preview of what was to come with the new album Off the Wall ...and later, Thriller ...not to mention much of his subsequent work. It also introduced many people to the production of Quincy Jones, who brought out the best in Michael's recorded music.
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But more than that... for me, this is more significant....
It was the summer of 1979... I was 18 and on my way to college. Up to that point, I had only listened to what I was exposed to on Top 40 radio. I went from Donna Summer and Sister Sledge (artist that I enjoy today, but I ditched them for a while after disco supposedly died) and pop rock like Foreigner's "Hot Blooded" to Blondie, the Clash, the Ramones and the Sex Pistols...all in the course of one summer.
It was a pivotal time for music. The UK was getting a steady dose of punk rock and a budding new romantic movement which, in turn, influenced most of the cool dance rock, new wave, and alternative of the '80s and '90s. We were getting none of that in America. With the exceptions of a few songs," our Top 40 looked nothing like the UK's chart in 1979, which included bands like Public Image Ltd and the Buzzcocks.
But Michael Jackson has always been a part of the equation for me... He and Prince are responsible for the funky vibe in my musical taste...
It was a great and exciting time in music history... -
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jaern5 months, 2 weeks ago
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Keep on with the force don't stop
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Don't stop 'til you get enough...
I love this album. I played the grooves right off the vinyl!
He was so beautiful back then. I heard he started having cosmetic surgery as he got older and started seeing his father's face. He had fame but his life was a tragedy. -
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Poulenc5 months, 2 weeks ago
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Yes: the tragedy of the child star who had no childhood and of the pressures of a degree of fame, with consequent loss of privacy, unequal to that of almost any other person on the planet.
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The numerous attempts to self medicate--to escape from/find the self, to perfect an identity, through surgeries, drugs, hiding--brought him to...almost inevitable self-destruction.
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