Chapter 21 - The Comeback King Fall 2008. Michael is happy and healthy. Dancing and recording. Wheelchair photo - was an act. Michael trying to make everyone think he wasn't ready or capable for comeback. 08年秋天 MJ很开心和健康 跳舞和录音 说那个轮椅照片是骗人的 MJ想要让大家觉得 他无法复出了 (不过三保镳说法相反) "Because no comeback is truly a comeback until the odds seem impossible." 因为如果不是不可能的事情成真 就不是真的回归 "Michael got stronger and stronger, week by week, and he shed weight when I didn’t think he had any more to lose. Again, some people point to this “ thinness” as if it were a disturbing sign, but he had shrunk ever since the trial and his fitness regime made him skinnier. It was also normal—after each tour he ever did, he’d lose three inches off his waist. Michael was simply shedding weight because of those daily four hours of dance." MJ越来越强壮 而且还减重了 虽然JJ看不出他哪里还有地方要减 很多人说MJ那样瘦是 警讯 但是MJ在官司期间就整的大消瘦 而他开始回复比较健康时就会让他看起来更瘦 而且他每次巡回腰围就少三寸 对他来说很正常 MJ看起来很瘦是因为每天都跳舞四小时 "In late 2008, he was so fit that, further down the line—eight weeks before he died—when he bumped into a friend in a doctor’s office, he lifted his shirt and said, “Have you seen my six-pack?”" 08年底MJ很健康 直到他过世前八个礼拜 甚至在他在诊所碰到一个朋友时 还把衣服掀 起来说你有没有看到我的六块肌 Michael's plans: New house in Vegas as a new neverland, his kids see him perform. make money from tour to pay his debts. Performing in China after TII. Do Superbowl. 2 tours of "back by popular demand" concerts till 2014. TII was the beginning not the end. 5 year plan. MJ的新计画 LV买新房子成为新的梦幻庄园 让孩子们看到他演出 赚大钱来还债 在TII 後去中国演出 在超级盃演出 一路巡回到2014年 TII不是最後 这是个五年的计画 Still worried if the tickets would not sell, tested the waters with 10 in Europe. Wasn't sure about USA reaction to him. MJ还是担心票是不是会卖不出去 所以打算用欧洲十场演出试水温 不确定对他美国观感 Flashback to after trial and time in Bahrain: Although Jermaine was instrumental in the deal with the Prince, he's cut off and it becomes a deal between only Michael and Prince Abdullah. Prince pays for Michael's lifestyle in Bahrain. Michael in good faith believed these to be gifts and he didn't realize it was part of his contract. Michael thought he was to do one album but the contract was for music,musicals,movies, books etc. So as he doesn't want to be owned by anyone he leaves. Prince sues Michael. Jermaine can't believe Michael signed a contract without reading. 回去讲到巴林 虽然JJ是去跟巴林王子谈条件的人 但最後合约变成只有MJ和巴林王子 巴林王子出了所有钱支付MJ的生活 MJ以为这都是礼物 并没有发觉是他合约的一部份 MJ以为他只需要完成一张专辑 但合约还包含了音乐剧 电影 书等等 MJ不想被谁拥有就 跑了 巴林王子告MJ JJ不敢相信MJ合约没看就签了 A lot of lawsuit against Michael worth $100M. Sony loan now $300M. Sony has the option to buy his 25%. Good news Michael buys 5% share from Branca. Jermaine thinks "once great business relationship" between Branca and Michael floundered as Branca wasn't exclusively on Michael's side (conflict of interest idea). Struggling to pay Neverland's costs, salaries, animal costs. Ranch shut down in 2006. 一堆官司诉讼 达一亿美金 SONY音乐版权的借贷达三亿 钱尼可以选择买25% 好消息是 John Branca把手中5%卖回给了MJ 说MJ和Branca的关系 因为Branca没有完全属於MJ这个 阵营而变坏 要维持梦幻庄园很困难 06年关闭 Summer 2006 Michael received a set of documents that showed that some individuals were deliberately getting people to sue Michael to force him into involuntary bankruptcy. Jermaine never saw the documents. don't know what happened to them. 06年夏天 MJ收到资料说 有一群人找了一堆人告MJ来逼迫他破产 JJ没看过那些资料 不知道後续是啥 Michael trusted a less people. There was one person he thought as a friend and advised him unofficially since 2001. Michael was often a guest at his house. One sleepless night during his war with Mottola , Michael overhears this person on the telephone with Mottola saying not favorable things. MJ相信的人越来越少 有个人是他以为是朋友的 从01年就私人身分来给MJ建议 MJ常去 他家作客 但在MJ有天晚上睡不着时 MJ听到那个人在跟魔老板讲一堆糟糕事 Michael wanted to play "Willy Wonka" but the role went to Johnny Deep. 2007 "Crystal City" - Neverland theme park and Jackson Academy of performing arts in Middle East. 4 meetings but they didn't have the money to fund it. MJ想要演出威利旺卡 但是後来强尼戴普演了 07年JJ的主题公园计划 还有在中东演出计画 开过四次会议 但他们找不到人资源 2007 when in Africa in a business meeting trying to find a backer for the project, a friend mentions Tohme Tohme as a guy "who knows a lot of people". March 2008 Jermaine and Halima goes to meet Tohme. Not charming but gracious. Jermaine discusses Crystal City to Tohme without mentioning Michael. 4 meetings with Tohme. Tohme says he'll try to come up with oil-rich investors to fund $6billion and report back. 07年在非洲谈生意 有个朋友提到Thome Thome说有很多关系 08年Jermaine和他老婆去见了 Thome 讨论到这些计画 没有跟Thome提到MJ 跟Thome见了四次面 Thome说他可以想办法 找到六十亿资金 (MJ不会又是被他家乱七八糟计画给拖累 跟Thome扯成一团= =) Neverland foreclosure news. Jermaine worries that Michael would need to sell his catalog to save Neverland. He decided to call Tohme. Halima says "you hardly know the man". April 2008 Jermaine meets with Tohme , tells him the situation and asks if he knows anyone that can help. Tohme says Tom Barrack / Colony Capital would help and "he'll make sure of it". Jermaine goes to Las Vegas to talk to Michael. Security doesn't let Jermaine in. He goes to a hotel and comes back 3 times, still they don't let him in. He calls Katherine who calls Grace who lets Jermaine in. Jermaine complains about the security not letting him in. Michael tells him he'll make changes soon. Jermaine tells Michael about Tom Barrack. 梦幻庄园岌岌可危的新闻 JJ担心MJ会被迫卖出版权来救梦幻庄园 决定打给Thome JJ老婆 说你根本不了解这个人 08年四月JJ又见了Thome告诉他这个情形 希望他帮忙 Thome说 殖民地公司的Tom Barrack可以帮忙 他可以确保这个 Jermaine去了LV找MJ 警卫不让他 进去 他去了旅馆 连找MJ三次 还是不给进去 他打给J妈 J妈打给了Grace总算让JJ进去了 JJ跟MJ抱怨说警卫不让他进去 MJ告诉他会改变 JJ跟MJ讲到Tom Barrck "I know that my sister La Toya has said she wished she could have “protected ” him from the likes of Tohme-Tohme, but had she known the history and the dire reality of the situation, I doubt she’d have held such an opinion." JJ说我知道LaToya说她希望自己能保护MJ远离Thome 但她不知道这背後历史 还有当时糟糕的 的情况 说Toya如果知道评论就不同 Jermaine takes Tohme to meet Michael. Michael talks with Barrack on the phone. Meeting with all of them is set. Shortly before foreclosure Barrack pays $23M and gets 50% ownership at Neverland. Barrack and Tohme are heroes. Tohme becomes Michael's manager. Tohme looks over Michael's finances. Cash poor, asset rich. a lot of expenses. JJ带了Thome去见MJ MJ跟Barrack在电话讲话 见了所有人 很快Barrack付了两千三百万 取得50%梦幻庄园所有权 说Barrack和Thome是英雄 Thome变成MJ经纪人掌管了MJ所有的财 物现金 资产 还有一切 2008 summer Michael shows Jermaine the photos of the house he wants to buy in Vegas that belonged to Prince Jefri of Brunei. He saw the house in 2007, decided to buy it in 2008 and was in negotiations in 2009 to make a $15M down payment for it funded by his TII contract. 08年MJ给JJ看了他想在LV买的房子 属於另一个巴林王子所有 MJ在07年就见过房子 08年 决定要买 09年在谈判要先给一千五百万订金 钱是来自TII的合约 Michael and Barrack get along very well. Barrack wants to open a thriller tower in his Hilton hotel. Michael asks him if he wants to partner with him on Sony/ATV catalog. Jermaine doesn't want to leave Michael vulnerable to Barrack and Tohme so he tries to recruit lawyer Joel Katz and Michael agrees. Tohme turns against Jermaine as he brings in a lawyer. Neverland auction. Michael approved it thinking only furniture in storage will be sold. He did not want Neverland would be dismantled and his personal possesions be sold. Michael soon fires Tohme. MJ和Barrack处的很好 Barrack想要在他的希尔顿旅馆里开战栗塔 MJ问他愿不愿意跟他 合夥SONY/ATV版权 JJ不想MJ在面对Thome和Barrack时是容易受攻击的 所以找了律师 MJ 也同意 Thome因为JJ找了律师火大 梦幻庄园的拍卖 MJ以为只是要把储藏室的家具卖掉所 以同意 并没有想要里面的私人物品被卖 MJ不久就把Thome炒鱿鱼 Jermaine says before his firing even Tohme turned into a gatekeeper not allowing him to see Michael. 说Thome被炒鱿鱼钱 也变成阻碍他见MJ的人 “I don’t understand why you keep coming around. Your brother does not want to see you. If someone does not want to see you, I wouldn’t keep humiliating myself and showing up . . .” 说Thome跟他说 我不了解你为什麽一直来 你的弟弟不想见你 如果有人不想见你 我不 会一直出现来污辱自己 March/ April 2008 dinner with Barrack is when TII idea started. TII is one way to earn big money or he would have need to work at McDonald's as he told Karen Faye. Jermaine says Michael long dreamed a residency tour - in Paris. Tohme reaches out to AEG and Live Nation. Jermaine knows AEG because he talked to them in 2004 about a Broadway musical about Jacksons life story. 2008 Barrack seals the deal with Phil Anschutz of AEG for TII that came with a minimal payment of $36.5M with an upside potential of $300M. 3 movies were a part of it as well as the $15M Vegas home. Also an agreement to do spot concerts as well as 2 tours. One of the tours would be a Jackson 5 reunion tour because Katherine had told Michael that before she died she wanted to see her sons tour together one last time. One more solo tour as final curtain call. He said he would retire from music at when he was 55 years old and then only focus on Hollywood for movies. 08年四月MJ和Barrack吃饭 有了TII的想法 TII是赚大笔金钱的方法 否则MJ就要去麦当劳 工作了(KF同样说词) JJ说MJ一直梦想在巴黎驻场演出 Thome找了AEG和Live NAtion JJ知道AEG 因为在04年时也跟AEG谈过要弄J家故事的音乐剧 08年Barrack跟AEG的 Phil Anschutz谈妥了TII 最少AEG要支付三千六百万投资 最多可达三亿资金投入 合约 还谈到三部电影 还有一千五百万的LV房子 同样同意到其他地点作两小时演唱会 另一个 巡回是J5复合巡回 因为J妈跟MJ说在她死前 她想要再看一次她的儿子们在一起巡回 另一 个巡回是个人巡回 也就是最後的谢幕MJ说他55岁就会从音乐方面退休然後专注在电影事业 (怎麽整本书下来 JJ一直不停讲J家兄弟 要复合 要复合 MJ应该都快烦死) TII announcement. Michael being late, not staying long etc. Jermaine says earlier that day Michael learned that guitar player David Williams died. TII发布记者会 MJ迟到 没有待很久 JJ说因为那天MJ听到吉他手David Williams死了 May 14, 2009 Family day. Katherine and Joe's 60th anniversary surprise. Michael is 4 weeks into TII rehearsals. 2009年五月14 家族聚会日 给J妈老乔60周年结婚纪念惊喜 MJ为TII彩排四个礼拜 "When I spoke with my brother at the Indian restaurant, there was no question that he was fit, healthy and focused. He was skinny, but only in an athletic sense, and the photos that still stand on an end table in my living room confirm it. More importantly, he was genuinely excited about “doing something special for the fans” and there was talk of special guest appearances by the likes of Slash and Alicia Keys. At least, that was an idea he had been toying with." 当我跟我弟弟在印度餐厅谈话时 毫无疑问他很健康和专注 他很瘦 但是是像运动员的瘦 而陷在还在我桌上当天的照片可以证实 最重要的是MJ真的很兴奋他可以为歌迷们做一些 特别的事情 有讲到谁会来当特别嘉宾 像是Slash和Alicia Keys "The only thing he complained about was that he’d signed up to do “10 shows only” as advertised but somewhere along the line, due to the demand tickets, AEG had added an extra 40 dates. Even they sold out within five hours on-line. Michael said no one had checked with him first, but at no point did he give me the impression that the schedule was too punishing or beyond him, because it wasn’t. Not for a man in his condition." 他唯一抱怨的事情是他原来只同意十场 就像广告一样 但突然某天因为票卖太好 AEG就 加了另外40场 虽然五小时就网路卖光光 但MJ说没人问过他 但MJ没有给JJ任何感觉是 行程太满MJ会无法负荷 因为并不会无法负荷 起码不是对MJ那样的健康状况 (太诡异了 难道MJ又签约没看?? 明明合约就不只十场阿) "He always had breakfast and dinner with his kids, and while they went to bed at around 8 pm, he soon followed around nine. He had been sleeping soundly (his insomnia was only ever tour induced) and he seemed the most centered and content I had seen him in years." "When it was time for him to leave, everyone hugged and said their goodbyes. “You’re all coming to London, right?” Michael asked us. “Yeah! We’ll be there!” I said, as we all did. “Okay, everyone. See you in London!”" MJ都会跟孩子们吃早餐和晚餐 然後当孩子们八点去睡时 他九点也就去睡了 而且睡很好 说MJ的失眠只有因为巡回 说那次见面是多年来他见过MJ最专注的一次 当MJ要离开时 大家都拥抱说再见 MJ问所有人 你们都会去伦敦吧 我们每个人都说 对 我们都会去 他说 那在伦敦见了 (这也很诡异 他前面才说MJ因为失眠听到朋友跟魔老板对话 现在又说MJ只会因巡回失眠?) to be continued. one more chapter left. It's about Michael's death, what happened during TII rehearsals, funeral. (note: I looked over Jermaine is saying that Michael was down to 136lbs from 150-155lbs) 节录者说 JJ在书里写MJ是从150磅瘦到136磅 剩一章~ 节录者还没贴 -- 在一个充满仇恨的世界 我们仍须勇於希望 在一个充满愤怒的世界 我们仍须勇於安慰 在一个充满绝望的世界 我们仍须勇於梦想 在一个充满猜忌的世界 我们仍须勇於相信 ---------------by 麦克杰克森 --

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