28 November 2008
1980’s videoclips: Dirty Diana
Posted by Mick (SplaTT) Stanic under: Music; The 80's; Videos .
While he occasionally attracts the media in the wrong way, Michael Jackson is without a doubt one of the best performers of our time.
A few of his achievements include; 13 Grammy Awards, 13 number one singles and being an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Various sources also say that more than 108 million sales of his 1982 album, Thriller, have been made, making it the best selling album of all time.
The song Dirty Diana is from his 1987 album, Bad, which sold over 25 million units worldwide and also was the first (and only) album to have five Billboard Hot 100 #1 singles.
Michael Jackson – Dirty Diana
As a side note, when the “Bad Tour”, which consisted of 123 concerts in 15 countries with approximately 4.4 million fans and made over $125 million dollars (around $380 million in todays cash), arrived in Australia in November of 1987, i was actually working in the live entertainment industry and had the opportunity to work on the lighting setup for the Melbourne leg of the show.
I remember that the show was sponsored by Pepsi, and at the time we thought that it was strange that while Michael’s skin was getting lighter, Pepsi was getting darker…i’ll leave you to make your own conclusions about that one…
It was without a doubt one of the most amazing shows that i had ever worked on, and the opportunity to see it really close up (from the side of the stage) was one of the highlights of that period in my life…and i had the chance to work on some great shows during the few years i was in that line of work.
Leave a Reply
1,105 views