Sul blog di una fan straniera, ho trovato una lista interessante che riporta le preferenza musicali del nostro Michael. Credo che le fonti siano abbastanza sicure. Molte di queste cose le ricordavo anche io.
Brani preferiti:
All Night Long - Mary Jane Girls
1812 Overture - Tchaikovsky
Another One Bites The Dust - Queen
Around The Way Girl - LL Cool J
Baby I Need Your Loving - The Four Tops
Baby Love - The Supremes
Beautiful Life - Ace Of Base
Black Dog - Led Zeppelin
Black Man - Stevie Wonder
Breathe Again - Toni Braxton
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon And Garfunkel
Climb Every Mountain - Sound Of Music
Close To You - Carpenters
Crazy In Love - Beyonce
Dancefloor - Zapp And Roger
Eleanor Rigby - Beatles
Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears For Fears
Everything I Own - Bread
Fanfare For The Common Man - Aaron Copland
Feel Up - Grace Jones
Fool On The Hill - Beatles
Get On Up - James Brown
Go Home - Stevie Wonder
Happy Talk - South Pacific
Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
How Deep Is Your Love - Bee Gees
How Can You Mend A Broken Heart - Bee Gees
Gift of Song - Pride of Lions
Ignition - R. Kelly
Inside and Out - BeeGees
Laughter In The Rain - Neil Sedaka
Leaving On A Jet Plane - Peter, Paul and Mary
Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
Lincoln Portrait - Aaron Copland
Living For The City - Stevie Wonder
Love Me Do - Beatles
Nightclubbing - Grace Jones
Nutcracker Suite - Tchaikovsky
On Broadway - The Drifters
Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes
Papa Don't Take No Mess - James Brown
People - Barbara Streisand
Peter and the Wolf - Prokofiev
Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun - Claude Debussy
Red Corvette - Prince
Rodeo - Aaron Copland
Smile - Charlie Chaplin
Some Girls - Rolling Stones
Standing in the Shadow of Love - Four Tops
Staying Alive - BeeGees
Stop In The Name of Love - The Supremes
Thank You - Sly And The Family Stone
That's The Way Of The World - Earth, Wind, & Fire
Yellow Submarine - The Beatles
Yesterday - The Beatles
Album preferiti:
Pet Sounds – Beach Boys
Spirits Having Flown – Bee Gees
To Kill a Mockingbird – Elmer Bernstein Soundtrack
What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
George Benson - Live
Best of Earth, Wind & Fire
C'est Chic - Chic
Children of the World - Bee Gees
Aretha Franklin - Best Of
Songs in the Key of Life – Stevie Wonder
Talking Book – Stevie Wonder
West Side Story – Soundtrack
Nutcracker Suite – Tchaikovsky
Artisti preferiti:
Aaron Copland
Aretha Franklin
BeeGees
Bob Marley
Boys II Men
Bread
Brothers Johnson
Burt Bacharach
Chicago House Music
Debussy
Diana Ross and the Supremes
Doobie Brothers
Eagles
ELO
Four Tops
Glen Campell
Guns ‘N’ Roses
Herman’s Hermits
Jackie Wilson
James Brown
Jimi Hendrix
Johnny Mathis
Kenny Loggins
Lauryn Hill
Maceo Parker
Mahalia Jackson
Mamas and Papas
Marvin Gaye
Nile Rogers
Otis Redding
Paul Robeson
Peter Paul and Mary
Prince
Queen
Rachmaninoff
Ray Charles
Richard and Robert
Sammy Davis Jnr
Sherman Brothers
Sly And The Family Stone
Smokey Robinson
Stevie Wonder
Tchaikovsky
Temptations
The Beatles
The Carpenters
The Doors
Three Dog Night
Tupac
U2
Van Halen
Whitney Houston
ZZ Top
Ovviamente chissà quanti altri nomi non sono riportati. Per esempio, ricordo che a Michael piacesse anche il brano Purple Rain di Prince (se non sbaglio fu proprio uno dei nipoti a dirlo), It Wasn’t Me di Shaggy e ovviamente Come Together dei Beatles. Forse anche Riders On The Storm dei Doors (la canticchiò per poco durante le prove del Dangerous tour), What A Fool Believes e Minute by Minute dei Doobie Brothers.
Il blog che riporta le liste è questo:
rhythmofthetide.com/michael-jacksons-favorite-music/