I'm embarrassed to admit it, but my Michael Jackson was the one who sang the theme song to Free Willy. I can hear the opening piano chords now, that stripped-down gospel sound, his clarion voice coming in on top: "Hold me, like the ri-iver Jordan." I belted out those lines the entire summer of '93, and probably '94 and '95, too, flinging myself, orca-like, in and out of the chilly waters of Lake Michigan. I was only a few dozen miles, though a world away, from where Michael himself grew up, in G...
Spike Lee's New Documentary Examines Michael Jackson's Musical Origin Story
Vogue - 6 Feb 2016 02:42
I'm embarrassed to admit it, but my Michael Jackson was the one who sang the theme song to Free Willy. I can hear the opening piano chords now, that stripped-down gospel sound, his clarion voice coming in on top: "Hold me, like the ri-iver Jordan." I belted out those lines the entire summer of '93, and probably '94 and '95, too, flinging myself, orca-like, in and out of the chilly waters of Lake Michigan. I was only a few dozen miles, though a world away, from where Michael himself grew up, in G...
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