I guess Sony must know what they are doing. It’s also unlike Jackson or his Estate to ignore a commercial opportunity – let’s face it, it was only a few months ago that his Estate was celebrating putting “his image on a billion cans around the world” and justifying the new sponsorship deal by saying “Michael did three successive deals with Pepsi, on the Victory Tour, the Bad Tour and the Dangerous Tour, so this extends a long and very successful relationship with the brand”.ĭespite this, the facts are that when it comes to music and video, the highest spec four disc deluxe box is – whisper it – great value. This is the man who approved sending a ten metre tall statue of himself down the river Thames to promote his HIStory album in 1995. When did Michael Jackson ever turn around and say, “that sounds too big, too ambitious, let’s tone it down”. Yes, these Super Deluxe sets have the easy capacity to frustrate and/or impoverish fans, but when done properly – large hard back books with photos and essays, 10 discs and upwards, hi-res audio, Blu-ray, marbles – okay not marbles – they can be superb. It’s also only available via Jackson’s website. Yes, there is a £129.99 Bad 25 Deluxe Collectors Edition, but that is a rather dubious looking ‘leather effect’ bag, with the four disc set placed carefully inside. In the UK this 3CD+DVD set was recently easily available for less than £20.ĭon’t get me wrong, I’m not looking for you to spend more money unnecessarily, but with artists such as Pink Floyd, The Who, Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones and Paul Simon all revelling in the joys (and income) of the excessive Super Deluxe box, you would not expect the Estate of Michael Jackson to pass up the opportunity to make some more cash. But before we move on to that, am I the only one rather surprised that, for one of the biggest selling albums of all time, Sony have chosen not to offer a ‘traditional’ Super Deluxe Edition box set at the £80 / $130 price point ? The formats on offer are a standard 2CD edition, a standalone DVD of the Wembley concert, a few vinyl variations and the aforementioned four disc set. No matter, the Bad reissue is here, and with three CDs and a DVD in the Deluxe Edition, there’s a fair amount of content to get through.
MICHAEL JACKSON BAD ALBUM COVER CLOSE UP UPDATE
Should George Harrison’s hit album from 1987 squeeze onto the schedules before Christmas, we can look forward to “Cloud Nine 25” which sounds something akin to a radio breakfast show, weather update and time check. Peter Gabriel‘s So reissue is being referred to as “So 25” (technically incorrect, it’s actually “So 26”).
MICHAEL JACKSON BAD ALBUM COVER CLOSE UP MOVIE
Rather like unwanted remixes ( Blue Monday ’88) or possibly a movie ‘franchise’ gone out of control, marketing bods and record labels have now taken to appending the age, in years, to the album name. Michael Jackson‘s Bad album is 25 years old.
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