 |
BREAKING NEWS
 HOME PAGE
IRELAND
SPORT
WORLD
BUSINESS
ENTERTAINMENT
LOTTO
WEATHER
WEEK IN VIEW
MAIN TOPICS
Brian Rossiter inquiry
Power-sharing
Recession
Budget 2009
Bank bail-outs
World economy
Pirates
EU farm reforms
ARCHIVES
SEARCH
PDA
TEXT ONLY
WAP
RSS
IMODE
CONTACT
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
Michael absent from Jacksons reunion
05/09/2008 - 11:27:28
 The Jacksons were crowned icons at the BMI Urban Awards in Los Angeles last night, but the King of Pop was an absentee.
Janet Jackson presented her music-making brothers – Michael, Tito, Jackie, Marlon, Jermaine and Randy – with the lifetime achievement BMI Icon award following a musical tribute at the award show celebrating R&B and hip-hop’s top performers.
While Tito, Jackie, Marlon and Randy reunited to accept the award, Jermaine and Michael didn’t attend the Wilshire Theatre ceremony.
Where was the Moonwalker?
“I don’t know,” Marlon said before the show. “I think he’s in Egypt riding a camel or something.”
The Jackson Five – Michael, Marlon, Jackie, Tito and Jermaine – was a groundbreaking, best-selling act that debuted on the 1969 album Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5.
The group simply became the Jacksons after leaving Motown in 1976, replacing Jermaine with Randy.
“It’s a great honour to know your music influenced a generation,” said Tito. “We’re very proud of this moment.”
Before presenting her brothers with the award, Janet said her family was her greatest commodity and that she was proud to salute her siblings for their accomplishments in the music industry.
Following the acceptance of the icon award, the Jackson brothers posed on stage for photos with father Joseph, mother Katherine and sisters Janet, LaToya and Rebbie. The Jacksons did not perform.
BMI – Broadcast Music Inc – is a performing rights organisation that collects license fees on behalf of its songwriters, composers and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed.
|
|
|
|
|
|