{"id":2650,"date":"2020-07-22T07:22:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T07:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2024-09-09T11:22:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T11:22:58","slug":"black-is-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/?p=2650","title":{"rendered":"Black is Beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/michael_jackson_ben-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2653\" width=\"284\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/michael_jackson_ben.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/michael_jackson_ben-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/michael_jackson_ben-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/michael_jackson_ben-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Parmi les titres embl\u00e9matiques de la carri\u00e8re musicale de Michael Jackson, il y a la chanson &#8220;Ben&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Compos\u00e9 par Walter Scharf sur des paroles de Don Black, la chanson figurait sur la B.O. du film \u00e9ponyme sorti en 1972. R\u00e9compens\u00e9e en 1973 par le Golden Globe de la meilleure chanson originale, elle fut \u00e9galement nomin\u00e9e aux Oscars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Le parolier britannique Don Black est revenu sur cette belle HIStoire :  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00abEn 1974, j&#8217;avais eu mon premier grand succ\u00e8s dans le West End, en \u00e9crivant les paroles de la com\u00e9die musicale &#8220;Billy&#8221; dans laquelle figurait Michael Crawford . Elle a dur\u00e9 trois ans. Je gagnais pas mal d&#8217;argent et mon comptable m&#8217;a dit que financi\u00e8rement je devrais pouvoir vivre \u00e0 l&#8217;\u00e9tranger pour un temps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Don-Black.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2657\" width=\"124\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Don-Black.jpg 590w, https:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Don-Black-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 124px) 100vw, 124px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Donc ma famille a pass\u00e9 15 mois \u00e0 Los Angeles. Mes gar\u00e7ons \u00e9taient adolescents et c&#8217;\u00e9tait une grande aventure. J&#8217;avais eu des nominations aux Oscars et j&#8217;en avais gagn\u00e9 un pour &#8220;Born Free&#8221;, donc \u00e7a m&#8217;a ouvert les portes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>J&#8217;ai \u00e9crit les paroles de la chanson &#8220;Ben&#8221; que Michael Jackson a enregistr\u00e9e et il se trouve qu&#8217;il vivait pr\u00e8s de chez nous \u00e0 Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Il avait 14 ou 15 ans et \u00e9tait tr\u00e8s curieux de toutes sortes de musiques : il m&#8217;a dit que sa chanson pr\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9e \u00e9tait &#8220;Inchworm&#8221; compos\u00e9e par  Frank Loesser pour le film  &#8220;Hans Christian Andersen&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Frank Loesser - The Inchworm\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WO60Jmi_t8o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Je pense qu&#8217;\u00e0 ce moment-l\u00e0, il \u00e9tait vraiment innocent: il ne laissait para\u00eetre aucun signe d&#8217;angoisse. Michael n&#8217;\u00e9tait qu&#8217;un adolescent qui aimait venir \u00e0 la maison pour passer du temps avec nous et jouer au billard. Il a m\u00eame peint avec ma femme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Je dois dire que je n&#8217;ai jamais beaucoup appr\u00e9ci\u00e9 son p\u00e8re Joe (d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 en 2018). Il avait la r\u00e9putation d&#8217;\u00eatre \u00e0 cheval sur la discipline et finalement Joe Jackson nous a dit que si nous devions avoir davantage de contacts avec Michael, ce serait par son interm\u00e9diaire. Donc cela a g\u00ean\u00e9 ce qui avait \u00e9t\u00e9 une bonne amiti\u00e9 et nous nous sommes progressivement \u00e9loign\u00e9s&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sources : BBC \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/MJJTopNews\/\">MJJ TOP NEWS <\/a>(thanks Shrey Kumar) \/ MICHAELzine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Michael Jackson - Ben (Oscars 1973)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cp6oBRbhpe4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parmi les titres embl\u00e9matiques de la carri\u00e8re musicale de Michael Jackson, il y a la<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2662,"href":"https:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions\/2662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}