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  • He was between 81

  • I love the Jackson they are so great. I think that Michael Jackson is cute!!!!

  • This is so crazy. I have finally seen the difference between 81 Michael and 84 Michael. Big difference. Especially with this song.

  • 39 shows of this amazing tour and there's just a concert released

  • Mike didn't start lip synching until the Dangerous tour. That is clearly evident on Thriller and Billie Jean. The other 90's tours he literally lipsynched almost 75% of the time. Always wondered why, what a damn shame.

  • @revolutionman81

    no he didnt retard.

  • @3HDPS You have got to be kidding right? He lip synched so much starting in 1991. Watch that live in Munich film from the History tour. Actually why not watch all the History tour films, then try to tell me he did not lip synch for the majority of the show. Clean out your ears bud.

  • @revolutionman81

    not 75% of the time

  • @revolutionman81 Age, fatigue, condition....Victory Tour was epic, though, since he danced his ass off and sang his heart out. And despite what any myopic jabroni might say, you're right - it was lip-synching most of the time.

  • @revolutionman81 ....This is probably why he lip synched ...he got older and it probably became extremely difficult for him to perform his dance moves that the energy level he did while singing at the same time. GEEZ...cut him some slack...have you danced uptempo for an hour straight and been able to carry a tune at the same time? People came to hear him sing...but Michael's true performance magic came from his dancing. He probably decided to prioritize that. So what? he's still amazing.

  • @chrisvcd either way its still his voice!

  • @revolutionman81 What a damn shame? That's quite rude. You should have considered his age.

  • Lol you can clearly hear him controlling his breath while siging LIVE.

  • innuendo141 :man(women :) ) you ROCK!!

  • he always did sing live , he wasn't a fake like others are...

  • @StarlightsFire I'm sorry, but you're mistaken there. Especially during the 90's tours, he started using a lot of "playback" and resort to lip-syncing. My guess is that the choreography took its toll and it was just "easier" that way. Watch the DANGEROUS Live DVD, you can -easily- tell when he's singing live, when he isn't. Especially during songs that required a lot of moving around, he hits a lot of bum notes...and once you know the LP/CD version, you just hear when it's live, when it's not.

  • @samsamba08 KEEP N MIND HE GOT SICK ALOT AND LOST HIS VOICE ALOT.....

  • fantasticooo!!! che sooound <3

  • wth..LOL

    mj is not lip syncing

    in the 90s he started lip syncing his concerts

    in the 80s he did all his performances ive

    mjs voice is just so perfect , thats y u think hes lip syncing

  • not only that he's ad libbing at the end of the song

  • Thats the MJ i know.... Black and so cool

  • Seriously I don't understand why this is even such an issue.. The exact things that make MJ so very special and unique don't seem to be appreciated enough by people. I think that's a huge shame. There will NEVER be another live performer quite like him. So the completely unnecessary "criticisms" really should stop IMHO! Be happy that we had him for as long as we did...

  • About lip syncing...I think you have to realise that during the 90's when he FIRST started doing it(Ok he DIDN'T do that before then!)he had MUCH more complex stage perfromances and choreocraphy. So much more difficult to sing live well AND do all the other stuff at the same time.They had to make a decision. Would he sing more live and dance less OR the other way around.I think he did as much live singing as he possibly could, being the perfectionist that he is. So people really shouldn't judge.

  • @MsAzure77lol He didnt start lip-syncing in the 90s.. hes been doing it his whole career.

    although he DID sing live the majority of the time, hes still been lip-syncing since the begenning.

  • @prettyboy0909 yea of course lol he lip syncs during the motown 25 performance

    technically its not his choice its the promoters choices. since the ones he lips syncs through sometimes are his biggest songs. those are usually always the selling points to the concerts.

  • @MsAzure77 spot on my friend and besides i don't see peeps debating about lip synching on any other artist as no1 else even comes close to this musical icon.. And just for the record from the 90's he did lip sync more but that was only because of the dance routine. FOr eg. it is physically impossible to sing JAM at the same level live as the album version while performing the dance at the same time he would have collapsed. Look at human nature 92 dangerous tour he was out of breathe

  • I like the short hair on Mike...And boy does he have a lot of energy!

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  • @KidCash994 this song was lipsynced on the history tour

  • no thats not true. he lip synced in his Billy Jean performance and it's still considered one of the most groundbreaking onstage performances of all time.

  • Youre right!The groundbreaking dance routine was the most important thing in that performance! People seem to forget that Michael is a REALLY incredible innately multitalented performer. He's not just a singer OR dancer he's both! And he can choose which side of his talents he wants to emphasize more in a particular song/number.

    It's HIS choise for the most part, and he's usually right about it too!Come on everyone the man knows EXACTLY what he's doing,it's been his job since he was 5 years old!

  • lmao i think he got his own lyrics wrong. in the beginning the verse is supposed to be "If you cant get with the feeling,then there aint no room for you this part of town." but he says "then there aint no one who's gonna put you down" which is the part from the second verse. lol just saying. this is still one of my top favs from him though.

  • I love this song, rest in peace MJ!

  • his hair is still long but it's shribbled up, it would have took forever to grow it back for Thriller which was a year later

  • luv u mj

  • he liped syncinged caused he was tired from dancing but he didnt lip sycning here tho.

  • damn!neva seen'em with his hair that short.

  • when he made the album off the wall his hair was this length. U might can c it on the cover, i think. i no his hair was this length tho.

  • he was sweating like crazy here....gorgeous black man.

  • yep, chrystal meth is what they've been smoking....

  • THIS IS TOTALLY LIVE. iN THE 90'S HE STARTED LIP SYNCHING BUT SO MANY PEOPLE DO THAT . HE IS STILL THE BEST EVER

  • have some of yall been smoking crystal meth..he is singing totally live and killing it

  • exactly these dudes dont no what they talk bout

  • you need to learn the definition of fiction. MJ was not a sex slave and you've been watching too many dan brown movies!

  • I did not want to believe in this conspirancy theory but I think you shall al type on google "illuminati and michael Jackson" and find his video interviews stating a conspirancy against him. Michael wanted to speak and they killed him before!

  • really...interesting...i believe in the illuminati...don't care for DAn Brown....but let's just say he overdosed until it's proven otherwise

  • He wasnt injected with vitiligo that was a diasese that made his skin get light. Michael Jackson was the best.

  • As a child I would sing along to his songs like Ben, Rockin Robin, etc... Later on when I was a teenager, Off The Wall came out and I went WOAH! The kid that sang Ben had grown into a major hottie. I was in love! He was so beautiful during OTW.

  • This is my favorite period too--when he was absolutely perfect!

  • your so lucky because i would had haven a chance to go to his concerts and u know try to get and know him and he probley would of liked you

  • 1st verse he gets the lyrics wrong.

  • dude its his song he can do whatever he wants with it

  • i like it when he got the verse wrong, proves he is singing live. so many people say he lip syncs which is very irritating! He almost was always singing live! .

  • even if he was lip syncin he's michael jackson.

    he can do what he wants.

    lol.

  • He lip syncs sometimes lol

    But yeaa he's Michael Jackson so wth?

    who cares if he does , hes still awesome! lol

  • he started lip syncing in in some song during the 90's and so on but he still sang some live but he still cool

  • one of my very favorite songs ;)))

  • the greatest entertainer ever

  • a disease is a disease,whether it be drug addiction diabetes cancer whatever,we all eventually get that way

  • Aw, Michael. I so love you.

  • If anyone wants any Michael jackson dvds from concerts send me a PM and ill sell you them :)

  • unfortunatly the only DVD available is from the Dangerous tour in Bucharest.. Destiny tour, Triumph tour, Victory tour, Bad tour are all recorded on tape . But we are still waiting for an official release.... Please please please. I want to by them all.

  • I am searching for the Jackson's triumph tour torrent, but I cannot find it. I guess it wasn't released??? TT Please answer anyone. Thanks!!!

  • Vitaligo.

    Google the word,Michael had one of the worst cases of it in history,theres like 7 different kinds i think,thas what happened. imagine your body changing tones all over your body and being famous

  • how come it come on from 81, i'm 19 does that mean i could get the disease and turn white? or are u born wit it

  • It can be hereditary or caused my an autoimmune disease.

  • You are born with vitiligo, It is one of those diseases that normally lies dormant

  • no i saw somebody worse. he was black and in his early 30's, and was completly white be he turned 40

  • calling all haters!!!!!!!!!

    fuck u

  • i was a lil iffy about his skin case too but one of my cities news anchors came out and said he had it too. he was a dark skin black(like mike tyson color) and he did an interview without his make up on and he was super white like michael. he went through 2 hours of make up everyday. so i know michaels case is very true....and its weird that i met and shook hands wit the news anchor at the movies like 8 years ago lol....ease up off michael jackson ppl

  • mj was always black.... duh

  • yeh some people say that michael jackson is white i guess they are color blind

  • well i said it yesterday somewhere Happy 30th Anniversary Off the Wall Album!! August 10 1979 we love you Michael you were the best @music&magic&had the biggest heart..the world will know forever youre amazing.f*** the haters ill debate you whenever you dont know ish

  • oh man this was my most favorite song of the late legendary Michael jackson it was the best song ever........even though all his songs were the S@!T

  • thanks for posting this

  • this video is better quality then some of the victory tour footage i have seen!

  • o cara era fodaaaaaa

  • Wow! A true performer!!!

  • i love this song

    this is my fav on off the wall and rock with you

  • great my fav Mike song

  • OMG how did u get this!! o.o Awesome vid but yeah it has bad quality becuz it was 1981 ppl!!

  • Lol, the poor sound quality makes it sound as though he's saying 'we're the farty people night & day...'

    Still enjoyed it though.:o

  • lol...yeah....i luv 2 hear hear him sing this live..

  • He is soooo cute!!!!!!!!!!!

  • wow. i was just born that year but even it's that long ago it still makes me go boogie woogie

  • Aww, me too. High five '81 babies. lol

  • MJ has started singing with brothers at the age of five into his twenties. Then straight from there he went solo. So, thats about 30+ years none stop of singing. No wonder in the end he was burnt out and had sleeping problems and the the molestation charges made things worst. That was the final straw that did him in. He stopped touring after that. It was a downward spiral after that because he wasn't doing the things he loved most of all(singing and dancing)

  • That really is the saddest thing about what happened to him I think...that he lost his abiltily to perform and enjoy it like he used to. In the past that was probably the only thing keeping him sane and going.Well that and his animals and his work with children.He loved performing more than anything else!

  • I agree but MJ should have taken better care of himself...

  • yes he should of he would of been here if he did but maybe it was meant to be

  • That's a cop out....

  • wat do u mean a cop out?????

  • Michael should taken better care of himself...There's no excuse for neglecting your health to the point of death....

  • beautiful,,,the performance, the song, the man

  • Right on!  Agree 10000000%!!!

  • =) never gets old

  • I love this song... ;_; This is the kind of stuff that that Michael Jackson such an amazing person...

  • EXCELLENT VOICE, EXCELLENT DANCE.

  • yo his voice is sooo nice live. He's the real deal forever.

  • check out how he flips it and does that haunting "laugh" at the end of the song!! I love it

  • This brings tears to my eyes. I mean, he had it all, talent, looks, how can someone be so selfdestructive?

    RIP Michael

  • He never had a real childhood, so that explains him befriending child stars. He had vitiligo and wore makeup to cover the patches, that explains his ghostly white appearance in recent years. He always had talent: Off the wall was great, the Thriller was super and beyond any scale its just everything after that didn't live up to thriller. He really didn't have a sense of freedom or good communication so his relationships didn't work. He was made that way.

  • if the person themselves dont believe it, it doesnt matter what everyone looking from the outside thinks..

  • WELL 2 BAD PEOPLE DONT THINK LIKE THAT

  • @CrazyWorld65 When we begin to accept that nothing is ever what it appears to be, we will begin to understand what happened to MJ. Anyone would 'self-destruct' with all that he had on his back for years. This gentle soul was relentlessly judged and ridiculed in the media; throw is FALSE molestation claims, childhood abuse, death threats, health problems, over a thousand lawsuits, etc. MJ appeared to have everything but underneath the illusion - his life was an undeserved hell... RIP Mike!

  • @AstralBooBaby Well said....this world has a habit of destroying beauty...that's because so many don't understanbd innocence, gentleness, compassion and empathy...this is shown in how we destroy endangered specis. destroy the rain forrests etc...people despise what they don't understand. and Michael was misunderstood...his talent and wealth was envied....Michael was trying to make that change and heal the world...such a shame it was all turned against him..so many people have a lot to answer for

  • i dont think ive ever seen/heard michael live. THANK YOU :)

  • gosh he is hot! and it doesn't hurt that i love this song.

  • check out vakano

  • He was the sh** in this period- he still looked like a man and had it. If he never changed from this point-(looks and all) Maybe he would still be alive. RIP Mista Mike J.

  • damn!!this the mj i grew up on. love this image!!

  • yess michael my godd yhu were sxciiiiiiiiii R.I.P MICHAEL JACKSON sexyy sexyy ily i will miss yhu

  • THE KING OF POP

    GOOD RECORDING

  • excellente recording on an old format tape. thanks by share this exotic record of the master jackson. excellent song logically, one of my preferred

  • best song ever

  • Thanks God we have those, at least, right? Imagine all the great stuff we would be missing right now. All the best, ryadams,

    ~Proud owner of two Naka decks (LOL)

  • *Thank

  • rip michael

  • :'( the king of pop is dead!

  • I was 13 and inlove with you. Will miss you Michael. Thanks for everything. RIP

  • this is michael at his best imagine being at that concert lol !!

  • aah MJ s live shows in the 80s!! does they have this on Dvd these days??!

  • He wuzn't 24 becuz he wuz 24 wen Thriller came out so during dhis he's propbably 22 goin on 23.

  • check out the errie laugh he does at the end of this version...I LOVE IT

  • he's a black man with vitiligo.

  • oh my God,do you have the whole concert?if yes,please answer,I will give you my e-mail in private,I'd like you to send it to me!!!!5 stars

  • Wow, I love that song... Thanx for sharing!

  • elpidio questo è uno dei miei pezzi preferiti......ihihihi ^-^

  • Mike was 23 at this time. wtf are you talking about?

  • Huh?

  • kinda dumb he isnt 10

  • he wasn't ten here

  • That Emmanuel Lewis must work out though.

    He has a killer body on him.

    I wonder what he's up to.

  • i dont know about child loving barbarian part but he became obbesse with teenage children he really hasnt focused on music since dangerous 1993 than came the alligations but back to the music i think he can make a comeback peep want to including myself want to hear him do some outstanding music

  • Right, me too.

    I would love to see that happen.

    Have you seen him do Beat It with Eddie Van Halen from the Victory Tour on You Tube? It's the coolest thing I have ever seen. Thank you.

  • yea that was a rare moment on that tour eddie got off mick was really into it alot of energy he REALLY turned it up i thought i was watching a real hard rock concert

  • Yeah, I can't get enough. It's like a rock concert. So progressive.

  • what can i say about off the wall a legend in his prime he live at home in a stuctured enviroment what every fantasty he had in his head he kept them there because of his parents wene he moved out in 1987 thats wene crazy hit....

  • Can you explain more?

    What happened in 1987?

    Creative geniuses have a tendency to go crazy, especially if left by themselves.

  • hmmm were shall i start first wanting to buy the elephant man bones, being pictured in a hyperbaric chamber(a hoax cooked up by micheal) more surgeries on his nose, lighten skin( i leave that alone cause i know about that diease) start having sleep overs with childern(not sex) adds cleft to his chin(also his buisness) buys property creat neverland so he wont grow up(also his buisness) BUT during that year he had the bad tour that was an incredible show his best tour next to truimph tour

  • Thank you very much, truly you have shed some light into the innerworkings of this man. I have been trying to figure this out forever. So, it all more or less began in 87....

  • the video sound is way distorted and fluctuating so thats why he may sound a little shaky

  • and when i say he looks just like my brother i dont mean now i mean back then

  • 1:44 do what you want to do thare aint no rules it's up to you best part looks just like my little brother

  • "Living crazy, that's the only way"! Love this song and performance. Triumph tour looked so awesome, i wish there were more clips available.

  • At 2:50 when he says "shake my hand" u feel the soul in his voice. No Doubt he's black!

  • YEAHHHH UR RIGHT

  • When he was young he used to sound exactly like his album live. God... hes the best singer ever.

  • Look at his shoulders!!!!

  • I know. Michael has always had a nice body.

  • this is the first song that i ever heard when i heard of miachel jackson and i lovved him since then

  • Too bad we can't see him dancing...awesome

  • michael is an angel!!!!!!live it off the wall!!!

  • my heart went up when i haerd him make that cute little noise...he is soo cute&hearts;

    ^.^ any way too...i love michael jackson

  • Rod Temperton was the keyboardist for the band Heatwave who wrote Boogie Nights and The Grooveline for the band. Quincy Jones commissioned Rod to pen Rock With You and Off The Wall for Michael - songs that could have easily been recorded by Heatwave.

  • the bassline is the same as ' Boogie Nights '

  • THE BEST!!! WOOAW!MJ IS THE KING!!!

  • no doubt rod was great, especially as a songwriter and while with heatwave. but i hardly think he could've sung rwy they way mj did. that song grooves HARD. it has mj all over it, he made that his song. "biggest hits"? beat it and billie jean were written by mj alone. why, do those not count as his "biggest hits"? get your facts sorted.

  • Ummm, Billie Jean and Thriller are still his biggest hits, BJ was Written and composed by MJ himself. Stop hallucinating.

  • he never MADE michael.. they fed off of eachother.... those songs wouldn't have been what they were and are without mike, quincy and rod... don't get it twisted.

  • rod temperton greatly contributed to the sound of off the wall and thriller, you can hear heatwave oozing out of a lot of those tracks. michael is still great, no doubt, but the writers and musicians playing on those albums contributed a lot.

  • like i said... they fed off of eachother... each of them were necessary pieces of the puzzle...rod never MADE michael..

  • That's right, no one made Michael. Plus it's the songs Michael wrote that made Off The Wall and Thriller the legendary albums they are. Don't Stop Till You Get Enough was the first single from Off The Wall album, before it was released. And Billie Jean and Beat It is were all the excitment with Thriller started. It was the Beat It song that made Michael on MTV and the rest is history.

  • Go look at my channel and listen to all the demos. Yes Temperton and Quincy contributed a lot, but its MICHAEL.

  • yea lol i was mad as hell that day he came back...That was the last day of my freshman year in high school and i couldnt skip that day cause i had finals...then when i got home my mom pissed me off even more when she told me his limo drove past our house lol

  • i'm from Gary....two blocks from The Jacksons' former house to be exact. so if anyone knows that this is not a place to brag about it's me...but it's not like you can change where you're from. Sure Mike lived his life "off the wall", and of corse his personal life is full of trife, drama and controversy. But whatever happened at 2300 Jackson St sure did whip him into the greatest performer mankind has ever witnessed.....there will never be another Michael Jackson or anyone close to him