Bill Bailey from 1955 -- Is the Moonwalk this old?

yeah this was on qi a while back...

Testing 123, testing.

its a fucking moon walk jesus fucking h christ micheal jackson fans micheal was one of a kind there is no doubt about it but he did nt invent the god damn moonwalk he migt of done it better but that does nt make it so there were probaly hundreds before him

Beautiful .
We can see that other people had danced moon walk before Michael Jackson .

Sammy davis jr. did it 2!!!!

hahahha....crazy

he never said he did

Can't believe there's a debate about whether this is what MJ did. Of course it is.

Jeez. Grow up. Doesn't diminish what MJ did. He did it slightly differently with a whole different "affect." It's the same damned step though.

Ok now i watched the end 'again'
i still wanna say
THIS IS NOT A MOON WALK!

It is definitely the moonwalk. Bailey called it the "backslide". It's obvious it's the same move. I believe his was the first recorded performance of the technique. The whole illusion (pushing forward while walking backward) was done by a number of dancers long before Michael Jackson; it's a fact, so deal with it.
In addition, mime artist Marcel Marceau did a move called "walking against the wind" which is pretty much the same technique; again, long before Michael Jackson....