Michael hosts a family day at Hayvenhurst to open the « Memory Room » with family pictures and history.
Michael, Katherine & LaToya visits the set of US prime time soap opera “Dynasty” and meet the actress Joan Collins.
January 22 : Michael, Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder & Quincy Jones record a demo version of the song “We Are The World” at Kenny Rogers ‘Lion’s Share Recording Studio in L.A (Michael takes Emmanuel Lewis to the studio) and later they send the demo cassettes to all artistes involved in the recording.
January 28 : Janet attends the American Music Awards with James & LaToya. She and LaToya presents an award to Kenny Rogers. Rebbie also attends and she presents an award.
Two hours after the ceremony, Michael and 44 other artists (including Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, LaToya, Jackie, Marlon & Randy) gather secretly for 10 hours at the A&M Recording Studios in L.A to record “We Are The World”.
January 30 : Janet’s lawyer files a petition in court to nullify her mariage to James. Janet leaves James and she goes back to Hayvenhurst. Soon later, she decides to leave Fame.
February 14 : At Hayvenhurst, Michael helps with the delivery of a baby deer born to his pet deers Prince & Princess. The birth of Valentino is videotaped.
The storyline of “Capatin Eo” is conceived by four Disney “imagineers” during a four-day brainstorming session in February, 1985. “We were asked to come up with some concepts to go with three elements,” said Rick Rothschild, of Walt Disney Imagineering in Florida. “The elements were George Lucas, Michael Jackson and 3-D.” Rothschild said he and his colleagues came up with three concepts and pitched them to Disney Chairman Michael Eisner, Lucas and Jackson on Valentine’s Day. They all agreed that day, he said, to go with the one they had called “The Intergalactic Music Man.” It was changed to “Captain EO” after Coppola was brought in as director. (It’s from the Greek word eos , which means dawn.)
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February 23 : Michael appears on the cover of TV Guide for the first time.
Michael goes to Disneyland with friends.
February 26 : Michael wins in the category Best Video Album for “The Making Of Thriller” at the Grammy Awards but he does not attend the presentation.
March : Michael is on the cover of Rock & Soul, Beatbox, Look In and Right On! magazines.
At Hayvenhurst, Michael starts recording song demos for his upcoming album with sound engineers John Barnes, Bill Bottrell & Matt Forger. They also work on songs “Another Part Of Me ” and “We Are Here To Change The World” for the upcoming Captain Eo short film. The preproduction starts for Captain Eo.
March 7 : “We Are The World” is released and soon becomes a worldwide anthem.
March 26 : Michael arrives in London.
March 27 : Michael goes antiques shopping in London. Later that day, he attends the futuristic musical “Starlight Express” in London and meets the cast backstage.
March 28 : Michael attends the unveiling of his wax statue at Madame Tussaud’s wax museum in London. 8000 fans gather to get a glimpse of their hero.
More than 6,000 radio stations of all format varieties play “We Are The World” simultaneously at 10:15 a.m. EST. (Eastern Standard Time).
March 29 : Michael leaves the Montcalm Hotel in London to visit the Marylebone Police Station to thank them for their service where he is treated to a police drill and presented with a police badge and helmet.
Michael attends an evening reception and party in his honour in London where CBS Records present him with an 8X Platinum wall-mounted plaque.
“We Are The World: The Video Event” is released on VHS.
March 30 : Michael spends the weekend with Paul McCartney and family at their farmhouse near Rye, Sussex.
April : Michael and seven members of USA For Africa are on the cover of Life Magazine.
April 1 : Michael flies back home.
April 3 : Rebbie Jackson accepts an award for Best Home Video in 1984, at the Third Annual American Video Awards in Santa Monica, California. The award was won by the documentary ‘The Making of Michael Jackson’s Thriller’.
April 8 : Michael and Lionel Richie are on the cover of Jet Magazine.
April 29 : An early draft of the script prepared for Captain EO at Disneyland.is sent to MJ. The 11-page script is dated April 29, 1985 and features many notable differences from the final film including the “pink elephant-like creature called Hooter.” The script comes contained inside a 3-D program featuring imagery of Michael Jackson and the names of Imagineers who contributed to the musical motion picture space adventure.
May 10 : Michael visits Brandywine River Museum’s exhibit of paintings by N.C Wyeth in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. He is the guest of Andy Wyeth . The singer wishes for the painter to create a portrait of him. George Weymouth, a friend and member of the Wyeth family, acts as an intermediary. As a curator of the Brandywine River Museum, where the meeting took place, he suggests a small carriage ride to the King of Pop that day. Michael and his entourage (including Bill Bray, Frank Dileo, and John Branca), along with Andy Wyeth and his son Jamie, gather at the Big Bend mansion.
May 14 : Michael receives a royalty cheque from Epic Records for $53 million for sales of the Thriller Album.
May 29 : Michael visits Ewoks, Battle For Endor movie set.
June : Michael starts rehearsing for an upcoming 3D science fiction musical short film named Captain EO to be shown exclusively at Disneyland and Disney World. Francis Ford Coppola will direct and George Lucas will produce the film.
June 28 : Michael and Elizabeth Taylor attend Liza Minelli’s “Comeback” concert tour at the Pacific Amphitheater in Costa Mesa.
July : Michael starts shooting the Captain Eo short film at Laird International Studios with Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. Elizabeth Taylor, Emmanuel Lewis Taj Jackson & Jonathan Spence visit him on the set. He meets Dennis Tomkins and Michael Bush who will become his costume designers until the end of his life.
July 4 : Michael attends the annual 4th of July picnic & barbecue at the Skywalker Ranch, George Lucas’s Estate, located in a secluded, yet open area near Nicasio, California, in Marin County.
July 17 : Michael is filming the first scene of Captain Eo in the spaceship.
July 24 : It is announced that Michael is to star in a 3-D science-fiction musical film called Captain EO to be shown exclusively at Disneyland and Disney World.
July 30 : Michael severely sprains his right hand during the filming of Captain EO. He is treated at the Brotman Memorial Hospital.
August : “Eaten Alive” by Diana Ross is released. The single is co-written by Michael and Barry and Maurice Gibb from the Bee Gees.
August 10 : After 10 months of negociations, Michael purchases the ATV Music catalogue from Australian multi millionnaire Robert Holmes for 47.5 million dollars.
For their help in negociating, Michael rewards attorney John Branca and manager Frank Dileo each with a Rolls Royce.
September 27, (or 29) : Michael and Liz Taylor attend Bruce Springsteen’s concert at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, one of the last concerts of the Born In USA Tour.
October 1 : Recording studio session at Michael’s Hayvenhurst home studio. MJ, Bill Bottrell, John Barnes and Matt Forger work on the song “Smooth Criminal”.
October 2 : Recording session at Michael’s Hayvenhurst home studio. MJ, Bill Bottrell, John Barnes and Matt Forger work on the song “Smooth Criminal”.
October 3 : Recording session at Michael’s Hayvenhurst home studio. MJ, Bill Bottrell, John Barnes and Matt Forger work on the song “Hot Fever” (later known as “The Way You Make Me Feel”.
October 4 : Recording session at Michael’s Hayvenhurst home studio. MJ, Bill Bottrell, John Barnes and Matt Forger work on the song “Smooth Criminal”.
October 5 : Recording session at Michael’s Hayvenhurst home studio. MJ, Bill Bottrell, John Barnes and Matt Forger work on the song “Smooth Criminal”.
October 18 : Michael spends two hours at Sydney Airport on his way to Perth, Austalia. He is accompanied by Bill Bray.
October 19 : Michael visits Princess Margaret’s Children Hospital in Perth. Later he is presented with the City’s Keys by Mayor Michael Agapitos.
At night Michael appears live on Australian TV Telethon with Peter Waltham & Molly Meldrum.
October 20 : Michael attends a “Téléthon garden party”, hosted Robert Holmes’s Estate (the business man who sold ATV catalogue to Michael).
Michael makes a second appearance on the Telethon.
October 21 : Michael visits the Cohunu Koala Wildfire Sanctuary in Perth, Australia.
October 22 : Michael flies back home.
October 27 : LaToya performs “Baby Sister” during the 16th annual World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo, Japan aka the Yamaha Music Festival . “Baby Sister is the 1st single from LaToya’s ‘s 4th studio album “Imagination” released in 1986. Janet supports LaToya by performing background vocals on her song during the performance. Michael also supports LaToya through a video taped with her earlier this month at Hayvenhurst.
November 08 : Recording session at Michael’s Hayvenhurst home studio. MJ, Bill Bottrell, John Barnes and Matt Forger work on the song “Tomboy”.
November 22 : Rebbie gives birth to her son named Austin Brown (“Auggie”).
November 28 : Recording session at Michael’s Hayvenhurst home studio. MJ, Bill Bottrell, John Barnes and Matt Forger work with Roger Troutman (guitar).
December 02 : Recording session at Michael’s Hayvenhurst home studio. MJ, Bill Bottrell, John Barnes and Matt Forger work on the song “Tomboy”.
December 25 : Michael and Elizabeth Taylor visit Hollywood Park together.The actress is a member of the Turf Club at the racetrack and owns a horse, Basic Image, that participates in races. “We both love horses and animals, and we love going to the paddock and seeing the horses up close. We love Hollywood Park,” Michael Jackson said to his friend Gloria Rhoads Berlin. The two stars are spotted at their table, watching the actress’s horse race, ridden by the famous jockey William Lee “Bill” Shoemaker, who will, however, finish in the last positions. The story goes that Liz, seeing her horse falling behind, started shouting and swearing to the astonishment of Michael Jackson, who was not accustomed to hearing her utter such words!
December 30 : Recording session at Michael’s Hayvenhurst home studio. MJ, Bill Bottrell, John Barnes and Matt Forger record vocals for an unspecified song.
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