Five years ago, Producer Joe was on location in Gary, Ind. at the boyhood home of Michael Jackson, where a ceremony was taking place on the one year anniversary of his death. Joe managed to get interviewed by about six different news sources including WGN in Chicago, as well as KTLA in Los Angeles!
In an interview with VICE, Ahmed Best, best known as the man who appeared in three less-than-enthusiastically received Star Wars prequels as the less-than-beloved Jar Jar Binks, says that while he was the one who ended up winning the role, there was a far more famous superstar who really wanted to play everyone’s ninth-favorite Gungan. And that man was Michael Jackson.
Despite being dead for nearly five years, Michael Jackson "performed" at the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday night.
"How?," you might ask.
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