这是真事 虽然有人说是编的故事
This is really true. People say you just made it up to have something to say.
但确实是有一天 我家电视坏了
But one day, our television broke down
迈克尔杰克逊 早安华盛顿 1976年9月24日
大上午的没别的事可做
and we didn’t have anything, really, to do in the morning times.
我们就开始唱歌♥
So what we started doing, we started singing
我妈妈 我的哥哥弟弟们
my mother, my brothers
我们开始唱和声
and we started making harmony.
接下来我们就开始在达人秀等节目中唱歌♥了
The next thing we know is we were singing in talent shows
得到了许多奖还有奖杯
winning awards and trophies.
我们就是这样开始的
That’s how we got started.
杰克逊五兄弟 艾德沙利文秀 1970年5月10日
暂停 嘿
Hey, hey, hey. Stop the film! Hey!
请暂停
Stop the film, please.
暂停 暂停 谢谢
Hey, stop the film! Come on. Thank you.
他们想听《我要你回来》《ABC》和《你拯救的爱》
They wanna hear I Want You Back, ABC and The Love You Save.
杰克逊兄弟「凯♥旋♥」巡演 加州英格伍德 洛杉矶广场 1981年9月26日
《跳舞机器》《甜爹》《我会在》《要去那》
And Dancing Machine, Sugar Daddy, I’ll be There, Got To Be There.
《摇滚罗宾》 你们想听《爸爸回家》吗
Rockin’ Robin. You want to hear Daddy’s Home?
想听所有这些经典歌♥吗
Do you want to hear all the old stuff?
我不想唱老歌♥首先是因为
The number one reason I don’t want to do the old stuff
首先 歌♥太老了 好吗
number one, it’s old, okay?
而且 编舞也太陈旧了
Number two, the choreography is old.
杰基也老了
Jackie’s old.
你们在乎这些吗
Do you care about that?
在乎吗
Do you care?
我告诉你们…
I’ll tell you what…
我来唱老歌♥给你们听 好吗
I’ll do the old stuff for you, okay?
不过我是唱给你们听的 不是给他们听的
But I’m doing it for you. I’m not doing it for them.
是为你们而唱
I’m doing it for you.
杰克逊五兄弟 好莱坞宫毅 1969年10月18日
杰克逊五兄弟 灵魂列车 1971年10月21日
最早的四首歌♥破了纪录
Their first four songs broke historical records.
伯瑞高迪 制♥作♥人 / 作曲 摩城唱片创始人
最早的四首歌♥全部荣登榜首
Because they all went to number one, the very first four songs.
Their record, which was I Want You Back…
他们的《我要你回来》…
《ABC》《你拯救的爱》《我会在》
-ABC, The Love You Save… -I’ll Be There.
苏珊娜德帕斯 杰克逊五兄弟经纪人 摩城唱片
成名后 我们不能随便出行
What happened after that was we went from being able to go anywhere
不管是买♥♥汉堡 看电影 还是逛街 哪都没法去了
get a hamburger, go to a movie, you know, go shopping, to being able to go nowhere.
他们的成就来得如此快
They became so successful so quickly
我们都没准备好
that none of us were prepared for it.
凯瑟琳杰克逊 杰克逊家族母亲
He used to sing songs with a lot of feeling
他们的歌♥曲曾经包含了丰富的感情
他唱时也会充满感情
and he would sing them with a lot of feeling
也有充分的情绪 似乎在唱自己的经历
and a lot of mood like he had been there before.
自己的见闻
Like he had lived it before.
瓦莱丽辛普森 歌♥手 / 作曲 作品:《爱比山高》《无谓真实》
可是说他遥遥走在前面
Vocally, he was just leaps and bounds ahead
不需要别人教给他什么 他一来就什么都知道了
of what anybody could teach him. He came here knowing that stuff.
他有这个天赋
It was in his DNA.
他两三岁时
I discovered that Michael was very talented
我就发现迈克尔很有天分
when he was just about two or three years old.
就很有节奏感 喜欢跳舞
Michael had a lot of rhythm, and he loved to dance.
我想他生来就是为了跳舞的
I think he was born dancing.
迈克尔很久以前对我说过「史蒂文 我会挣很多钱」
Michael told me way back, he said, “Steve, I’m not gonna be poor.”
史蒂文曼宁 1969-1980年杰克逊五兄弟歌♥迷会长 1976-1981年史诗唱片公♥关♥
想象一下 11个孩子住在印第安纳州加里市的一间两居室中
Imagine 11 kids living in a two-bedroom house in Gary, Indiana.
乔杰克逊 杰克逊家族父亲
印第安纳州加里市和比弗利山庄不同
And Gary, Indiana, is no Beverly Hills.
要养这么多孩子很艰难
It was hard. When you have all those kids, like I had
乔杰克逊 杰克逊家族父亲
孩子们都喜欢吃 所以他们吵闹时
and kids, you know, they like to eat, so when they holler
就是想吃东西了 得给他们点什么
they want some food, you gotta put something in their hand
我会在桌上放上充足的食物
and I kept food on the table, plenty of food, Spike.
约瑟夫在创建这一团队的过程中 做出了不起的贡献
Joseph had done a remarkable job creating the group.
杰克逊五兄弟 艾德沙利文秀 1969年12月14日
我依旧记得这对他们来说有多重要
I can remember how much it meant to all of them
尤其是迈克尔
but particularly Michael, to make it.
我一直认为 对于我来说摩城就是最好的学校
I would say to this day, Motown was the greatest school for me.
确实是最好的
Really, it was the best.
我在那学习了如何剪切和制♥作♥
I learned how to cut a track, as well as producing.
还学会了很多写歌♥方面的技能
I’ve learned so many things about writing.
马龙杰克逊 & 杰基杰克逊 制♥作♥人 / 作曲 / 歌♥手
摩城就像是我的大学
Pretty much like a college.
我们在那学会了各种写歌♥和制♥作♥等方面的知识
They taught us everything about songwriting and producing and everything.
还学会歌♥词内容方面的东西
And we learned so much about lyrical content
如何制♥作♥歌♥曲 如何做一名好的歌♥手
how to produce songs and just being a great artist.
那里有世界上最好的作曲家和歌♥手
They had the best songwriters and artists in the world.
这是在芝加哥
Here we are in Chicago.
这里有诱惑乐队的成员
You see here the members of The Temptations.
最下面就是顶着爆♥炸♥头的小迈克尔
Down here on the bottom, is little Michael with his Afro
我就在他旁边 这就是我
and I’m right next to him, that’s me, y’all.
乔沃格尔 作家 《音乐中人:迈克尔杰克逊的 创作生涯和作品》
迈克尔学的是如何变得伟大
What Michael learned is, to be great
要坚持 要实干
you had to be persistent, you had to work.
要看戴安娜罗斯 马文盖伊和史提夫汪达这样的人
He got to watch people like Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder.
-还有诱惑乐队斯莫基罗宾逊 -斯莫基罗宾逊
-The Temptations, and Smokey Robinson. -Smokey Robinson.
这些了不起的人都让我们崇拜
All those wonderful guys that we idolized.
他们都是音乐产业中的传奇
These were legends in the music industry
他能够在录音棚近距离观察他们 观察他们的音乐元素
that he was able to observe up close in the studio, in their element.
我在摩城大学拿到了学位 我…
I get my degree from the Motown university, and I just…
那里确实有种竞争的氛围
There was really an atmosphere of competition.
竞争中可以产生冠军 可是不能让竞争
Competition breeds champions but you can’t let the competition
超越爱
overcome the love.
一切都以爱为基础 迈克尔心中也充满了爱
And so it was all built on love, and Michael was full of love.
这种氛围很好地塑造了他
And the atmosphere just suited him very well.
和那些伟大的作曲家和制♥作♥人一起 我们受益良多
We learned so much being with all those great songwriters and producers.
一切都是潜移默化的
And at that time when it’s taking place you don’t realize that.
我们当时还是孩子 并不知道该怎么做
We were kids ourselves. I didn’t know how to do this.
苏珊娜德帕斯 佛罗里达州杰克逊维尔市 1970年12月30日
我们共同练习 共同学习
And we were learning as we went, together.
没错 披头士乐队 多年前掀起的热情再现
Yes, it’s the same nerve The Beatles touched lo these many years ago.
斯科特奠斯博恩 ABC新闻 佛州杰克逊维尔 1970年12月30日
而这一次的主角是一帮黑人男孩
Only this time, it’s a group of black teenagers
由11岁的黑人小兄弟带领
fronted by an 11 -year-old soul brother.
杰克逊五兄弟 重回印第安纳演唱会 1971年9月16日
歌♥迷很崇拜他们 十分热情 我们必须理解
It was so intense this fan worship. You have to understand
所有喜欢杰克逊五兄弟的孩子
that all the kids who were responding to the Jackson 5
他们并没有像镜头中的孩子一样 参加过米老鼠俱乐部
hadn’t had a Mickey Mouse Club with kids like them on camera.
他们代表了我们这个时代
They represented the first youth group
第一批年轻人
of our contemporary times
得到了这些孩子的认同
for all these kids to identify with.
最初 都是些黑人孩子
And initially, they were all the black kids.
我最开始见到他时
Beginning is when I first saw him
李丹尼尔斯 制♥作♥人 / 导演 作品:《嘻哈帝国》《白宫管家》
所以我才在这 那就是我的动力
and that’s the reason why I’m here, is that that’s what motivated me
让我从事了我现在在做的事
and wanted me to do whatever it is that I’m doing right now.
他就是我渴望成为的人
He’s everything that I aspired to be.
那些孩子大部分时间 都在和我们一起练习
Those boys just practice most of the time with us
乔杰克逊 佛州杰克逊维尔 1970年12月30日
而其他孩子都在外面玩
But another kids with out the
在大街上到处玩
running in the streets and playing.
而他们那时就在排歌♥
They was in there trying to get a song down or something.
他想做到最好
He wanted to be the best at everything he ever did.
他们完全不关心这是在工作
They were not at all concerned about the working.
我们夜以继日地工作
We worked all day and all night.
这孩子在九岁时就举足轻重
This kid, at nine, meant serious business.
确实是不得了
I mean, this kid meant serious, serious business.
可不是再开玩笑
I mean, he was not kidding.
他向尼克和我提出过 关于摩城早期歌♥曲的疑问
He questioned Nick and I about our early Motown songs.
他总是想知道 你们是怎么想出这些的
He always wanted to know. “How’d you come up with this idea?”
这是什么 你为什么会这么说
“What was this?” “What made you say that?”
比如《无谓真实》这类歌♥曲 他真是很好学
Songs like Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing. He was a real student.
我被他的这种投入所吸引
I was fascinated by the fact that he had this kind of commitment
小萨米戴维斯 传奇舞者 / 艺人 「鼠帮乐队」成员
他这么投入 这么好学…
this kind of dedication and was inquisitive about…
总是在观察
And was always watching. He would always be watching.
杰克逊五兄弟 戴安娜罗斯 小萨米 戴维斯 好莱坞宫毅 1969年10月18日
那你认为除了我和艾德沙利文 还有谁能
Well, who else do you think makes the stage come to real life
带给这个舞台活力呢
besides me and Ed Sullivan?
等等 等等 等等
Hold it, hold it. Hold it, hold it. Hold it.

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