More Jackson Set for TV

Should this winter's Living With Michael Jackson have failed to sate the appetite of inquiring minds about the private life of the King of Pop, Fox will serve up two hours of never-before-seen footage of Jackson on April 24th as the tentatively-titled "Michael Jackson's Private Home Movies."

While Jackson's latest album, last year's Invincible, failed to attract much interest, 27.1 million people tuned into Living when it aired on February 6th. Jackson, who will offer a new interview for the show, maintains that Martin Bashir, Living's director, took advantage of him, and portrayed him in an unfavorable light. Jackson quickly produced his own show, The Michael Jackson Interview: The Footage You Were Never Meant to See, where his own cameramen caught Bashir praising Jackson as a parent; the show pulled in 14 million viewers.

With sweeps week approaching, Fox is looking to again tap the newfound interest in Jackson, having culled the program from thousands of hours of footage from Jackson's home movie collection.

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Song Stories

“Too Close”

Next | 1998

Next was formed in Minneapolis when the uncle of Terry "T-Low" and Raphael "Tweety" Brown, who was a gospel choir director, introduced the brothers to Robert Lavelle "R.L." Huggar. Sounds of Blackness singer Ann Nesby groomed the R&B group before handing them over to Naughty by Nature's KayGee, who wrote and produced "Too Close." The idea for the song was sparked "from a conversation we had with several girls at a nightclub," explained T-Low. "It's talking about the club scene, with guys getting out of hand and the female telling him to back up, asking, 'What are you doing?'" 

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