The republication of some of the Jacksons albums is very rare, unfortunately, and one has to recognize the value of the 2008 releases of both the Destiny and the Triumph albums, especially as they contain some of John Luongo’s mixes. His alternative versions of Blame It On The Boogie, Shake Your Body and Walk Right […]
The movie The Wiz shall remain one of the highest peaks of Michael Jackson’s cinema career. Still, it was musically speaking that this piece of art played a major part in Michael’s whole career.Indeed, he and Quincy Jones (who was co-producing the soundtrack) met during the shooting of the film and that changed the history […]
For any Toto fan, Michael Sherwood’s name is far from unknown. As a matter of fact, he has been one of Steve Porcaro’s most faithful joint collaborators for the last 30 years. That’s why I wanted to discuss his musical career with him and try to decipher that beautiful complicity. It was the perfect opportunity […]
Sunday October 9th 2016 While the last days of August are synonymous with the end of the holidays and going back to school for a lot of people, I was happy that everything was completed for the release of Let’s Make HIStory in September. With that goal reached, I was about to think of the […]
While putting the final touches to my project « Let’s Make HIStory » I really wanted to find a quality picture from that era that would become the cover of the book and help giving it credibility. I did numerous research before eventually Steven Paul Whitsitt’s works caught my attention. Then, after choosing one of his photographs […]
As a Toto fan, it would have been difficult for me not to notice Frenchman Jim Lopez’s experience as Steve Lukather’s guitar tech. Before the year 2010, I knew Jim through the internet, including the Totoweb forum, but I was far from imagining the beautiful adventure that awaited him. The main interested person talks about […]