rage: Michael Jackson
You wanted it, you got it. rage will have a mammoth tribute night on Michael Jackson on August 1st.
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You wanted it, you got it. rage will have a mammoth tribute night on Michael Jackson on Saturday August 1st.
It begins with a one hour teaser at 10am in the morning, before the full tribute begins later that night at 11:45pm.
rage promises no interruptions, only full length clips, archive rarities, interview footage and much more spanning over 40 years of Michael Jackson’s prolific career.
It includes rare footage of Jackson performing his earliest hits, interview footage with the Jackson family from the 1970s, plus favourite clips from the Jackson Five.
The tribute includes rare footage from Countdown including exclusive interviews with Jackson, and even Molly Meldrum dressed in ghoulish zombie makeup to celebrate the release of Thriller.
High budget, epic clips were Jackson’s signature and rage will show his clips in all their cinematic glory including Bad and Thriller. The clip for Liberian Girl has 30 celebrity cameos. There are duets with his sister Janet plus Michael Jordan and the iconic We are the World.
The hour-long preview starts at 10am on Saturday, August 1. Repeat screening at 5pm on ABC2. Then the full tribute starts at 11:45pm on Saturday night, ABC1.
To find out more about the special visit the rage website – the full playlist for the special will be posted at www.abc.net.au/rage on Friday 31st July.
12 Responses
Well, that took 39GB for both the 25pSF and 50p versions … awesome. (Oops, my mental arithmetic is hazy at 5:30am).
CK.
Well, that took 29GB for both the 25pSF and 50p versions … awesome.
CK.
Bre, you’re lucky I like Madness. Otherwise I’d be mad at this 😛
Christian Kent,
apparently rage can’t do a Beatles special due to copyright issues, which will be interesting to see if any of the Beatles tracks that made it onto Triple J’s Hottest 100 of All Time countdown will be played or not.
I must say that rage does look quite good in August. Michael Jackson special, Triple J’s Hottest 100 of All Time countdown and a Madness special.
I’m disappointed and I’m sure there many others that Network Ten haven’t shown the Michael Jackson episode of the Simpsons Stark Raving Dad since his death.
So when are we getting the Beatles special that was promised after George Harrison died? We were first told is was going to be 40 months ago, but that it had to be postponed and to wait for another announcement.
CK.
Who’s the black guy in the picture?
Slow Reporting, That news has been on rage’s own website about 1week after MJ Died.
I wish I had a PVR 🙁
Loving rage, and love my PVR for recording it. The following weekend (August 8th) is featuring the Triple J Hottest 100 of all time countdown.
Rage!
when i click on the rage website link it takes me to another rage related story on tv tonight
Link fixed.