Picking up the MB clues
Hi everyone, this blog will be an attempt to keep my friends and other site lurkers updated on what’s been going on in our little MB world. I only want to write about newsworthy items relevant to his career and life when it’s appropriate. The main reason I’m doing it is to stop repeating myself and stop having to search for previous posts. Since I’m on the site on a regular basis, I thought it would be helpful. :D Take care and hugs to all, sincerely, Sylvie :D
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Comment by sylvie boisvert on June 5, 2018 at 6:13am
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Hi everyone, well first, trying to listen to the New Zealand interview again, I realized I hadn’t posted the right link, so let me try this again:
http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/saturday-morning-with-jack-tame/...
Sorry about that and hope this one works better. Second, Sylvia posted the link to a BMI interview Michael did today. Here is the link she shared:
https://www.bmi.com/special/bolton
That link has a short article, but you can also watch it here on YouTube:
Michael Bolton on Songwriting, Perseverance & Inspiration | A BMI Exclusive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og6oCPDtu1Q
It’s nothing much new, but it’s a nice 7 minute interview, enjoy! That’s the news for now, thanks for reading, sincerely, Sylvie :D
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Hi everyone, I have a couple of items of interest. First, Sylvia posted this link to an interview Michael did in New Zealand yesterday:
http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/saturday-morning-with-jack-tame/...
I didn’t time it exactly, but it’s about 15 minutes or so: a very nice interview. Next is an article Sylvia posted today on the “New album and possible DVD 2018” thread:
https://www.couriermail.com.au/lifestyle/uonsunday/michael-bolton-i...
Michael Bolton is touring with an orchestra and will perform at The Star Gold Coast_The Courier-Mail
Daniel Johnson, U On Sunday
June 2, 2018 9:50am
The multiple Grammy-winning performer – who is about to embark on an Australian greatest-hits tour backed by a full orchestra – has sold more than 75 million
albums since the breakthrough success of his 1987 album The Hunger, which featured the Billboard top-20 hits That’s What Love Is All About and (Sittin’
- on) The Dock of the Bay.
But as Bolton tells U on Sunday, that success was a long time coming, and came after the then-head of Columbia Records, Al Teller, convinced Bolton – who
had been writing songs for other artists in addition to doggedly pursuing his own singing career – to consider holding on to some of the softer-edged compositions
he had been writing for other artists to record himself.
“I think I wound up putting out nine albums – or recording nine albums – that over an 18-year period did not succeed,” the 65-year-old says. “Al Teller
had the good sense to call me out, basically, and say, ‘I know you’re enjoying rock but your strength is this music you’re writing for other people; can
you record an album where you keep these songs for yourself and let go of this wall of sound you’re trying to do?’
“At the same time, a song I’d written that Laura Branigan recorded, How Am I Supposed to Live Without Yo u, had become the first hit that I ever wrote,
so I was succeeding as an artist and a writer and as a producer at the same time after many, many failures – near successes, but attempts that failed.”
Greater success followed, with his follow-up album Soul Provider selling more than 12 million copies worldwide and producing five hit singles – including How
Am I Supposed to Live Without You and How Can We Be Lovers and his following three albums were also multi-platinum hits.
In 2011, his career took another unexpected turn when he was approached by musical-comedy troupe The Lonely Island – comprised of Akiva Schaffer, Jorma
Taccone and Saturday Night Live star Andy Samberg – to collaborate with them on the track Captain Jack Sp arrow.
The song – and its accompanying video, which was aired as a digital short on SNL – revolves around the troupe attempting to collaborate with Bolton on
a braggadocio hip-hop track about meeting women at clubs and subsequently winning their favour with their charisma and magnetism.
At the start of the video, Bolton apologises to for being late, explaining he has been caught up watching a Pirates of the Caribbean marathon. He then
tells the trio he has come up with a “big, sexy hook” for the song and proceeds to intensely sing about “the tale of Captain Jack Sparrow, pirate so brave
on the seven seas” in increasing detail during the song’s bridges, before singing lurid precis about other films including Forrest Gump, Erin Brockovich
and Scarface.
The video quickly became a viral hit – it has since been viewed more than 184 million times on YouTube – and revealed Bolton’s hitherto-unseen, seemingly
innate ability to poke fun at himself. It also exposed him to an entirely different audience.
“Since Captain Jack Sparrow went viral, people have been coming to shows yelling ‘Jack Sparrow, Jack Sparrow’,” Bolton says, “so we do a couple of verses
and the chorus and the ones yelling for me to do it will be cheering and I’ll look out to the audience and there will be all these other people with their
jaws dropped, not knowing what it is, and I’ll have to explain it to them.”
It begs the question, did Bolton – who exuded such a serious, earnest demeanour in his music videos and interviews from the late-’80s through to the ’90s
– always have a penchant for self-deprecation and parody bubbling just beneath the surface?
“Those serious interviews and the intensity that I think would come from me was basically based upon trying to make it for 18 years and not having rent
cheques clear and a lot of very serious kind of fearful times,” Bolton reflects.
“I think that’s what I carried with me to interviews, without discussing it openly; it was 18 years in the making and when it happened, it was fast and
furious and I thought it could go away just as quickly.”
Bolton, who has just finished rehearsing with The Lonely Island ahead of the troupe’s first live performance, says he’s looking forward to the rare opportunity
of performing with a full orchestra on his Australian tour and says he will be recording the Perth show.
“I’ve never worked this closely with anyone – in this case Chris Walden, who’s brilliant – on orchestrations before. It’s really exciting, it’s another
dimension to bring to music that people know and have had as the backdrop, kind of soundtrack of their lives.”
Michael Bolton will perform at The Star Gold Coast on June 14.
Sylvia added the “possible DVD” to the heading of her thread, but aside from saying the Perth concert would be recorded, I didn’t read anything about a DVD, so maybe she knows something \I don’t. In any case, that’s the news for now, thanks for reading, sincerely, Sylvie |:D
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Hi everyone, Gail posted that it seems Michael will be on the June 12 episode of "Beat Shazam" with Jamie Foxx, check your local listings. That's the news for now, thanks for reading, sincerely, Sylvie :D
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Hi everyone, Sylvia shared this video our Michael put up on Twitter, about being part of the new season of “Beat Shazam” that starts next week, on May 29 2018, though no word on exactly when he'll be on yet:
Now second, I first heard the news thanks to my friend Robin, then realised I hadn’t gotten a notification for this one. Acording to this April 26 Australian interview that slipped by all of us, our Michael is launching his own perfume line!
Michael Bolton reveals perfume line on mix94.5's The Big Breakfast : Radio Today
26 Apr 2018 0 409
Michael Bolton reveals perfume line on mix94.5’s The Big Breakfast
Music legend Michael Bolton broke the news of his own new perfume line to The Big Breakfast’s Clairsy, Matt and Kymba today.
The Grammy-winning artist came into mix94.5 Perth this morning to chat about his forthcoming Australian tour, and Clairsy managed to get him to spill the beans on his new custom fragrance.
“It’s not something I was actively pursuing,” Bolton admitted. “I’ve got a lot of projects going on at the same time and I’m still touring quite a bit, but someone pitched me on this great idea!”
During the chat, Bolton revealed that he was struggling to decide on a name for the perfume, but The Big Breakfast team reassured him that it would sell no matter what it was called.
“If anyone knows how women should smell, it’s Michael Bolton!” said Matt.
Michael Bolton tours Australia in June this year.
Clairsy Matt and Kymba
http://radiotoday.com.au/michael-bolton-reveals-perfume-line-on-mix...
There are no more details on name, launch date etc, so stay tuned! That’s the news for now, thanks for reading, sincerely, Sylvie :D
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Hi everyone, I hadn't gotten notifications in a few days, so I'm doing the rounds right now. Sylvia posted this terrific link yesterday, to an interview Michael did by phone with Radio New Zealand's "Sunday Morning" show:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/201864569...
For your information, the interview is easily accessible: you can listen on-line or download it and it's about 18 minutes long. I hope the link works, otherwise I'll repost. If I find anything else, I'll be sure to report. That's the news for now, thanks for reading, sincerely, Sylvie :D
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Hi again everyone, here’s the second article, shared by Sylvia, from Hour Detroit magazine:
https://twitter.com/Hour_Detroit/status/996854047935102977
On Tuesday, May 15, UA Commerce Township Stadium 14 in Walled Lake — in partnership with 450 other cinemas across the country — staged an exclusive, one-night showing of the documentary “American Dream: Detroit.” The film was co-directed by singer-songwriter, Michael Bolton and his manager, Christina Kline, and was brought to audiences across the country by event cinema distributor, Fathom Events, and Bolton’s media company, Passion Films.
“We looked for theaters that have performed well for our past music and documentary events and also focused heavily in the Detroit area,” Ray Nutt, CEO of Fathom Events wrote in an email to Hour Detroit. “That said, we pitch the event to our founding members (AMC, Regal and Cinemark), and they ultimately choose which theaters take the content.”
Over the course of 90 minutes, Bolton presented a “love letter to the city of Detroit.” His goal was to honor Detroit through an analysis of its glorious past, evolving present, promising future, and importance on the national scale.
“The protagonist of this story is a city,” Bolton said, amidst a montage of scenes from Detroit’s past and present. “Some of the greatest people I ever met, Detroiters.”
Several important figures that call the city home made cameos: legendary singer-songwriters Aretha Franklin and Smokey Robinson; Christopher Ilitch, president and CEO of Ilitch Holdings, Inc.; William Ford Jr., executive chairman of Ford Motor Co.; famed film director, producer, and screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola; and Mayor Mike Duggan.
Many reflected over their childhood in the city. Robinson and Franklin explained how they and fellow singer-songwriter, Diana Ross, grew up together on the north end of Detroit. Shaun Robinson, former co-host of entertainment and celebrity news program, Access Hollywood, gushed over his favorite haunts, including Belle Isle Park, Palmer Park, and Greektown. Rock singer Alice Cooper talked about going to Red Wings games with his father at Olympia Stadium. Director and producer Jerry Bruckheimer reflected on his Detroit upbringing as a first generation American — his parents immigrated from Germany.
Fashion designer John Varvatos and journalist Mitch Albom appeared as well.
Bolton made nods to all of Detroit’s identities over the first half of the 20th century. As the “industrial backbone” of the country during World War II due to its thriving automotive industry. As the birthplace of the middle class — families who had disposable income. As a melting pot of immigrants who came from around the world to have a great life. And as a cultural mecca boasting venues like Fox Theatre where the iconic artists of Motown performed.
Bolton has a deep love for Motown, and Detroit first caught his eye while he was researching for his album, “A Tribute to Hitsville USA.” Though the former recording studio is now museum, Bolton considers it to be a lab once filled with master scientists at work. Some of Motown’s key players including musician and producer, Quincy Jones, and songwriting and production team, Holland-Dozier-Holland were featured in the documentary
Bolton’s ultimate goal was to also shed light on the city’s true story — a story he finds blurred by the media’s continual focusing on Detroit’s undoing.
“Detroit’s music and manufacturing was fueling the world,” Bolton said on screen. “So, what happened?”
Racial tensions were not overlooked. Albom, in conjuction with several others, explained the racial divide between black and white people during the city’s heyday. As white people with money began leaving Detroit, a phenomenon known as “White Flight,” the city took several economic blows. These were exacerbated by the oil embargo of the 1970s, the economic downturn in the 1980s, and the crippling 2007-09 recession. These were the events that would lead to the Motor City’s downfall over the course of four decades, and by 2013, the city itself would file for bankruptcy.
But Detroit would not go down without a fight. Bolton addressed the present growth happening in the city through the stories of young entrepreneurs, who Bolton believes holds the keys to the future. The audience heard from commercial real estate firm, Bedrock Detroit; Melissa Price, CEO of interior design firm, dPOP; Jason Hall, co-founder of the bicycling nonprofit, Slow Roll; Bridget Russo, former chief marketing officer of Shinola; and Veronika Scott, CEO and founder of the Empowerment Plan, which employs women that are homeless or living in shelters to turn coats into sleeping bags.
Dan Gilbert, founder of Quicken Loans and Rock Ventures, LLC., spoke as well. The move of his business into several buildings throughout downtown Detroit has been pivotal in the city’s rebound.
Click here to learn more about “American Dream: Detroit” from Fathom Events.
That’s the news for now, thanks for reading, sincerely, Sylvie :D
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Hi everyone, today I come baring wonderful articles shared by Gail and by Sylvia. Here's the first one:
Michael Bolton’s Detroit documentary cheered at Redford Theatre_The Oakland Press
POSTED: 05/15/18, 11:04 PM EDT |
Michael Bolton introduces his documentary "American Dream: Detroit" on Tuesday night, May 15, at Detroit's Redford Theatre
By Gary Graff, The Oakland Press
DETROIT -- Michael Bolton likes to call his new documentary “a love letter to Detroit.”
On Tuesday night, May 15, the city showed its love to Bolton.
While the rest of the country was seeing “Michael Bolton Presents American Dream: Detroit” via a theatrical simulcast to more than 45 theaters, the multi-million selling singer and his manager and co-director Christina Kline screened the film at the city’s Redford Theatre for a sold-out and enthusiastic crowd of 1,600 -- including film participants such as Motown legend Martha Reeves, Rock Ventures’ Bruce Schwartz, media personality Mitch Albom and Slow Roll founder Jason Hall.
“I can’t imagine being anywhere else for this premiere,” a clearly emotional Bolton, who spent five years working on the project, told the crowd before the screening. “The energy is greatly appreciated...I walked into this room, and it was amazing.”
That energy held up throughout the 90-minute film as the Redford audience cheered often, and loudly, for everything from an “I (heart) Detroit” T-shirt to declarations about the city’s comeback from a 2013 bankruptcy by various interview subjects in the film. As the end credits rolled, and Bolton, wearing a Detroit T-shirt under his black sport coat, teared up during the ovation, one man yelled out, “Thank you, Michael Bolton!,” drawing another long round of applause.
“It was overdue,” Bolton, 65 -- and celebrating his 50th year in professional show business -- said after the film. “I didn’t realize it was going to take this many years to edit and finish. This is a love letter to all the great things and people of Detroit.”
Reeves gave “American Dream: Detroit,” her thumbs-up afterwards as well, noting that, “I think it’s fantastic. I hope it’s shown all over the world.” Rock Ventures’ Schwartz added that, “I thought this was an amazing night. We were so grateful that Michael Bolton has put us on the national and international stage. He didn’t have to do this, and we love him for it.”
Slow Roll’s Hall, meanwhile, came with his mother, who he said began crying with joy during his time on screen. “I’ve never had a prouder moment,” he noted.
The night also included performances by local musical artists Stephie James, Jena Irene Asciutto and the duo Adventures With Vultures.
Reeves’ wish for the film to receive wider circulation will come true, according to Kline. By fall it should be on streaming services, and she said they’re also in discussions with free TV networks about both the movie and also an “American Dream” that will go into greater depth about some of the endeavors detailed in the film. “Out Of The Ashes,” a song Bolton wrote especially for the movie, will likely be released as a single, according to Kline, and there will also be subsequent “American Dream” documentaries about other cities.
And Bolton held out the possibility for a sequel to chronicle more about Detroit’s renaissance.
“We haven’t done all this work just to disappear,” he told the Redford crowd. “The next movie will take a lot of time, but we’ve got a lot of footage. I want to see the great success of the city continue...It’s going to be one of the greatest comeback stories in the history of this country.”
Gary Graff is a longtime Detroit-area music critic and rock and roll reporter. Reach the author at gary.graff@oakpress.com
http://www.theoaklandpress.com/arts-and-entertainment/20180515/mich...
I'm just so proud and happy for Michael that it was such a success! The next article will be in the next post, be right back. Sylvie :D
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Hi again everyone, here comes another armload of MB goodies! First, here’s a link to Michael's interview on Live in the D yesterday:
https://www.facebook.com/4liveinthed/videos/1548385201938867/
Second, here’s another interview Michael gave Ann Marie LaFemme yesterday for WXYZ 7 News:
https://www.wxyz.com/entertainment/around-town/michael-bolton-one-o...
Now here’s a YouTube video of Michael in interview with MLive Detroit at the Redford Theatre yesterday:
Michael in interview with Jack and Carolyn on 98.1 The Breeze
https://981thebreeze.iheart.com/featured/the-morning-breeze/content...
...and one more,
MICHAEL BOLTON'S LOVE LETTER TO DETROIT
I still need to check out a couple of these myself, so happy reading and listening to all! That’s the news for now, thanks for reading, sincerely, Sylvie :D
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Michael Bolton's Detroit documentary ready to debut_Detroit Free Press
When a man loves a city: Singer Michael Bolton's documentary on Detroit to debut
Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press Pop Music Critic Published 8:13 p.m. ET May 14, 2018 | Updated 9:20 p.m. ET May 14, 2018
Five years and 100 hours of film footage later, Michael Bolton's cinematic love letter to Detroit is finally hitting the big screen.
"American Dream: Detroit," which explores the entrepreneurial and cultural turnaround in key parts of the city, will premiere Tuesday evening in a onetime, simultaneous showing at more than 400 theaters across the country, including 15 cinemas in southeastern Michigan.
Bolton will be at the Redford Theatre at 7 p.m. Tuesday for the documentary's Detroit screening — the latest of many recent visits from the Motown-loving singer, who was inspired to start the project while shooting an infomercial at Hitsville, U.S.A., in 2013.
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The 90-minute film will be followed by performances from four of the artists whose music is featured in the movie: Jena Irene Asciutto, Charity, Adventures With Vultures and Stephie James.
(They're part of an onscreen soundtrack that is perhaps the most prominent collection of Detroit music ever assembled in a single film, including songs
by Aretha Franklin, Eminem, Bob Seger, Madonna, Smokey Robinson, Alice Cooper, the Temptations and Jackie Wilson. The full Spotify playlist is below.)
"American Dream" is a self-described labor of love for Bolton, 65, the husky-voiced soul-pop singer who became a fixture of the Top 40 and adult contemporary charts starting in the late '80s.
With manager Christina Kline as his co-producer and co-director, Bolton tackled the project amid his busy life of music commitments, including recording sessions and international touring. Each trip to Detroit for shooting would uncover new projects and stories, and individuals featured in the film range from C-Suite power players (Dan Gilbert, Christopher Ilitch, Bill Ford) to grassroots activists.
Bolton also secured interviews with some of the city's best-known showbiz figures.
"We didn’t have to twist anybody’s arm to come and sing the praises of Detroit and their love for Detroit, from Aretha Franklin and Smokey to Francis Ford Coppola — so many amazing people in film, TV and music," he told the Free Press Tuesday at Redford Theatre.
Bolton also secured interviews with some of the city's best-known showbiz figures.
"We didn’t have to twist anybody’s arm to come and sing the praises of Detroit and their love for Detroit, from Aretha Franklin and Smokey to Francis Ford Coppola — so many amazing people in film, TV and music," he told the Free Press Tuesday at Redford Theatre.
The documentary's seeds were planted during Bolton's 2013 trip to Motown, as he was readying the release of his album "Ain't No Mountain High Enough: A Tribute to Hitsville U.S.A." After decades of Detroit visits, he sensed something different was afoot.
"Every time I (would) do a concert anywhere in the Detroit area, I (would) keep looking around and wondering, ‘When is the redevelopment going to happen? Who’s in charge of this?' " said Bolton, a Connecticut native whose father once headed New Haven's redevelopment agency.
This time, he said, "we heard there actually were people talking about and creating redevelopment projects, and we wanted to interview them and find out what was going on. And we found an enormous story in that — not knowing it was going to take five years."
Lengthy segments from the in-progress film were shown at the Fox Theatre in October 2015, a red-carpet event that drew Gilbert, Ilitch, Mayor Mike Duggan, U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow and Motown's Martha Reeves.
Michael Bolton with riders from Slow Roll Detroit in front of "The Spirit of Detroit" statue in downtown Detroit. (Photo: Passion8media)
Since then, Bolton and his team have fine-tuned the film, in what he called a painstaking editing process that helped put a human face on the Detroit comeback.
"To take a hundred hours (of footage) and turn it into 90 minutes, that's a lot of cutting and re-cutting, a lot of rethinking and stepping back," he said. "I think probably most filmmakers will say: If you did your job, the story will reveal itself. In this case, the protagonist is the city, but we all know you (must) have people who are attractive and compelling human beings, by their nature and character.
"It needed to take a few steps in a certain direction to be the voice of Detroiters, and to deliver the message we had originally intended," he said.
Bolton got in during the first bloom of the Detroit rebound, and the film captures much of the fresh energy he encountered during those early months of filming — the Slow Roll Detroit bike rides, the Detroit Institute of Music Education, community startups such as the Empowerment Plan.
And while the resurgence continues apace — including the multibillion-dollar development work led by Gilbert and Ilitch — some of the local dynamics have shifted in the five years since Bolton began his project, including emerging concerns about gentrification and worries that a divide is emerging between the booming central district and struggling Detroit neighborhoods elsewhere.
Bolton said he's sensitive to those concerns, and knew they'd be in the mix even as he started the project.
"What I do feel is the success that feeds a city like this has a lot more opportunity to help other people become successful," he said. He related it to his 25 years running a charitable foundation in Connecticut, where he said outsider contributions dry up during tough economic times and flourish when big companies and donors have money to give.
"When there's more of a tax base, more income to work with, it's a lot easier to say, 'Let's make this opportunity happen. Let's focus on this block. Let's widen our scope,' " he said. "All of the possibilities become real."
Bolton has witnessed another shift since he embarked on "American Dream": a wider national awareness of what's happening in Detroit.
When taking off for his latest visits to the Motor City, "everybody I see goes, 'Oh yeah, have a great time, man!' " Bolton said. "I think there's been a huge change from the first time I said I'm going to Detroit and I'm going to film. It was like, 'Why?!' Now they know why."
The marquee for singer Michael Bolton's film AmericanBuy Photo
The marquee for singer Michael Bolton's film American Dream Detroit is seen on
Monday, May 14, 2018 at Redford Theatre in Detroit. (Photo: Ryan Garza, Detroit Free Press)
Bolton recently screened the film for a Hollywood-hardened crowd in Los Angeles. Some audience members were in tears, he said.
"What I found was that people were really moved," Bolton said. "There were two things people had to tell me after the film: One, they were just moved by a lot of the people we covered in the film, and they were now aware of the kinds of efforts and investments that have been made in the city. The second is that they were enlightened ... in a way that they now knew the past of Detroit. They saw how powerful the city was."
Plans are still coming together for the film's long-term future, but Bolton's team said there will be some kind of wider distribution.
At this point, Bolton said he's an all-around Detroit devotee, a lifelong New York Yankees fan who now finds himself rooting for Motor City teams. And he's confident that the revival captured in his movie is just the start of what he describes — citing Ilitch — as "the greatest urban comeback in American history."
Michael Bolton Presents 'American Dream: Detroit'
Including an appearance by Bolton
7 p.m. Tue.
Redford Theatre
17360 Lahser Rd, Detroit
313-527-2560
List of all theaters with screenings at www.fathomevents.com
Tickets for Redford Theatre event: $16
Contact Detroit Free Press music writer Brian McCollum: 313-223-4450 or bmccollum@freepress.com.
Playlist:
7 p.m. Tue.
Redford Theatre
17360 Lahser Rd, Detroit
313-527-2560
List of all theaters with screenings at www.fathomevents.com
Tickets for Redford Theatre event: $16
Contact Detroit Free Press music writer Brian McCollum: 313-223-4450 or bmccollum@freepress.com.
Playlist:
- Respect Aretha Franklin 2:27
- Vogue Madonna 5:16
- Let you down NF 3:32
- Lose yourself Eminem 5:20
- Somebody was watching Pops Staples 4:07
- Praise the Lord and pass the amunition The Merry Macs 2:34
- Dreaming \Mayor \Hawthorn 3:40
- The walk Mayor |Hawthorn 3:38
- Time to run Lord Huron 5:23
- Dancing in the streets |Martha Reeves & the Vandelas 4:23
- Pretty Charity 3:26
- Top of the world Mike \Posner, Big Sean 3:21
- Skies of ghold Adventures with Vu;ltures 3:52
- Try me DeJ Loaf3:37
- Best thing that everhappened to me Gladys Knight & the Pips 3:44
- Cruisin’ Smokey Robinson 5:53
- Night moves Bob Seger 5:24
- I’m 18 Alice Cooper 3:00
- Gotta keep dreamin’ Michael Bolton 4:23
- Unbreakable Gina Irene Asciutto 5:00
- Jenny take a ride Mitch Ryder, the Detroit Wheels 3:25
- There’ll be a hotr time in the town of Berlin when the Yanks go marching in (single version) Bing Crosby & Andrews Sisters 2:54
- You make me feel like a natural woman Aretha Franklin 2:46
- Being with you Smokey Robinson 4:06
- Want ads Honey Comb 2:46
- Something’s better than nothing Barret Strong 3:42
- How am I supposed to live without you Michael Bolton 4:15
- Your love keeps lifting me higher & higher Jackie Wilson 3:01
- I’ll be around The Spinners 3:08\
- My girl The Temptations 2:45
- Ain’t nothing like the real thing Marvin Gaye & Tammy Tirell 2:18
- Good times roll GriZ Big Gigantic4:04
https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/movies/2018/05/14/michael...
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Hi everyone, Sylvia has spoiled us with Michael goodies, obviously related to Michael's Detroit documentary, that finished just a few minutes ago. I'll start with an article from Billboard published yesterday:
Michael Bolton on What Inspired Him to Tell the Story of Detroit's Comeback With New
Documentary | Billboard
5/14/2018 by Gary Graff
DETROIT - A legendary singer-songwriter is coming to Detroit to attend the world-premiere his new documentary based around the city.
Michael Bolton will be in attendance this Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Redford Theatre in Detroit for the premiere of "American Dream: Detroit," which is put on by Fathom Events and Passion Films.
Bolton is a co-producer and co-director on the documentary, which is focused on the revival and resurgence of the city, why the history and future of Detroit matters in the global landscape, and is a "love letter" to Detroit.
The documentary will be shown at more than 450 theaters in the country, including 26 in Michigan, but only on Tuesday.
"This documentary is a truly inspiring tale of a city's historical transformation that is certain to entertain, educate and move fans from coast to coast," said CEO of Fathom Events Ray Nutt in a release. "Additionally, the special bonus concert is a must-see for my friend Michael and 'Hitsville USA' aficionados."
Local celebrities involved in the making of the film include singer Aretha Franklin, musician Smokey Robinson, rock star Alice Cooper, journalist Mitch Albom and more. Detroit-born artist Stephie James is also featured on one song in the documentary titled "Silent Film."
Tickets for the premiere are $16 and may be purchased by going to redfordtheatre.com. To find a theater near you showing the documentary, click here.
Interview Michael has given Billboard and which Gotta Keep Dreamin shared on FB
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/8455837/michael-bolton-amer...
here is transcript ....
Michael Bolton has loved Motown all his life as a music fan. Now, he's made a cinematic "love letter" to the Motor City.
Michael Bolton Presents American Dream: Detroit -- a documentary about the city's dramatic recovery from a 2013 bankruptcy -- screens at more than 450 theaters on Tuesday (May 15) via Fathom Events. Bolton, who co-directed the densely detailed 90-minute film with Christina Kline, was inspired by Detroit's story after a visit to the Motown Historical Museum to make an ad for his 2013 album Ain't No Mountain High Enough: A Tribute to Hitsville U.S.A. There, he was introduced to people who were working to bring Detroit back, including entrepreneurs such as Quicken Loans' Dan Gilbert and the Ilitch family, who owns the Little Caesars Pizza chain as well as the Detroit Tigers and Red Wings sports franchises.
"We had been told there was a major effort to bring back Detroit on a very large scale," Bolton, who will host a special screening of the film on Tuesday at Detroit's Redford Theatre, tells Billboard. "I got to meet some amazing people and found they were completely committed to this entire comeback of Detroit. I realized this story was so much bigger than my album. Hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars are being focused, wisely, on bringing back a community.
"Like anybody else I heard all of the (bad) things people say about Detroit. I thought someone needed to tell the story about all the good things that were happening there."
Bolton, Kline and their team visited Detroit more than a dozen times during the five years of the film's production, conducting interviews with more than 100 people and finding the situation had improved even more each time they returned. "There were new restaurants, more office spaces filled, more people living," Bolton recalls. "It was exciting."
The film -- whose soundtrack includes well-known and obscure Detroit songs as well as two new Bolton originals, "Out of the Ashes" and "Keep Dreamin'" -- offers a concise history of Detroit's rise and fall leading up to 2013, as well as interviews with entertainers (Aretha Franklin, Smokey Robinson, Alice Cooper, Mayer Hawthorne, the Supremes' Mary Wilson, Martha Reeves and film directors Francis Ford Coppola and Jerry Bruckheimer), business luminaries such as native John Varvatos and politicians. The film also spotlights small-scale entrepreneurs and citizens impacted positively by the changes.
"When people say, 'Hey, what's going on in Detroit?,' it starts with a lot of great people," Bolton says. "We covered the stars and the giant entrepreneurs and their commitment, but it's more important at a human level, because these are individuals whose lives are moving in a great direction because there's all this activity going on and someone gave them the opportunity, and they're doing great things.
"You find yourself rooting for this story, for the success of the story like you would for a sports team.
After the film's premiere this week Bolton hopes to find it "the best home where it can have the longest life...between network and cable and streaming," though no deal has yet been announced. Meanwhile Bolton has other creative projects in development, including an album that will feature orchestral versions of his greatest hits that he'll record during June in Perth, Australia, for release later this year. He's also developing some new television projects and is contemplating some sort of commemoration of his 50th anniversary in the music business.
"I think maybe I feel more permission to enjoy myself now," Bolton says. "I feel like the first 20 years was a long, steep climb, and then 10 years after that was learning what I wanted to do with my voice and what my capabilities are, getting to sing with Ray Charles and Luciano Pavarotti, which was, like, beyond any dream I had. And now there's just a lot of fun to be had with music and comedy and whatever else looks interesting -- as long as music is always part of that mix."
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It's nice to know there will be at least one new song on the soundtrack: "Out of the ashes" and again, I do hope Michael has surprises for the symphonic album. I have another lengthy article
that includes a Spotify playlist of songs included in the film, all released songs that is. Be right back.
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