If we can celebrate anniversaries of man’s first landing on the moon, why not also commemorate the first time Michael Jackson landed on his signature move, the moonwalk? It was 30 years ago, on March 25, 1983, that Jackson shimmied backward across the stage at the Motown 25 taping, a few scant seconds of showmanship that may have marked the critical turning point from his being a superstar to being thesuperstar of his era.
But if you believe that Jackson invented the moonwalk, you probably also believe that P. Diddy invented the remix.
Trying to determine the exact creator of the moonwalk dance is like trying to pin the invention of rock ‘n’ roll on one artist. It is, as writer Shanna Freeman has said, “the product of more than 70 years of dance evolution.”
Cab Calloway liked to say that he’d been doing pretty much the same moves since the 1930s. The earliest footage that portrays someone doing something nearly identical to Jackson’s fancy footwork in 1983 belongs to dancer Bill Bailey.
READ MORE & SEE SOME COOL VIDEO’S OF OTHER MOONWALKERS HERE: http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/stop-the-presses/invented-moonwalk-hint-wasn-t-michael-jackson-160105107.html
Source: Yahoo Music / MJ-Upbeat.com
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