Barry Gibb unveils 30-second clip on YouTube featuring him writing and recording a protest song with Jackson in 2002
The Bee Gees' Barry Gibb has unveiled footage of him recording an unreleased track with Michael Jackson in 2002. The video shows Jackson and Gibb singing All in Your Name, a song apparently written in protest against the war in Iraq.
"Michael Jackson and I were the dearest of friends," wrote Gibb, 64, alongside this week's YouTube video post. "We gravitated towards the same kind of music and we loved collaborating and he was the easiest person to write with. The more we got to know each other the more those ideas entwined, and it all came to this song ... I hope and pray that we all get to hear it in its entirety."
Gibb first wrote about the track in February, posting an audio clip to his website. But with this week's video, the song begins to come alive: there's the late King of Pop singing in a way the public rarely saw. Gibb claims there's more than two hours of footage, shot on Hi8 video by his son, Ashley. "This experience I will treasure forever," Barry said.
Jackson fans have long speculated about All in Your Name. Apparently, Jackson showed up at Gibb's doorstep with the unfinished song; they recorded at Miami's Middle Ear Studio in December 2002, about three months before the United States invaded Iraq. Both musicians opposed the invasion, according to a 2002 Billboard report, but this week Gibb downplayed the protest element of the track. "[All in Your Name is] the message that Michael wanted to send out to all of his fans all over the world," Gibb wrote. "That he did it all for them and for the pure love of music."
The Bee Gees' friendship with Jackson went back years. Barry Gibb named one of his sons after the singer, who was also Michael Gibb's godfather, and Jackson attended the 2003 funeral of Bee Gees co-founder Maurice Gibb. "We are devastated," Barry Gibb wrote after Jackson's death in June 2009. Robin Gibb added: "We've not only lost a great friend in Michael, but also lost a wonderful sensitive human being."
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/may/26/bee-gees-michael-jackson-collaboration
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