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- Release, runtime and language
- 1983 · 128 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Don Mischer
- Starring
- Billy Dee Williams, Stevie Wonder, Rick James, Linda Ronstadt, Smokey Robinson, Richard Pryor
Television special filmed before a live studio audience at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on March 25, 1983, and aired on NBC on May 16. It features Michael Jackson’s electrifying “Billie Jean” performance, a Temptations‑Four Tops “battle of the bands,” Marvin Gaye’s insightful speech on black‑music history and his rendition of “What’s Going On,” and a Jackson 5 reunion. The show is famed for Jackson’s debut of the moonwalk.
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