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Inspiration for the Michael’s look came directly from the short film he was shooting for the lead single, the title track ‘Blood On The Dance Floor’, which was turned around relatively quickly as far as Jackson videos go. That was the only directions I received from them.” Recalls Wilson. “Then I did some primary drawings and had them approved by Michael and Nancy and once this was done, I started the painting.” “Basically, they wanted a concept with him dancing on a semi-transparent dance floor with a generic city in the background. The timeframe to turn the cover around was just three weeks: From this exchange, Michael chose Wilson as the cover artist for Blood on The Dance Floor and instructed Donald to brief him on what they were looking for.
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Unfortunately, it had already sold so Wilson produced a print and sent it to Michael. Michael had seen a piece titled ‘Sleep Walking’ by artist Will Wilson and inquired about buying it. Watson would go on to shoot the cover photo for Michael’s final studio album Invincible, but Blood was still without a cover and the team at Sony felt that with Michael’s hectic schedule, a piece of artistic expression may be more suitable. So I didn’t do the photograph for it and then later he called me on the phone and said he was sorry about Tokyo but he would like me to do the next cover and could I meet him in 2 weeks in the Four Seasons Hotel in New-York and I went to meet him and we had a drink together.“ Meanwhile, Art Director Nancy Donald kicked into gear to arrange the artwork for the album’s cover.įamed photographer Albert Watson was selected to shoot the cover photo in Tokyo, Japan giving the album a more futuristic feel, as Watson reflects: “Well, in the very beginning, I was to photograph him in Tokyo for “Blood on the Dance Floor” and I went all the way to Tokyo but when I got there and we prepared everything in the studio, he was sick, he had a bad cold and he couldn’t do the shooting so I came back and they ended up with an Illustration. ‘Ghosts’ and ‘Blood On The Dance Floor’ were Teddy Riley tracks and were born before that, maybe the Dangerous era!” As engineer Rob Hoffman recalls: “Morphine was definitely something we worked on for HIStory, (Ghosts and Is It Scary) Both were worked on for HIStory. In the studio, a smaller team was compiled from the HIStory crew to work on the record, pulling songs from the HIStory and Dangerous album sessions to become worthy contenders. It was discussions in Perth where Blood on the Dance Floor came to life.”Īfter leaving Australia, Morrish returned to the UK to begin work: “This is early December 1996 so I came back to England and we had Michael’s commitment to put stuff together for Blood on the Dance Floor which was then released when he came back in summer 1997.” “I went down there to have a meeting with my boss Paul Russell and Michael about unreleased stuff which became Blood On The Dance Floor. “The tour embarked on the European leg then on to Australia” recalls Morrish. While in Perth Australia on the first leg of the HIStory World Tour, Michael sat down with European Sony Boss Paul Russell and Senior VP of Communications Jonathan Morrish to discuss his next venture targeted mostly to the European market: In 2012, I wanted to put these ludicrous theories to bed once and for all, so I reached out to the album cover artist Will Wilson to discuss the piece. Everything from Michael speaking out against Masonic and Illuminati forces, to being a ‘blood sacrifice’, to predicting 9/11, have been presented.
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What’s interesting about Blood specifically is that it’s long been the subject of wild conspiracy theory and suggestion.