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Shooting for the moonwalk



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Published Date: 20 August 2008
WHO invented the "moonwalk"? Most people go with Michael Jackson, but at the book festival Michael Holroyd made the case for Ellen Terry. The leading lady of the Victorian stage was described as "floating on air" as she crossed the stage, his research reveals.
Terry was so beautiful – her friend, Dracula creator Bram Stoker said she "embodied sunshine" – that Victorian men proposed to their future wives in the following way: "As there's no chance of Ellen Terry marrying me, would you?"



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Boy Wonder,

20/08/2008 08:18:22
The moonwalk was recorded as early as 1943 in a performance by tap dancer Bill Bailey. Prior to Jackson, Jeffrey Daniel was "moonwalking" in a performance of Shalamar's "A Night To Remember" on Top of the Pops in 1982. A member of the Electric Boogaloos performance group, Timothy 'Popin Pete' Solomon, also performed a "moonwalking" move in the Talking Heads video 'Crosseyed And Painless' which aired around 1981.

Cab Calloway was performing a type of backsliding in the early days of his career. The earliest film record of this is from the 1932 Talkartoon Minnie The Moocher, an animated Betty Boop cartoon that features a live action sequence of Cab Calloway and his band. In this sequence we can see Cab Calloway dance in a style that clearly predates moonwalking, popping and electric boogaloo.

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Mist001,

Marseille 20/08/2008 12:02:26
The choreographer Toni Basil taught the moonwalk to David Bowie, who used it extensively during his US Diamond Dogs tour of 1974. An antendee of one of those shows was a very young Michael Jackson who went on to incorporate most of Bowies moves from that tour when he became famous.

I have the Bowie footage to prove it.

Michael.

 

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