MUSIC: Three Tune Tuesday 113 - 3 Songs by Michael Jackson! - (3 Cover Performances!)

Hello everybody on HIVE, and especially the Music Community. My name is Jasper and I'm writing (and singing) to you from Cape Town in South Africa!

This is my 48th week (In a row - nearly a year now!) contributing to "Three Tune Tuesday", an initiative started by @ablaze. It is week 113 overall!

In all of my TTT entries I like to play the songs on guitar as well as share the original videos... and my current pattern for "Three Tune Tuesday" is to pick three songs by one of my favourite artists, that has inspired me - as I also write original songs.

This week I would like to tackle the King of Pop - Michael Jackson!

For the first song, I will do his first number one hit as a solo artist (he had previous number one hits as part of "The Jackson Five"). Michael Jackson was a mere 14 with this solo hit about a friendship with a pet rat called "Ben". Here is the original (isn't his high pitched childhood voice divine?):

For the second song, I will do the beautiful "Heal the World". It was a tough choice between this one and the equally poingant "Earth Song", but here it is:

Finally, let's up the tempo a bit, because we are talking about the dancing, moon-walking, King of Pop here! I wish there were two or three of me to play this song for you, because the bass-line is iconic, and so is the little riff that I will try to add in where I can! I am talking about "Billie Jean"! Here is the original!

So that's week 113 done and dusted! I hope you enjoyed the songs by Michael Jackson? Which song was your favourite? Did I miss an important one to you?

And so, which artist will I do three covers of next week, for TTT number 114?

I hope you tune in to find out, and thank you so much for clicking/watching/reading this time!!

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