According to composer Alan Menken, “the king of pop” was unceremoniously banned by Disney animation studios due to controversies in his personal life, which by then had already begun to overshadow his career
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Monday, October 7
Disney prevented Michael Jackson from participating in the soundtrack of the film “The hunchback of Notre Dame”
Many music stars have participated in the soundtrack of the animation films of Disney : Christina Aguilera performed the main theme song for “Mulan” , Elton John composed “Can you feel the love tonight” for “The lion king” Y Phil Collins did the same for “Tarzan” creating themes like “You’ll be in my heart”
, to mention just a few examples.
As the famous composer has now revealed Alan Menken , the deceased
Michael Jackson wanted record some songs for the film adaptation of “The hunchback of Notre Dame” ( ” The Hunchback of Notre Dame ”) in , but animation studios unceremoniously nixed due to controversies in his personal life, which by then had already begun to overshadow his professional career.
“I got a call out of nowhere from Michael’s assistant while he was staying at the Four Seasons hotel in New York. At the time I was dealing with allegations of inappropriate behavior with underage children, and with the breakup with Lisa Marie Presley. ”, Meken recalled in a new interview with Slash Film .
“Obviously I wanted to change the narrative. And he really liked Disney. So I mentioned the ‘The Hunchback’ project to him and he said he’d love to come to my studio and see the movie and talk about it, so we got in touch with Disney Animation. They said, ‘Meet him! If you like… well, we’ll see what happens ”.
Initially, Pop’s king showed interest in producing and recording three songs for the project, but his offer led to an awkward conversation with Disney , who suddenly realized the controversy that It could be unleashed if he selected the singer for a children’s movie.
“Finally, as expected, they told me that Disney didn’t want to do something like that with Michael Jackson. I replied, ‘Okay, could anyone other than me tell you?’ Then there was silence and there was no answer. Nobody wanted to do it. The work ended up falling on my late manager, Scott Shukat, who spoke with Michael or his lawyer ” remembered Alan.
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