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Other performers of that era also had slippery moves that involved illusions of moving while staying in place, if not the backwards-as-forwards magic of the backslide. But when you look at Bill Bailey from the '50s, it's pretty much all there. At least that "escalator" illusion that Daniel spoke of is. And he does it for almost 15 seconds in the relevant clip, as opposed to the five or so that Jackson spent moonwalking at Motown But Jackson did add some signature arm and shoulder moves to his version of the dance.

David Bowie also did something akin to the moonwalk in the opening moments of a performance of "Aladdin Sane," and although the term hadn't been coined at the time, he had the added benefit of really seeming like he was from the moon. Perhaps the oddest thing about Jackson's Motown 25 performance, 30 years later, is that his first reaction at the conclusion of his appearance was to feel insecure about it.

This is the performance that totally blew everyone away--and he said something didn't come out right. Whatever was going on in his mind, we would never know it.

We all know that it was a mind-blowing performance, and it just took him to another level. In his autobiography, Jackson went into detail about the reasons for his odd dissatisfaction with his Motown 25 performance--which apparently didn't have anything to do with his moonwalk execution.

I knew I had done my best and felt good, so good. But at the same time I felt disappointed in myself. I did the spin and I landed on one toe. When I got backstage, the people back there were congratulating me. I was still disappointed about the spin. At the same time I knew this was one of the happiest moments of my life.

Although he never forgot that insecurity about his performance of "Billie Jean," he had some good help in getting over it. The day after it aired in May , "Fred Astaire called me on the telephone," Jackson wrote in Moonwalker. Man, you really put them on their asses last night I used to do the same thing with my cane. Later he invited me to his house, and there were more compliments from him until I really blushed. He went over my 'Billie Jean' performance, step by step.

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He wanted to feel like he was moving forward but going backward. And once he got the feel, from my understanding, that's when he performed on 'Motown Jackson performed the moonwalk for the first time in public on March 25, , in front of a live audience at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, but the rest of the country watched his performance when it was broadcast two months later in the TV special, "Motown Yesterday, Today, Forever. While Jackson's "moonwalk" was his most famous, the "Smooth Criminal" lean is also a legendary Jackson move.

During live performances of "Smooth Criminal," Jackson and his dancers leaned at a gravity-defying degree angle thanks to a special patented shoe design.

It was also featured in his film "Moonwalker. We'll notify you here with news about.