Thursday, January 7, 2010
Missing: Rockwell
So you may have seen those Geico commercials that are on all the time. No the reptile ones but the ones with the "somebodies watching me" song. Course many don't know where it came from in the first place. The song in question came from one Rockwell. Rockwell is Barry Gordies (the mowtown guy) son. He decided one day to become a singer and got signed to his fathers mowtown records under the name Rockwell without his dad knowing. His name is because he thinks he "rocks well". He got his friend Michael Jackson to sing the backup and Jermaine Jackson also to sing the chorus. This song took off and the video for it became a hit on MTV (my research indicates that at some point it was said that MTV played music videos. No proof of this exists but it was said to be awesome). This drove record sales up and he then decided to release the single "obscene phone caller". This ended up being a minor hit and after this Rockwell would release more albums that went nowhere. After this it seems that he fell off the face of the earth. No person or Wikipedia article or Vh1 eighties documentary seems to know what happened to him. Being that he and Michael Jackson were friends I assumed he would pop up round poor Jackos funeral but no Rockwell. My head spins with the thought of what the hell happened to Rockwell. Sure he's not dead but seriously. What the hell happened to him? I have came up with a few possibilities that make very much sense indeed. First off I think that Michael Jackson traded identities with another man and he and Rockwell moved to south america and started working the clubs down there under different names. Second is that he decided to move to the midwest with the Post man and Black Drapped woman from the "Somebodies watching me and obscene phone caller" music videos. They have crazy adventures trying to do everyday situations in the apartment they all share. The third possibility is that he ended his life after getting too much a taste for the good life. His father being the man behind motown covers up his death by using the power he has to manipulate the media so that no ones the wiser. Course if this was the case then I would have already been rubbed out and no one would know of this theory so I hardly doubt this occured. Lastly maybe he just took a break so that he would come back stronger than ever. Perhaps his comeback is right around the corner and we will all be blown away. Or maybe this is all speculate... Why? Because were bored.
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