![]() ![]() And for a little while its smooth surface -sculpted no less carefully than the singer's face - should keep it there. The hype and anticipation ought to boost ''Bad'' into the Top 10. 12 the tour should arrive in the United States next year. And he begins a world tour in Tokyo on Sept. One sign of the merchandising to come is ''Michael's Pets,'' a toy menagerie based on Mr. Tapes were not available to critics in advance. Tonight at 8, CBS, which owns Epic Records, will broadcast a 30-minute special, ''Michael Jackson - The Magic Returns,'' which will introduce the music video of ''Bad,'' directed by Martin Scorsese. The new-look Michael Jackson is also on view. Radio stations started playing other songs from the album as early as last Thursday. ''I Just Can't Stop Loving You,'' a plush ballad, was released as a single in July. The promotional machinery that helped ''Thriller'' sell 38.5 million copies worldwide is already clanking away. ![]() Jackson's 29th birthday, the long-delayed ''Bad'' (Epic EK 40600) arrives in record stores, and it's a gleaming, high-tech dance record that's just a little eccentric at the edges. ![]() The wait between albums stretched to four and a half years. Jackson made a film for Disneyland he had a cleft implanted in his chin he offered a British hospital a million dollars to buy the remains of the Elephant Man. WHAT could Michael Jackson do to follow up the best-selling album to date? That's been the question since 1983, when sales of ''Thriller'' took off - and the answers in the last few years were peculiar indeed.
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