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From '' Dick This! ''
Label: WEA Records ‎– 5050466-9629-2-8
Format: CD, Album, Copy Protected
Country: Germany
Released: 2003

Tracklist
01. Get The Party Started
02. Walk This Way
03. She's The Most
04. Take Good Care Of My Baby
05. Be The One For Me
06. Twenty Flight Rock
07. Slippin' N Slidin'
08. Freedom
09. Buona Sera
10. Teenager In Love
11. Black Or White
12. Hallelujah, I Love Her So
13. Here I Go (I'm A Hobo)
14. Smokey Joe's Cafe
15. Complicated
16. Give It Away
17a. They Remind Me Too Much Of You
17b. Great Balls Of Fire (Live)

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"Black or White" is a single by American singer-songwriter Michael Jackson.
The song was released by Epic Records on November 11, 1991 as the first single from Jackson's eighth studio album, Dangerous.
It was written, composed and produced by Michael Jackson and Bill Bottrell.

Background and composition

"Black or White" was written, composed and produced by Michael Jackson and Bill Bottrell, and was picked as the first single from the album Dangerous.
An alternate version was first heard by Sony executives on a plane trip to Neverland, as the third track of the promotional CD acetate. It began to be promoted on radio stations the first week of November 1991 in New York and Los Angeles.
"Black or White" was officially released one week later, on November 5, 1991.
The song has elements of dance, rap and hard rock music such as Bill Bottrell's guitars and Jackson's vocal style.
This song is played in the key of E major, with Jackson's vocal spanning from E3 to B4, and its tempo is measured at 115 BPM.
The song's main riff is often incorrectly attributed to Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash. His guitar playing is actually heard in the skit that precedes the album version of the song.

Reception

To prepare the audience for the special occasion of the televised premiere of the "Black or White" video, Epic records released the song (without the accompanying images) to radio stations just two days in advance.
In a period of twenty-four hours, "Black or White", described by the record company as "a rock 'n' roll dance song about racial harmony", had been added to the playlists of 96 percent of 237 of the United States of America's top forty radio stations the first day of release.

"Black or White" entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 35.
A week later it shot up to number three and in its third week, December 7, 1991, it ascended to number one, making it the fastest chart topper since The Beatles' "Get Back" also won the Hot 100 in just three weeks in 1969.
It closed the year at number one, and remained at the top of the singles chart into 1992 for a total of seven weeks, making Michael Jackson the first artist to have number one popular hits in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.
In the UK, the single became the first single by an American to go into the singles chart at number one since 1960, when "It's Now or Never" by Elvis Presley did in the same manner.
Around the world, "Black or White" hit number one in 20 countries, including the US, the UK, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Turkey, Zimbabwe, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the Eurochart Hot 100, number two in Germany and Austria and number three in the Netherlands.
The single was certified platinum in the US, selling over one million copies and became the second best selling single of the year.

Reviews of the song were generally favorable. David Browne praised: "He still knows how to fashion a hook that will take up permanent residence in your brain (away from its video, Black or White is spare and effortless)".
Rolling Stone's Allan Light in his Dangerous review, compares the song unfavourably to "Beat It": "Neither this slow-burn solo nor the Stones-derived riff on 'Black or White' offers the catharsis of Eddie Van Halen's blazing break on 'Beat It'".
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic highlighted the song.
The prestigious Pazz & Jop critics' poll ranked "Black or White" at number 19.