Apology from Howard Mann
November 8, 2010 by admin
Filed under Howard Mann apologies
After the weekend’s public relations disaster by Howard Mann, owner of Jacksonsecretvault.com, he has decided to issue a formal apology. Mr. Mann sent out a ‘free’ 100% authentic track for Michael Jackson fans stating it was new material. More damaging was his claim that the release of material was with the blessing of Katherine Jackson.
Well most fans are now painfully aware that not only was the song not new, it was a remix of previously released material. In addition, and more of a PR disaster, the track was released without Katherine Jackson knowing anything about it.
News media outlets including our magazine, TMZ and more hit the Internet as this sad story unfolded. It has been a long week for MJ fans who have heard accusations flying from the Jackson camp on how authentic the Breaking News music release is, this PR disaster and the scheduled Oprah interview today by Mrs. Jackson.
From the Jacksonsecretvault.com site here is the apology.
Note: We are not trying to infringe on copyright and encourage you to go to Jacksonsecretvault.com for the entire piece but we wanted to provide all sides of this story so we thought it fair to include Mr. Mann’s apology.
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Apology from Howard Mann
Sunday, November 7, 2010
I wanted to take this opportunity to sincerely apologize to the Jackson family, his fans and to TMZ for my act of both ignorance and random stupidity this past weekend!
Our goal in releasing” Opis None” was simply to satiate fans appetite for unreleased MJ music and to provide a vocal that the world could believe strongly was an authentic MJ vocal, when in reality the song turned out to be solely a remake or remix of an old Jackson track titled “Destiny”. The MJ fans pointed this out within 15 seconds of the track going live, however the damage was done.
For the record: At no point in time did Mrs. Jackson give me permission to release the track or frankly did she even hear the track in the first place. That stupidity was ALL ME. We grabbed the track from a series of masters we own and researched the title and found no listed release titled “Opis None” in the MJ releases and I felt it sounded like such a weird track for an MJ song, the fans would get a kick out of it. I certainly did not expect fans to become enraged with Miss Jackson about the track as it was given away for free and was not intended as a commercial product.
Mrs. Jackson is a sweet, kind and giving person, much like her son Michael Jackson was known to the world. As his loving mother, she was bar none his biggest fan. Our goal at JacksonSecretVault.com is to pay tribute to the legendary artist and artistic visionary that was and is Michael Jackson. The fans are entitled to a higher level of integrity then I demonstrated this past weekend and for that I am sorry.
When the world sees Mrs. Jackson on Oprah tomorrow, they will see a devastated mother trying her best to both grieve the loss and also to celebrate the life of her iconic son. I hope the fans will not hold my stupidity against her, as she is a truly quality woman who has certainly been through enough!
Humbly,
Howard Mann
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Will Howard Mann’s apology be enougth to stem the outrage MJ fans are feeling right now? We do not know but thought it was imporant to include all items of this ever evolving story.
Fans, however, have rallied together to boycott anything from this company so only time will tell whether fans accept this apology and move forward.
Let us know what you think.
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