Assisted in this by Billie Holiday.

Billie Jean is kind of anonymous.

She found a job running errands in a brothel.

There were a lot of Billie Jeans out there.

years (1986 1993) In 1986, friends Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt, 14 years old at the time, formed a band called Sweet Children.

I know I wore a white dress for a number I did... and that was cut out of the picture.

They have two sons, Tony and Roman, while Billie has another son from a previous relationship named Aaron.

This is evident on the songs Billie Jean , Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' and Thriller .

Covered by modern artists, Billie Jean sealed Jackson's status as an international pop icon.

On the final note, all lights went out and when they came back on, Holiday was gone.

King was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987.

I felt sorry as hell for... is a phrase he often uses.

They had one child together, Billie Catherine Lourd (born July 17, 1992).

Billie Joe Armstrong wrote the song In the End about his mother and her husband.

Billie appears on one of Perry's guitars, which is dubbed The Billie Perry Guitar .

Billie Jean was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 1989.

The song was written by Green Day, with lyrics by lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong.

Jackson wrote four songs for the record Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' , The Girl Is Mine , Beat It , and Billie Jean .

Background The song was composed by Green Day (with Billie Joe Armstrong writing the lyrics), and was co produced by Rob Cavallo.

Career In 1987, age 15, Armstrong formed a band called Sweet Children with his childhood friend Mike Dirnt.

Lauper grew up in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens and as a child, listened to such artists as The Beatles, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland and Billie Holiday.

On May 31, 1959, Holiday was taken to Metropolitan Hospital in New York with liver and heart disease.

Jones discussed Billie Jean and why it was so personal to Jackson, who struggled to deal with a number of obsessed fans.

The song became a worldwide commercial and critical success it was one of the best selling singles of 1983 and is one of the best selling singles worldwide.

In the cafeteria in Carquinez Middle School, ten year old Dirnt met Billie Joe Armstrong, with whom he bonded instantly.

Cover versions The Bates version In 1995 German punk rock band The Bates covered Billie Jean on their album Pleasure Pain .

Since 1978, the tournament has been played on acrylic hard courts at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, New York City.

Jones also wanted to change the track's title to Not My Lover , as he believed that people would think the song referred to the tennis player Billie Jean King.

Referring to her Detroit roots and contemporary artist Michael Jackson, Madonna sang a verse of Billie Jean during Like a Virgin .

Late at night, after hours of practicing, I would listen to Janis Joplin and Billie Holiday as the sounds of tango music would be creeping from my parents' stereo.

Kristen Kemmer Shaw, another frequent opponent of King, said,For a time, I think I was as close to Billie Jean as anyone ever was.

It was created by Billie Joe Armstrong, lead singer of Green Day, Screw 32's Doug Sangalang, Green Day guitarist Jason White and Jim Thiebaud, professional skateboarder.

Billie Joe Armstrong (born February 17, 1972) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, guitarist, multi instrumentalist, and actor.

It also included a DVD featuring three music videos, the Billie Jean performance, and a booklet with a message from Jackson.

On July 15, she received the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church, before dying two days later from pulmonary edema and heart failure caused by cirrhosis of the liver on July 17, 1959, at 3 10 am.

Background Jackson stated several times that Billie Jean was based on the groupies he and his brothers encountered while part of The Jackson 5.

Before the release of her film Glitter (2001), she suffered a physical and emotional breakdown and was hospitalized for severe exhaustion.

In Billie Jean , Jackson sings about an obsessive fan who alleges he has fathered a child of hers in Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' he argues against gossips and the media.

He eventually saved up enough money to purchase a used pickup truck that he and Armstrong often drove to Berkeley to attend shows at 924 Gilman Street, an influential DIY punk club.

Speaking of Insomniac , vocalist guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong noted, It did a lot better than I thought it was going to do...From the sound of it, we knew it wasn't going to sell as much as Dookie .

Instead, a video was created using a scene taken directly from the film Glitter , where Billie Frank (played by Carey) sings the song at Madison Square Garden during her first sold out concert.

At the 2006 US Open, Maria Bueno was invited to attend the rededication ceremony of the USTA National Tennis Center as the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, which took place on the first day of the event.

When Thriller and Billie Jean were searching to reach their market demographic, MTV and cable TV had a smaller market share than the much larger reach of broadcast television stations in the United States.

The national broadcast TV premiere of the Thriller album's first video, Billie Jean , was during the week of Halloween in October 1984 and was the idea of Video Concert Hall executive producers Charles Henderson and Jerry Crowe.

The popularity of his videos, such as Beat It and Billie Jean , helped toplace the young channel on the map , and MTV's focus shifted in favor of pop and R B.