Chris Cornell began his vocal career as a Sound Garden front man. He then made a name for himself while singing for Audio Slave. Today he is doing solo projects with an album coming out in the beginning of May. One of the songs on that album will be an acoustic version of Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean. Attached above is the uncut music video for this song during a live MSN concert. He came up with this rendition a year ago but has seen a recent burst of iTune downloads for it because
James Cook performed a copy of this song on last week’s American Idol. Cook at first got the credit but then Chris Cornell was awarded thanks. If you like this uncut music video then you will want to get a copy of Cornell’s solo album in May. It would be cool to see a new music video with Michael Jackson and Chris Cornell playing this song. Which version of the uncut music video do you prefer? The Michael Jackson video is attacehd below and it really shows off the special effects of the time.