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  • The Boy Who Would Be King

    posted by Vanity Fair - Mon Aug 3 2009, 8:25 AM PDT

    celebs: Michael Jackson
    topics: Musicians

    Before his onstage crotch grabbing, his plastic surgeries, his rumored addictions, and, at the lowest point, his child-molestation accusations, Michael Jackson was known for his talent, not his troubles. And for years, Vanity Fair's Lisa Robinson followed his career, getting to know a singer she describes as "one of the most talented, adorable, enthusiastic, sweet, ebullient performers I'd ever interviewed."

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    Get a preview of Vanity Fair's feature on the King of Pop:

    Robinson interviewed Michael for the first time in 1972 interview at his family's home in Encino, California. MJ was 14 years old.

    So what do you like to do in your spare time?
    Swim ... play pool ... We don't go much out of the gate because we have [everything] here. When we lived in the other house, we would go to the park toplay basketball, but now we have it here.

    See Classic Photos of Michael Jackson

    (Michael asks me more questions than I ask him; there are discussions about my maroon nail polish, buying antiques on Portobello Road, the Apollo Theater, Madison Square Garden.)

    Do you ever get scared onstage?
    No. If you know what you're doing, you're not scared onstage.

    Robinson pressed Michael about his personal life in a phone interview in 1977.

    Do you go out with girls? Any dates?
    No, I don't date, no. I'm not really interested right now. I like girls and everything but [laughs] ... Oh, you think I'm one of those? No! I'm just not that interested right now.

    Hear Clips From Lisa Robinson's Interviews With Michael Jackson

    Robinson was surprised when he declared in 1984 that the original mix of Thriller, his hit 1982 album, had "sounded like crap."

    What?
    Oh, it was terrible. And I cried at the listening party. I said, "I'm sorry -- we can't release this." I called a meeting with Quincy [Jones], and everybody at the [record] company was screaming that we had to have it out and there was a deadline, and I said, "I'm sorry, I'm not releasing it." I said, "It's terrible." So we re-did a mix a day. Like a mix a day. And we rested two days, then we did a mixing. We were overworked, but it all came out OK.

    Click here to read more of Vanity Fair's article on Michael Jackson, or pick up a copy of the September issue on newsstands August 11.

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  • Quinn
    mj we will love you even though you are dead i gorw up whith yiou and i can't wait to see him in heven r.i.p mji love hi m
    report abuseposted November 18, 2009 10:22 AM PST
  • DOROTHY
    IT ALWAYS GOT TO BE HATERS IN THE WORLD,PEOPLE THAT HAS NOT BE Taught to LOVE, NO WONDER THIS WORLD IS A MESS AND SOME OF THE PEOPLE IN IT.SOME OF YOU NEED TO READ YOUR BIBLES, THAT TEACHES YOU NOT TO HATE, BUT TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
    report abuseposted November 16, 2009 2:22 PM PST
  • DOROTHY
    MUCH LOVE IN MY HEART FOR YOU MICHAEL,IN SPIKE OF WHAT ANYONE SAYS ABOUT YOU. THEY ARE JUST JEALOUSSSSSSSSS. YOU GOT MY VOTE MJ NOW AND FOREVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
    report abuseposted November 16, 2009 2:17 PM PST
  • ROBIN OSTEN
    MICHAEL JACKSON WAS GREATEST ENTERTAINER, DANCER, SINGER, ENVIRONMENTALIST, LOVER, PASSIONATE HUMAN BEING WE HAVE EVER KNOWN. HE DID MORE FOR MANKIND, TO BETTER MANKIND, THAN ANYONE ELSE ! ! HIS MUSIC LIFTS YOUR SPIRIT, TOUCHES YOUR SOUL... HIS DEATH IS A MISTAKE; HE LOVED HIS FANS. HE WAS KIND, GENTLE, AND BROKE THE RACE BARRIER. HIS WORDS TRUE, HONEST, ONE IN A MILLION. RIP. LOVE MJ FOREVER
    report abuseposted November 15, 2009 7:29 PM PST
  • Mirella C
    MICHAEL JACKSON IS KING OF POP FOR EVER
    report abuseposted November 15, 2009 4:58 PM PST
  • Mirella C
    I LOVE MICHAEL
    report abuseposted November 15, 2009 4:56 PM PST
  • lexeen
    no matter bad people want to say that will never changed who you were.. they are just jealous of who Michael was..leave him alone and let him RIP...
    report abuseposted November 15, 2009 1:29 PM PST
  • lexeen
    no matter bad people want to say that will never changed who you were.. they are just jealous of who Michael was..leave him alone and let him RIP...
    report abuseposted November 15, 2009 1:29 PM PST
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