My Meeting With Michael Jackson
No, not me actually. On the Facebook group Old School NZ Hip Hop
I asked if anyone had any memories of Michael Jackson. Jon Davis (DJ/Promoter) sent me this email:
Jon Davis
08 July at 20:24
Meeting Michael Jackson
I was lucky enough to be working for Sony Music NZ in 1996 and unlike Australian Sony Staff (or Annie Crummer) he deigned to meet 10 of us working Sony grunts. We were herded into a curtained off room backstage of the concert on the first night, I could hear him talking and then we were ushered in.
Jacko was shorter than me, and on the darkness scale if I’m a 10 and Nick D'Angelo is a 1 then he was a 7. He’s quite dark but its all covered in makeup, he also probably hadn’t shaved since the morning... The stubble was showing through the pancake. He was also quite good-looking in the flesh, the surgery looked good, the nose didn’t look weird, I guess the press do print pics of him looking awful or onstage where the singing and facial contortions make the implants stand out in odd ways but in real life it all looked quite normal.
He offered me his (ungloved) hand and said he was pleased to meet me and he was glad to be in New Zealand.
His voice was quite normal, not like the girly falsetto he puts on for interviews... I think I said "duh uhh uggg umph" or something like that, I was shaking... because I was shaking hands with mother fuckin’ Michael Jackson, the most famous black* (LOL) man alive. The guy who was singing with James Brown and Stevie Wonder and hanging with Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye when I was rockin’ my Action Man and playing with jigsaws in Primary School (he’s 8 months older than me)
The one thing I took away from the 10 minutes we spent with him was he looks you in the eye when he talks to you, but all you see in those eyes is the question... "OK what do YOU want from me?"
We had our photo taken with him and it was all over. I looked back and saw him watch the last of us go out with that weird look in his eyes, then he disappeared off and the next time I saw him it was popping out of spaceship on stage. We never got the photos as apparently he vets them all and if he don’t like ‘em they never see the light of day...
In the end I got to meet him, not too many people worldwide who can say that...
Nick D'Angelo
Today at 11:34
Wow! - that's a very cool story!!
When you wrote "OK what do YOU want from me?" did you mean he wanted to do something for you , or he was sizing you up as to what you might 'take' from him?
I'll post it to the wall on 'Old School NZ Hip Hop'....
Jon Davis
Today at 20:12
Yeah the latter, it was like a searching look that said, 'everyone wants something from me... I’m on to you.... they want my money, my fame, my story, what is it you want....?’
Yeah freaky
Since we’ve all seen all the photo’s of Michael Jackson, here instead are some pictures of NZ Breakdance Champions The Megazoids performing at the Thriller album release party in Auckland, New Zealand. Waaay back in tha’ day...
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