[1]Don Cornelius, the creator and host of the long-running TV musical
institution ‘Soul Train,’ reminisces about when he discovered the
prodigious and precocious musical talents of the late Michael
Jackson.
“I met Michael Jackson at the age of 8, when his father and my new
friend, Joe Jackson, first began to bring the Jackson 5 to Chicago,
from their home in Gary, Indiana, for concert appearances,” Cornelius
tells Spinner. “The word of the Jackson 5’s devastating abilities as
concert artists had already begun to spread like an out-of-control
forest fire to the laser-like attention of all Chicago area RB music
stars.
“The prevailing thought process among local RB stars with respect to
this very young group of entertainers known as the Jackson 5 had
become, ‘If Michael Jackson and his brothers were booked on an
upcoming Chicagoland show, leave it alone! Don’t book it! Don’t go on
that show and get completely blown away by young Michael and the
Jackson 5!’”
In regard to the superstar that 8-year-old boy would become, Cornelius
has this to say: “Michael Jackson’s personal crescendo of amazing
power as an entertainer was clear and unmistakable, and has never
slowed to this very day! His passing will be grieved far beyond that
of any other singer, composer, producer, dancer and choreographer in
the history of the world. Indeed, in my very firmest personal belief,
there will never, ever, be another Michael Jackson!”
*don cornelius*
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