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I might try ringing up my local paper to see if they’ll print a story about the time I saw Michael Jackson on TV.
“I actually drove him myself in a hired Ford Granada. I think he was quite nonplussed with being in Birmingham in the snow in February.
Can’t imagine why.
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This looks like a typical tenuous memory, but this person who “met” Jackson thirty one years ago… NEVER ACTUALLY SPOKE TO HIM.
Musician and radio presenter Bev Bevan has recalled the day he met Michael Jackson, who died last night at the age of 50.
The musician made the revelations in his Sunday Mercury blog.
He said: “I recall the day I met Michael Jackson backstage in America.
“He came to see ELO when we played in Los Angeles back in 1978.
“He was ushered backstage and came to shake hands with us all.
“He seemed cheerful but rather shy, and there wasn’t any conversation between us.”
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