Inside Michael Jackson’s Close Friendship
The People’s Princess and the King of Pop shared more than just respectable royal titles. Diana, Princess of Wales and future mother of England, develops a strong friendship with global music sensation Michael Jackson due to his love of songs, their mutual passion to make good in the world and the common experience of playing their personal lives. Did it Out under constant media scrutiny.
Jackson was not supposed to perform “Dirty Diana” in front of the princess
Already a huge fan (he listens to the album thriller and Bad again and again), Diana and Jackson met on July 16, 1988, when she accompanied her then husband Prince Charles to Jackson’s bad tour of Wembley.
Attended the stadium. At the time, the humane Jackson donated £ 150,000 to the youth-oriented Prince’s Trust charity and £ 100,000 to the Children’s Charity of Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.
Jackson, who spoke of her relationship with Diana several times during her life, was nervous about meeting the princess for the first time before her performance and decided to remove the song “Dirty Diana” from the concert’s setlist.
He was concerned with the track, about a rock groupie, performing in front of a royalty member of the same name would be inappropriate. Hearing of her decision, Diana asks her not to exclude the song as it was one of her favorites by the artist
In his first meeting in 1997, Jackson told Barbara Walters, “I dropped him out of the show in honor of Royal Highness.” “Are you going to do Dirty Diana?” Jackson asked during the meet and greet before the show, remembering Diana.
“I said, no, I dropped it from the show because of you.” He said, ‘No! I want you to do it. do it. Sing Diana reportedly danced during the concert as Prince Charles sat. Jackson also gifted the couple two short tour jackets for their sons Princess William and Harry.
Jackson said the pair were ‘very close’
There was an easy rapport between Diana and Jackson and their friendship developed over time and across geographical boundaries. “He was extremely close by phone … I still married Lisa Marie [Presley]. Diana woke me up late at night … mostly after three in the morning! And then she put me on the telephone for hours. She Children, talked about the press. ”
Jackson’s former bodyguard Matt Fides confirmed the late-night call, as far as saying the singer was “in love” with Diana. Fides, who worked closely with Jackson for a decade, told Daily Star Online in 2017, “[Jackson] felt he was the only person in the world who could understand his life in terms of getting nowhere, and the media Stories of he got out of hand… intrusion into private life, no privacy, children being injured. ”
Diana and Jackson bonded over being chased by the media
The pair shared mutual disbelief about the growing media presence in their lives, especially to Paparazzi, who has lived his every public moment continuously. Diana was the most photographed person in the world before and after her marriage to Prince Charles. Every appearance in Jackson’s never-changing and precarious behavior (such as hanging his child in the balcony in front of fans) was speculated about.
Although they would meet the person only once in their lifetime, according to Jackson, their friendship ended until Diana died on August 31, 1997. Upon hearing the news of his passing, Jackson told Walters that he fell into grief and cried. In shock, Jackson postponed a scheduled performance of his HIStory tour. When he came back on stage, he dedicated the performance to Diana. “In my heart, I was saying, my I love you, Diana.” Shine.
Jackson, along with other friends of the late princess, including Elton John and George Michael, was not present at Diana’s London funeral, but attended a memorial service for her in Los Angeles, where she told reporters that she was in honor of my friend Thea, who is not here now … I love her. ”
After his death, Jackson continues to put Diana on a pedestal
Recalling their friendship in 2003, Jackson reportedly said of Diana that she was “one of the sweetest people I ever knew, because we could relate to each other. We had the press Have shared something with me. I don’t think they hound more people than themselves.
And we had a relationship where we used to call each other late at night … just on each other’s shoulders. Weeping How hard and difficult and may involve how Tabloid were. ”
After Jackson’s death at the age of 50 in 2009, the true depth of his friendship with Diana and the precise content of those late-night conversations remains unknown, other than Jackson’s retailing.
Jackson was not supposed to perform “Dirty Diana” in front of the princess
Already a huge fan (he listens to the album thriller and Bad again and again), Diana and Jackson met on July 16, 1988, when she accompanied her then husband Prince Charles to Jackson’s bad tour of Wembley.
Attended the stadium. At the time, the humane Jackson donated £ 150,000 to the youth-oriented Prince’s Trust charity and £ 100,000 to the Children’s Charity of Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.
Jackson, who spoke of her relationship with Diana several times during her life, was nervous about meeting the princess for the first time before her performance and decided to remove the song “Dirty Diana” from the concert’s setlist.
He was concerned with the track, about a rock groupie, performing in front of a royalty member of the same name would be inappropriate. Hearing of her decision, Diana asks her not to exclude the song as it was one of her favorites by the artist
In his first meeting in 1997, Jackson told Barbara Walters, “I dropped him out of the show in honor of Royal Highness.” “Are you going to do Dirty Diana?” Jackson asked during the meet and greet before the show, remembering Diana.
“I said, no, I dropped it from the show because of you.” He said, ‘No! I want you to do it. do it. Sing Diana reportedly danced during the concert as Prince Charles sat. Jackson also gifted the couple two short tour jackets for their sons Princess William and Harry.
Jackson said the pair were ‘very close’
There was an easy rapport between Diana and Jackson and their friendship developed over time and across geographical boundaries. “He was extremely close by phone … I still married Lisa Marie [Presley]. Diana woke me up late at night … mostly after three in the morning! And then she put me on the telephone for hours. She Children, talked about the press. ”
Jackson’s former bodyguard Matt Fides confirmed the late-night call, as far as saying the singer was “in love” with Diana. Fides, who worked closely with Jackson for a decade, told Daily Star Online in 2017, “[Jackson] felt he was the only person in the world who could understand his life in terms of getting nowhere, and the media Stories of he got out of hand… intrusion into private life, no privacy, children being injured. ”
Diana and Jackson bonded over being chased by the media
The pair shared mutual disbelief about the growing media presence in their lives, especially to Paparazzi, who has lived his every public moment continuously. Diana was the most photographed person in the world before and after her marriage to Prince Charles. Every appearance in Jackson’s never-changing and precarious behavior (such as hanging his child in the balcony in front of fans) was speculated about.
Although they would meet the person only once in their lifetime, according to Jackson, their friendship ended until Diana died on August 31, 1997. Upon hearing the news of his passing, Jackson told Walters that he fell into grief and cried. In shock, Jackson postponed a scheduled performance of his HIStory tour. When he came back on stage, he dedicated the performance to Diana. “In my heart, I was saying, my I love you, Diana.” Shine.
Jackson, along with other friends of the late princess, including Elton John and George Michael, was not present at Diana’s London funeral, but attended a memorial service for her in Los Angeles, where she told reporters that she was in honor of my friend Thea, who is not here now … I love her. ”
After his death, Jackson continues to put Diana on a pedestal
Recalling their friendship in 2003, Jackson reportedly said of Diana that she was “one of the sweetest people I ever knew, because we could relate to each other. We had the press Have shared something with me. I don’t think they hound more people than themselves.
And we had a relationship where we used to call each other late at night … just on each other’s shoulders. Weeping How hard and difficult and may involve how Tabloid were. ”
After Jackson’s death at the age of 50 in 2009, the true depth of his friendship with Diana and the precise content of those late-night conversations remains unknown, other than Jackson’s retailing.
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