Michael didnt like to tour. The record company’s always wanted Mike to tour after he made a new album. This was merely for promoting the new album and make it to sell more. But Mike didnt liked it. He spoke in his own words that he couldnt sleep after an show, the adrenaline would flow through his body like speed lightning. He would have jet legs as well because he flew from one country after the other and he actually could never rest between concerts. The crowd would just flock to see Michael at his hotel or if he visits stores. But he did mentioned that once he was on stage he loved it so much he would forget his tireness and everything, once he was on stage he lived and was enchanted by the audience and the audience by Michael jackson .

Michael embraced Islam like his brother Jermaine. He could find peace in the religion , especially after he was hurt so much by the media. He altered his name in Mikaeel , which is the arab version of Michael , he was named after an Angel. And Mike was an angel , a human angel . He proved that through his deeds, through his smile, through everything he did. Rumour has it that he did some songs as a tribute to Islam.

Of course there are like thousands of people in this world who imitate their idol Michael Jackson. But only some of them succeed to do this , of course it’s difficult to imtate The King , but Suleman Mirza , a lawyer in England imitated Michael since he was a Child. One day he decided to be upon the Britain has got Talent show ands this was an succes, the crowd when wild. He was such an succes he made the Oprah show!

Michael loves to joke and play around, throw water balloons from balcony’s, playing with supersoaker waterguns, making fun of people. That people, is the real Michael Jackson . He couldnt do these things often enough as a child, as why he does it as an adult . But everybody has a child in them , everybody likes to have fun , so actually it’s pretty normal!

Michael Jackson was a good friend of Nelson mandela. The two came together in 1999 to discuss the carity concert Michael would give in Munich and in Seoul. Michael admires Nelson Mandela for his strength and is very fond of him as well.

Michael had a lot of respect for older stars, stars like Sammy Davis , Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly , Jackie Wilson and of course James Brown. He learned what the magic was these stars had captured over the years. He was inspired by them and he loved them as why he paid a tribute to Sammy Davis.

Michael’s love for animals is big. He said in his book MoonwaLK that animals don’t want anything from people, just to be their friends. He loves the innocent part of the animals. Michael owned a chimp called Bubbles, a Giraffe called Jabbar , a boa calles Muscles and many more . They all used to live with him on his beloved ranch Neverland..Michael was not scarred for animals , not even for the scarry ones like crocodiles…

Michael Jackson talks about the songs on his album BAD in the following interview. The video BAD is based on a true story Michael said. The story is about this student who is from the ghetto and goes to college in an expensive neighbourhood, when he returns home to the ghetto , his so called friends killed him because they were jealous of him.. of course the scenario in BAD has a good end..

My phone rang and I heard: “This is Michael Jackson.” The voice was breathy, unbroken, boyish – tentative, yet tremulously eager and helpful, not the voice of a 40-year-old. In contrast to this lilting sound, its substance was denser, like a blind child giving you explicit directions in darkness.

“How would you describe Elizabeth Taylor?” I asked.

“She’s a warm cuddly blanket that I love to snuggle up to and cover myself with. I can confide in her and trust her. In my business, you can’t trust anyone.”

“Why is that?”

“Because you don’t know who’s your friend. Because you’re so popular, and there’s so many people around you. You’re isolated, too. Becoming successful means that you become a prisoner. You can’t go out and do normal things. People are always looking at what you’re doing.”

“Have you had that experience?”

“Oh, lots of times. They try to see what you’re reading, and all the things you’re buying. They want to know everything. There are always paparazzi downstairs. They invade my privacy. They twist reality. They’re my nightmare. Elizabeth is someone who loves me – really loves me.”

“I suggested to her that she was Wendy and you’re Peter.”

“But Elizabeth is also like a mother – and more than that. She’s a friend. She’s Mother Teresa, Princess Diana, the Queen of England and Wendy. We have great picnics. It’s so wonderful to be with her. I can really relax with her, because we’ve lived the same life and experienced the same thing.”

“Which is?”

“The great tragedy of childhood stars. We like the same things. Circuses. Amusement parks. Animals.”

And there was their shared fame and isolation.

“It makes people do strange things. A lot of our famous luminaries become intoxicated because of it – they can’t handle it. And your adrenaline is at the zenith of the universe after a concert – you can’t sleep. It’s maybe two in the morning and you’re wide awake. After coming off stage, you’re floating.”

“How do you handle that?”

“I watch cartoons. I love cartoons. I play video games. Sometimes I read.”

“You mean you read books?”

“Yeah. I love to read short stories and everything.”

“Any in particular?”

“Somerset Maugham,” he said quickly, and then, pausing at each name: “Whitman. Hemingway. Twain.”

“What about those video games?”

“I love X-Man. Pinball. Jurassic Park. The martial arts ones – Mortal Kombat.”

“I played some of the video games at Neverland,” I said. “There was an amazing one called Beast Buster.”

“Oh, yeah, that’s great. I pick each game. That one’s maybe too violent, though. I usually take some with me on tour.”

“How do you manage that? The video game machines are pretty big, aren’t they?”

“Oh, we travel with two cargo planes.”

“Have you written any songs with Elizabeth in mind?”

“Childhood.”

“Is that the one with the line, ‘Has anyone seen my childhood?’”

“Yes. It goes…”, and he liltingly recited “Before you judge me, try to…”, and then sang the rest.

“Didn’t I hear that playing on your merry-go-round at Neverland?”

Delightedly, he said, “Yes! Yes!”

He went on about childhood, how, like Elizabeth, as a child star he used to support his family.

“I was a child supporting my family. My father took the money. Some of the money was put aside for me, but a lot of the money was put back into the entire family. I was just working the whole time.”

“So you didn’t have a childhood, then – you lost it. If you had it to do again how would you change things?”

“Even though I missed out on a lot, I wouldn’t change anything.”

“I can hear your little kids in the background.” The gurgling had become insistent, like a plug-hole in a flood. “If they wanted to be performers and lead the life you led, what would you say?”

“They can do whatever they want to do. If they want to do that, it’s okay.”

“How will you raise them differently from the way you were raised?”

“With more fun. More love. Not so isolated.”

“Elizabeth says she finds it painful to look back on her life. Do you find it hard to do that?”

“No, not when it’s pertaining to an overview of your life rather than any particular moment.”

This oblique and somewhat bookish form of expression was a surprise to me – another Michael Jackson surprise. He had made me pause with “intoxicated” and “zenith of the universe”, too. I said: “I’m not too sure what you mean by ‘overview’.”

“Like childhood. I can look at that. The arc of my childhood.”

“But there’s some moment in childhood when you feel particularly vulnerable. Did you feel that? Elizabeth said that she felt she was owned by the studio.”

“Sometimes really late at night we’d have to go out – it might be three in the morning – to do a show. My father forced us. He would get us up. I was seven or eight. Some of these were clubs or private parties at people’s houses. We’d have to perform.” This was in Chicago, New York, Indiana, Philadelphia, he added – all over the country. “I’d be sleeping and I’d hear my father. ‘Get up! There’s a show!’ ”

“But when you were on stage, didn’t you get a kind of thrill?”

“Yes. I loved being on stage. I loved doing the shows.”

“What about the other side of the business – if someone came up after the show, did you feel awkward?”

“I didn’t like it. I’ve never liked people-contact. Even to this day, after a show, I hate it, meeting people. It makes me shy. I don’t know what to say.”

“But you did that Oprah interview, right?

“With Oprah it was tough. Because it was on TV – on TV, it’s out of my realm. I know that everyone is looking and judging. It’s so hard.”

“Is this a recent feeling – that you’re under scrutiny?”

“No,” he said firmly, “I have always felt that way.”

“Even when you were seven or eight?”

“I’m not happy doing it.”

“Which I suppose is why talking to Elizabeth over a period of two or three months on the phone would be the perfect way to get acquainted. Or doing what we’re doing right now.”

“Yes.”

At some point Michael’s use of the phrase “lost childhood” prompted me to quote the line from George William Russell, “In the lost boyhood of Judas / Christ was betrayed”, and I heard “Wow” at the other end of the line. He asked me to explain what that meant, and when I did, he urged me to elaborate. What sort of a childhood did Judas have? What had happened to him? Where had he lived? Who had he known?

I told him that Judas had red hair, that he was the treasurer of the Apostles, that he might have been Sicarii – a member of a radical Jewish group, that he might not have died by hanging himself but somehow exploded, all his guts flying.

Twenty more minutes of Biblical apocrypha with Michael Jackson, on the lost childhood of Judas, and then the whisper again.

“Wow.”

‘We must do this,’ was Michael Jackson’s comment when he learned about the plans for a revolutionary new book about his life. The name of this book? The Michael Jackson Opus!

It will contain new and handwritten lyrics, drawings and pictures from the King of Pop’s personal archives. There are photo’s from rehearsals for some of his pop videos that have not been made public before. The Opus will also include one of his favourite performance photographs, taken during his Bad tour in Minneapolis in 1988.

What makes the book even more special is a special feature called “augmented reality”, with which a computer and webcam can be used to show 3D images emerging from the pages. The King of Pop was really excited about it and thought it was grand on a scale he had never seen before.

The Opus books are usually limited editions, but this one will have an unlimited run until a certain date. The Michael Jackson Opus will be handbound in leather in a silk clamshell case.