Reading all the wonderfull memories of Michael Jackson back in the 80's has me wanting to talk about some more memories.
I remember my 11th birthday my mom bought me a"Billie Jean" type jacket and some leather pants with zippers and I would wear those things until I had a hole in the pants. With the pants I would wear white socks and my penny loafers. :rofl: I remember how I would think I was all that with those things on.
When the "Making of Thriller" VHS first came out I remember wanting to buy it but back then VHS movies were like $100 or so. I would rent it at the movie store every weekend and my dad would tell me that they would have to reserve that movie only for me if I kept renting it like how I would.
I read somewhere in this thread that people would be jamming to Michael in their neighborhood and that got to me thinking that I had this big silver jam box and would bring it out and play "Thriller" tape and i would have my friends come out and dance to him. One day before Holloween we decided that we should do a preformance outside that day. We had practiced day after day and when that day came we were disappointed that it had been raining all that time.
I remember I was in the 7th grade and it was during the bad era I had this huge crush on this boy that looked just like Michael Jackson. He had the jheri curls and and the big smile and kind of talked like him also. :wub: I wonder what happened to him.
I remember when I first got cable um back in 1984 I would stay up and watch MTV just to catch a glimpse of Michael's videos and "Making of Thriller" when they would show it.
I remember when the Jacksons were about to set their "Victory" tour I called up my cousin and asked her if she was going because she lived in Dallas and that was one of thier stops . She said she was going to go to the concert and if I wanted to go then I would have to find a way to get there and my aunt would buy my ticket for me. With my parents working all the time and not having time to take me there I was so disappointed that I couldn't see Michael or the Jacksons I cried for days and days and threatened my family I was going to run away. The furthest I went was to my best friend's house next door. -_-
Another memory was whenever the news was out that on the back of the "Thriller" there were some numbers there and that people were saying it was Michael's personal phone number (Does anyone remember that?)
Well any way one day me and my cousin were at my grandmother's house talking about it and we thought we would try it out since my grandparents were alseep. We got on the phone and started to dail the number. The phone rang once but then all was silent. We tried again but we didn't hear anything on the other end. I then had an idea that we could call the operator and ask them to help us. I dialed the operator and I asked if they could give me Michael Jackson's number and the lady at the end said, "Michael Jackson the singer?" and I said yes. She then started laughing and said no I can't do that because we don't give out any ones number. Then my cousin tired and she said she was a family member of Michael's and it was the same lady and she said didn't someone just call asking the same thing. She then said if we kept calling that she would call the cops so they could come to our house and talk to our parents, so we stopped.
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My goodness that is alot that I wrote. :scratch:Glad to share more memories with yall.
