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Jackie is so good looking. I think he and Michael were so much alike!
 
I'm swooning and dying with this one, I CAN'T :girl_tantrum: :in_love:

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Anna Marie Drago (Frank Dileo’s niece): My dad, Michael Jackson, and my brother Michael (@MDragoMC) when he was a baby!
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Remembering Michael: ~ Photos from the Bad Tour at Hartford Civic Centre in 1988 and memories from Roberto Alfaro of Hamden who shows a ticket stub Michael signed for him when he was working security detail for [Jackson’s] “Bad” concert at the Hartford Civic Center in 1988. Roberto Alfaro, 52, was an officer in the Hartford Police Department when he was assigned to Jackson’s security detail months after the release of the “Bad” album and at the height of Jackson’s career. “The guy is a musical genius,” Alfaro said, reflecting on the musical icon’s recent death. “There aren’t too many people that are like him.”

Alfaro was one of four officers assigned to escort Jackson back and forth from the dressing room to the stage. Alfaro said the “King of Pop” was shy when he met him off-stage, but transformed while getting ready to perform.

“It was like somebody switched a button on in Michael Jackson, and all of a sudden you could see the intensity in his face,” said Alfaro. “He was so focused on what he was going to do.”

Alfaro remembers the excitement in the crowd and the sounds of fans chanting “Michael,” screaming and stomping. “I felt like I was such a part of this because my adrenaline was pumping also,” he said. “As we got closer to the entrance, the noise got louder and louder.” After the show, Jackson thanked the officers as they waited with him until a van picked him up.

Alfaro spoke to Jackson and asked him to autograph two ticket stubs he had saved from the floor for his two children. A blue-green ticket autographed by Jackson for Alfaro’s daughter, Bianca, is still intact and provides a glimpse into the 1980s, when a fan could see “Michael Jackson Live in Concert,” presented by Pepsi, for $22.50. Jackson was skinny and shorter than Alfaro had expected, he said, but Jackson wore the anticipated moon-walking outfit of black pants, a black jacket, a white shirt and a black hat. Alfaro said he doesn’t remember Jackson wearing the famous white glove.

Alfaro, who grew up listening to Jackson and spun his records when he was a disc jockey in the Bronx, said it was “unbelievable” to meet and work alongside Jackson in person. The day after, Alfaro was part of the mounted patrol that escorted Jackson to the venue for his second show. The thousands of people awaiting Jackson’s arrival were “going berserk” and banging on the singer’s van, he said. About a year later, Alfaro saw footage of himself and the mounted patrol on a television special.

Alfaro retired from the Hartford force in 2000, but has continued to enjoy a modeling and acting career. He said he has been writing a memoir that includes details of his experience with Jackson for five years and plans to finish it soon.
“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience that I will share with my kids and my grandkids,” Alfaro said of his time with Jackson. “I will never get tired of telling this story.”


http://www.nhregister.com/<wbr>articles/2009/07/03/news/<wbr>doc4a4dd3eaa79d2238680230.t<wbr>xt?viewmode=fullstory &#8212;


Photos from Hartford Civic Centre courtesy of ~
http://www.courant.com/<wbr>entertainment/celebrity/<wbr>hc-michael-jackson-hartford<wbr>-pictures,0,5833166.photog<wbr>allery
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