Michael Jackson: Inside the Jackson Dream Machine
Mick Brown, Sunday Times, 5 August 1984
IN THE Helmsley Palace Hotel, New York – an establishment whose style is best described as neo-Liberace – the lobby was filling up with Michael Jacksons.
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