Michael Jackson: The One Who Got Away
Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 18 March 1972
THE MOST amazing thing about little Michael Jackson's solo success is how calmly he's taking it all. "I think it's great," is all he says talking from Los Angeles half an hour or so after finishing school for the day.
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