The Madness of Michael
Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, December 1987
"A LOT OF PEOPLE misunderstand me," says Michael Jackson in the spoken intro to his number one hit 'I Just Can't Stop Loving You'. "That's because they don't know me at all."
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