I ran across an interview of Quincy Jones speaking on Michael Jackson today in Men Style and my mouth literally hit the ground. In the interview he talks about everything from Michael’s chemical peels to him wanting to die like Elvis. He also revealed that he will not be attending Michael’s funeral. A friend of mine believes Quincy was being brutally honest but I found the interview to be just a little bizarre. Here are some excerpts:
On How He Found Out About Michael’s Death A: Well, everybody in the world called me. I got 500 e-mails. I’ve never seen anything like it in my life. At first they said they’d taken him to the hospital, then they said he’d had a stroke or a heart attack—it just kept going back and forth and we didn’t know what was really happening. And at first I thought he was just kind of freaked out by the coming concerts, because I was in London when they announced the 50 concerts and they sold out in four hours. We’d see each other all the time, and I just can’t believe he’s not here.
On the Strange Evolution of Michael’s appearance Oh, we talked about it all the time. But he’d come up with, “Man, I promise you I have this disease,” and so forth, and “I have a blister on my lungs,” and all that kind of b.s. It’s hard, because Michael’s a Virgo, man—he’s very set in his ways. You can’t talk him out of it. Chemical peels and all that stuff.
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