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‘If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.’
Оглавление—Michael Jackson
A HUMBLE BACKGROUND
The four boys who made up the band were amongst the eldest of a family of nine, born to Joe and Katherine Jackson. Joe’s background as a steel-worker in Gary, Indiana, offered the children a humble start in life, with the entire family squeezed into a house of just three rooms, but his passion for developing the unique set of gifts his children possessed was to be the catalyst that raised the family above and beyond their surroundings in a way that no-one could ever have foreseen.
Joe played guitar in a band called The Falcons with his brother. Their rock ‘n’ roll covers of Otis Redding, Little Richard and Chuck Berry could be heard in the house at weekends when the band came over to rehearse and must have had an impressive influence on the young Jackson flock; meanwhile, mother Katherine played clarinet and piano, evidence of a shared musical gift that ran through the family.
The small family home on Jackson street.
Michael aged three.
