Under a variety of circumstances, I ended up at a dinner party with about a dozen people at the private home of a friend of Michael Jackson’s. I was an acquaintance of his friend, and was invited to have dinner and take a private cpr course. A strange world indeed…

This was in the mid 80′s right at the peak of Michael’s breakthrough fame, He arrived wearing one of those sequined jackets, and yes, he did wear a white glove! All those stories you hear of the man/child were bore out that night. He was awkwardly shy, and though I tried, quite difficult to get involved in a conversation. The image of Michael kneeling downing and shaking the cpr dummy comes to mind now. If you have taken cpr, you know the dummy is often named, “Annie.”

There is Michael Jackson shaking the dummy saying, “Annie, Annie, are you OK?” in that falsetto voice. Only later with the release of the “Bad” album, you can imagine my shock when I heard “Smooth Criminal” for the first time! Exactly…

Annie Are You OK?
So, Annie Are You OK
Are You OK, Annie

At the end of the evening, the strangest thing of all happened. Michael Jackson lived just down the street in Encino from the home we were at, so when it was time for him to leave, he went in the back of a Jeep Cherokee (?) and I watched the host cover him with blankets. He was going to drop Michael off at his house and there were fans outside the gate 24/7 at the time. It was probably about 11 p.m. or so, but they didn’t want to take any chances of the car being mobbed. So, off they went-

the “King of Pop” hiding under Pendleton….

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