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"Earth News Radio" Radio Interview

Airdate confirmed on radio album cover (archived) (“May 31, 1976”)

MJJCollectors "Earth News Radio" album listing (archived) (interview summary/quotes)

1) Michael, as a 17 year old member of the Jackson Five says "I really don't like to see myself in the magazines...I don’t like to look at myself in pictures.  They don't come out good."  Tito talks about a magazine that featured an exaggerated story about the brothers being in a car accident years ago.

2) The brothers react to an incident two years earlier after a David Cassidy concert in London which led to hundreds of injuries and one dead fan.  Tito talks about how they cancelled their London concerts after that because they did not want people to get hurt.  Michael adds “This has happened many times to us but we just don’t promote it like David Cassidy does…on the news…for promotion.”  Tito talks about how they sometimes have stopped a show and left the stage to get the crowd to settle down.  Michael talks about a tragic incident at one of their concerts: “One time we did a State Fair in Milwaukee.  It was 150,000, the biggest crowd we ever drew.  And two people had a heart attack.”

3) Michael talks about being a huge fan of writer Ernest Hemingway and loaning his favorite Hemingway book “The Old Man And The Sea” to an Australian writer because “I like to share my books”.  Tito talks about the jealous boyfriends yelling at them from the crowd while on stage performing.

Song excerpts include: ABC, Whatever You Got, I Want, Never Can Say Goodbye, Dancing Machine.