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Detroit, Michigan (Triumph Tour)

"Los Angeles Times" (1981) (archived) (August 20, 1981 interview)

..."This is my last tour", lead singer Michael Jackson, 23, said during a chartered bus ride to Detroit from St. Louis where the brothers had done a concert the night before.

..."I love being on stage, but I don't like the other things that go with touring. I didn't even want to do this tour. It was going to be cancelled except that we wanted to do the benefit for the children in Atlanta. "I think it's important to grow and I've been doing this for so long. I sometimes feel like I should be 70 by now. We've been around the world twice, performed before kings and ambassadors. It's time to move on. I still want to make records, but I also want to do films. That's how I want to spend my time the next few years."

From Chris Cadman’s “Michael Jackson the Maestro (article summary/quotes)

When the Triumph tour ended Michael was looking forward to finding another acting role:

“I don’t want to do anything silly. I’d like to do a heavy musical drama – something with depth, something so full of emotion that people get aroused the way they do in concert.”