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"Wetten, dass..?" / "Golden Otto Award" Acceptance

Date of "Wetten, dass..?" confirmed in “The Philadelphia Inquirer” (Saturday [November 4, 1995]”)

Jochen Leuschner, music business consultant

"During my 27 years in the music business, I often experienced that even successful stars hardly ever rehearsed for TV performances or were unwilling to do so. But Michael was completely different. For the German TV show Wetten Dass...?" [in 1995] he had to perform two songs-a very impressively-choreographed "Dangerous" with 15 dancers then "Earth Song" with a German choir. He rehearsed for two-and-a-half hours and after each take, he discussed the results with the director then continued with the rehearsal.

"In the evening, at the end of the rehearsal, the director asked: `Michael, do you want another rehearsal tomorrow?' Michael smiled and answered: `We ALL should have another rehearsal!'"

Mike Heisel, Michael’s Product manager at CBS Records in Frankfurt

"After his successful [1995] appearance on the German TV show "Wetten Dass...?" he spontaneously invited all the Sony Music employees present for a visit with their children to the leisure park `Phantasialand' in Brühl, near Cologne. He wanted to thank us for the great job we had done."

“The Philadelphia Inquirer” (November 6, 1995) (archived)

Hundreds of young Germans did the usual screaming thing in Frankfurt on Saturday following a live performance by Michael Jackson on the German TV show Wetten, dass? (Want to Bet?) Jackson swiveled and danced across the stage as he sang "Dangerous" and "Earth Gone." The show's host, Thomas Gottschalk, did a short ' interview that included such zingers as a question about how Jackson liked Germany. "I love it," Jackson said.