On this day in 1987, while the BAD World Tour was shaking Japan, Michael sat down with Molly Meldrum in a Tokyo hotel room for his first major TV interview of the decade.
Soft spoken, guarded and still talking about his dreams the way most people talk about weather. He said most of them had come true. He said the music felt more spiritual than something he could take credit for. He said he could fool his own mother in disguise just to sit in a theater like everybody else does.
Thirty nine years later, the quiet conversation still cuts through all the noise.
You can see the moment of realization he has hearing his own demo he hadn’t heard in years, and the parts that were never used in the final version. His smile 🥺