マイケル・ジャクソンの母親、「可愛い息子」のことを思い出す

By Alan Duke、CNNA8 月 '、 ! -- 更新日 % GMT (#% HKT)

オスアンゼルス（CNN） -- マイケル・ジャクソンの人生は、インディアナ州ゲーリーの小さな家に家族の7番目の子供として押し寄せ、8月6日に始まった。彼の母親は、他人に異常な共感を示し、歌って踊るために生まれてきた「かわいい子供」のことを覚えている。キャサリン・ジャクソンは、以前にAEGに対する訴訟の公判で証言した際、息子の幼少期についての親密な話を共有した。ジャクソンさんの弁護士らは、ジャクソンさんが6月6日の復帰コンサートの準備中に亡くなっていなければ世界ツアーで得ていたであろう収入の損失を補うため、ジャクソンさんの母親と3人の子供に少なくとも16億ドルの賠償金を与えるよう陪審員に求めている。ジャクソンさんはちょうど「This Is It」ショーのワールドツアーを終えたばかりで、おそらくそうしていたであろう。裁判での証言によると、もし彼がこの木曜に5歳の誕生日を迎えるまで生きていたら、子供たちのプリンス、パリス、ブランケットと一緒に映画を作り始めたという。

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大家族の製鉄所労働者の息子として貧しいスタートを切ったマイケル・ジャクソンは、贅沢に浪費しながらも慈善活動への寄付の世界記録を樹立したポップアイコンとは顕著な対照をなしている。

彼らの最初の家には、寝室が 2 つ、リビング ルーム、キッチン、洗濯機と冷凍庫を置く小さなユーティリティ ルームしかありませんでした。ジャクソンの家長は以前の法廷で、マイケルと彼の4人の兄は一方の寝室で積み重ねられた二段ベッドで寝、両親はもう一方の寝室で眠り、娘たちはリビングルームで眠っていたとジャクソンの家長が証言した。

母親は自分たちの服を作り、新聞のセール広告を見て、靴を求めて救世軍の店を訪れました。 「私たちはそのようにしてやってきました」と、給料日ごとに生活してきたと彼女は語った。

父親のジョー・ジャクソンが製鉄所の仕事を解雇されたとき、彼は妻が保存できる野菜を収穫するために都市を出て農場に行きました。 「毎年、私たちは牛の4分の1か半分を購入し、冷凍庫に保管していました」と彼女は言いました。 「そしてそうして私たちは生き残ったのです。」

母親によると、マイケル少年は「なけなしのペニーとニッケル」をキャンディーやクッキーを買うために貯めていたが、全部は食べようとはしなかったという。 「彼は『店主』を演じるのが好きでした。彼はそれを持ってきて、それを置いて小さな店を立ち上げました、そして、近所の子供たちは皆彼から買いに来ました、そして彼は自分が店主であるように感じました。」

When older brother Marlon became ill, !-year-old Michael held his hand and cried, she said.

Michael's musical talents were obvious at a very early age. "He was born that way," she said. "When all the kids were dancing around, he was in my arms, and he couldn't be still. He was dancing, too, to the music. And when he started to walk, he would still dance."

She's told the story of Michael's interaction to her "old, rickety washing machine, a Maytag."

"It would make a rhythm noise, like 'squeaky, squeaky, katum, katum,' something like that, and he would be down there dancing, sucking his bottle to the squeaking of the washer," she said. "And I knew he was going to be -- he just loved music, and he loved to dance."

The family's old television set helped bring the brothers together as a singing group, she said.

"Sometimes it would break down," his mother said. And sometimes they would not have money to get it repaired. "And that's when the children first started singing. We would sing together, sing old country songs, folk songs."

Michael was five when he joined his brothers in talent contests at local high schools. "They had got so that they won all the contests -- every time there was a contest," she said.

When their group needed a name for an advertisement, their mother came up with "The Jackson Brothers #." But the woman who was writing the ad suggested she "cut that a little short and name it 'The Jackson #,'" she said. "And I thought it sounded better."

Michael's first solo performance was when he sang "Climb Every Mountain" in a kindergarten program when he was five, she said. "I was so nervous when he walked out on the stage, because he was always shy. He started singing the song, and he sang it with such clarity and didn't miss -- not flat or anything."

His paternal grandfather, who was in the audience "cried like a baby, looked around, and I was crying, too," she said. "He got a standing ovation for his performance and he wasn't nervous. I was shocked. I think he must feel more at home on stage."

Older brother Jermaine was the Jackson #'s lead singer from the start, but their mother told her husband it should be Michael. "I told him Jermaine needed help, and I told him Michael could help him," she said. "He didn't believe me, so I forced him to listen. And that's how Michael got the job."

The boys rehearsed in their living room. "We would push all the furniture back on the walls, and they would dance and set up the drums and things and rehearse right there," she said.

Instead of moving to a larger house as the family grew, they used any extra money to buy musical instruments. Katherine Jackson made their performance costumes.

Michael was nine when Motown signed the Jackson # to a recording contract and moved the boys to California, she said,

While much is made about マイケル・ジャクソン missing out on a normal childhood because of the constant touring and recording, his mother's stories suggest he always found a way to have fun.

Jackson recorded the title song for the '% film "Ben" -- a story about a young boy and his rat friend."He liked that song because he liked rats," his mother said. "I can remember a story that we went to Beverly Hills to have dinner and we were eating. Michael kept pulling his coat up and putting crumbs into his pocket. I said 'What are you doing?' and he held it up and he had a rat in his pocket. He was feeding it. I was really upset with him."

Katherine Jackson was not in court Thursday to hear the day's testimony because she was in Gary for her son's birthday celebration.