I would like to share my experience of meeting Michael and and share my sympathy to his family and gratitude for this beautiful tribute to his very short, but very full life.
I had the priviledge of meeting Michael in Queensland some years ago. I worked for a promoter up there as a tour co-ordinator. I remember at the beginning of the Kick tour, sitting back stage in a tent doing some book work and this quiet unasuming character walking up with a drink backstage in the afternoon. Sitting down opposite me, I looked up to see Michael hand outstretched to shake mine. “Hi I'm Michael” Who are you ? “Hi I'm Aly”. I think he was intrigued, because I never approached him. That's just the way I have always worked around artists. As I have been inside many cars with artists, while fans are mobbing them and know how frightening and clostrophobic that popularity can be. So I have always waited for artists to approach me to say hi on tour.
It was a short tour and we spoke a few times backstage
Just a lovely guy was my ever lasting impression!!
Aly
I had the priviledge of meeting Michael in Queensland some years ago. I worked for a promoter up there as a tour co-ordinator. I remember at the beginning of the Kick tour, sitting back stage in a tent doing some book work and this quiet unasuming character walking up with a drink backstage in the afternoon. Sitting down opposite me, I looked up to see Michael hand outstretched to shake mine. “Hi I'm Michael” Who are you ? “Hi I'm Aly”. I think he was intrigued, because I never approached him. That's just the way I have always worked around artists. As I have been inside many cars with artists, while fans are mobbing them and know how frightening and clostrophobic that popularity can be. So I have always waited for artists to approach me to say hi on tour.
It was a short tour and we spoke a few times backstage
Just a lovely guy was my ever lasting impression!!
Aly