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“From early on, I saw how dedicated Michael was to work. He worked nearly all the time and rarely seemed to relax. He was certainly used to a heavy schedule; he had missed out on most of the leisure time of childhood because of it. His abilities went far beyond his astonishing talents at singing and dancing. A great deal of time was spent in the recording studio - The Jacksons’ intense focus on making a flawless product helped make them the success they were, and Michael was clearly the most focused, hardest working member of the group. While in the mixing booth, making technical adjustment and working the board with the engineers, he would whisper instructions to his brothers, whispering not because the instructions were secret, but because he was shy and didn’t like to yell out his ideas. At twenty years old, he was making decisions on album cover art, reading contracts giving interviews, and recording, sometimes all in one day” - Todd Gray “Michael Jackson; Before he was king”