In his juicy new book, “Soundtrack of My Life,” Clive Davis puts the late Michael Jackson on blast for purposely trying to kill off brother Jermaine’s career.
In the mid-80s, Davis signed Jermaine Jackson and had a couple of hits. “Michael didn’t like this,” Davis said.
When Davis hired Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds and LA Reid in the late 1980s to produce Jermaine’s fourth album at Arista Records, he said Michael had enough, Davis says. The King of Pop reportedly tied up Babyface for his own projects.
At a dinner in Paris, Davis recalls, Jermaine was “crying, indeed sobbing at times, so deeply hurt that his brother would do this to him.”
Jermaine was so angry that he wrote his infamous song, “Word to the Badd,” which denounced Michael as shallow and selfish.
Michael reportedly responded by calling Davis and demanding he take the song off of Jermaine’s new album.
Sources: Manchester Evening News, UK Mirror, New York Post, TMZ, Madame Noire, The Root
