“Uncle Otis Are You OK?”

Saturday, November 17th 2007

The South Wales Echo recently featured an article on Temptations singer Otis Williams and as with so many performers these days, he mentioned Michael during his interview.

When Williams was asked to pick his favourite out of everyone he’d worked with he quickly said; “Michael Jackson. We did a show together with The Jackson Five in Chicago during the ‘70s and the crowd got so excited they flooded the stage!

Security ushered us into the back of a little van. We were crammed in, in the dark with people banging the sides and shouting our names, and I remember Michael being very scared, because he was fairly young then.

But he was asking, “Uncle Otis are you OK?” – and that was him all over, so considerate.”

Source: South Wales Echo & MJWN