Now this is an incredible story…

Our very own Dixie Battersby (rogue and intrepid WA Sales & Media Manager), talked her way into spending the day with MJ and The Jacksons, when she was just 16!? Not only that, she rode to her VERY FIRST concert ever in the Jackson’s limo with Michael, Jermaine, and Tito, and watched show – by invitation – side of stage. Kudos!

Not that she knew what she was doing, apparently!?

“I decided to make the trek up to Perth to meet them,” she said. “I thought that you could just go and do that. I stayed at my grandmother’s house in Kelmscott and caught the train into the Sheraton Hotel and was confronted by a bunch of kids waiting outside the hotel.

I can’t remember how I managed to get into the foyer as the security was very tight, but nevertheless I did and walked up to the first black man I saw and boldly said ‘I wanted to meet the Jackson 5′. He looked a bit amazed that I had managed to get through security and asked me my name – I thought I was going to get thrown out. Anyway, he asked me to come with him and took me up in the lift. The man turned out to be their father, Joe…”

Suppose you’d never break a sweat as an adult – even when working with Robbie Williams, Paul McCartney, Brian Ferry, Crowded House, Empire of the Sun, and Paul Kelly – after having lunch with the King of Pop as a kid.

Read the article in full here on news.com

From all of us here at EMI… RIP MJ, music and the world itself will never be the same again.