Jackson Glove Under The Hammer!!
The glittery glove that Michael Jackson wore when he first unveiled his moonwalk on TV is to to be put up for auction.
The left-handed glove accompanied Jackson's fedora and dance moves on Motown's 25th-anniversary TV special in 1983. It will be featured alongside other one-of-a-kind items -- such as an early madonna demo tape and unreleased Jimi Hendrix lyrics -- at the November 21 Music Icons auction at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York City's Times Square.
Walter "Clyde" Orange, a founding member of the Commodores, has been holding onto the glove since Jackson gave it to him in 1983.
Orange said he got to know Jackson when the Commodores toured with the Jackson 5 in the 1970s. Orange would always ask the young entertainer for an autograph, but Jackson refused, saying Orange was the more famous of the two. The autograph request became a private joke.
They met again in March 1983 when the Motown special was taped. Michael sang with his brothers, then took the stage alone to wow the world with his moonwalk during his solo performance of Billie Jean.
When Orange found his friend backstage and again requested an autograph. Jackson gave him the glove instead. After Jackson's death on June 25, aged 50, Orange decided the glove was too significant to keep. "There's a hundred other gloves out there, but this is the one you want. He blew up after that (performance) with Billie Jean," Orange, 62, said in an interview. "The world should see this. This is the first. That's the song that made him shoot through the roof as a superstar."
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