Prince and Michael Jackson are the same age, give or take a few months. Do you think Prince was a J5 fan in the early 1970's. I mean my dad, who is the same age, my uncles were all big Jackson 5 fans in the 70's. What do yall think about Prince.

Yes. I think many of his moves were also taken from MJ as a kid.

I read somewhere ages ago he went to a J5 concert as a kid. true or not, i don't know.

ofcourse he was , everbody was !

Heavenly said:

??? that doesn't make sense because everyone at that time mimicked James Brown including MJ

skilletnomicrowave said:

I dunno, I just remember him saying once that he really like MJ when he was a kid also because of his moves.

Yea. There's a boot where he mentions his fave J5 song was (if I'm remembering correctly) "Sugar Daddy"...

Interesting choice.....hahahaha

his teenaged group grand central used to play J5 covers

prettymansson said:

I have a crappy doco where some dude who knew p b4 he started recording says how they used to imitate mj... It would have been hard not to have liked them back then - they were HUGE.