Tommy Mottola has released his autobiography called Hitmaker. This book is not about Michael Jackson but Mottola mentions his interactions with Michael in it – although they aren't a lot or long in nature
1991
Mottola mentions renewing Michael’s contract in 1991. He says it was one of largest contracts offered. He says they paid Michael an advance of $35 Million. Mottola says although Michael was happy with the contract he refused to sign it unless the press-release announced it as a billion dollar deal.
Tommy Mottola: “Anybody who punctured the balloons that Michael blew up around him was not around Michael Jackson very long. In other words, if you said no to Michael one time because it was the right thing to do, you’d be gone.”
Tommy Mottola: “But there was virtually nobody around Michael who could speak truth to him because he was Michael Jackson, King of Pop, and he was writing the checks. He surrounded himself with people who said yes simply to be around him or because they were cashing his checks. Michael, what would you like? Michael, how would you like that? Michael, we can do this. Michael, of course we can do that. Yes, Michael. Yes, Michael. Yes, Michael, yes. That put me in somewhat of a unique position. I was in charge of Sony Music— and Sony was writing his checks. I didn’t confront him very often. But I might have been the only person in the world who was able to say “I don’t think that’s right” to Michael Jackson. From the beginning, part of him resented that, but mostly he respected that.”
Mottola calls Dangerous album a success with 32 Million units in sales. He mentions however Michael wasn’t happy with the sales numbers, starting from Bad album. Mottola says he started working for CBS/ Sony soon after Bad was released and Michael was not happy with 45 Million unit sales of Bad album and would tell Mottola to turn it around and it could sell more than 100 Million units. Mottola says similarly Michael was not happy with the 32 Million sales of Dangerous album. Mottola says he would tell Michael that they sent a promotional army and no other album was selling even remotely close to these numbers.
She's been snorting her kneecaps off before they even met
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