The world was a better place when we started than it is now

not really for sure what took place… I’ll leave that in the hands of the Lord and know the he will do the right thing. “What I will say is that I do miss my brother.” The family are always protective of Michael’s memory – and Marlon says he welcomed the decision to pull a controversial Sky Arts comedy after it cast white actor Joseph Fiennes as his brother. Urban Myths depicted Michael, Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando taking a road trip after 9/11. But a trailer revealing Fiennes wearing a prosthetic nose and geisha- white makeup caused a storm. Paris said it “made her want to vomit” while Marlon branded the show an “insult”. He says: “To do something thing l i ke t hey did was disgusting and d di disrespectful.”f l”

The Jacksons will particularly feel Michael’s loss when they return to the UK this summer for a series of concerts, including one at Blenheim Palace, a stately h o me in t h e Oxford countryside.

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Marlon insists his little brother will be with them in spirit.p

“He is always on stage with us in n our hearts,” he s miles.les. “The audience doesn’t see him but we feel him.” Britain has s always held a special place in the hearts of allll the Jacksons, especially y Janet, who recently made London her home. M Marlon recalls the heady days of the grou group’s early fame – and db beingi blownbl away when they came to Britain. “London has always been a special place for us to perform because the fans are so dedicated,” he says. “Once, when we came to the UK in the early 70s, we were getting ready on the plane and we were about an hour out. “The pilot came on the loudspeaker and told us there were 10,000 fans a at the airport waiting fo for us. “This was at 5.30 5.30am. “When we got there it was crazy. There were so many fans they nearly turned ove over our limo. They were sh shaking it back and f forth. “London st still has that fixation.”t Jackie, the eldest member of the Jacksons, is 65. But Marlon – once nicknamed the “danciest Jackson” – insists age has not slowed them down on stage.

Laughing, he says of his current moves: “I can only can tell you what they tell me, ‘You haven’t lost a step.’

“I don’t think about it. I just do it, because if I thought about it I wouldn’t be able to do it.

“We have fun on stage. It lifts us all up. And it is amazing now to think some of the fans weren’t even born when we were starting performing.”