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Michael Jackson used to spend timing laughing at videos of Prince making mistakes, according to LA Reid's new memoir.
The producer's autobiography, Sing To Me, has been serialised in part by The New York Post. In one of the more recent excerpts, Reid claims that Michael Jackson would show footage of Prince's live shows going wrong to his guests.
As NME reports, one of Jackson's favourite video was apparently 1983 James Brown gig where the pair both joined Brown on-stage.
"Prince [couldn’t] make his guitar work," writes Reid. "Frantically stripping off his shirt and trying tricks with the microphone stand and making all these poses. After Michael’s dazzling star turn, Prince fell as flat as he could, and Michael enjoyed laughing at the video."
He continues, "After that, he put on a scene from Prince’s movie Under The Cherry Moon, the artsy black-and-white bomb he made after 'Purple Rain' and he laughed some more at Prince."
This isn't the first time the alleged rivalry between MJ and Prince has been written about recently. In 2015 biography MJ: The Genius Of Michael Jackson, the writer quotes Jackson as saying Prince had "always been not nice to me."
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