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Former Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller has revealed that he nearly managed Michael Jackson, and that he had 'extraordinary plans' for the Thriller star.
Speaking in a new BBC Radio 2 documentary about his career, the man who helped launch the careers of Spice Girls and S Club 7, said that he was on the brink of becoming MJ's manager and had ideas to transform his career.
"There was a minute there where I was going to become his manager," said Fuller in the documentary, The Fuller Picture. "I had lots of ideas, and I think about it actually every now and again about what I was going to do with him and they were very different to anything he'd done previously and it wasn't about touring for sure."
He continued: "I actually advised him not to do touring because I felt that he'd already been seen touring and I felt there was more to offer in a different way. It was quite a complicated situation and complication isn't something I crave in life but the people around him would have made it challenging.
"If it had been just down to me working with Michael I think we'd have done something extraordinary but I thought better to just let it go, it was a shame."
Fuller, who went on to manage the likes of David Beckham, Andy Murray and Lewis Hamilton and make millions from the Pop Idol franchise, also discussed how Annie Lennox was an unlikely influence in shaping the Spice Girls.
The Fuller Picture: The Simon Fuller Story is available to hear on BBC iPlayer here.
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