Family pressure is caved to.
Favors are curried or returned.
Summer internships the world over are filling up with sullen teenagers who didn’t ask for this, awarded by managers who just couldn’t refuse a persistent aunt or golf club membership secretary.
Music is not immune.
Contracts can get in the way of superstars paying the friend and family debt but some still find a way, singing incognito.
So, George Michael helps his second cousin Andros Georgiou out but stays mum to please mum.
And Michael Jackson helps his old Motown boss’ son catch a break.
The tables were turned when the failed singing career of Princess Stephanie of Monaco (daughter of Grace) turned up unheralded on Michael Jackson’s largely forgotten single In The Closet. One of the rare occasions when Michael Jackson showed impeccable judgement, with Princess Stephanie one of the few people to have made inferior life choices to Jackson. She later went on have a relationship with married elephant trainer Franco Knie and move, along with her three children, into Knie’s circus caravan.