recording a Pepsi television commercial in 1984 (his hair caught fire). They forged a tight friendship, with her working as his hair stylist. From an early age, Sky became accustomed to Michael regularly being part of their lives. "Yeah, I was around him quite often and my grandma would travel with him too, so she'd go out of the country with him. She lived in Switzerland for a minute or she went to the Middle East for the last three years of his life."

For the past three years I've been hearing stories I was on heroin, but I was just so fucking tired. So I was labelled crazy, self-destructive and supposedly a drug addict.

Quite staggeringly, Sky's birthday parties would be at Michael's Neverland Ranch. "I was so painfullyshy I didn't really invite anyone, so it would end up being more like my brother's birthday. It would be my birthday party with all of his friends. They'd pick on me. Michael's house was a regular nice house. It wasn't like he was riding roller coasters eating cotton candy by himself, you know. I was actually here in London when he died. I'd just signed my record deal, and I was like, this is some kind of omen."

Later, realising she could easily navigate LA using public transport, she would ditch school and began taking three buses to Hollywood or Echo Park where she started submerging herself in music. She'd hang out with friends who were surprisingly absorbed by Krautrock and Sky drops La Düsseldorf, Harmonia and Brian