A King of Pop comes to the Costa del SolThirty-eight years have now passed since Michael Jackson set foot on a Spanish stage for the very first time, choosing Marbella’s football stadium as the unlikely starting point for his run through the country. On August 5 1988, he came to Marbella during his record-breaking Bad World Tour, he arrived in Andalucia before heading on to Madrid and Barcelona days later. Crowds estimated at between 27,000 and 30,000 packed into the modest football ground, according to contemporary reports from the EFE news agency. Many had paid the equivalent of around $1,000 for tickets, a huge sum at the time. Fans Ana Aguilar and Juan Manuel Velasco recently released a documentary titled Shooting Star in Marbella, (Estrella Fugaz en Marbella), taking previously unseen photographs and video recordings from Jackson’s stay in the town, with testimonies from locals who witnessed it first-hand.