Donny Osmond has told of a time in his career, mid-eighties, when he was desperate for work. He said he couldn't even get arrested. LOL. He wanted to dump the squeaky clean image he had from childhood to try to get a record deal. He says he talked to Michael Jackson about it. Michael had not had that problem migrating into an adult star. Michael advised Donny to purposefully get arrested for drugs. I'm serious. He was going to not really do the drugs but plant them on himself and then voluntarily get arrested. They thought the pubilicity would HELP his career. Donny says he was so desperate that he did consider it, but his brothers talked him out of it.
He did just fine right after that when he went to England and got a record deal for "Soldier of Love", which did well in the US because they played it on the radio for weeks without telling the name of the artist until it went to the top of the charts.
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