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These Stars Can Tell You How to Get to 'Sesame Street'

There’s no other place where you can learn your ABCs from a musical legend or have a book read to you by the first lady (15 Photos)

Enid Portuguez on Nov 4, 2009 at 12:51PM

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These Stars Can Tell You How to Get to 'Sesame Street'

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Michael Jackson

He was only 20 years old when Michael Jackson made his brief, understated cameo on the 1978 TV special A Very Special Sesame Street Christmas. Dressed in a festive sweater and winter vest, the young superstar encountered Oscar the Grouch while strolling down a snowy street. Oscar offered him a beat-up TV -- which Jackson declined, leaving the Grouch with his book about ghosts instead.