Why Jackson felt he had to record a song about a prostitute is beyond me. And no one, particularly, asked for a tepid “We Are the World” rewrite.ġ46. No one asked for the unrelenting, almost sociopathic key changes. No one asked for the opening speech by the little tyke spouting un-tyke-like words like, “For our children, and our children’s children.” No one asked for Jackson’s breathy voice, the overweening vocalizings, the formless orchestration, this simple syrup for the soul. It’s easy to laugh, but who among us can say we danced a mile in his shoes?ġ47. He spoke with a soft voice but insisted on singing songs with words like “bad,” “dangerous,” “torture,” and “scream.” He was a man-child living in a luxurious cocoon. Based almost entirely on interviews with people who were actually there, it has a lot of perspective on Jackson’s life not found elsewhere.Īs with everything else in Jackson’s life, however, in the end it doesn’t really make sense. And David Gest’s Life of an Icon is now available on Amazon. The ABC Martin Bashir documentary, Living With Michael Jackson, remains a must-see. There’s lots of video out there, of course. Randy Taraborrelli’s Michael Jackson: The Magic, the Madness, the Whole Story Randall Sullivan’s Untouchable and Steve Knopper’s new MJ: The Genius of Michael Jackson. The best accounts of his life I’ve read are J. Two albums of unreleased tracks have come out since Jackson left this mortal coil, in June 2009 There were five adult solo albums, beginning with Off the Wall and ending with Invincible, and two more releases that had additional new songs, History and Blood on the Dance Floor. After a year or two of success with his brothers in the Jackson 5, he embarked on a solo career at age 13, with four more albums on Motown.

The following is an account of every song Michael Jackson released as a solo artist.

Off the Wall, his first adult solo album, showed off an extraordinary young man with astonishing moves, and Thriller, well, Thriller was about something more than marketing it was the work of a pop auteur of unparalleled gifts, as both a composer and (importantly) a celebrity as well. From his voice to his image to his dancing, it was so easy to get swept up in his High Pop Art. Jackson was the most sensational performer - the full package - of his era. At his most charming, he had one of the most charismatic and endearing personas we’d ever seen. There was really something about Michael Jackson.

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