Elvis asked a real-estate agent to show him the most expensive listing on her board. She laughed. He didn’t. It was a Wednesday morning in March of 1967 and the...
Quincy Jones told Michael Jackson to scream on a track as a joke. What Michael did next created the most recognizable sound in music history. It was April 1982 at...
At 10:37 p.m. on March 25th, 1983, Fred Estair, the greatest dancer in Hollywood history, picked up his phone and dialed a number he’d never called before. On the other...
The first thing Edmund Hargrove did when he saw Michael Jackson walk through the doors of the Kennedy Center was lean toward Eleanor Briggs and say something she’d remember for...
July 6, 2002, Harlem, New York. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network headquarters. The room is packed. Cameras everywhere. Reporters scribbling. Michael Jackson walks up to the microphone. He’s wearing all...
September 7, 1945. Charlottenber Strasa, Berlin. The war in Europe had been over for four months. American, British, French, and Soviet commanders stood together on a reviewing platform to watch...
1983 Telford, England. A factory floor owned by GKN Sanki, an engineering company that had been building things out of steel for the British military since the Boore War. A...
January 1991, the Saudi desert. A British convoy halts beside an empty patch of sand. A single eight-wheeled truck reverses into position. No crane arrives, no forklift, no second vehicle....
1991, the streets of Vukovar, eastern Croatia. A wheeled armored vehicle rolls through a ruined intersection. Four wheels, an open-topped turret, three cannon barrels pointing skyward at 83 degrees. It...
April 1969, London. Janis Joplin had just landed in England, her first major European tour, the Cosmic Blues Band. The country that had embraced American blues musicians when America itself...