It’s August 1988. Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan. 15,000 people packed in so tight you can feel the body heat from three rows away. The stage is set for...
He was 19 years old, standing at the peak of confidence, and he just told the Godfather of soul that his time was over. What happened in the next 2...
Imagine you’re sitting in a recording studio. It’s midnight. You’ve been there for 18 straight hours. There are engineers passed out on the couch. There are musicians who had to...
There is a night that almost nobody talks about. Not in the classic music documentaries, not in the behind-the-scenes specials, not in the liner notes of one of the most...
There is a photograph that almost nobody talks about. It was taken sometime in the early 1990s and in it two of the most famous human beings alive are sitting...
Picture this. You’re 20 years old. You’ve been performing since you were six. You’ve had number one hits. You’ve been on every major stage in America. And you’re sitting across...
In 1993, after being accused of child molestation and becoming the subject of a criminal investigation, Michael Jackson publicly declared his innocence with a pain that was impossible to hide....
March, 1963. A factory floor in Warren, Michigan. A squat, boat-hulled vehicle rolls out under the fluorescent lights. Four wheels, steel hull, a turret mounting twin machine guns. It looks...
1968, a test track outside Trier, West Germany. A large eight-wheeled vehicle rolls out of a hangar and onto a road running parallel to the Iron Curtain. It moves without...
1979, a design bureau on the outskirts of Beijing, China. A group of engineers from Norinco’s Vehicle Research Institute spreads photographs across a workbench. The photographs show a French armored...