1955 The Oscars. The room was full of the kind of light that makes everything look permanent. Chandeliers, diamonds, the glow of people who believe they are exactly where history...
Quincy Jones had a decision to make. He had spent 30 years producing records, and in 30 years, he had never left a vocal on the first real take without...
There are performers who teach by talking about what they do. And there are performers who never explain anything, who believe that the knowledge lives in the body, in the...
The press in 1983 and 1984 had a story it wanted to tell. The story was about two young black artists who were competing for the same thing. The same...
There were 56,000 people in Dodger Stadium that night. And Michael Jackson was watching one of them. July 6th, 1984, Los Angeles. The opening night of the Victory Tour, the...
That was the life of Michael Jackson. Born into a working-class family in Gary, Indiana, Michael transformed from a gifted young boy into the most famous entertainer on the planet....
October 23rd, 1987, Madison Square Garden. 8:47 p.m. Michael Jackson was performing The Way You Make Me Feel when a desperate scream cut through 50,000 screaming fans. What happened next...
Eight-year-old Michael Jackson sat in the backseat of his family’s van, his small hands trembling as he stared out the window at the modest building that would either make or...
February 1971, San Francisco. Inside the city’s finest hotel, a gang leader slapped a 70-year-old janitor to the marble floor. 40 people watched. Nobody moved. Then the old man’s name...
February 28th, 1984. Los Angeles, the Shrine Auditorium. Michael Jackson had already won seven Grammys that night. Seven. The stack next to his seat was getting awkward to manage. Brooke...