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...that was mere throat-clearing for the 1982 Thriller, which would become the world's all-time best-selling album. Maturing as a songwriter, he turned a celebrity's denial of paternity into the whispery, groovy "Billie Jean" and a flee-don't-fight message into the unbeatable "Beat It." The videos for these songs broke an informal color barrier at MTV and made music videos a format that quickly spread around the globe. The 14-minute superproduction for Thriller was later chosen by MTV as the top video ever. (Read "How to Moonwalk Like Michael...
...with what the lobbyists for Big Pharma and insurance want us to have, thereby guaranteeing their continued profits and campaign donations. It is discouraging to see business prevailing as usual while Americans wait to have a system that's at least as good as those of other industrialized nations. Jean Quinlan, STAUNTON...
...inhabited - with his three young children, Michael Joseph Jackson Jr. (a.k.a. Prince Michael), Paris Michael Katherine Jackson and Prince Michael Jackson II - Jackson has managed to spark, then dodge, questions surrounding his various health problems. Much of time, the superstar behind such hits as "Beat It," "Thriller" and "Billie Jean" appeared to invite speculation, appearing in public wearing a surgical mask, as he did a decade ago, or in a wheelchair, which he used on certain occasions last year. The singer was always very thin and appeared frail. (See the top 10 Michael Jackson moments...
...Around the corner Tower Records blasted music outside from "Bad," Jackson's seventh album, and had also set up three displays devoted to the his music inside. Fans started trickling in when Tower opened at 10 a.m.; a die-hard fan dressed like Jackson in his "Billie Jean" video even entered the store and flipped through the albums. Tower's clerks said they had been fielding calls all morning asking about Jackson's albums in stock, and expected more as the news spread. Masayuki Ikeya, 30, says he first saw and heard Michael Jackson when his parents showed...
...stage - and one giant leap into dance-floor history. The thin, angular pop star was only 24 years old when he took an obscure break-dancing move and transformed it into one of the most recognizable routines of all time. Jackson debuted the moonwalk during his performance of "Billie Jean" on the ABC television special Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever, and the heavy rotation that the song's video enjoyed on MTV injected it into America's pop-cultural consciousness. The moonwalk is so fluid, so effortless - and yet when amateurs slip on some old gym socks...