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When the brothers get down to music and launch into Wanna Be Startin' Somethin', Michael, in good voice and fine form, steps forward again. The brothers blaze their way through a set of 16 tunes, and except for three compositions by his older brother Jermaine, Michael sings lead on them all. He spins, prances, glides, soars and generally gives a vivid illustration of why, after the Victory Tour ends, he will resume flying solo. Michael is the clear star of the show-a Thoroughbred running with pacers-but he always was, even in the Jackson 5 days...
...through to the hot, angry heart of Billie Jean; the boy who has an uncanny sense of what his audience wants and how to go about the hard and profitable business of giving it to them; the gentle, slightly self-mocking teen-ager in Thriller ("I've got somethin' I want to tell ya...I'm not like other guys") who turns into one of the grisliest werewolves in screen history and enjoys the transformation the way another adolescent might heat up on a first heavy date...
...Education. "When I was a kid I'd go around with my father, and once I met this guy behind a bar room called the Pepper Pot, sittin' on a log, smokin' a joint or somethin', just relaxing. I was a little kid coming to bother him, and he just took time to tell me things about music. I didn't even know it was Professor Longhair...
...says Elizabeth, "neither is wrong. But they need somethin' to bring them together. I really don't know where fightin' gets anybody. It's only goin' to bring more dead, more sadness to the families...
Gadlock practically sneers when he talks about a rich man from Texas who wanted to buy the limousine right after Elvis died. "He offered somethin' like half a million dollars. As if that would do anythin' This was Elvis's," he says. "Half million. Bullshee...