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Out of His Life: Michael Jackson
Report by Barney Hoskyns, New Statesman, August 1984
BY NOW, of course, you’ve been told more than you could possibly want to know about Michael Jackson. Such has been the media saturation of the ...

Michael Jackson: Blood On The Dance Floor
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, July 1997
HISTORY IS written by the victors. Or, in our times, is remixed by the ...

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AUDIO: Michael Jackson (1980)
Interview by John Pidgeon, Rock's Backpages Audio, January 1980
John Pidgeon, via a 13-year-old Janet, hears from the King of Pop about how he linked up with Motown, learned about the studio, how he sees ...

ARTICLES IN LIBRARY

Michael Jackson: The One Who Got Away
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, March 1972
THE MOST amazing thing about little Michael Jackson's solo success is how calmly he's taking it all. "I think it's great," is all he says talking ...

Michael Jackson: Show You The Way to the Infirmary
Interview by Cliff White, NME, July 1977
MICHAEL JACKSON proves you don't have to be a punk to get the benefits of the health service. ...

The Jacksons: Ten Golden Years
Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, February 1979
The guys recently celebrated ten years as a headlining act and B&S took the opportunity to talk to them individually and gather their thoughts on their ...

Michael Jackson: Michael Jackson's Peacock Music
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, August 1979
INTERVIEWS with Michael Jackson are few and far between. However, after the Jacksons' Platinum Party, at which the whole family was presented with platinum awards for ...

Michael Jackson: No Angel, But No Osmond Either
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Creem, June 1983
DOWNTOWN BETWEEN the Pacific American Fish Co. and the Hotel St. Agnes Hospitality Kitchen there's an alley. Cars block each end, no escape. And silhouetted in ...

The Boy Who Would Fly: Michael Jackson
Profile by Barney Hoskyns, NME, September 1983
I'VE BEEN feeling strange about Michael Jackson since I was 11 years old. I remember lying in bed with a transistor radio the size of ...

Michael Jackson: Inside the Jackson Dream Machine
Essay by Mick Brown, Sunday Times, August 1984
IN THE Helmsley Palace Hotel, New York – an establishment whose style is best described as neo-Liberace – the lobby was filling up with Michael ...

Michael Jackson: Bad
Review by John McCready, NME, September 1987
Michael Jackson doesn't live in the real world. I read my Sun and Star every day. I know that the boy from Gary, Indiana is mad, ...

Michael Jackson: Bad
Review by Davitt Sigerson, Rolling Stone, October 1987
MICHAEL JACKSON is a man. Agreed, he is a young man, emotional age about thirteen, with a young man's interest in cars, girls, scary movies and ...

Michael Jackson: Bad
Review by Tom Graves, Rock and Roll Disc, November 1987
IF MICHAEL JACKSON is not the most confusing entertainer of our time, you can't blame him for not trying. ...

The Madness of Michael
Profile by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, December 1987
"A LOT OF PEOPLE misunderstand me," says Michael Jackson in the spoken intro to his number one hit 'I Just Can't Stop Loving You'. "That's because ...

Quincy Jones
Interview by Robin Eggar, Time Out, June 1988
The Jackson and Jones alliance has seen the transformation of a bubble-gum singer into the greatest musical phenomenon of his era. ...

Match of the Fey: Prince and Michael Jackson
Essay by Barney Hoskyns, The Times, July 1988
PRINCE BEGGED an interviewer seven years ago: "Just don’t compare me to Michael Jackson." Few could then have guessed there would ever be a need to. ...

Prince/Michael Jackson/Luther Vandross: Live at the Capital Centre
Review by Geoffrey Himes, Columbia Flyer (Maryland), October 1988
BOTH PRINCE and Michael Jackson came to the Capital Centre last week for a showdown between the two reigning giants of rock'n'soul. Appearing in the same ...

Michael Jackson: Dangerous
Review by Mat Snow, Q, January 1992
Michael Jackson: hip hop and gospel, Slash and God, sublime and ridiculous. ...

Michael Jackson
Report by Lloyd Bradley, Q, September 1992
IT'S NEARLY 1 AM ON A SUNDAY MORNING IN June. The paying audience for the opening show of Michael Jackson's Dangerous World Tour have long since ...

Michael Jackson: Imitation Of Life
Essay by Ian Penman, The Modern Review, Summer 1993
Michael the archangel listen/Michael don't you see?/If you are on the side of good/Now where does that leave me?
Paddy McAloon, 'Michael'
When I was 17 I did ...

Michael Jackson: Wembley Stadium, London
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Melody Maker, July 1997
All You Need Is Glove ...

Michael Jackson: Don Valley Stadium, Sheffield
Live Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, September 1997
THE MOST FAMOUS performer on Earth has just been introduced, as per protocol, as "the King Of Pop", by the Chief Barker of the Variety Club ...

Michael Jackson at 40
Profile by Barney Hoskyns, The Independent, August 1998
I’LL CONFESS I’m shocked that Michael Jackson has reached the ripe old age of 40. More shocked, indeed, than by the fact that Keith Richards and ...

Michael Jackson: Greatest Hits – History Volume 1
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, April 2001
ONCE UPON a time, wise critics dubbed Michael Jackson pop's Peter Pan. ...

Michael Jackson: Off The Wall*****, Thriller**** and Bad**** (Epic)
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, December 2001
RE-RELEASED SOLO albums include interviews with Quincy Jones and Rod Temperton plus demos and unreleased ...

Michael Jackson: Thrills Before The Spills
Comment by Charles Shaar Murray, The Independent, December 2003
IT'S THAT PHOTO, the official police mugshot taken when Michael Jackson finally turned himself in to answer charges of child molestation, which looks so scary. ...

Lisa Marie Presley
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, GQ, January 2004
ELVIS NEVER came to England. He touched down at a Scottish airfield in 1960 but not once did the King set foot in the green and ...

Ever-So-Slightly Wacko: The Day I Interviewed Michael Jackson (via little sister Janet)
Memoir by John Pidgeon, Rock's Backpages, June 2009
IN JANUARY 1980, the gates of 4641 Hayvenhurst Avenue in Encino were open, unguarded. As I parked, an Alsatian bounded to the car and bared his ...

Blame it On the Good Times: The Life and Living Death of Michael Jackson
Essay by Barney Hoskyns, New Statesman, July 2009
IN SEPTEMBER 1979, my friend Davitt Sigerson – then a very good white writer on black music; later the chairman of Island Records in America; still ...

Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough: Bruce Swedien Remembers the Times with Michael Jackson
Retrospective and Interview by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, Summer 2009
HERE'S IRONY for you: there were several things timed for the release of Michael Jackson's London shows that were to provide testimony to the man's craft ...

see also Jackson 5, The

see also Jacksons, The