Who is Michael Jackson?
Michael Joseph Jackson (born August 29, 1958), is an American musician and entertainer whose successful music career and controversial personal life have been at the forefront of pop culture for the last quarter-century. Jackson began his musical career at the age of seven as the lead singer of The Jackson 5 and released his first solo recording, Got To Be There in 1971 while remaining as a member of the group.[1] He began a full-fledged solo career in 1979 and formally parted with his siblings in 1984.[2] In his solo career, Jackson recorded and co-produced the best-selling album of all time Thriller, with worldwide sales over 51 million;[3] received thirteen Grammy awards;[4] and charted thirteen number-one singles in the U.S. Throughout his four-decade career, Michael Jackson has been awarded numerous honors, and is a double-inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (once as a member of The Jackson 5 in 1997, and again in 2001 as a solo artist.)[5] He is also a member of the Song
Hold those e-mails. We know Michael Jackson is not an athlete. But watching and trying to analyze the Gloved One is certainly a spectator sport. Before she agreed to slum for the Writers’ Bloc, Gerri Hirshey was the world’s foremost observer of MJ — 20 years ago, she was given unprecedented access, before or since, for her classic Rolling Stone profile. As much of the world screams for Jacko’s head, today in the WB, Hirshey considers the perils of Tablife, and offers some clues about someone who has never really been adequately explained. By Gerri Hirshey The Writers’ Bloc Some 20 years before Thursday’s globally beamed perp walk, I was thoroughly enjoying a night out in L.A. with the Moonwalker, Michael Jackson — sweet, handsome and still brown. The famously disappearing nose had only been lightly chiseled and sanded. As a Rolling Stone reporter, I was a fair connoisseur of eccentricity, so I wasn’t fazed by the fact that Mike wore more lip gloss than me. Nor was I surprised when we
