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 Michael Jackson towered over popular music and culture in a way only a select few-Sinatra, Elvis, and The Beatles-have before. Over his nearly forty-year career in the public spotlight he was not only a global icon, he broke racial and national barriers, challenged cultural norms, and re-defined popular music. For children of the Eighties, Thriller was their Sgt. Pepper, the symbol and soundtrack of a generation, and Michael Jackson their Elvis Presley, a performer so mesmerizing he seemed to physically embody his revolutionary music.

Yet since the height of his popularity, Jackson's artistry has often been overshadowed by his eccentricities, his changing appearance, his legal battles, and even his commercial fortunes. The music became lost in the tabloid frenzy that surrounded his unusual life. Man in the Music- An Album By Album Guide to Michael Jackson returns to the songs, videos and albums that made the singer a cultural force in the first place. Rather than focusing on surface-level sensationalism, it explores the much more interesting and complex man himself and how the tensions and paradoxes of his life often offer insight into his work.

Man in the Music meticulously tracks Jackson's solo career-from 1979's groundbreaking Off the Wall to 2001's Invincible-positioning each album in its social context, revealing Jackson's fascinating process of artistic creation, and analyzing each record, from its cover, to its songs, to its aesthetic impact and cultural legacy.

Michael Jackson led an elusive, controversial, fascinating life and the interest in him has only grown greater in the wake of his tragic death. An in-depth, fresh assessment of his remarkable six-album catalogue, Man in the Music provides a window into the artistic achievement of one of the most compelling and influential artists in popular music history.