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A lonely life in reverse
Watching the 10-year-old Jackson reorganise the publicity shoot for the Jackson 5's first single, placing himself in front of his brothers and on one knee, a record executive was sure that they had found one who belonged at the top of the industry.
"How did he know that, how to take a publicity photo," said Ben Brown, then a high-ranking executive at Steeltown Records, albeit speaking with a great deal of hindsight. "He was an old soul, as if he had been a superstar in another life."
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His father, Joseph, was a crane operator for a steel firm who earned $65 a week and aspired to work in the music industry. His own band never amounted to much, but when he heard his second son, Tito, playing his own discarded guitar, another avenue into that world opened before him.
"I envisioned these kids making audiences happy by sharing their talent," he said later. "Talent they'd maybe inherited from me."
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His father was a strict disciplinarian with some odd ideas of how to enforce order. Later Jackson would recall the thrashings his father considered necessary to keep the young band in line, a cycle of violence that intensified as he, alone among the brothers, began to stand up to him. The only threat that worked on his father was the threat to stop singing.
His mother's parents had divorced and she was determined to hold her own family together, even though she and her husband were now moving in radically different directions.
She had become a devout Jehovah's Witness, he was busy booking the brothers to play strip clubs. Aged nine,[url=http://woolrichoutletfr.halod.com/][b]Woolrich Parka Femme[/b][/url], Jackson was quite used to watching striptease. As part of one of their early numbers, he was encouraged to leave the stage and crawl beneath the tables, looking up ladies' skirts, flashing lewd smiles.
"I may be young," he said while introducing a song by Smokey Robinson, "but I do know what the blues are all about". Robinson himself would say that the child had an "old soul".
Commentators have since noted the paradox at the heart of Jackson's strange life -- a childhood spent being an adult, followed by an adulthood spent as a child.
The Jackson 5 graduated from strip clubs and talent contests to the top of the charts via a record deal with the Motown label in 1969. They were brought to Los Angeles, and by November 1969 the single 'I Want You Back' had topped the charts. In the next seven years the brothers were worked for all they were worth, releasing 13 albums and touring venues and television studios with 'Baby Michael' at the centre of the whirlwind.
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Adolescence brought pimples; fans who saw him up close were shocked; his father told him he was ugly. He was certain this was true: he felt his skin was too dark and his nose too wide.
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His first massively successful solo album, 'Off The Wall', was born out of his friendship with the film's musical director Quincy Jones. 'Off the Wall' was released in 1979. A global brand was established: the moonwalk,[url=http://duveticadeutschlandshop.halod.com/][b]Duvetica München Shop herren[/b][/url], the single sequined glove, the unlaced sneakers.
Sales of 'Thriller' jumped by 150,000 week on week. It was at the height of his success that Jackson began to retreat from the world that was so fascinated by him. He bought a ranch in California and called it Neverland. He built his own amusement park, stocked it with a menagerie of animals, including a chimpanzee called Bubbles, and spent afternoons alone riding his own Ferris wheel.
The stories multiplied: it was said that he slept in an oxygen tent and was determined to purchase the remains of the Elephant Man, Joseph Merrick. The blaze of rumours was stoked further by the singer's own changing appearance. Some trace an addiction to plastic surgery back to the late 1970s. Jackson denied that he had undergone any operations but for work on his nose to help with his singing, and said the cause of his whitening skin was a dermatological condition called vitiligo.
His global commercial success continued with the album 'Bad' -- the video was directed by Martin Scorsese. The concerts incorporated lasers and the sight of Jackson flying like his hero Peter Pan on a wire. Concurrent with this sellout tour, his autobiography was published. Jackson declared himself "one of the loneliest people in the world".
Critics felt he was losing his touch, however. The music that always hauled him above the mire of stories about his sexuality, his appearance and his close friendships with child actors, like a giant crane at a stage show,[url=http://monclerwesteherrendaunenjackebillig.albirank.net/][b]Moncler Jacken Online österreich[/b][/url], was losing some of its power.
Rumours of child molestation hardened into accusations that threatened to land the singer in court. The police raided his home in 1993 after an allegation by the family of 11-year-old Jordy Chandler. He later arrived at an out-of-court settlement with the family for around $20m. Marriage, to Lisa Marie Presley, was widely regarded as an attempt to restore his reputation. The marriage failed,[url=http://duveticaitalia.webmium.com/][b]duvetica outlet[/b][/url], as did a second, to Debbie Rowe,[url=http://giuseppezanottioutletonline.webmium.com/][b]giuseppe zanotti outlet[/b][/url], his former nurse.
The albums of the 1990s were poorly received and his ability to raise his own children was questioned after he dangled the 11-month-old Prince Michael II from the window of a German hotel in 2001. Astonishingly for a man who had sold so many records, his finances were also said to be in a state of perpetual crisis, brought on by unrestrained spending.
His next appearance on the world stage followed a controversial television interview with the British journalist Martin Bashir, in which he admitted sharing a bed with a boy.
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All that the tour might have been, is now left, like most of the rest of his barely believable life, as a subject for speculation.
"Why not just tell people I'm an alien from Mars," he told a biographer, J Randy Taraborelli, in 1995. "Tell them I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight. They'll believe anything you say." (©The Times, London)
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