Michael Jackson was already a superstar in 1982, after years of performing with his brothers as part of the chart-topping ...

CBS Records was well aware that there were no black records at all in the pop Top 20 the week they sent the debut single from “Thriller” to radio in October of 1982. Faced with the very real ...

Michael Jackson covered The Beatles’ “Come Together” in the 1990s and made it all his own. Interestingly, the original song was inspired by the work of a 1950s superstar.