Notes

Michael Jackson: Flashback; Jackson Street; First steps . . . in dancing. Chameleon; Talent contests and bars; Big boys; The Apollo Theatre and Motown. California; The first album; 1970: the Jackson 5 cataclysm. Jackson mania; Growing up; Tensions and the break with Motown; Emancipation. Off the wall; Conventions and excesses; The 1980s: Thriller; A musical tsunami. The King of Pop; The Peter Pan syndrome. Judged by the public and his peers; Among the dead.