In this Blank on Blank animated interview from 1980, Michael Jackson discusses labeling music, perfectionism, meeting Quincy Jones and godliness.

But no one has dominated pop culture through sheer force of talent since Michael Jackson in the mid-1980s. It’s hard to imagine that anyone ever will. Features editor Brien Murphy can be reached ...

To listen to the music of Michael Jackson in the year 2021 is to enter a moral thicket. The 2019 documentary “Leaving Neverland” told the stories of two men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck ...

Michael Jackson's 1980s run is one of the most legendary and well-known in the canon of popular music.When that decade dawned, MJ had just released his solo breakthrough Off the Wall, a ...

Nostalgia for 1980s Michael Jackson never gets old — or fails to sell — so in addition to gracing one billion commemorative Pepsi cans, the King of Pop’s iconic Bad will get a deluxe reissue ...

Quincy Jones first met Michael Jackson in the early 1970s at Sammy Davis Jr.’s house in Los Angeles, when the 12-year-old was still a bubble-gum soul singer leading his brothers in the Jackson 5.

Michael Jackson songs: the King of Pop's greatest hits, from "Billie Jean" to " ... 1980, Jackson was following up back-to-back No. 1s for the first time in his solo career.

Although his heyday was in the 1980s, Michael Jackson continues to inspire artists to this day. For example, The Weeknd cited one of the King of Pop’s No. 1 hits as the blueprint for his music.