Jacko's amazing musical journey ; From Motown classics to futuristic funk, Michael Jackson's pop music underwent as extraordinary a transformation as the man himself [Edition 2]
Evening Standard - London › June 26, 2009
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OVER the years we have all compared pictures of the full- cheeked, Afro-haired 11-year old at the front of the Jackson 5 with the ghostly curiosity who came later. During a pop career that lasted from the age of four to 50, Michael Jackson's music underwent an equally radical transformation.
When he was spinning and wailing in unison with his brothers in the early Seventies, he was already unique -- the little boy who could sing of lost love in I Want You Back and drench this ecstatic melody in real soul. Motown, the ulti-matsingles label, watched the song become their fastest-seller ever in 1969 and a lifetime of record breaking began.See the full content of this document
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Jacko's amazing musical journey ; From Motown classics to futuristic funk, Michael Jackson's pop music underwent as extraordinary a transformation as the man himself [Edition 2]
The Jackson brothers were the prototype boy band in the formation -- yet, as they danced and sang, the five of them sloped down towards this precocious focal point in the centre, Michael's preternaturally expressive voice, which earned comparisons to much older soul greats such as Sam Cooke and, most obviously, his fellow child star Stevie Wonder.
He was becoming hitmaking increasingly his alien qualities groundbreaking mammoth stage He would e...See the full content of this document
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