- Publisher: Faber
- Year: 2019
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 208pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 205x135mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.3kg
- ISBN: 9780571350049
- Product code: 518452
The Awfully Big Adventure
Michael Jackson in the Afterlife
Paul Morley New Hardback
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Michael Jackson’s transition from beloved child star to eccentric recluse and accused sexual predator is among pop culture’s most notorious tales. Looking at aspects of his life including the creation of his legendary pop persona, his appearance in The Simpsons and sinister rumours about Neverland Ranch, Paul Morley’s biography deconstructs the life, death and legacy of the King of Pop.
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Michael Jackson died on June 25 2009 in Los Angeles, from of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication (according to Wikipedia). The one-time King of Pop was preparing for one last assault on the mainstream with a proposed 50 night run of shows at the 02 (thereby trumping his arch-rival, Prince, who had just concluded his legendary 21 Nights). His exhaustion, paranoia and general ill-heath were an open secret. He had lived many lives and inhabited many bodies; PT Barnum, Fred Astaire, and Peter Pan in one mortal coil. His death was mourned by hundreds of millions of fans but it was almost as if he had been dead for some time already. And in his death, in vivid technicolor, we relived the dreams, nightmares, fantasies, and perversions that we had all projected on to him as a celebrity for four decades.
Paul Morley's short biographical portrait of Michael Jackson looks at how we turned the most outrageous child star talent of the late 20th century into a monster; how his decline soundtracked the end of Pop and the end of American Imperialism; how his once staggeringly modern and funky music became secondary to the dysfunctional freak show of watching a vulnerable man literally disintegrate. Tender, erudite, and provocative, Morley's monograph documents a tragedy that is so Shakespearean in scale that it obscures the legacy of the last of the great Song and Dance Men. It is poignant and wild, melancholy and obsessive, cannibalising itslef in ever decreasing circles of enquiry. This is a rare piece of pop cultural alchemy that cuts through the myth in a way that only a writer as great as Paul Morley could do.
Paul Morley's short biographical portrait of Michael Jackson looks at how we turned the most outrageous child star talent of the late 20th century into a monster; how his decline soundtracked the end of Pop and the end of American Imperialism; how his once staggeringly modern and funky music became secondary to the dysfunctional freak show of watching a vulnerable man literally disintegrate. Tender, erudite, and provocative, Morley's monograph documents a tragedy that is so Shakespearean in scale that it obscures the legacy of the last of the great Song and Dance Men. It is poignant and wild, melancholy and obsessive, cannibalising itslef in ever decreasing circles of enquiry. This is a rare piece of pop cultural alchemy that cuts through the myth in a way that only a writer as great as Paul Morley could do.
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Michael Jackson’s transition from beloved child star to eccentric recluse and accused sexual predator is among pop culture’s most notorious tales. Looking at aspects of his life including the creation of his legendary pop persona, his appearance in <i>The Simpsons</i> and sinister rumours about Neverland Ranch, Paul Morley’s biography deconstructs the life, death and legacy of the King of Pop.
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