Autobiography Of Michael Jackson Book
Edelira Longinotti
In 1983, while Michael Jackson was making the epic music video for "Thriller," two editors at Doubleday approached the King of Pop about writing his memoirs. Five years later, while he was in the midst of his Bad world tour, the autobiography, called "Moonwalk," finally hit bookshelves.
A meeting of two American icons: Michael Jackson and Jackie Kennedy. Even Jackie couldn't believe it.
It's uncovered in lost audio of the former First Lady. The year was 1985. Jackie was working as a book editor in New York. Her latest project was Jackson's autobiography, Moonwalk.
The audio was accidentally recorded by Jackie's art director, J.C. Suarez. He forgot to turn off his answering machine, and the result was an extraordinary conversation, captured forever on tape.
Today marks the first anniversary of Michael Jackson's death. Fans around the world will commemorate and celebrate his life and music. He was 50 years old when he died from an apparent drug overdose. Host, Tony Cox had a conversation with Shaye Areheart. She is an editor who worked with Michael Jackson on his official autobiography, MoonWalk. Below, are excerpts from that conversation.
Michael Jackson's autobiography, based on tape-recorded conversations with his editor Shaye Ereheart, was first published in 1988. This new edition has an introduction by Berry Gordy, founder of Motown Records and his original mentor, and an afterword by Areheart about how the book was written. The main part of the book is a straight reprint of the original, with no updating at all. Intriguingly, although Gordy's four pages refer to is protégé in the past tense, calling him the greatest entertainer that ever lived, Areheart's writing, and also the cover, refer to him in the present. No reference anywhere is made to his untimely death.
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One victim might well have been Ford himself. As he remembered the incident in his 1979 autobiography, A Time to Heal, he had just returned to his bunk after four hours on watch during the storm, when he began to smell smoke and went back to investigate.
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