Read an exclusive excerpt from Joe McEwen’s book Tastykakes, Soul Songs & Shining Stars: Affections and Reflections 1973-2025, in which he visits a 19-year-old Jackson in New York LaToya Jackson answers my questions in a polite but perfunctory monotone.

Joe McEwen was going to call his book Soul Music Saved My Life. “Because, in a sense, it did,” says the music executive and journalist who grew up in Philadelphia in the 1960s, and got an education listening to legendary Philly DJs like Georgie Woods,

The biopic "Michael" charts the rise of Michael Jackson. But the movie might be more notable for what it leaves out of the Michael Jackson story.

Bill Bray, portrayed by KeiLyn Durrel Jones in 'Michael,' worked as Michael Jackson's lead bodyguard for multiple decades

The new biopic released in theaters on April 24 with the late singer's real-life nephew Jaafar Jackson portraying the "Thriller" singer as a young adult, while Juliano Valdi portrays Jackson as a child during his time singing with the Jackson 5.

A sand mural depicted Michael Jackson on a Spanish beach ahead of the release of the singer’s biopic which broke box office records. Artist German Guillermo Cedano Mongrut created the mural and