A complete unit on Michael Jackson, the most successful entertainer in the history of popular music and one of its most disputed figures. Part one tells the story of his life, from a small house in a steel town to the biggest-selling album ever made. Part two devotes one lesson to each of twenty songs, from the Jackson 5 to his final years. Part three examines his dancing, his voice and the unresolved argument about the man himself. In English, read aloud, at an upper-intermediate (B2) level.
A complete unit on Michael Jackson, the most successful entertainer in the history of popular music and one of its most
A small house in a steel town, nine children, and a father with a plan.
5 min 562 parole Michael JacksonA boy of eleven becomes a star, and childhood quietly disappears.
4 min 460 parole Michael JacksonGrowing up in public, and the long search for a sound of his own.
4 min 457 parole Michael JacksonThe best-selling album in history, and the night he walked backwards.
4 min 441 parole Michael JacksonA world tour, a ranch called Neverland, and the first great storm.
4 min 462 parole Michael JacksonA comeback that never happened, and a legacy the world still argues about.
4 min 466 parole Michael JacksonThe first hit, the first number one, and a voice that should not have existed.
4 min 461 parole Michael JacksonA ballad about loyalty, sung by a boy who had already stopped being one.
4 min 445 parole Michael JacksonThe strangest number one of his career, and the loneliest.
4 min 425 parole Michael JacksonThe first song he wrote alone, and the sound of an adult stepping out.
4 min 428 parole Michael JacksonDisco was dying. This song simply refused to hurry.
3 min 388 parole Michael JacksonA bass line, an accusation, and the most famous denial in pop music.
4 min 414 parole Michael JacksonA rock guitar solo, a street gang, and a very unusual idea of bravery.
4 min 420 parole Michael JacksonFourteen minutes of horror, comedy and dance that reinvented the music video.
4 min 411 parole Michael JacksonThe most delicate thing on the biggest album in the world.
3 min 399 parole Michael JacksonThe most famous charity record ever made, and the ego left at the door.
4 min 407 parole Michael JacksonScorsese, a subway station, and a gentle man trying to sound dangerous.
4 min 427 parole Michael JacksonPure joy, a hand clap, and a video that has aged very badly.
4 min 424 parole Michael JacksonHe did not write it. It may be the most important song he ever sang.
4 min 432 parole Michael JacksonA crime, an unanswered question, and a man leaning at an impossible angle.
4 min 413 parole Michael JacksonA guitar riff, a rap verse, and faces melting into one another.
4 min 433 parole Michael JacksonAncient Egypt, new jack swing, and the pleasure of looking back.
3 min 393 parole Michael JacksonSentimental, unfashionable, sincerely meant, and hard to dismiss.
4 min 424 parole Michael JacksonA protest song that had to be rewritten, and two films that were banned.
4 min 424 parole Michael JacksonSix minutes of grief for a world we are destroying, and no answer at all.
4 min 415 parole Michael JacksonRain, exile, and the most beautiful record of his later years.
4 min 425 parole Michael JacksonHe did not invent the moonwalk. He made it impossible to forget.
5 min 542 parole Michael JacksonHe could not read a note of music. He heard entire records in his head.
5 min 519 parole Michael JacksonHow do we listen to the work of an artist we cannot entirely defend?
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