Jacko: His Rise and Fall: The Social & Sexual History of Michael Jackson - Hardcover

Porter, Darwin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0974811858 ISBN 13: 9780974811857

Publisher: Blood Moon Productions, Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

In the 1980s Michael Jackson was the most controversial figure in the world, generating fame that was greater in some places than that associated with either the US president or Jesus Christ. Dripping with ironies, and with the kind of text that really connects the hundreds of dots that Michael Jackson has tattooed into the world's consciousness, this is the first ever comprehensive and inclusive biography ever written about America's most bizarre superstar. Startling revelations about the Wizard of Odd.

About this title

About the Author

Darwin Porter is also the author of Brando Unzipped, Katharine the Great and Hollywood Silent Closet (all available from Turnaround).

From the Inside Flap

Despite Michael Jackson's spectacular fame, no one has ever
published a fully inclusive and comprehensive biography with inside
information about his highly dramatic life. All of that changed with the
release of this book.

Meticulously researched over several tumultuous decades, it explores and
explains many of the secrets that Michael Jackson wanted to keep hidden
from the world. It explores the man behind the myth, a public figure whose
eyes are often hidden behind dark glasses, his face obscured by an even
darker mask.

It's peppered with quotes from the subject himself. But for deeper
insights, author Darwin Porter turned to the hundreds of Jackson associates
who were linked to the growth, maintenance, and/or decline of his
spectacular career and severely bruised public image.

Ironically, long after the headlines died, thousands of celebrity watchers
and pop music fans continued their obsession with this charismatic star,
wildly celebrating his acquittal from child molestation charges in
California. But after restless wanderings in Bahrain, Ireland, England,
and France, where Michael will go next is a question the author tries to
answer.

Ironically, everyone knows Michael's music, but despite its commercial and
artistic success, the world is more concerned with what he does whenever
he's not onstage. His saga is unique in the American entertainment
industry, moving from the poverty of America's Rust Belt (Gary, Indiana) to
the oil-enriched desert sands of Bahrain, with detours en route to
Neverland, Michael's private Land of Oz.

The most talked-about and written-about megastar in history, Michael
Jackson is stranger than we ever knew, as will be revealed within the pages
to come.

This is the story of a brown-skinned boy with a big nose who moonwalked his
way into "the world of white," with a re-sculpted face and financial assets
that the rest of the world seemingly felt free to pillage. Michael's
talent was and is the stuff of legends: He didn't exactly pounce out of
the womb singing and dancing...but he came close.

Michael is Peter Pan, the child-man who invited to his bed boys who were
too young, yet too far advanced in their savvy not to react, sometimes with
venom. Jordie Chandler walked away with $25 million after "sleeping over."
Cancer-stricken Gavin Arvizo, who sued Michael and lost, got nothing.

During the 1980s, at the peak of his career, Michael was the most famous
man on the planet, a sex symbol known for wearing fetish gear and grabbing
his crotch onstage. Post-millennium, he became the object of ridicule and
scorn, hounded by the press and by the courts, the object of as many as 50
new lawsuits a year. This book examines the route of his decline. It's
a story of a pop-culture icon who wandered into a treacherous Garden of
Eden and tasted its forbidden fruit.

This biography will lead you to a rare, behind-the-scenes look at Michael
Jackson, with insights into a glittering cast of characters that only a
lifetime like his could have linked together. In addition to the names
already noted, they included Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Jane
Fonda, Madonna, Princess Di, Prince (the singer), Mick Jagger, Paul
McCartney, Diana Ross, Tatum O'Neal, Brooke Shields, Sammy Davis Jr.,
Coretta Scott King, Quincy Jones, Berry Gordy, Jr., Johnnie Cochran, Sophia
Loren, Frank Sinatra, Louis Farrakhan and even Lisa Marie Presley and that
dad of hers.

Enquiring minds might ask: "Is Michael a pedophile or an innocent victim of
his own fame?" You decide. Within this book, like the evidence in a jury
trial, it's all spread out before you.

It's been said that what Michael wants engraved on his tombstone is:
"DON'T JUDGE ME." Hopefully, after reading this book, observers of the
Jackson saga might form some unexpected conclusions of their own.

Edition details

• Publisher: Blood Moon Productions, Ltd
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0974811858
• ISBN 13: 9780974811857
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 542