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21. Katherine Files for Divorce

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21. Katherine Files for Divorce

Katherine Jackson had tolerated many years of unfaithfulness from

Joseph. She knew he was cheating on her. Everyone knew. Joseph

had been on the road with the boys for years and having brief

encounters with their groupies. Not only had her friends told her,

several of Joseph's more audacious girlfriends had telephoned the

house over the years to brag about their encounters with him. ‘I

don't want those women calling the house,’ she would scream at

Joseph, ...

20. Rockin' Robin and Ben

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20. Rockin' Robin and Ben

By winter of 1972, Motown had released two more solo singles by

Michael Jackson, the first being ‘Rockin' Robin’. While Michael

twitters his way through the song, the session player bangs out the

easy ditty on the piano to create a song that was irresistible.

‘Rockin’ Robin' became an even bigger success than ‘Got to Be

There’. The song peaked in the same position for Michael as the

original did for the late Bobby Day, at number two.

One early record of M...

19. Groupies

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19. Groupies

Young Tito Jackson may have been off the open market, but Jackie

and Jermaine were young, single and ready to explore whatever

fame might bring their way in terms of female companionship.

Joseph had been a terrible example to them in the past, and he

didn't improve with time. In fact, when the boys became famous,

he starting having liaisons with their fans! With him as their guide,

was there any reason to think the brothers would act in a

responsible manner? By 1972, the older ...

18. Tito Marries

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18. Tito Marries

Along with their incredible success in the music industry came, for
the Jacksons, the inevitable lure of available women. Women of all
shapes, sizes and colours began to proposition them, appearing
backstage after concerts and offering to do all sorts of ‘favours’ for them.
Though Michael and Marlon were too young, Jermaine and

Jackie saw no reason not to take advantage of their young fans'
overworked libidos. Tito wasn't really interested in groupies,
though. He just...
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17. Growing Up in the Public Eye

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17. Growing Up in the Public Eye

It's always tempting, when dissecting a person's life, to go back in

time and assign blame for the way things turned out, but it's not

always fair. Certainly, Joseph and Katherine had the best intentions

when they were raising their family, and didn't intend to harm their

children. It's the rare parent, one would hope, who purposely sets out to completely screw up his kids' lives. If Joseph had told his

brood to forget about show business, and focus on lives...

16. Michael's First Solo Record

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16. Michael's First Solo Record

Joseph Jackson always had his eye on the competition, namely the
Osmond Brothers, a family group from Salt Lake City, Utah. In
June 1971, MGM Records released ‘Sweet and Innocent’ by the
youngest member of the group, Donny Osmond, as a solo act.

That record's success all but guaranteed him teen-star status in the
predominantly white teenybopper magazines. Because of their
colour, The Jackson 5 could never be perceived as teen idols in
those magazines, desp...
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15. Joseph and Katherine Buy an Estate

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15. Joseph and Katherine Buy an Estate

On 5 May 1971, after the boys returned from another national tour, the Jacksons moved into their large estate at 4641 Hayvenhurst in Encino, California, the one in which Joseph, Katherine and miscellaneous other Jacksons (who aren't Michael and Janet) still live today.

Joseph and Katherine purchased the property for $250,000; they moved in a day after Katherine's forty-first birthday.
Katherine had asked Joseph not to sell the two-bedroom home in Gary, ...
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14. It just kept gettin' better…

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14. It just kept gettin' better…

The Jackson 5 made their first concert appearance as a Motown
attraction at the Philadelphia Convention Center on Saturday
evening, 2 May 1970. Despite their terrific record sales, no one
could have guessed how popular they had become in barely five
months. More than thirty-five hundred screaming fans mobbed
Philadelphia International Airport hoping to catch a glimpse of the
young brothers. Only a huge force of Philadelphia's finest and
airport security offi...
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13. 'ABC' and 'The Love You Save'

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13. ‘ABC’ and ‘The Love You Save’

By the end of 1969, Michael Jackson, now eleven years old and reunited with his mother, was a bubbly, energetic and happy youngster. ‘All I want now is to see how far we can go as a family,’ he told Soul magazine reporter Judy Spiegelman. ‘I like show business, Hollywood, and all that stuff, the things people like Berry Gordy do to make you look good. I'm real excited about things.’

In December, Motown Records released the brothers' first alb...
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12. SUCCESS

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12. Success!

Stardom for The Jackson 5 was just around the corner, but with a detour or two along the way. When ‘I Want You Back’ was released in October 1969, it wasn't an immediate hit. The song entered Billboard's Top 100 at number 90. Motown's promotion and sales department had to continually encourage disc jockeys to play it and record stores to stock it. Then, finally, ten weeks la...

11. MICHAEL MOVES IN WITH DIANA

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11. Michael Moves in with Diana

On 1 October 1969, as his father and brothers were being shuffled from one hotel to another by the Motown brass, it was decided that Michael Jackson would move in with Diana Ross in her Hollywood Hills home. ‘It was a calculated thing. I wanted him to be around her,’ Berry Gordy explained. ‘People think it was an accident that he stayed there. It wasn't. I wanted ...

10. 'I WANT YOU BACK' - THE JACKSON 5 ’S FIRST HIT

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10. 'I WANT YOU BACK' - THE JACKSON 5’S FIRST HIT

Creating The Jackson 5's First Hit

The early 1970s were the most significant transitional years

Motown Records had undergone since shoring itself up as a major musical force. By that time, although the company was still producing superb pop and rhythm-and-blues music, some of its biggest stars had begun grumbling about Motown's conveyor-belt me...

9. MOVED TO HOLLYWOOD

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9. MOVED TO HOLLYWOOD
Hollywood Livin'

On 27 September 1968, Motown Records booked The Jackson 5 to
appear in a benefit concert at Gilroy Stadium in Gary, Indiana, the
purpose of which was to defray the costs of Richard Hatcher's
mayoral campaign. On the bill that day were Motown recording
artists Gladys Knight and the Pips, Shorty Long, and Bobby Taylor
and the Vancouvers. The Jackson 5 opened the show. In years to
come, the official Motown story would be that this was where
Diana Ross saw t...
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8. MOTOWN'S BOSS: 'YOUNG MICHAEL HAD A DEPTH THAT WAS SO VAST'

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8. MOTOWN'S BOSS: 'YOUNG MICHAEL HAD A DEPTH THAT WAS SO VAST'
The Jacksons Sign with Motown
[Part One]

It was quarter to ten in the morning on 23 July 1968 when the
Jackson family's Volkswagen minibus eased into a parking space
in front of a cluster of small white bungalows at 2648 West Grand
Boulevard, Detroit. The sign above one of the structures said it all:
Hitsville U.S.A. This was Motown Records, the place from which
had sprung forth so many memorable, chart-topping hit records.
By 1968...
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7. THE FIRST RECORD DEAL

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7. The First Record Deal

[Part One]

At about this time, 1968, when Michael was almost ten, the

Jacksons faced a family crisis. Eighteen-year-old Maureen had

fallen in love with Nathaniel Brown, a devout Jehovah's Witness.

She announced that she wanted to marry him and move to

Kentucky. Katherine, happy for her daughter, encouraged her. In

Katherine's view, there was no more important role for any of her

daughters to play than that of being a wife and mother.

However, Joseph was against the marr...

6. MY POOR, POOR FAMILY

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6. My poor, poor family

[Part One]

Ever since Michael Jackson was a teenager, the public has

speculated about his personal life. Straight, gay or even asexual, it

is fascinating that the sexual proclivity of a performer with as

much on-stage sexual appeal as Michael has always been such a

mystery.

At an early age, Michael received mixed signals about sex.

The message from Katherine was loud and clear; with her strong

faith as a Jehovah's Witness, lust in thought or in deed was

considered sinfu...

5. CLIMBING MOUNTAINS

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5. Climbing Mountains

[PART ONE]]

In 1963, at the age of five, Michael Jackson began attending

Garnett Elementary School. Katherine has said that he was

generous to a fault, so much so that he used to take jewellery from

her dresser and give it to his teachers as tokens of his affection for

them. He continued to do so even after his mother chastised him

for giving away her possessions.

One of Michael's first memories concerns performing at the

age of five, when he sang ‘Climb Ev'ry Mounta...

4. JOSEPH HITS MICHAEL

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4. JOSEPH HITS MICHAEL

[Part One]

Today, Michael Jackson often speaks about the abuse he suffered

at the hands of his father. When he gave his controversial 2003

interview to Martin Bashir, quick tears came to his eyes when he

remembered the way his dad treated him. ‘It was bad,’ he said of

the beatings. ‘Real bad.’ Watching Michael as he took himself

back to the days in Gary when his father hit him was truly painful.

Clearly, all these years later, he is still traumatized by that part...

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21. Katherine Files for Divorce

20. Rockin' Robin and Ben

19. Groupies

18. Tito Marries

17. Growing Up in the Public Eye

16. Michael's First Solo Record

15. Joseph and Katherine Buy an Estate

14. It just kept gettin' better…

13. 'ABC' and 'The Love You Save'

12. SUCCESS

11. MICHAEL MOVES IN WITH DIANA

10. 'I WANT YOU BACK' - THE JACKSON 5 ’S FIRST HIT

9. MOVED TO HOLLYWOOD

8. MOTOWN'S BOSS: 'YOUNG MICHAEL HAD A DEPTH THAT WAS SO VAST'

7. THE FIRST RECORD DEAL

6. MY POOR, POOR FAMILY

5. CLIMBING MOUNTAINS

4. JOSEPH HITS MICHAEL

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