Top Michael Jackson biographies

Here is a list of the major biographies of Michael Jackson:

Michael Jackson Conspiracy by Aphrodite Jones — With five bestselling crime books under her belt, author Aphrodite Jones has become a highly recognized authority on true crime. Jones has made more than one hundred television and radio appearances and has been quoted in articles that have appeared in the “Los Angeles Times”, “New York Post”, “Daily News”, “The Hollywood Reporter”, and “USA Today.” She is the author of the “New York Times” bestseller “Cruel Sacrifice,” and her account of the Brandon Teena story, “All She Wanted”, became an international bestseller and was transformed into the film “Boys Don’t Cry.”

Michael Jackson: The Man behind the Mask by Bob Jones — The author spent 34 years as Jackson’s chief of public relations; by his side since Michael was 11 years old. Bob Jones is the one person with this unique inside view of Michael Jackson’s world.

Michael Jackson: The Magic and the Madness by J.Randy Taraborrelli — This book is the fruit of over 30 years of research and hundreds of exclusive interviews with a remarkable level of access to the very closest circles of the Jackson family – including Michael himself. Cutting through tabloid rumours, J. Randy Taraborrelli traces the real story behind the Michael Jackson we see and hear today, from his drilling as a child star through the blooming of his talent to his ever-changing personal appearance and bizarre publicity stunts. This major biography includes the behind-the-scenes story to many of the landmarks in Jackson’s life: his legal and commercial battles, his marriages to Lisa Marie Presley and Debbie Rowe, his passions and addictions, his children.

Michael Jackson: For The Record by Chris Cadman and Craig Halstead — Michael Jackson first entered a recording studio in November 1967, just three months after his ninth birthday. Two years later he and his older brothers scored their first hit, ‘I Want You Back’ – and, despite set-backs that would have ended the career of a lesser man, Michael’s legion of fans remain as loyal today as they have ever been. This is the story of the man and his music…

Jacko, His Rise and Fall: The Social and Sexual History of Michael Jackson by Darwin Porter — 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.

On Michael Jackson by Margo Jefferson – Pulitzer-winning New York Times critic Jefferson collects her meditations on what may be the oddest show-biz figure of all time. “Freaks” is the title of her first essay, and she notes Jackson’s attraction to Barnum as well as the strangely apt imagery of his best-known video, “Thriller.” Born in 1958 to a bullying father and a mother who was a Jehovah’s Witness convert, the youngest member of the Jackson Five quickly became its VIP. Child stars are never “normal,” and Jefferson glances at Buster Keaton, Jackie Coogan, Sammy Davis Jr. and, of course, Shirley Temple, the only one of them even more famous than Jackson, unless you count Elizabeth Taylor, Jackson’s “best friend,” who supplanted Diana Ross as his apparent role model.