Michael Jackson

The fascinating mechanics of striking a deal

28 September 2024 9:00 am

If you wish to know how to become a master negotiator, a formidable body of books will now offer to…

The dark truth about Hollywood assistants

24 August 2024 9:00 am

Anew stop has been added to the map of Movie Star Homes and Crime Scenes, on sale at LAX airport:…

Exhilarating: MJ the Musical reviewed

6 April 2024 9:00 am

If you’ve heard good reports about MJ the Musical, believe them all and multiply everything by a hundred. As a…

It’s shocking how many Michael Jackson fans are still determined to take his side

16 March 2019 9:00 am

Halfway through the first part of Channel 4’s extraordinary documentary Leaving Neverland (Thursdays), I flicked through the comments on social…

What’s not to like about Christine and the Queens? Her music

13 October 2018 9:00 am

Grade: B– Ooh goody — a parade to rain on! You wouldn’t believe the hyperbole expended by the rock critics…

Prince bored me rigid

30 April 2016 9:00 am

I saw Prince play once. I was bored rigid but couldn’t mention this to the girls I’d gone with: as…

Jazz soloist Charlie Parker with his saxophone c. 1946

From ragtime to the X Factor: the epic story of popular music

22 August 2015 9:00 am

As pop music drifts away from many people’s lives, so its literature grows ever more serious and weighty, as though…