400 - Molly and Michael Jackson: Rolling on the King of Pop!

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 149 minutes

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Summary

Michael Jackson is the most successful solo act in the history of recorded music. He was arguably the most famous man in the history of the world at his career's peak. But also.... a very troubled, beyond eccentric person who was creepy with kids, at best, or... a pedophile. I try and explore his life today... while fighting against the effects of a double-dose of Molly... for Timesuck's 400th episode. Hail Nimrod and thanks for sticking around!!

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0:00.0	Michael Jackson was and still is for many the King of Pop.
0:05.0	He was a best-selling record-smashing singer, songwriter, and dancer.
0:08.5	As a young child, Michael was the lead singer of his family band, The Jackson Five, he showed extraordinary natural talent and loved
0:15.0	performing and he just got better and better and better as time went on.
0:19.2	Michael once said, being on stage is magic. There's nothing like it. You feel the energy of everybody
0:24.8	who's out there. You feel it all over your body. The Jackson Five became wildly
0:29.0	successful following their first hit single, I want you back. Soon Michael will launch his solo career, while still
0:34.8	a teenager, with the release of his album, Got to be there. And this already famous young man
0:39.5	would get much more famous, with his fifth album album 1979s Off the Wall.
0:45.0	Don't stop till you get enough baby.
0:47.4	Which was followed by 982's thriller,
0:49.4	an album that quickly became the best-selling
0:51.6	and one of the most critically acclaimed albums of all
0:54.5	time. Billy Jean want to be starting something, beat it, the title track and more.
0:59.3	It sold over 50 million copies worldwide. More than the second best-selling studio album
1:06.2	of all time.
1:07.7	Tracks from The thriller collectively currently have billions of plays on YouTube and
1:11.0	billions more on Spotify, two platforms that were decades away from
1:14.7	even existing when those songs came out. In the 1980s thriller in the subsequent hit album
1:20.0	1987's Bad, the fifth best-selling album of all time, took his already sky-high
1:24.8	fame to even greater heights. Michael Jackson at his height was as popular
1:29.2	as the Beatles were at their height, if not more popular, as popular or more popular than Elvis was at his height.
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