Michael Jackson

Each step of the Jackson covered and analyzed the mass media, and his extravagance for years been widely discussed in the press. Most of the time, Michael was forced to hold in seclusion at his strictly guarded from strangers ranch Neverland (Neverlend). There he visited a few friends, including superstars Elizabeth Taylor. At the ranch as children lived, to which the singer was always indifferent. In 1993, he was charged in the corruption of a minor boy, but at the time the case was able to smother: presumed press, Jackson simply buy off the parents. In fact, several days after the death of the singer, the first «victim» of sexual harassment Jordan Chendler not stand the pangs of conscience, confessed that the prosecution had been falsified at the insistence of his father in order to receive monetary compensation and was not as otherwise, like libel, influenced the whole subsequent life of the singer.

In 1995, was released in the light most ambitious «HIStory: Past, Present and Future - Book I» - a double album, which connects the disc of the 15 new songs to drive the biggest hits. It was anticipated that this will be the first of the trilogy. In order to return shaken popular first single was released «Scream» - a duet with the singer's sister, Janet Jackson, which was by that time megastar scale, comparable to Michael. The song was accompanied by a futuristic video, in the shooting of which was spent over seven million dollars - a record not beaten to this day.

The album debuted at number one in the Billboard 200 and was sold out in a circulation of 7 million copies in the United States (15 million worldwide). Many new songs from it were released singles, among them the ballad of Moscow ( «Stranger in Moscow»; write a song about the Russian capital, Jackson promised first came here in 1993), epic song on the ecological theme «Earth Song» (five weeks for first place in the UK) and the composition in the style of contemporary rhythm-end-blues «You Are Not Alone» (his thirteenth «Number one» in the Billboard Hot 100), written for him and produced by Al Kelly. In the video for «You Are Not Alone» Michael appeared with his then-wife - Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis Presley.

Next album with new songs, fans of the singer had to wait for six years. However, in 1997, the album appeared in stores dance remixes on tracks from «HIStory» - «Blood on the Dancefloor». Comments on this disc were mostly positive, as the lead title track sales charts in many countries, including Britain. In the U.S. the album went virtually unnoticed and had not reached the first line in the charts.

Release the next album has been delayed because Jackson wanted to make perfectly evaluated, impeccable record, which corrected his shattered commercial well-being. His record label «Sony» reluctantly agreed to invest millions of dollars seemed never-ending process of recording, rewriting and subsequent promotion of the album, which ultimately led to the singer on the care label, Epic Records. «Invincible» (The invincible), issued in October 2001, contains 16 tracks, including single «You Rock My World», in a clip shot by the legendary Marlon Brando. The album was met with mixed critics, but his sales figures were twice smaller than that of «HIStory».