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Michael Jackson fans have flocked to the cinemas to relive the King of Pop’s success in the new movie release Michael Jackson “This Is It” which hit the big screen at the end of October 2009.

The movie shows the star perform as he had never been seen before. The movie captures the talented singer and artistic genius choreograph his dance steps and perfect his final show. The audience gets a last chance to see Michael Jackson behind the scenes as he rehearsed for his sold out concerts that would have taken place beginning this summer on London’s O2 Arena.

Produced with the full support of the Michael Jackson estate, the movie was drawn from more than one hundred hours of behind the scenes footage featuring Jackson rehearsing a number of songs for his show. The movie is directed by Kenny Ortega, who was both Michael Jackson’s creative partner and director of the stage performance.

Along with the movie, diehard fans will be able to keep the film memories alive with the Michael Jackson “This Is It” Film Cell memorabilia keepsake to remember the King of Pop. The film cells capture memorable moments in the movie with strips of 35mm film hand cut from the movie reel. As such each film cell is unique and comes with an engraved plaque containing the movie title, series number and limited edition number (displayed below the photograph or film cell), presented on a mounted board and elegantly framed. Each film cell comes with a certificate of authenticity.

Released roughly three days after Michael Jackson’s passing, The Definitive Collection is a 19-track collection of highlights from his Motown recordings, including the hits he had with his brothers in the Jackson 5. This emphasizes Michael’s solo hits over the Jackson 5’s — there are ten cuts of him alone, nine with his brothers (and one of those is an alternate “minus mix” of “I’ll Be There”) — which skews this a little bit toward puppy love over bubblegum, something that may be a little too syrupy for some listeners, but there’s no denying that for fans lacking a collection of Michael’s earliest hits, this is a useful compilation, gathering “I Want You Back,” “ABC,” “The Love You Save,” “Who’s Lovin’ You,” “Never Can Say Goodbye,” “Got to Be There,” “Rockin’ Robin,” “Ben,” and “Dancing Machine” in one place.

Who don’t know Michael Jackson?
Michael Jackson was a phenomenon from the start. As a pure singer, he was remarkable, his voice soaring with the eager confidence of a prodigy. His initial work ranks among his finest and still sizzles with fresh enthusiasm. Michael is gone, but his ability to express an astounding range of feelings with conviction and grace guarantees his immortality. He earned his crown as King of Pop, but these timeless tracks make it clear that the King had deep roots in the rich soil of his soulful past. Michael Jackson books can explain what his feeling and passion.

Check Out The Definitive Collection on Amazon.com

The books below are books actually written by Michael Jackson. Read about him from his own words. Or in other cases they are a chance to read his poems, see hand written lyrics or previously unreleased photos and much more.

Moonwalk

This book was Michael Jackson’s first autobiography published by Doubleday in 1988. The book was released in both hardcover and paperback.

In ‘Moonwalk’, Michael Jackson talks for the first time about his life, from his early Jackson 5 days, through the making of his albums , Off The Wall, Thriller and Bad. He touches on some of the most prominent rumours that have surrounded his career.

The book contains many never-before-seen photographs from the Jackson family archives, as well as photos taken of Michael throughout his lengthy career, and artwork drawn by Michael Jackson himself. The book was a USA best seller.

‘Moonwalk‘ is no longer in print, so can not be found in regular book stores but may be found in our MJstore subject to availability.

Moonwalker: The Storybook

This book was written by Michael Jackson and published by Doubleday in 1988.

This is a children’s story based on the short film ‘Smooth Criminal’ (from the film Moonwalker) in which Michael’s friend Katy is kidnapped by the evil ‘Mr. Big’ who is planning on getting the children of the world addicted to drugs. Michael and his friends Sean and Zeke must save Katy and stop Mr. Big before it’s too late.

‘Moonwalker – The Storybook’ includes over 50 full color photos from the short film ‘Smooth Criminal’.

Dancing the Dream
This book was published by Doubleday in 1992 and was written by Michael Jackson.
The book contains 28 essays and reflections, 17 poems, 84 color and black and white photographs, and 20 pieces of other artists artwork. Michael writes on topics such as creating his dance and music, children, religion, life, love, and autobiographical reflections.

My World: The Official Photobook
Released in 2006. An insight into the world of Michael Jackson through some of his private photos and thoughts. Also includes copies of his hand written lyrics to some of his biggest hits from the 1980’s and 90’s.

Since Michael Jackson’s passing last week, a great deal of nonsense has hit news programs and the Internet. (Here is a case where Google might not be your friend.) From the disgraceful father of the deceased using every opportunity to promote his whatever, to countless ill-informed speculations, to reductions of Jackson’s life to a mere caricature, there has been enough errant garbage to nauseate the most casual fan. As a supplement to our own tribute from Stephen Thomas Erlewine, here is a modest attempt at shining some light on the more insightful and heartfelt writing that has surfaced during the last few days.

“Thursday night in New York was hot — after weeks of rain, it was one of the first real summer nights of the year. Car windows were open all over the city, and just about every station on the radio dial had switched to an all-Michael Jackson format; for the first (and, for all we know, the last) time, it felt as if absolutely everyone was listening to the same songs.” — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker

“A showstopper in any definition of the word, he transcended generations and racial barriers. From oldies fans who were there from the start of his career in Gary to today’s young teens, whose attention span and too-cool-for-even-last-week’s-number-one-hit musical tastes rarely wander from the MTV playlists, he rocked them all. Even as I talked to a co-worker today, she told me about her 6-year-old son who goes to bed each night playing the Jackson 5’s greatest hits CD. That’s what you call IMPACT.” — Eric Luecking, Soul Sides

“If he did anything wrong in his life, and part of me doesn’t ever want to know if he did, he certainly also did more good than any of us can ever conceive of. He was easily the greatest dancer of the past three decades, probably the greatest singer, and quite possibly the greatest songwriter. Which adds up the greatest entertainer, period. ‘I can guarantee you one thing, we will never agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis,’ Lester Bangs wrote in his obit 32 years ago, only a couple years before Michael Jackson definitively proved him wrong, emerging full-blown into adulthood as the world’s most popular musician by presaging generations of young people who would celebrate their adulthood by refusing to grow up. And he emerged, of course, with some of the most celebratory music anybody from those generations will ever hear. But always, in the middle of that celebration, and not always submerged, there was dread. If anybody deserves to finally rest in peace, it’s him.” — Chuck Eddy

“The way he integrated MTV in 1983 with ‘Billie Jean,’ the ‘We Are the World’ extravaganzas, the face masks, the oxygen tanks, the Neverland Ranch — all that mixes in with everything from ‘Stop the Love You Save’ to ‘Dancing Machine,’ ‘Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’,’ ‘P.Y.T.,’ ‘Man in the Mirror,’ adding up to the more than 750 million albums sold worldwide… I mean. And this is not the half, the tenth, the thousandth of what he was.” — Danyel Smith, CNN

“He was Blackness and maleness, soul music and pop culture, all forged pre-hip-hop, pre-Reagan, pre-crack, pre the implosion of short-lived Civil Rights-era idealism and hope. That’s an incalculably important point to understand the thick strands of optimism, possibility, aesthetic, and political vision that ran through his work. And that makes the darkness and paranoia that marbled so much of his later work all the more heartbreaking, especially as it roughly paralleled the shifting tenor of the times. He never lost his humanitarian streak or his belief in the overall goodness of humanity, but the evolution of his own relationship to the world and his feelings about how he was treated darkened noticeably.” — Ernest Hardy

“But what is the allure of this narrative that we — fans, consumers, the media, American culture, etc — somehow destroyed Michael? What anxieties do we displace by projecting them onto his troubled face? I always think back to the interrogation scene from Three Kings. ‘What is the problem with Michael Jackson?’ an Iraqi soldier asks a wayward American. ‘Your country make him chop up his face.’ He did it to himself, the American protests, but his interrogator insists: ‘Michael Jackson is pop king of sick fucking country.’ Maybe it is a ’sick fucking country.’ Maybe the idea of pop transcendence is deeply flawed. But we are truly the sick ones if we didn’t already know this, if we needed Michael Jackson to be our martyr. If we think we would trade it all for a world without Off the Wall or Thriller or ‘Butterflies.’” — Hua Hsu, The Atlantic

“I often thought of a veal calf when I saw him — he had been raised to perform under extreme pressure before he had any idea of what life could be beyond performing for others. Then he spent decades trying to build a life without ever having seen one. He had the best ear in the world but he had no apparent idea of how people experienced everyday comfort, or even boredom.” — Sasha Frere-Jones, The New Yorker

“We have to be sophisticated enough to acknowledge that greatness and a touch of evil dwelled in the man. I’ve always believed that transcendent art emanates from the purest, most evolved parts of our soul. But that highly spiritual achievement doesn’t absolve us of our daily misdeeds. To simply brand him a smooth criminal, as some have, or to overlook his tragic nature, as have others, is to deny his humanity. The meaning of Michael Jackson’s life — as a black man, a sexual being, a abused and abusing adult — will be interpreted to fit the prejudices of the speaker. His music — it speaks volumes.” — Nelson George

“Why would people try to tear down a man who constantly used his power, money, and influence to help others? Why would people express such disgust and contempt for a man who constantly sang of love and peace, and used his talent to entertain, uplift, and inspire millions? Tell em that its human nature, I suppose…” — Phonte Coleman (Little Brother, the Foreign Exchange)

“What we’ve lost, in a word, is monoculture. Michael Jackson is the final pop star of seeming consequence to everyone — not just people who don’t normally care about music, but people who don’t care about culture, period. Obviously, it’s been a quarter-century since that was unequivocally true. But he’s the last pop musician for whom it was even equivocally true. The fact that the business he saved has been crumbling for some time was given a brutal underlining by Jackson’s sudden, unexpected death, the question of what’s-next now punctuated with what-will-never-be-again.” — Michaelangelo Matos, Salon