Abortion, Fame, and 'Bad': Listening to Michael Jackson's Unreleased Demos
The stories behind the tracks that will finally see the light of day for the album's 25th-anniversary rerelease More »
Joseph Vogel is a freelance journalist and the author of five books, including Man in the Music: The Creative Life and Work of Michael Jackson and The Obama Movement. He lives in New York, where is an instructor and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Rochester.
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