25 Reasons We Love Michael Jackson

Why we'll always be down with the King.

21. "Remember the Time" Video - Musically, "Remember the Time" was definitely a triumph, gracefully melding MJ with R&B’s new sound and proving he could succeed without Quincy Jones’ golden touch. But we’ll always love the video in particular. John Singleton directed, Fatima Robinson was on choreography and the casting was incredible: Iman, Eddie Murphy, Magic Johnson, the Pharcyde. But best of all was the setting, in Ancient Egypt — a huge, very intentional rebuke to the whitewashed history Hollywood has pumped out for decades.  (Photo: Epic Records)
20. His Relationship With Quincy - Nowadays, artists treat producers like hired guns, and the biggest hit gets the biggest paychecks. Where's the loyalty? But MJ and Quincy were different; their relationship a whole lot deeper. The pair’s amazing collaborations on Off the Wall, Thriller and Bad were truly a half-and-half, left-hand/right-hand partnership, the work of two geniuses at the peak of their powers.  (Photo: Barry King/WireImage)
(Photo: Universal Pictures)
18. He Came From Nothing - Mike was born on August 29, 1958, in the hard-scrabble industrial city of Gary, Indiana. He was the eighth of 10 children born to Joe, a steel-mill worker, and Katharine, a homemaker and devout Jehovah’s Witness. 50 years later, when he died, his fortune was estimated to be between $4 billion and $8 billion. Talk about a come-up.  (Photo: Ron Wolfson /Landov)17. His Video Premieres Were Events - When Mike unveiled a new video, it was must-see TV: one of the three major networks would always air it (and during primetime), kids would race home, entire families would sit glued to the tube. The next day at school, guess what every kid was talking about?  (Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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20. His Relationship With Quincy - Nowadays, artists treat producers like hired guns, and the biggest hit gets the biggest paychecks. Where's the loyalty? But MJ and Quincy were different; their relationship a whole lot deeper. The pair’s amazing collaborations on Off the Wall, Thriller and Bad were truly a half-and-half, left-hand/right-hand partnership, the work of two geniuses at the peak of their powers.  (Photo: Barry King/WireImage)

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