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He was fascinated about entertainers who came before him and entertainers who were his contemporaries.

I once spent two or three hours in a book store with him in San Francisco between interviews because he was just so crazy about learning and about knowledge. He was incredibly intelligent and read all the time - always carrying a book around with him that had words underlined, comments of his own in the margins.

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He was full of fun he was someone who loved to have a good time, loved to play practical jokes on people - and loved to laugh. I personally never saw anything quirky or odd about Michael. I think it was easy to have that forgotten when many headlines were tabloid nonsense. People were in absolute awe of the genius of this man.

Album sales and box office receipts for his movie, This Is It topped off Jackson's money making coffers.

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However, according to Billboard Magazine, Michael Jackson sold more than $1 billion dollars worth of merchandise, music and movie tickets.

Michael Jackson was reported to have been in financial straits just prior to his death. All of his backlist and albums went to number one. But the interesting thing that's happened in the year since he died - and it happened almost immediately after he died - was that people began to reevaluate what a music genius Michael Jackson was. More than anything else, of course, I wish that Michael was still with us. Below, are excerpts from that conversation. She is an editor who worked with Michael Jackson on his official autobiography, MoonWalk. Host, Tony Cox had a conversation with Shaye Areheart. He was 50 years old when he died from an apparent drug overdose. Fans around the world will commemorate and celebrate his life and music. Today marks the first anniversary of Michael Jackson's death. Editor Shaye Areheart says Jackson made every effort to give his all on while performing. Over the years, Smooth says, he came to see Jackson as "this sort of heartbreaking, tragic figure and someone who may well have done awful things to others." And he's still not sure what to think now.Michael Jackson is seen here performing during his 13-city U.S. Neyfakh didn't grow up listening to Jackson's music, but Smooth did - in fact, he says he feels like "I knew him since I was a baby and. The hosts bring different perspectives to the project. How should we think about Jackson's music? "And I think that that tug-of-war over time, along with all the other ways he was trying to navigate being in the brightest spotlight anyone's ever been in, I think you see that reverberate through his life in so many ways," he says. Smooth says Jackson had more of an "investment and a connection to his Blackness" than most people assume, while also striving to "be this universal figure for everyone as well."

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The series also delves into race, unpacking how Jackson thought about his racial identity and what role he played in larger cultural conversations (including his 1994 NAACP Image Awards speech). Music Interviews Jay Smooth: On Hip-Hop, Blogs And Race