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Michael Jackson was without doubt the greatest performer ever to have lived. In his own lifetime he became a legend, transcending the boundaries that separated white and black audiences, creating sounds that had never before been heard, and writing music that will remain in the hearts of listeners for generations and generations to come. Never before or since has a recording artist achieved so much —from record-setting albums to astonishing acts of charity — and his impact on the domain of not only popular music but world culture itself will be felt down the ages. As a man and a performer Michael Jackson was totally unique. Influenced by the ghosts of an extraordinary childhood, he also faced unflagging public scrutiny. The media frenzy which surrounded his untimely death was already a constant presence in a life that seemed to hold so little privacy but to offer so many intriguing questions. Yet whatever the doubts and blame generated by his death, his legacy to the world will live on untarnished: as a man who wrote songs for the whole world to sing.