The Awfully Big Adventure: Michael Jackson in the Afterlife by Paul Morley – review

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The recent disturbing Jackson revelations date this otherwise entertaining study of the man and his legacy

‘An avatar for so many things that have come to pass’: Michael Jackson on stage in California, April 2002. Photograph: Michael Caulfield Archive/WireImageis undergoing a paroxysm of sorts – it’s just not quite the fugue state detailed in this meditation by British journalist, broadcaster and prose stylist Paul Morley. Though an otherwise entertaining exercise in unravelling the meaning of a 20th-century celebrity in the 21st, his book flounders in the wake of recent events.

 

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