![]() When Purple Rain came out in 1984, Jackson reportedly started attending Prince concerts on a regular basis in order to get a read on his bombastic contemporary. Rolling Stone reports that the friction began when 1999, Prince's first album to crack the Billboard Top 200, was "upstaged" by the release of Michael Jackson's Thriller a mere month after its debut. Perhaps it was this, their shared claim on similar cultural territory, that ignited a burning back-and-forth between the two artists that would last until Jackson's death in June of 2009. Eleven ended up on the official album, leaving numerous great. ![]() Michael Jackson performed his first concert tour across 15 countries in 1988, to support the launch of his seventh studio album, Bad. ![]() Each eschewed the norm and gave traditional takes on masculinity a little tickle. It turned out in the interval between Thriller and the official start of the Bad sessions, Jackson had written some 60-70 new songs. Michael Jackson wore this Grey satin jacket for his first solo concert named as Bad. Their rivalry was the stuff of Greek mythology, a feud akin to the events of The Prestige, but with tighter pants. Prince and Michael Jackson: two slender heavenly bodies, trapped irrevocably in one another's gravitational pull, each seemingly doing his best to out-weird the other by an order of magnitude.
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