The story of Michael Jackson continues to live on with his recent death a few weeks back. It’s amazing to see how many albums the late singer has sold in the month of July and this is looking more like the Elvis Pressley situation every day now. Elvis continues to make lots of money and he has been dead for over 30 years now. I assume the Jackson family will try to follow the same formula as the people related to Elvis has done and continue to grow his wealth 3 decades from now. You probably won’t find a sale on the Thriller album anytime soon.

I haven’t ever read any books on MJ, but I think it would be interesting to read the one Ian Halperin wrote called UnMasked. You can probably find this book at your favorite bookstore or any place online that sells books. I ran across this copy at Buy.com and they probably have it cheaper than any other place; since they are typically the best place online to find bargains. The part above his name that reads “The Final Years” is what caught my eye and this is probably information that most of the public is not aware of.

We all know the first half of the Michael Jackson story and a great movie was created to show the Jackson 5 story. The name of the movie is called An American Dream and it shows Michael and his brothers growing up in Gary, Indiana and how tough it was back then for them. His dad Joseph Jackson had a tough time feeding his family with very few jobs in Gary and the family being as big as it was. Their home was very small and it is still standing today. I am surprised that Michael or any of his other family members didn’t ever take time to invest in their old home place and create some type of tourist attraction for this part in Indiana. Gary is still considered a place where poverty exists and I haven’t heard of any of the Jackson’s millions ever being gave back to this poor community. Even with the lack of financial support from Michael, Janet, or any of the other family members, the community still showed up to support Michael Jackson’s untimely death. If you want to understand the Jacksons better; you should really see the 4 hour movie called An American Dream. I hope the book UnMasked reveals the 2nd half of the story or perhaps someone will create a movie or write a book on the entire story of Michael Jackson.