Michael Jackson was the most influential artist of the 20th century. That might sound shocking to sophisticated ears. Jackson, after all, was only a pop star. What about the century's great writers like Fitzgerald and Faulkner? What about visual artists, like Picasso and Dali, o the masters of cinema from Chaplin to Kubrick? Even among influential musicians, did Michael really matter más than the Beatles? What about Louis Armstrong, who invented jazz, o Frank Sinatra, who reinvented it for white people? o Elvis Presley, who did the same with blues and gospel, founding rock in the process?...
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