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1984
s “the most widely touted and hotly debated tour of recent years” began, “Michael [Jackson] bestowed a benediction with. “After months of confusion, controversy and sporadic outbursts of popular hysteria, often fanned by frenzied media coverage, the Jacksons’ [Victory] tour—billed as the most lucrative rock and roll roadshow ever mounted—was officially under way.” Over a decade after Jackson’s 2009 death, the image of the former “King of Pop” is tarnished by the stain of pedophilia.
