This is sorta the key takeaway from the book, fyi!

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When I interviewed her, Sheryl Crow also said that the Bad Tour was like a Broadway show in its rigor and consistency – everything was tweaked to perfection, down to the banter between songs, and repeated every night.

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John Branca is now the co-executor of Jackson’s estate.

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In 1995, Sony paid Jackson $115 million to merge its lesser publishing catalogue with his; even after his death, Jackson retains a 50% stake in the entity, Sony/ATV, now the largest music publishing company in the world.

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Yetnikoff is a character straight out of a Brett Easton Ellis book – in the 1980s, he had a prodigious appetite for cocaine and booze; these days, his lone vice is pastrami.

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That’s about $90 million, if you adjust for inflation.

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Get it now?

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Jay Z may have been the first entertainer to say he was a business, man – but MJ was even more so.

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Geffen wouldn’t comment for the book – he told me he didn’t want to talk about Michael Jackson anymore. “It’s all too sad,” he said.

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