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“Man in the Mirror” was a number-one hit for singer Michael Jackson when released as a single in the spring of 1988. The song is about accepting social and political responsibility. It is one of Jackson’s most critically acclaimed songs and it was nominated for Record of the Year at the Grammy Awards.
His live version of “Man in the Mirror” is an act of living passion.
The song garnered massive airplay and topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks. It was only a moderate hit in the UK at the time of its release, peaking at #21 and becoming the only single from Bad not to reach the UK Top 20 on first release. However, on June 28, 2009, following the news of Jackson’s death, the song charted at number 11 in the official UK Singles Chart, and also made number eleven on the official UK Download Chart[1].
The song was composed by Siedah Garrett (who can be heard singing in the background with Jackson) and Glen Ballard. Jackson added background vocals from Garrett, the Winans and the Andrae Crouch Choir, which gave the song its distinctive sound.
Garrett had the idea for the song when she was driving to the recording session for I Just Can’t Stop Loving You. On her way, she saw a face in the mirror of her car, and this gave her the idea to write a song titled “Man In The Mirror” as an addition to Jackson’s upcoming album. [2]
Arranged with a gospel choir, a year after David Bowie used the same device for “Underground”, from the fantasy film Labyrinth, other popular artists at the time who had tracks featuring gospel choirs include Debbie Gibson, Guns N’ Roses and Madonna for her 1989 number one hit “Like a Prayer”. Siedah Garrett also sang on Jackson’s “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You” [3] and was one of the backing vocalists for Madonna’s Re-Invention Tour of 2004 and performed a short solo during “Like a Prayer.”
Jackson performed a live, extended version of the song at the 1988 Grammy Awards. He also performed the song as the ending of the concert during the Bad World Tour’s second leg, and regularly during the Dangerous World Tour. In the latter, the song was accompanied by stuntman Kinnie Gibson dressed as Jackson flying out of the arena in a jetpack. On July 16, 1996, Jackson also performed “Man in the Mirror” at the Royal Concert Brunei for the last time prior to the United We Stand benefit concert.
The video for “Man in the Mirror” is a notable departure from Jackson’s other videos mainly because Jackson himself does not appear in the video. Instead, it featured footages of various news events such as the John F. Kennedy and the Robert Kennedy shootings, Live Aid, and notable people including Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbechev, and Adolf Hitler.
This song has been included in most of Jackson’s compilation albums, but was notably absent in the Visionary: The Video Singles box set.
The song was quoted by Jermaine Jackson during Celebrity Big Brother 2007, while confronting several white housemates who had been bullying an Indian housemate, the Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty. The song was played into the house the following morning as an alarm.
The song is sampled by Brooklyn MC Papoose during the summer of 2006 on his “Gonna Make a Change.” The song describes his rough upbringing and his struggles. Later the song was freestyled by rapper Rhymefest with Michael singing the chorus & singing part of his second verse.
Siedah Garett recorded a more stripped down acoustic version of the song for her 2004 album Siedah.
The song has been performed on The X Factor by contestant Diana Vickers and American Idol by winner, Kris Allen.
“Man In The Mirror” was the fourth consecutive number-one single for Jackson’s Bad in the United States. The single debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at #48 on February 6, 1988, and reached #1 by its eighth week on the chart, on March 26, 1988, where it remained for two weeks.
It originally charted at #21 in the United Kingdom on 1988. However, following Jackson’s death on June 25, 2009, “Man in the Mirror” re-entered the UK Singles Chart at #11.
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