The best No 1 records: Michael Jackson – Earth Song

1995: Well, Jarvis Cocker liked it so much that he had a little dance when Jackson performed the song at the Brit awardsOn the claustrophobically solipsistic HIStory album – released after the child abuse allegations that haunted Jackson in 1993 – Earth Song stood out as a song about something other than his treatment at the hands of the world's media. Instead, the focus was another favourite subject of Jackson's after We Are the World and Heal the World – ie, the state of the, er, world. ...

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