Michael Jackson: The '70s

During the first half of the '70s, Michael Jackson and his brothers kept the joyful rock-and-soul charm of the early Motown sound alive, and the child prodigy launched his slow rise to solo success. As the decade went on, Jackson embraced the grooves of funk and disco on revolutionary best-sellers like 1979's Off The Wall, setting the sound that would make him a superstar in the '80s.