The album that minted Michael Jackson as a major solo star ... the Oscar-winning “Ben.” Despite Jackson’s moving vocal performance, it’s a strange song to build an album around, especially ...

Ben is best known for its touching title track — a ballad about a boy and his pet rat. Despite its unusual premise, Jackson’s ...

“Michael’s worst idea since ‘Ben,'” was how Robert Christgau ... making it the best-selling album of all time, Jackson still had one more trick up his “Thriller” sleeve: On December ...

The fiscal calendar ends on March 31, 2026, so Feltheimer’s statement indicates that the film (or films) will likely debut ...

Michael Jackson's 'Off the Wall' came after his solo breakthrough single "Ben." Quincy Jones explained why he didn't want 'Off the Wall' to include a song like "Ben." In a 2009 article he wrote ...

In his teen years, Jackson (who that year earned an Oscar nomination for Best Song for "Ben") struggled ... releasing six albums between 1976 and 1984. At the time, Michael was the group's lead ...

"The ballads were what made Off the Wall a Michael Jackson album," Jackson said, via Rolling Stone. "I'd done ballads with [my] brothers, but they had never been too enthusiastic about them and ...