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Keith Murphy

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Writer, editor, and lover of fine things...and cute too. Catch me at ESPN's @Andscape, @latimes, @RollingStone, @people, @LIFE, @HITSDD and @VibeMagazine....
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A Look Back at VIBE’s Oral History of a King and a Prince

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By Keith Murphy
| Vibe Verified
In an illuminating scene from Michael, the record-breaking, debate-igniting music biopic, the future King of Pop and his brothers are relaxing at the pool inside the Jackson family’s lavish Hayvenhurst Estate in Encino, California. It’s 1982, and Michael Jackson is plotting his Thriller world domination. Nothing… no one can get in his way.
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How Michael Jackson Became Too Big For The Biopic Original

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By Keith Murphy
| Vibe Verified
There is a scene in the big-budget biopic Michaelthat perfectly encapsulates Michael Jackson’s historically unfathomable fame and crushing, fragile psyche. The Jacksons’ iron-fisted patriarch and personal manager, Joe Jackson, played by two-time Oscar nominee Colman Domingo, has just been faxed a termination letter from his soon-to-be King of Pop son. Papa Joe is beyond livid… like the get the belt!!! livid.
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A Decade Without Prince

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By Keith Murphy
| tiny.cc
Prince at the Golden Globe Awards in 2015. Paul Drinkwater/NBCUniversal via Getty Images Tony Mosley’s voice trembles recalling that day. He was at work in Minneapolis on April 21, 2016, when he heard rumblings that Prince Rogers Nelson had died. At first, the dancer, rapper, and musician known to the world as Tony M.—member of His Royal Badness’ early ‘90s hard-charging New Power Generation band—thought the early reports were mere rumors.
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