Michael Jackson Facts

Michael Jackson used a special shoe to perform his "Smooth Criminal" lean trick.

Michael Jackson tried to buy Marvel Comics in the early 1990s so that he could play Spider-Man in his own movie.

Paul McCartney was offered the entire Beatles song catalog for $40 million in the early 1980s and passed - telling his attorney it was too pricey. He had personally advised Michael Jackson about the value of music publishing rights just months earlier. Jackson bought the catalog for $47.5 million in 1985. It is now worth $1.2 billion.