Michael Jackson: Off The Wall (LP)

Michael Jackson set a milestone in pop history with Off the Wall, demonstrating his excellence as a musician and creative visionary at the age of just 20. With this album, he surpassed all existing sales records of African-American musicians at the time and was able to set unprecedented records in terms of airplay, chart performance and sales figures with his crossover of R&B and pop. For Rolling Stone, it was clear that, thanks to Off the Wall, Michael Jackson had invented "modern pop music as we know it Above all, Michael Jackson had created a body of work whose perfect symbiosis of entertainment and great songwriting served as a shining example for his fellow black musicians. Back then, at the end of the 1970s, they were still fighting for due social recognition, and the success of Off The Wall gave them the necessary dose of self-confidence that fueled many great careers.