The Beatles conquered an era and a hemisphere. Elvis owned America. Jackson belonged to the planet. His face, his glove, his lean-forward stance before the beat dropped were recognized in villages without electricity and cities that never slept. Only Muhammad Ali matched that level of global recognition, and even Ali did not moonwalk into living rooms every night.

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