Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009 in Los Angeles of a propofol and benzodiazepine overdose. By then, his exhaustion, paranoia, and ill health were an open secret; somehow, it was as if he had already been dead for some time and the real death was nothing but a dramatic grand finale that crowned an existence that, from an early age, was marked by talent and stardom, but also by unhappiness and controversy: his operations, the color of his skin and, especially, the very serious accusations of pedophilia. With the distance of ten years since Jackson's death - ten years during which the controversy has prevailed over the myth - Paul Morley reflects on media culture and our obsession with celebrities; about how we turned the biggest child star of the late 20th century into a grotesque monster; on how his decadence put a soundtrack at the end of pop and the music industry as they were conceived until then; about how his music, once astonishingly modern and funky, ended up being a subsidiary of the dysfunctional freak show of seeing a man literally disintegrate before our eyes. Scholarly and provocative, who killed Michael Jackson? documents a tragedy so Shakespearean that it came to bury the legacy of the last of the show's great icons, slashing the myth.