Despite being a hit songwriter, I imagine most people thought of him as an eccentric. Especially after switching his race by plastic surgery before writing & singing “It don’t matter if you’re white or black.”
Then I read this short blurb:
And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I’d see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.
-Michael Jackson
I think it’s safe to say that everyone has something, which caused them to fall into depression. Perhaps, Michael J. had something even harsher.