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Michael Jackson set a milestone in the history of pop with »Off The Wall« and demonstrated his extra class as a musician and creative visionary at the age of only 20. With this album, he surpassed all 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 Michael Jackson had invented "modern pop music as we know it" thanks to Off The Wall.

Above all, however, Michael Jackson had created a work whose perfect symbiosis of entertainment and great songwriting served as a shining example for his black musician colleagues. 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 confidence that fueled many great careers.