On this episode we discuss and debate two generational geniuses born 83 days apart in the summer of1958. Both Black men who reshaped pop music, broke racial barriers, and refusedto be categorised. Yet they approached fame, artistry, and legacy from almostopposite directions.

Michael Jackson was the machine — the commercial juggernaut,the polished perfectionist, the King of Pop who made Thriller the best-sellingalbum in history and turned every release into a cultural event. Prince was theanomaly — the multi-instrumentalist, the control freak, the genre-defyingauteur who played every note himself and treated mainstream success withsuspicion.

Their rivalry was real, their mutual respect was genuine, andtheir simultaneous peaks in the 1980s produced one of the greatest competitiveeras in music history. This episode pulls the two apart — and puts them backtogether — to find out what made each genius tick, where each fell short, andwhich legacy has proven more enduring.

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