Bad album cover
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This is the original MJ.
Jackson in the Bad era
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Again, the man everybody loved, before the days when only almost-everybody loved him.
Man in the Mirror, circa 1980s
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MJ sees himself in the mirror—and likes what he sees.
The latter day disguise
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He never stopped going out in his classic aviator glasses, but here he's also hiding his face behind a surgical mask.
Avoiding the camera
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MJ was photographed in 2009 without the surgical mask he'd taken to wearing, and it appears that he was hiding something illness-related that happened to his face.