He completely wrote most of his hits...like don't stop til you get enough, beat it, thriller, wanna be startin somethin, bad, dirty diana, black or white, heal the world, etc etc.

The few that he didn't write were rock with you, man in the mirror, and you are not alone.

as far as the comparison with Mozart, whatever.
someone did point out a similarity I had not even considered, the driven father.
plus being child protege, incredibly famous and a tender age and all the pressure that goes with it, drug abuse and addiction and on and on.  nope, no similarity at all.
I was just looking around the web to see if anyone else had made the comparison.  looks like the director Brent Ratner beat me to it.

It ain't easy being a genius: You do pay the price, not unlike Mozart, who will be remembered far longer than Napoleon. Michael Jackson understands this irony. No one I have ever met in my life has had such passion and love for entertainment. His work, brilliance, and vision will be remembered far longer than any of those who now think of him harshly.

oops also the democratic underground found the comparison attractive

Certainly Michael Jackson was flawed. So were Mozart and Picasso. They still managed to make the world more rich and more beautiful, as did Michael Jackson. Like Mozart and Picasso, he will not soon be forgotten.

oh, and the Mozart forum

It's important to recognise that Mozart is also a special case because his talent was fully realised into adulthood. It is not inevitable that such great prodigies turn out this way. In some ways Camille Saint-Saëns was as impressive as Mozart as a child prodigy, possessing perfect pitch at two years of age and began piano lessons. But I find even his mature music sophisticated yet boring. As Hector Berlioz, said: "He knows everything, but lacks inexperience". I doubt Mozart 'lacked inexperience', but he certainly never became tired of exploring new harmonies and ideas.

And I've always wondered what Michael Jackson may have become under an ambitious but stable family like Mozart's. Apparently, Jackson also had perfect pitch and a great musical memory at an early age, and apparently remembered all the parts, steps and moves after just a couple of hearings.

It's a real shame his mind became so warped and his life turned into grotesque Hollywood freakshow. I dislike pretty much all the music he did past the age of 15 (?), but his childhood talent may give us a glimpse into what LEVEL of freakish ability (though in a different way) we would witness in someone like Mozart. The description of Mozart's first organ playing is interesting (regarding his co-ordination, etc), but of course, we'll never know what kind of composer Jackson may have become under someone like Leopold.

Here's some amazing Jackson performances as a child. The melodic sense and control in his voice is quite astonishing...

Hey would James Joyce written comic books if he were alive today? Davinci been a grafitti artist? lol....