Could a superstar as big as Michael Jackson be compelled, almost against his will, to return to the recording studio for a do-over on one of his songs? The answer to that in 1995 was a surprising yes, when Jackson re-recorded a key line of the song “They Don’t Care About Us,” amid a media firestorm over controversial lyrics that included anti-Jewish slurs. But, maintaining that there was no antisemitic intent to his words, the superstar was far from happy about having to “make that change.” Indeed, he took out his anger on the recording studio where the vocal overdubs were taking place in 1995.

That’s one of the compelling stories in “You’ve Got Michael: Living Through HIStory,” a new book by former Epic Records executive Dan Beck, which offers a first-hand, never-before-revealed look a

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