The Changing Face of Michael Jackson

At left, Michael Jackson poses for a studio portrait in March 1971. His doe eyes, cherubic face and sweet voice made him the object of many an adolescent crush. Three decades later in November 2003, an almost completely unrecognizable Jackson is shown in a mug shot after he was booked on multiple counts of alleged child molestation. After his death, the question lingers: what was it all about? "He didn't want to be Michael Joseph Jackson. He just wanted to be something else. And he went about the business of doing that," says Jackson biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli. (Getty Images)