One of the few uncontentious things you can say about Michael Jackson these days is that, to put it mildly, he did always defy convention.
The music and dance moves were extraordinary, the tours bigger and more inventive than any pop star before him. In his appearance, he morphed from cherubic child star to beautiful young man to inexplicably freakish by the time of his death, aged 50, from cardiac arrest in June 2009.
