35 years ago this week, Michael Jackson’s “Rock with You” was the number-one single on the Billboard Top 100.

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35 years ago this week, Michael Jackson’s “Rock with You” was the number-one single on the Billboard Top 100.
D. R. Tucker is a Massachusetts-based journalist who has served as the weekend contributor for the Washington Monthly since May 2014. He has also written for the Huffington Post, the Washington Spectator, the Metrowest Daily News, investigative journalist Brad Friedman's Brad Blog and environmental journalist Peter Sinclair's Climate Crocks.
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