Wed, July 01, 2009
Footage of the first time Michael Jackson performed the Moonwalk in public.
(At 3:45 in the video).
The dance move gained widespread popularity after being performed by Michael Jackson on the 1983 television special Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever, and had become his signature move until his death in 2009. The moonwalk has since become the best known dance move in the world. As Stern and Stern wrote in their 1992 Encyclopedia of Pop Culture, Michael Jackson's signature moonwalk "became the single best-known bit of celebrity body language since the four Beatles."
