Man in the Mirror After a closing prayer that incorporated themes from the song, the spotlight remained shining on the lone microphone. The song is also featured as the final number in "Michael Jackson's This Is It". Running time: 5 minutes 30 seconds "Man in the Mirror" was the 4th consecutive number-one single for Jackson's "Bad" in the United States. The single debuted on the "Billboard" Hot 100 at number 48 on February 6, 1988, and reached number 1 by its 8th week on the chart, on March 26, 1988, where it remained for 2 weeks. The song originally peaked at number 21 in
Mirror Man (Captain Beefheart album) Actually, it must have been a rather small amount, because I didn't find myself too far from reality." Like "Kandy Korn", it was re-recorded for "Strictly Personal", where it appears as "Son of Mirror Man – Mere Man". Reviews of the album have made much of the length of its four compositions. A contemporary review written for "Rolling Stone" magazine by Lester Bangs, who opens by citing Beefheart as "one of the four or five unqualified geniuses to rise from the hothouses of American music in the Sixties", states: "None of them really build in intensity or end up anyplace