Man in the Mirror in a large crowd). Instead, it featured a montage of footage of various major news events and famous people. The "Man in the Mirror" music video was directed, produced and edited by Don Wilson. Don and Michael Jackson developed the idea for the video. Larry Stessel who was Video Commissioner at Epic Records at the time was the Executive Producer. PCM Stereo music video version of this song was included on "Number Ones", "Michael Jackson's Vision", the Target version DVD of "Bad 25", and the song's video that released on VHS in 1989. An alternate live video was used as
Mirror Man (Captain Beefheart album) as Milk", which had been released earlier that year, it was with the intention of producing a double album, provisionally entitled "It Comes to You in a Plain Brown Wrapper". Three of the tracks they recorded—"Tarotplane", "25th Century Quaker", and "Mirror Man"—were long, psychedelic blues jams performed 'live in the studio' (in one take with no overdubs). These were intended to fill one of the set's two LPs. The band were also working on a number of other tracks, many of which would eventually be included on "Strictly Personal" (1968). These songs were characterized by their polyrhythmic structures and psychedelic