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
Man in the Mirror with the man in the mirror/I'm asking him to change his ways/And no message could have been any clearer/If you wanna make the world a better place/Take a look at yourself and then make a change."" In 2017, ShortList's Dave Fawbert listed the song as containing "one of the greatest key changes in music history". One of the videos is a notable departure from Jackson's other videos mainly because Jackson himself does not appear in the video (aside from a brief clip toward the end of the video in which he can be seen donning a red jacket and standing