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) 1971. The record sleeve features an erroneous claim that it had been "recorded one night in Los Angeles in 1965". The album is dominated by three long, blues-rooted jams featuring uncharacteristically sparse lyrical accompaniment from Beefheart. A fourth tune, the eight-minute "Kandy Korn", is an earlier version of a track that appears on "Strictly Personal". In 1999, Buddha Records issued an expanded version of the album entitled "The Mirror Man Sessions", which features five additional tracks taken from the abandoned tapes. When the band went into the studio in late 1967 to record the follow-up to their debut album "Safe