Moonwalk (dance) Ian Inglis later wrote that Jackson encapsulated a long tradition of African-American dance movements in that one performance. Moonwalking received widespread attention, and from then on, the moonwalk became Jackson's signature move for his song "Billie Jean". Nelson George said that Jackson's rendition "combined Jackie Wilson's athleticism with James Brown's camel walk". Michael Jackson's autobiography was titled "Moonwalk", and he also starred in a 1988 film titled "Moonwalker". In the 1984 movie "Streets of Fire", actor and performer Stoney Jackson executed a moonwalk as the leader of a fictional group, The Sorels, who lip-synced to the Dan Hartman song "I
Moonwalk (book) out of style?" "Moonwalk" debuted at number one on both the British newspaper "The Times" and the "Los Angeles Times" bestseller lists. Reaching number two in its first week on "The New York Times" Best Seller list, "Moonwalk" reached number one the following week. Within a few months of its release, "Moonwalk" had sold 450,000 copies in fourteen countries. Ken Tucker, of "The New York Times", stated that if the book had been written by anyone else, it would be dismissed as "an assiduously unrevealing, frequently tedious document." However, he adds that "these are precisely the qualities that make it