The 1982 album won five Grammys (including Album ... which is devoted to the retroactively named genre of music that blended soft-rock, jazz and R&B and was once a major chart player.

“The Girl Is Mine” debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 on November 6th, 1982, the date on which, not coincidentally, the rebound of black music’s presence on that chart began, after a three ...