Unlike the biographies written by journalists or the tell-alls written by distant associates, Remember The Time was penned by two men who stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Jackson during his most precarious era. Authors Bill Whitfield and Javon Beard were not music industry insiders; they were professional security operatives. Hired to protect Jackson and his three children—Prince, Paris, and Blanket—during the tumultuous period leading up to the This Is It concerts, they offered a viewpoint that was simultaneously detached and intimate.
