What some fans might not know is that Jackson managed to have a hit song about an evil rat. The 1970s were certainly a different time. Jackson ’s song “Ben” became his first of many number ...

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How the public reacted to the song. Ben became Jackson’s first No. 1 hit in the United States as a solo artist.The song remained on the Billboard Hot 100 for 16 weeks. Its parent album, Ben, was ...

In the animal-songs canon, “Ben” may be the only love song about a rat. The song was the title track of the sequel to the 1971 movie Willard, in which a young outsider trains a rat population ...