When did Michael Jackson first perform the Moonwalk?
Michael Jackson first performed the dance to Billie Jean on Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever on March 25, 1983, which was broadcast two months later.
It went on to become his signature dance move, but the King of Pop was not the one to invent it.
It's thought to date back as far as 1931 when it was performed by jazz singer and band leader Cab Calloway and known as The Buzz.
Dick Van Dyke also performed a similar move as part of a comedy routine in the 1950s.
In 2004, Michael's sister LaToya said he'd picked up the move watching the show Soul Train from a dancer named Jeffrey Daniel, an alum of the group Shalamar.
She said the dance move was initially called the backslide, and later adapted to the moonwalk after Jackson perfected it.
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