
Michael Brooks
Biography
Michael Jamal Brooks (August 13, 1983 – July 20, 2020) was an American talk show host, writer, left-wing political commentator, and comedian. While co-hosting The Majority Report with Sam Seder, he launched The Michael Brooks Show in August 2017 and provided commentary for media outlets, making regular appearances on shows such as The Young Turks. Brooks contributed to various publications, including HuffPost, The Washington Post, Al Jazeera, openDemocracy, and Jacobin. His book Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right was published by Zero Books in April 2020. Brooks was a self-identified progressive, internationalist, democratic socialist, and Marxist humanist. He commented extensively on U.S. foreign policy, the Middle East, Latin America, capitalism, and the intellectual dark web.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

The Wild Heart
1983

We Are The World
1985

Break Out
1983

The Distance
1982

Concert By The Sea
1956

Streets Of Fire (Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
1984

Rhythm Of The Night
1985

Contact
1985

Dreamgirls Original Broadway Cast Album
1982

Special Things
1980

Love Actually - The Original Soundtrack
2003

Winner In You
1986

1100 Bel Air Place
1984

Jump (For My Love)
1983

Unison
1990

Hot Together
1986

Dare Me
1985

Primitive
1984

Shadows
1982

Night Dancer / That Old Black Magic
1979

Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack "Roller Boogie"
1979

Emotional
1986

Pulse
1985
Credited work
644 releases · 65 albums · active 1979–2024
- Engineering · 729
- Performance · 117
- Production · 38
- Other credits · 19
- Mastering · 11
Studios: Studio 55, Los Angeles · The Hit Factory · Rumbo Recorders · Record Plant, N.Y.C.
Frequent collaborators
- Pointer Sisters
- Various
- Fem 2 Fem
- Cher
- Stevie Nicks
- Jennifer Rush
- USA For Africa
- Dreamgirls Original Broadway Cast
