Hold the whole story in your hands.
The premium printed edition of B·SIDE. 52 cards. A custom tuck box. Every card carries a QR that opens its full story on this site. Built to live on your shelf, not in a drawer.
What's in the box.
SPECIFICATIONSA full deck. Edited to the essential moments.
Standard trading-card. Fits every commercial sleeve.
Premium playing-card stock. Linen finish. Shuffle-tested.
Custom-printed two-piece tuck box, foil B·SIDE wordmark.
One per card + one on the box. All link to deep-dive pages.
First press is limited. Each deck is numbered.
Printed and assembled by a small press in the Netherlands.
Tracked shipping included in price.
Every card is a door.
Each card holds one rare fact and one iconic moment. Print is the right format for the fact — it's tactile, collectible, beautiful. But the moment lives on YouTube, and the deep-dive lives here. The QR on every card opens the full story on B·SIDE. Hold the deck. Pull a card. Scan. Watch the moment that changed pop music. Read the back-story written for the obsessed.
Hold a card.
A rare fact. A subject. A date. A single iconic image.
Scan the QR.
B·SIDE opens this card's deep-dive page on your phone.
Watch the moment.
The iconic YouTube clip plays inline. The story comes alive.
Vol.I — The first deck.
ICON N° 01Michael Jackson
The King of Pop
From the lead voice of the Jackson 5 at age 9 to the best-selling solo artist in recorded music history, Michael Jackson rewrote what pop stardom could be — visually, sonically, and commercially — and broke down the racial walls of MTV in the process.
Browse all 52 cards online →- 01 The Moonwalk Debut
- 02 Breaking MTV's Colour Barrier
- 03 He Bought The Beatles
- 04 The Anti-Gravity Shoe Patent
- 05 The Free Van Halen Solo
- 06 He Couldn't Read a Note
- 07 The Pepsi Fire
- 08 The Halftime Show, Reinvented
- 09 We Are The World — One Night, 46 Stars
- 10 The Bad Duet That Never Was
- 11 Thriller — The First Music Film
- 12 Bubbles, the Chimp
- + 40 more · all included
One icon at a time.
Prince · Bowie · Aretha · Hendrix · Nina Simone · Marley · Beyoncé · Mercury — pre-order subscribers get first dibs and a small price break on each new pressing.