as i was driving this morning at 7.15am to send my soul mate to school and sis to work, they announced on mix fm, a cardiac arrest with some jackson...we couldnt hear as the windows were down and the sound of the wind swallowed the name...for a while didon looked at me and said `i hope its not michael jackson' so we changed the station to bfm..and there was the news..confirmed by cnn. cause of death is still unknown until the autopsy confirms it.
it sent a pang of sadness over us..and this came about just when he planned his final series of 50 concerts starting the 13th of july.
i first started enjoying the jackson 5 when we got our first tv ...i think i was only 5 years old then...it was the seventies, he was the lead singer...and when jackson had his thriller in 1982, i thought no one could compare to him...not even elvis or the beatles (even though some would say they are in different categories and thus uncomparable)...
when i used to go to the discos in my youth, i remember doing the backward gliding moonwalk..all courtesy of mj. he was the best..the most exciting and by far the most talented of all performers, with squeals and titters and dance movements that everyone began to immitate.
what he did for charity was another reason to love him. and he adored his children, literally lived for them. and in regards to all those allegations... we can choose to believe or discard it. the public never seem to know the truth about anything anyway...its always hearsay.
hardly a few years older than me, i literally grew up with his music..each one of his songs...loving every moment, every song, every dance, every bit of everything..my first walkman only played elvis and jackson, it so easily brings tears to my eyes....i can hardly believe his demise..i think the world has just lost the BIGGEST pop star in history...
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Sad, yes the world has to be sad, cause we have just lost a Genius, who changed the music scene....but Better the Elvis...I dont think so(My opinion)...Beateles they in thier own League...BUT MJ is the best of this age....I always admire this guy, whats the lesson we got to learn from him, the guy who calles himself Peter Pan, he has lost his childhood, cause he was in show biz, and also of the bad treatment he received from his dad....we should all lean a lesson from him and let our children grow their childhood like what we have been doing in the 70's and 80's....May His Soul Rest in Peace...Amen...till we all await another KIng to Grace the Earth...and bring us all into another Era like the KINGS, Beatels, Elvis and not forgeting MJ...... Vijay
Although i take exception to placing the Beatles in the same league as MJ, I wholeheartedly agree with you on most other points. "Thriller" has been such an integral part of my growing up years - I remember parties where the track-list consisted almost entirely of Beat It, Billie Jean, Thriller, PYT and Wanna Be Startin' Something - being played over and over and over again. A huge part of my childhood has just disappeared....
MJ a genious music composer passed away, very sad.
The songs like 'Beat it' and "Black or White" will be remembered forever.
Good Article.
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