From an email I received last night, before the sad news was confirmed. 'I remember when I was a kid, I saw an obituary for a yesteryear star I had never heard of, and I thought about Michael Jackson and I wondered if when I was an adult, when Michael Jackson died, if it would make the newspapers, if I would find out about it, how it would be covered in the papers, if everyone would remember who he was, or if it would be like the star whose obit I had just read ... Now I am sitting here, after a long day, and all the news is about this bizarre, sad icon of a man/boy reportedly being dead. If he is dead, it feels a bit like an incorrect ending to a story. I guess he has seemed that way for a long time actually. ... I cant imagine how people, like our parents, who saw him when he was a kid, must feel.'
I think everyone will remember who he is, don't you? And perhaps in death he will receive the sympathy and consideration denied to him in life.
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Like any other person,He too had his share of personal demons but his musical Legacy always took supremacy!
"LIFE IS SHORT..! Artists and their art live for ever."- a r rahman.
May His Soul Rest In Peace.
R.I.P..MJ
i agree. i came across a few who enjoyed taking pot shots at his personal life even after his death. poor taste.
the first few music cassettes i ever owned were MJs albums. The very first time MTV reached my tv, i remember watching 'In the Closet'. No other song comes to mind as clearly as his. I will never forget him or his music.
nice to read from a different perspective :)
I'm a little confused about why everyone thinks he deserves sympathy. For admitting to sleeping with young boys in his bed, for being indicted several times for possible child abuse, for child porno being confiscated from his home many, many times, for dangling his wee baby over a balcony, for abusing drugs the way he did....for what!!!! WTF, surely you know many more people, perhaps not as famous more deserving of your sympathy.
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