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Tagalie · Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 8:20 am Post subject:

I hope people will go home and put on Thriller (which everyone should own) and remember him for those killer tunes, not the media carcrash of the past 15 years or so.

I read an article about Britney recently, and the absolute control her father now has over every aspect of her life following her horribly public breakdown. Made for very sober reading- the crowd of people, inc family members, who surround very young stars and end up manipulating them for their own benefit, means they seem to have little chance of properly growing up and behaving normally. I wouldn't swap places with her at all.

I remember the weekend of Kurt Cobain's death extremely well- I suspect you would have to be a teenage fan to have really felt its impact though.

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lochsong · Group Performer Joined: 01 May 2006 Posts: 9696

Some nicely put sentiments above.

I'll never forget 1983 at the local night club when a newly emerging MTV aired Thriller - everything stopped and everybody's eyes were glued to the screen.

That was something special.

Rochesterlad · Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 10:18 am Post subject:

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johnnio · Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 10:37 am Post subject:

I was never a fan of his later music, I liked Off the Wall, liked parts of Thriller, none of Bad or anything else. The Jackson 5 stuff was amazing though, that voice he had as a kid was astonishing. I think you can separate the man from his music, and I do think we've lost an icon on a par with Elvis and Lennon. I agree you can't compare him to Sinatra, too different, besides Jackson was a performer more than Sinatra, danced, sang and wrote a fair bit of music too; Sinatra didn't, but he had a major say in a lot of the arrangements and I personally think his version of Mack the Knife (recorded, I think in his 60's or maybe even his 70's) was brilliant, fantastic arrangement which in my opinion surpasses Bobby Darin and anyone elses.

Think we've lost a genuine superstar, can't think of anyone really alive that I could say that about.

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Tagalie · Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 12:12 pm Post subject:

Well, the difference is that Glitter is a (twice) convicted paedophile. Jackson was acquitted of one set of charges and settled out of courts on a civil suit. I always found the out of court settlement odd- if you really believed your child had been abused in such a terrible manner, surely you'd want to pursue it to the full letter of the law to ensure it didn't happen to anyone else?
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quizman · Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 12:34 pm Post subject:

JACKO HAS TAKEN A FINAL DIVE
STARTED OUT WITH THE JACKSON FIVE
WITH HITS LIKE BILLIE JEAN AND THRILLER
UNTIL PRESCRIBED DRUGS BECAME HIS KILLER
HE WAS A VICTIM OF HIS OWN NAME
AND THE PAPPARAZI WHO FOLLOWED HIS FAME
MAY HE REST IN PEACE AND SLEEP FOR LONG
HE REGAILED US ALL IN DANCE AND SONG
AND WHEN WE RECALL AND CARE TO REMEMBER
WE ALWAYS SEE ROSES IN DECEMBER
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shamardal84 · Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 12:46 pm Post subject:

For what its worth (probably very little) I just wanted to post my thoughts on Michael Jackson. In my opinion he is the greatest of them all. He was the one who brought so much to the game. He was quite simply impossibly brilliant. He had such a great voice, and also so unique. Even from a child you knew he was going to be big. Very few people make it when they go solo after being with such a succesful group. He also took the music video up about 10 levels. He was probably the first black artist to become mainstream on mtv when mtv was music. And although I have never seen him live, I think its well known he was one of the greatest showman of all time. And although people say that he was very childlike he was actually a very smart man. He had a tough childhood and was clearly trouble. But in terms of music there probably hasn't been anyone better only on par with the King of Pop.
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