RIP Michael Jackson
June 26th, 2009
Michael Jackson, despite all the reports in recent years, was a fucking legend on stage and I have always loved so much of his music. My mother has the LP of BAD and another Jackson 5 album (it had the brilliant song ‘Ben’ on it but I can’t seem to find the album cover I remembered) and I listened to both well before my teens, I remember sitting in the front room listening to BAD and reading the lyrics from the inlay numberous times. It’s an incredible album, with great songs like ‘Speed Demon’, ‘Bad’, and ‘Smooth Criminal’.
Then there’s ‘Man in the Mirror’, where I managed to perfect every ‘Ugh’ and ‘Ahh’!
As one of the first artists I loved (others here and here) I, like so many others, am very sad to hear the news of his death.
For a long time his movie Moonwalker was a huge favourite of mine, I even watched it recently and still love that incredible live scene of the brilliant ‘Dirty Diana’, the bunny rabbit in ‘Speed Demon’ – and the robot at the end is hard to beat!
Unfortunately Invincible was a bit crap, but very little compares to HIStory and the inlay book with the story and photos.
It’s a sad day.
Don’t mock the death of a great performer and artist.
RIP.
