Michael Jackson dies at 50
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I think when the Gods of Music Criticism tally up the body of Jacko's work, they are of course going to mention Thriller..yada yada. . .but his real genius was as a performer. ..dancer, singer and ACTOR would be Captain EO. Now there's A Performance.
BTW Anybody know what happened to his little Alien Buddy in that? 
sorry
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A new ‘page’ of history...
Michael Jackson was famous, but apart from others and even from himself! He wasn’t a happy guy...
His celebrity was an enormous burden for him and the 'industry' around him didn’t take care of it...!?!
Great talent as person, a megastar for ‘industry’ and an idol for others, Michael Jackson reminds me about James 4:13-15:“Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.’ Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. Instead, you ought to say, ‘If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that’.”
Cornel
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Could you give the relentless Bible quoting a rest already? It's starting to become somewhat annoying.
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Yeaaa, sir...
If a person is 'sensible'... -
Just imagine how I felt when I sat on the train to work, glanced across the carriage and saw 3 people holding up newspapers with the headline
JACKSON IS DEAD
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@jackson said:
Just imagine how I felt when I sat on the train to work, glanced across the carriage and saw 3 people holding up newspapers with the headline
JACKSON IS DEAD
lol! Who said commuting can't be fun?
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u(Jackson) must have felt like u are already buried
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He was a legend, shame he was so weird with children.
I grew up in awe of his spectacular performances and music.
Some of his songs just ooze cool, i get a shiver down my back when I hear Rock With You , RIP big man
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@unknownuser said:
You're kidding me right? With all due respect - nil nisi bene and all that - there was a great soul singer hidden inside of Michael Jackson, but the man has produced heaps and heaps of sugary, somewhat distasteful and downright ugly work. Surely he's never achieved the same artistic heights (far from it!) as, say, Prince did at the peak of his career. Face it, he was no Prince, Paul Weller, Brian Wilson, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Nick Drake, Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, Al Green, John/Paul/George, Harry Nilsson or Robert Pollard.
He was a Britney. A talented Britney, but a Britney nontheless. In the Tower of Song, Hank Williams is coughing about a thousand floors above him.
Edit: I forgot Ray Davies! Oh, the shame! Jackson was no Ray Davies. Never wrote a "Waterloo Sunset". There.
Stevie Wonder ?
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Oooh ... Forgot him.
No matter what, "Isn't She Lovely" and "Master Blaster" always put an enormous smile on my face. (Let's not mention "I Just Called", shall we?)Forgot Sly as well.
I mentioned Brian Wilson already, but nevertheless:
In my opinion, that one's the best pop song ever written. (Though 'Waterloo Sunset' is a close second.)
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