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[TakkunEG]

CTV.ca | Pop icon Michael Jackson dies at 50

He may or may not have done some questionable things in life, but he sure made some damn good music.

[jake_lee_blues]

I am devestated, I have always been a Jackson fan. No matter what the media has spewed out to make people believe. I will always be a fan. He's done many, many questionable things in his life. But his music will go down in history.
R.I.P Michael, you where a huge part of my childhood and my evolution of becoming a musician.

[Steam McQueen]

jake_lee_blues said:

R.I.P Michael, you where a huge part of my childhood and my evolution of becoming a musician.

Very nice, Jake Lee!

Thriller was monumental. I don't own any Michael Jackson CD's, but I sure remember the influence that album had on pop-culture that summer. What was it ... 7 #1 singles from one album?? Incredible, will never be repeated. Not to mention that the video was directed by John Landis!

Apparently cardiac arrest and a heart attack are two different things. I honestly didn't know that. Pills. Pills can kill you. Michael's death will undoubtedly be compared to Elvis, and more recently, Heath Ledger. Not drug addicts in the traditional sense (coke, heroin etc.) but not applying decorum in the consumption of prescription pills.

Anyhoo ... quite a shock considering all those UK shows coming up were sold out so quickly. I'd heard that he needed a clean bill of health to do those shows, and he passed his exam without problem. So, I have a feeling the cause of death will probably be a combination of prescription pills that proved to be toxic, lethal.

:neutral:

[Cropper Classic]

Timeless music indeed - it wasn't easy being him. Now he and Elvis can chat about the pressures of being so popular.

[The Soul Man]

Bye, Michael...:-(

[steelbreeze]

Goodbye Michael. You are in a better place now. You will be missed.

[All_Or_Nothing]

aparently the man did good music.. cant take that away but as a person he did some horrible and definitely weird things.. i dont like anyone who thinks its okay to touch a child! so just because he was famous that doesnt make him a better person.. something is seriously wrong when people do that ****

thats my opinion anyway

[Cropper Classic]

All_Or_Nothing said:

aparently the man did good music.. cant take that away but as a person he did some horrible and definitely weird things.. i dont like anyone who thinks its okay to touch a child! so just because he was famous that doesnt make him a better person.. something is seriously wrong when people do that ****

thats my opinion anyway

For some of us who are older dealing with MJ is difficult - the older MJ was a freak - the kids, the look, the weirdness. That said, us who remember him as the boy and then the pop star, he was pretty f*cking amazing. The early 80's were full of incredible music and like Steam said, Thriller was a LOADED album front to back. It was amazing.

[The Soul Man]

All_Or_Nothing said:

aparently the man did good music.. cant take that away but as a person he did some horrible and definitely weird things.. i dont like anyone who thinks its okay to touch a child! so just because he was famous that doesnt make him a better person.. something is seriously wrong when people do that ****

thats my opinion anyway

Actually, he didn't touch that kid... That kid did just sue him because of the money...

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Jackson was accused of child sexual abuse by a 13-year-old child named Jordan Chandler and his father Evan Chandler.[81] The friendship between Jackson and Evan Chandler broke down. Sometime afterwards, Evan Chandler was tape-recorded saying amongst other things, "If I go through with this, I win big-time. There's no way I lose. I will get everything I want and they will be destroyed forever...Michael's career will be over"

Wikipedia

[Jo_Pierce]

Honestly, I wasn't a fan. But the man had serious talent and was a great entertainer...

Still, sad to hear of anyone dying so young.

[All_Or_Nothing]

well i have my opinion but im not here to fight so ill just keep my thoughts to myself

[The Soul Man]

All_Or_Nothing said:

well i have my opinion but im not here to fight so ill just keep my thoughts to myself

Sorry.... didn't want to put up a fight....

[FatJim]

The guy had some moves, but musically nothing has impressed me since Bad - Quincy Jones is the real genius, everything went downhill once Jackson started doing his own production. When he was still a kid though... damn! that was talent!

[TakkunEG]

What I came to understand about Heath Ledger's overdose was that he was taking his meds the way he was supposed to, but that the doses kept building up in his system because the excess wasn't being flushed out of his body the way it was supposed to.

[vicious]

What a shame, such a great man that dies to soon. Music will never be the same without him. I'm really devestated and cryd really hard when my dad told it. Michael will always be remembered.
Generation after generation

[Dean Heuke]

I read that in the morning at 6 a.m.
I dont know the day, but I think it
was one day after his death.

I read it, and i was shocked.
"King of Pop" is death. I coulndt
believe that.
Then I thought directly of Elvis Presley
and John Belushi....

[enrico.reb]

Rip

[All_Or_Nothing]

The Soul Man said:

Sorry.... didn't want to put up a fight....

its fine.. but i figured i should keep my thoughts to myself since theres som many loving him

[Dauber]

I too am saddened. Yeah, the guy was kind of a whackjob, what with the weird surgeries, the eccentricness, etc. (I also don't believe any of the accusations about child molestation.) But man, in the early '80s, I was a MAJOR Michael Jackson fan, and that's one of my childhood obsessions I DON'T regret. (The other is Atari. I still play my Atari stuff regularly, and I do pull out my Thriller and Off The Wall vinyl occasionally.) I mean, I REALLY got into his music, scooped up every Michael Jackson record I could find - except for his pre-Off The Wall solo albums and that weird Farewell, My Summer Love album from '84 or whenever...my dad even took me to see a Michael Jackson impersonator once as a surprise...I lost interest around 1985 or 1986, so I didn't get into Bad that much (although I do say it's got some great stuff) or anything else he did afterwards.

But...I always held on to this hope that some day, the fun and somewhat normal Michael Jackson would come back. Sadly, that's not to be.

You want some good Michael Jackson listening -- that is, demonstrating what a great singer he really was?
Early: "Don't Know Why I Love You" off the Jackson Five's A.B.C. album. I can't believe I'm saying this about a Stevie Wonder song, but Jackson Five's version blows Stevie's original out of the water. Search youtube for it -- someone posted the song (but no actual video)...and tell me that's not one of the most kick-@$$ things you've ever heard.
Solo: "She's Out Of My Life" from Off The Wall. He really puts his heart into it.

And one more thing...a couple of things after Jacko died, one of my wife's friends theorized that: 1) he's not the biological father of his kids (believable -- seriously, they're WHITE), and 2) McCauley Culkin is the father.

Guess what came out yesterday. Yep, that MJ is indeed not the kids' biological father.

Now, remember, if it comes out that McCauley Culkin is the father, you heard it here first.

[Cropper Classic]

All_Or_Nothing said:

its fine.. but i figured i should keep my thoughts to myself since theres som many loving him

I certainly didn't love him, I'm old enough to recall the impact Thriller had on the world but I was never a fan. After that album, I never thought his stuff was that great and as I said, I never really followed him.

In the 80's though there was no one bigger - his imprint on entertainment at that time was massive.

I never understood his staying power though - I suppose his freakish behavior added a sense of mystique to his legend.