Who’s Bad

Love him or hate him whichever side of the fence you were on, what a massive shock that Michael Jackson is dead, without a doubt the greatest pop star of  any generation. I have mixed feeling’s, the first  is shock after all he was a young man there is only 7 days between us in age, and and for him to die of a heart attack so young makes me think about my own mortality. But apart from being born just seven days  apart we had little else in common. Michael Jackson had countless operations over the years on various parts of his body, with  a reported twenty plus procedures on his face alone. for an adult male his frame was slight, and his elaborate dance moves combined with his strict diets put a strain on his  on his already overworked heart. I grew up in the Jackson golden years and he had so many hit’s that if I were to start naming them this would run into several pages. But I will mention Thriller, which was and probably is still the biggest selling album of all time and deservedly so. In fact Jackson had sold more records than any other living artist. Thriller burst onto the scene like a thunderbolt, music fans across the world were stunned by the brilliance of the song and the groundbreaking video that accompanied it, myself in fact along with my wife sat up on the night of its release watching it over and over again stunned by the genius of  it. Genius is a term thrown  about these days like confetti, but  for Jackson it applied, though he had a troubled personal life, his professional life cant be equalled. Millions of fans deserted him in later years after the child sex trial, though he was eventually cleared, there were rumours before and instances where Jackson had settled out of court. I  never looked at  him in quite the  same way again  for me  the magic had gone, but like others  I could not ignore him he had a presence that very few artists have, when Jackson performed you watched. We will never see his like again, in the coming days and weeks millions of word’s will be written about him mostly good some not so good, but he wont be forgotten.