26 Jun 09
Originally posted by kmax87The 100+ million copies of Thriller sold will be remembered. Just like Gooch's 333. And Rob Beaton's 17.
Or how will we remember him? Before Tiger, Oprah and Obama, there was Michael. He laid the template for pop music that is still being faithfully followed 30 years on. Will his death actually allow him to be loved again?
26 Jun 09
Originally posted by kmax87Will his death actually allow him to be loved again?
Or how will we remember him? Before Tiger, Oprah and Obama, there was Michael. He laid the template for pop music that is still being faithfully followed 30 years on. Will his death actually allow him to be loved again?
yes, certainly. The man was unique, one of a kind.
26 Jun 09
Originally posted by FMFhttp://community.guinnessworldrecords.com/_Most-eggs-held-in-the-hand/video/93242/7691.html
And Rob Beaton's 17.
I don't think he tried hard enough to be honest. There was room for at least another three more! Hasn't anyone told him you cant make omelette without cracking a few eggs? It follows then that if you want a record to stand you want to try a bit harder than that surely!
26 Jun 09
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Originally posted by joneschrI think you may be right. I considered myself a bit of a die-hard fan, but after more than 10 years of accusations and bizarre behaviour, being a fan became something you had to keep in the closet. Or for the very least you would have to justify your admiration by agreeing to first ignore his behaviour. It was definitely a conflicted fan-star relationship. In some ways I wish I could have been at an age where I could have been a fan of Sinatra. Even when he put his feet 'wrong' with his 'family' connections, it still added to his cache of 'respect'.
I suspect our generation won't remember him a whole lot differently. I guess the question is if future generations will still listen to his music. They won't have the memories of his trials and freakish behavior in later life.
With Michael I chose to believe an elaborate conspiracy that saw him the victim of backwoods rednecks, hell bent on destroying him for having the temerity to squire Brooke Shields around, and marry the Kings daughter. I saw that marriage to Lisa as the start of his troubles, and if you want to track the beginnings of his fall from grace, then in my view you cant find a much better point in time to lock in the start of the timeline that slowly began to unravel his reputation. Hey its the only straw I could clutch on to that made any sense of the sensitivity and genius expressed in his music while being served the steady onslaught of bad press that systematically established an alternate view of a fiendish molesting monster sipping Jesus Juice.
26 Jun 09
Originally posted by kmax87I'm sorry about Michael Jackson. He turned out some excellent music. It was pretty clear to me however that he was incapable of managing his relationships, his wild spending, and his drug problems. For all he earned, he left behind a mountian of debt. I pray he finds himself in a better place now.😏
Or how will we remember him? Before Tiger, Oprah and Obama, there was Michael. He laid the template for pop music that is still being faithfully followed 30 years on. Will his death actually allow him to be loved again?
28 Jun 09
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Originally posted by kmax87I am reminded by the saying, "What profits a man to gain the whole world and lose his only soul?" By all accounts, he was a shell of a man who was prostituted by his father since the day of his birth and later those around him who suckled from his fortune. This included medical doctors that gave him so many face lifts he became unrecognizable as a human being. They simply laid their ethics aside and ignored the mental issues that caused him to seek repeated face lifts. No doubt, the over perscribed medications for him which killed him. In the end he was so twiisted he could not even assume a normal sexual relationship with an adult and his fortune turned on him to the point that he was some $400 million in debt. Oh yea, I forgot, he made great music!!
Or how will we remember him? Before Tiger, Oprah and Obama, there was Michael. He laid the template for pop music that is still being faithfully followed 30 years on. Will his death actually allow him to be loved again?
In short, when I think of MJ, I am saddened.
29 Jun 09
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Originally posted by kmax87We'll remember him kinda like Elvis, Jim Morrison, or David Carradine. A great, eccentric artist-celebrity whose last days are the topic of much amusement and pity.
Or how will we remember him? Before Tiger, Oprah and Obama, there was Michael. He laid the template for pop music that is still being faithfully followed 30 years on. Will his death actually allow him to be loved again?
05 Jul 09
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Originally posted by AThousandYoungIts a pity if the news reported about his funeral and memorial services planned, require LA to be closed down and barricades and the police put on red alert as if a state of emergency had been called. You would have thought with everyone getting involved with We are the World and Live Aid back in the day, that people could leave their ego's at the door and they could increase the scope of the memorial services, so that all of the fans making their way to LA from all around the world could get some closure.
We'll remember him kinda like Elvis, Jim Morrison, or David Carradine. A great, eccentric artist-celebrity whose last days are the topic of much amusement and pity.
With former friends like Quincy and Spielberg still alive and around and kicking, are you telling me they could'nt organise 3 to 5 sound stages around the LA area and have a roster of muso's for the major stars like Beyonce to do service hops to keep all the fans happy? What, no-one in that City of Angels knows how to organise a multi-venue live event with large monitors and get some of the headliners to do a 'tour of duty' on the day between venues, to keep everyone happy?
As a spectacle and as a TV rights bonanza surely enough money will be raised to pay for the staging. Surely something out of the ordinary is called for the King of Pop. As an event this could dwarf even Diana's funeral. Maybe the shock of his passing and not being able to anticipate the outpouring of grief from his fans has sort of left everyone flatfooted, but if ever there was a time where a bit of common sense could provide a great catharsis and in his passing allow his fans to forever remember the greatness of his talent and music, then this is it.
I mean we're talking about a funeral right, and yet we have some police goon from some aberrant Python sketch getting a lot of air time and wants to turn the dial, up to incendiary, with a governator style, 'EEF JU DONT HAF YUR PAARSEZ VEE VILL SHOOT JU ON SIITE"
Puhrleese! .......Let the people line the streets and mourn!!!
05 Jul 09
Originally posted by kmax87I should think he will be remembered primarily as a surgical monstrosity.
Or how will we remember him? Before Tiger, Oprah and Obama, there was Michael. He laid the template for pop music that is still being faithfully followed 30 years on. Will his death actually allow him to be loved again?
