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26/06/2009, 6:53 PM Lynda Joined on 22/03/2004 Norwich Posts 2,721 Re: Michael Jackson...thanks for the music. I presume Jacko had a complex about his nose due to his father taunting him about his "big nose" when young Michael was a child.   This presumably is why he ended up with a nose made up of part of his ear (notice he had long hair in recent years?) I feel sorry for him in a way - he must have been a really tortured soul - even with all that money he had.    I presume his 02 concerts were a way of recouping his losses over the child sex case? Lynda  Technology is great when it works.    Report

26/06/2009, 8:04 PM ROBERT Joined on 16/08/2003 NR Gt. Yarmouth Posts 4,226 Re: Michael Jackson...thanks for the music.  mahatma kane jeeves wrote:  ROBERT wrote: Another point not mentioned enough was Michaels dance moves. Along with Fred Astire, they both in their own era,  had a wonderful dancing ability. Happily both are captured on film for all to still enjoy. All pinched from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWDkAmNZvkA&feature=related I don`t think so some how.......I think Fred Astire made a good reference to Jacksons dancing ability. Regarding Max Wall good in his time but hardly reached world status and pop history.    Report

26/06/2009, 11:00 PM Matty Joined on 29/01/2004 Posts 2,444 Re: Michael Jackson...thanks for the music. Never being a Michael Jackson fan per se, I realise now after all the tributes and the short videos accompanying them, just how talented the young man was.  His footwork is indeed remarkable Robert.  And his earlier singing I truly admired.  I had not realised also how he became the King of video.  Remarkable.    Report

27/06/2009, 11:57 AM gardener Joined on 04/10/2007 Posts 2,626 Re: Michael Jackson...thanks for the music. When the story sellers come out of the woodwork and brave the possible writs from  interested parties in order to give their accounts , and when there are DNA tests on the kids Jackson is meant to have fathered, I wonder if the TV channels  which gave over so much time to the obituary broadcasts and the newspapers with their fawning reports will have egg on their faces. And then will Jackson and his music be sidelined and hushed up in the same way as Mr Gadd.    Report

27/06/2009, 12:39 PM ROBERT Joined on 16/08/2003 NR Gt. Yarmouth Posts 4,226 Re: Michael Jackson...thanks for the music. The stories and whatever will circulate around the world. The fact that Michael did not appear to have a nomal childhood and then had to live with constant media pressure from an early age, rising to mega world pressue, is something none of us will ever experience or understand...it is totally out of our remit of life. The fact that during a certain time in his life he produced a brilliance in the music, video and entertainment world that many throughout the world liked, admired and adored, bears testament to him having a talent that classed him as a mega star. Like Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Abba, Frank Sinatra etc, they acheived world status in their field of entertainment, contributing something different and not equalled along the way. His actions away from the music scene, being media pressure, his childhood upbringing and miss management of money, sadly has put him in a bracket of  the unkown regarding his own true feelings compared to us and our way of life. It may not be that he was so strange, but we did not know or understand why he did or acted at times the way he did. We all have our own thoughts on such a complicated life that he appeared to have, but my thoughts are with his brilliant music and videos, in the era that he dominated to the world who enjoyed his work. Just like the eras of Elvis and The Beatles before him. Thanks Michael for the Music...... but a sad end to a talented man....RIP.    Report

27/06/2009, 12:48 PM gardener Joined on 04/10/2007 Posts 2,626 Re: Michael Jackson...thanks for the music. Talented yes - but that might also apply to his producers, the people who wrote some of his songs and his promoters. The mega talent he is being made out to be-not really in my book- he was there at a rubbish time for US music, could dance after a fashion and reached an unprecedented number of fans via MTV. Plenty of people don't have a normal childhood and don't turn into self mutilating freaks. I reckon there has been an over the top reaction from the British media .    Report

27/06/2009, 1:00 PM Chrystal Chandra Lear Joined on 02/05/2009 Wherever I lay my hat Posts 206 Re: Michael Jackson...thanks for the music. I liked some of his music but was not a fan of the man. Was it such a tragic end, he was 50, way past his physical best and hadnt been able to emulate his musical success for many years. He had led a lifestyle only a privileged few could achieve. Apart from his children which was another story, his demise may have been an escape from worldwide demands he was unable to cope with and a body decimated by surgery and self abuse. It might have been a mercifully quick release. I heard someone say they would miss his music, that will not happen, we will be force fed for many a year to come.    Report

30/06/2009, 4:37 PM K Lo Joined on 18/06/2004 Posts 536 Re: Michael Jackson...thanks for the music. I'm sorry that he never seemed to be happy with himself from the mid '80s onwards. If you see the video to Billie Jean, you'll see him, at what I think, is his best. I'm not gay but he looks fantastic. No need to mess with anything but soemthing seemed to rattle him deeply. I don't think that outting him alongside Lenon was so bad. MJ moved music on and the pop video onto another dimension.     Report

30/06/2009, 4:52 PM mahatma kane jeeves Joined on 14/03/2007 Posts 1,618 Re: Michael Jackson...thanks for the music.  K Lo wrote: I'm sorry that he never seemed to be happy with himself from the mid '80s onwards. If you see the video to Billie Jean, you'll see him, at what I think, is his best. I'm not gay but he looks fantastic. No need to mess with anything but soemthing seemed to rattle him deeply. I don't think that outting him alongside Lenon was so bad. MJ moved music on and the pop video onto another dimension.  Nothing to do with him... the music videos were the result of talented film makers  like John Landis. Jackson`s contribution was minimal.    Report

30/06/2009, 8:49 PM wallis Joined on 10/07/2008 Posts 5,237 Re: Michael Jackson...thanks for the music. K Lo much as I admire your command of the English language... I do wish when posting material on subjects like Wacko Jacko that you might avoid using expressions such as 'rattle him deeply'    Report

04/07/2009, 8:21 AM gardener Joined on 04/10/2007 Posts 2,626 Re: Michael Jackson...thanks for the music. I have just seen some twerp on the BBC news watch programme trying to justify the blanket cringeworthy coverage of Jackson's death Apparently it merited so much airtime because he sold so many records- well yes, but only because he was recording at a time of soaring record sales worldwide, had the benefit of MTV,   and had the boost of being a child star on US TV. In terms of orginality and talent he was not a giant and it was quite obvious that the BBC perspective on this was affected by the age of the people in charge of BBC news. They seem also to have lost any taste and discretion along the way.    Report

04/07/2009, 8:27 AM wallis Joined on 10/07/2008 Posts 5,237 Re: Michael Jackson...thanks for the music. gardener yew Philistine, yew    Report

04/07/2009, 3:23 PM ROBERT Joined on 16/08/2003 NR Gt. Yarmouth Posts 4,226 Re: Michael Jackson...thanks for the music. gardener, I think Michaels record sales and live performances speak for themselfs as to how popular he became. The Icon of M. Jackson like several before him will go down in history and added to the list. As for news coverage, it makes a break for boring endless war coverage and devastation around the world. The hype of M. Jackson will run its course and then back to normal news mode, in the meantime let the fans and Jackson bandwagon have their moment in time. At least it won`t be a 10 year marathon that I suffered with Diana..........    Report

04/07/2009, 6:07 PM wallis Joined on 10/07/2008 Posts 5,237 Re: Michael Jackson...thanks for the music. ROBERT Just like M Jackson, grollyball has generated mountains of cash and is phenomenally popular worldwide does that necessarily make it, er, um how can I put this without offending hundreds of millions of people? o s*d it does that make it anything but NAFF?! innit    Report

04/07/2009, 6:12 PM Bemused Joined on 19/08/2003 Europe Posts 1,167 Re: Michael Jackson...thanks for the music. Wallis, be sure to check your windows and doors. They know where you live - Shipdham innit ?   Hasta La Victoria Siempre !    Report

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