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I am sad. He did things that no one before him could even imagine. I know he wasn''t an emotionally stable man, but he was the amazing king of pop, and I will always remember him as such. Rest in Peace Michael.
 
Date: 6/25/2009 6:44:23 PM
Author: innerkitten
Remember when the thriller video came out and everyone tuned in to watch it on TV?! It was the biggest thing at the time.


The videos they''re playing on CNN are bringing back childhood memories.


My love of dance and coreography came from watching MJ....
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Hey, he was a little weird, but in the years when child first forms their ideas about entertainment, he was an ICON!!! I was a kid moonwalking along with him on tv long before he was dubbed a child molester, so those memories will stay with me longer than the latter......

My prayers go out to his family and fans for their loss....

I know I still have EVERY album he eve made, and my dad keeps all my vinyl MJ''s in his music library... He will be missed by many.
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I heard on the news earlier that Michael was asked why he wanted children around him all the time. He replied, because they don''t lie to me, children are honest.

Dunno what I think about that. But I know he never had a real childhood.
 
TONIGHT, I am all about his music, and what we have lost in an icon. I celebrate Michael as an artist, a true genious, the likes we will never see again. RIP MJ. I know he wasn't perfect, no one is. Remember Deb's quote, it was so fitting for this thread.
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Date: 6/25/2009 8:40:50 PM
Author: Kaleigh
TONIGHT, I am all about his music, and what we have lost in an icon. I celebrate Michael as an artist, a true genious, the likes we will never see again. RIP MJ. Maybe in heaven you will be a less tortured soul. Remember Deb''s quote, it was so fitting for this thread.
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Ditto Lisa.
 
Date: 6/25/2009 8:40:50 PM
Author: Kaleigh
TONIGHT, I am all about his music, and what we have lost in an icon. I celebrate Michael as an artist, a true genious, the likes we will never see again. RIP MJ. Maybe in heaven you will be a less tortured soul. Remember Deb''s quote, it was so fitting for this thread.
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We are too Lisa, sitting here listening to his music.
 
As far as accusations/speculations/whatever...no on really knows. No one except him, his family, his friends, his peers, know what happened there. So as far as I''m concerned, it matters none.

His story is tragic. He was a strange bird, yes, but he was also an individual who moved millions. Was loved by MILLIONS.

This sucks.

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"Ben"......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSqo17o2a1w

Wahhhhhhhh!
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Truly, the end of an era.....
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Date: 6/25/2009 8:44:57 PM
Author: SparklyLibra
''Ben''......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSqo17o2a1w

Wahhhhhhhh!
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Truly, the end of an era.....
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Linky??
 
Date: 6/25/2009 8:49:34 PM
Author: Kaleigh

Date: 6/25/2009 8:44:57 PM
Author: SparklyLibra
''Ben''......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSqo17o2a1w

Wahhhhhhhh!
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Truly, the end of an era.....
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Linky??
I posted a link to ''Ben'' and ''Smooth Criminal'' music videos on page 4...
 
Just wanted to add a picture to this thread.

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Date: 6/25/2009 8:59:24 PM
Author: Sha

Date: 6/25/2009 8:49:34 PM
Author: Kaleigh


Date: 6/25/2009 8:44:57 PM
Author: SparklyLibra
''Ben''......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSqo17o2a1w

Wahhhhhhhh!
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Truly, the end of an era.....
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Linky??
I posted a link to ''Ben'' and ''Smooth Criminal'' music videos on page 4...
Thanks, will go find it.
 
The world lost not only one, but two icons today. May his soul rest in peace, regardless of anything bad he may have dome in this world. He was an amazing artist and an iconic legend in music.
RIP MJ
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MTV has broken into regular broadcasting to play all of Michael Jackson''s videos and liver performances. I haven''t watched this channel in nearly a decade, but tonight, it''s an MTV night with Kurt Loder. RIP Michael.
 
I love Smooth Criminal too-now I gotta click the link and have a listen! I listened to Say Say Say earlier after I played my Thriller CD. I always like You Are Not Alone too.
 
Date: 6/25/2009 8:40:50 PM
Author: Kaleigh
TONIGHT, I am all about his music, and what we have lost in an icon. I celebrate Michael as an artist, a true genious, the likes we will never see again. RIP MJ. I know he wasn''t perfect, no one is. Remember Deb''s quote, it was so fitting for this thread.
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Wow what a sad shock
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Ditto Lisa 100%, I freakin loved Michael when I was a tween, I think Thriller and Dangerous were two of the first
casettes/CD''s I ever bought.

He was def. one of a kind.
 
I just heard on Larry King that Elizabeth Taylor is too devastated to issue a statement. She will issue one on a later date.
 
Date: 6/25/2009 6:41:36 PM
Author: AGBF




“Be kind, for everyone you meet is engaged in a great struggle.”


AGBF
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Michael Jackson was said to be diagnosed with Lupus in 1984. We do not know what this man went through and suffered with if this is true.

Lori
 
Date: 6/25/2009 9:19:56 PM
Author: Linda W
I just heard on Larry King that Elizabeth Taylor is too devastated to issue a statement. She will issue one on a later date.
Awww, I knew this would bring her to her knees. Sending prayers of comfort her way.. It''s too much ...
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Date: 6/25/2009 9:23:40 PM
Author: Kaleigh
Date: 6/25/2009 9:19:56 PM

Author: Linda W

I just heard on Larry King that Elizabeth Taylor is too devastated to issue a statement. She will issue one on a later date.
Awww, I knew this would bring her to her knees. Sending prayers of comfort her way.. It''s too much ...
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I know, me too Lisa. She must be absolutely heart broken.
 
One of my friends just posted this on her facebook:

"If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with" --Michael Jackson
 
Date: 6/25/2009 8:19:45 PM
Author: luckystar112

Date: 6/25/2009 7:50:22 PM
Author: Italiahaircolor

...Because at the end of the day, everyone is allowed to acknowledge his passing in their way...good or bad. This is still an online forum, not a memorial site.


Sensitivity needs to be projected towards her family and friends during this time...even though it''s a safe bet that none of us are directly effected, her loss is still very much real and should be respected 100%.

Your words after Natasha Richardson died (and after people were discussing the appropriateness of the helmet argument on the thread). Just saying!






I stand behind my words...but we''re talking about very, very different people with different pasts. The quote you highlighted pretained to someone imparticular and wasn''t (by any means) a blanket statement.

Not to harp on an irrelevent issue, but the fact that he was accused of crimes against children will make some people (many people, probably) look at him differently...and it''s hard to seperate those thoughts with fact that today the world lost a music legend. Some people, for personal reasons, will never get beyond the fact that accusations were leveled against him twice. So, while I''m sure everyone is like "wow" over his passing...not everyone needs to "mourn" and no one should be made to feel bad for having an opinion that varies from the majority...because those reactions are as valid and important to indivdual posting them.

I personally feel saddness for his family who will miss him, his children who haven''t known another parent and are suddenly alone in this world. And I can certainly appreciate all the millions of fans who found a voice in his music they could relate too. So, for these reasons, I find his death to be an awful thing. It wasn''t my intention to speak of him...or slander him...but I can understand why MJ made some people uncomfortable.
 
Tremendously sad. Michael Jackson was a unique talent. It''s been obvious that he has been ill for a while, but this is very unexpected.

He had such a gift and it seemed to turn on him at some point. I am very sad.
 
The world lost a musical genius today...I''m so saddened.
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Found this on wikipedia while I was reading up on MJ''s childhood... It talks about his childhood abuse.

Biography
1958–1975: Early life and The Jackson 5
See also: The Jackson 5

Michael Joseph Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana (an industrial suburb of Chicago, Illinois) to a working-class family on August 29, 1958.[3] The son of Joseph Walter "Joe" and Katherine Esther (née Scruse),[3] he was the seventh of nine children. His siblings are Rebbie, Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, La Toya, Marlon, Randy and Janet.[3] Joseph Jackson was a steel mill employee who often performed in an R&B band called The Falcons with his brother Luther.[3] Jackson was raised as one of Jehovah''s Witnesses by his devout mother.[3]

From a young age Jackson was physically and mentally abused by his father, enduring incessant rehearsals, whippings and name-calling. Jackson''s abuse as a child affected him throughout his grown life.[4] In one altercation—later recalled by Marlon Jackson—Joseph held Michael upside down by one leg and "pummeled him over and over again with his hand, hitting him on his back and buttocks".[5] Joseph would often trip up, or push the male children into walls.[5] One night while Jackson was asleep, Joseph climbed into his room through the bedroom window. Wearing a fright mask, he entered the room screaming and shouting. Joseph said he wanted to teach his children not to leave the window open when they went to sleep. For years afterward, Jackson suffered nightmares about being kidnapped from his bedroom.[5]


Jackson first spoke openly about his childhood abuse in a 1993 interview with Oprah Winfrey. He said that during his childhood he often cried from loneliness and would sometimes get sick or start to regurgitate upon seeing his father.[6][7][8][9] In Jackson''s other high profile interview, Living with Michael Jackson (2003), the singer covered his face with his hand and began crying when talking about his childhood abuse.[5] Jackson recalled that Joseph sat in a chair with a belt in his hand as he and his siblings rehearsed and that "if you didn''t do it the right way, he would tear you up, really get you."[10]


Jackson showed musical talent early in his life, performing in front of classmates and others during a Christmas recital at the age of five.[3] In 1964, Jackson and Marlon joined the Jackson Brothers—a band formed by brothers Jackie, Tito and Jermaine—as backup musicians playing congas and tambourine, respectively. Jackson later began performing backup vocals and dancing; at the age of eight, he and Jermaine assumed lead vocals, and the group''s name was changed to The Jackson 5.[3] The band toured the Midwest extensively from 1966 to 1968. The band frequently performed at a string of black clubs and venues collectively known as the "chitlin'' circuit", where they often opened for stripteases and other adult acts. In 1966, they won a major local talent show with renditions of Motown hits and James Brown''s "I Got You (I Feel Good)", led by Michael.[11]


The Jackson 5 recorded several songs, including "Big Boy", for the local record label Steeltown in 1967 and signed with Motown Records in 1968.[3] Rolling Stone magazine later described the young Michael as "a prodigy" with "overwhelming musical gifts", noting that Michael "quickly emerged as the main draw and lead singer" after he began to dance and sing with his brothers.[12] Though Michael sang with a "child''s piping voice, he danced like a grown-up hoofer and sang with the R&B/gospel inflections of Sam Cooke, James Brown, Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder".[12] The group set a chart record when its first four singles ("I Want You Back", "ABC", "The Love You Save" and "I''ll Be There") peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.[3] During The Jackson 5''s early years, Motown''s public relations team claimed that Jackson was nine years old—two years younger than he actually was—to make him appear cuter and more accessible to the mainstream audience.[13] Starting in 1972, Jackson released a total of four solo studio albums with Motown, among them Got to Be There and Ben. These were released as part of the Jackson 5 franchise, and produced successful singles such as "Got to Be There", "Ben" and a remake of Bobby Day''s "Rockin'' Robin". The group''s sales began declining in 1973, and the band members chafed under Motown''s strict refusal to allow them creative control or input.[14] Although the group scored several top 40 hits, including the top 5 disco single "Dancing Machine" and the top 20 hit "I Am Love", the Jackson 5 left Motown in 1975.[14]


 
This news really affected me-I'm surprised how upset I was. I had the TV on when they announced he was dead and I didn't even know he was in the hospital.

I grew up with this music like many of us--and it just feels really empty now. I was 12 in '84 when Thriller came out and I vividly remember the Thriller video on the TV and everyone talking about it since it was so innovative, and new, and well, exciting! MTV was just starting out..MJ and Madonna owned that network back then.

And then through the '90's..his music is like a backdrop.. Bad, Dirty Diana. Black to White. And then yes he went through that phase, but even then into my mid 20's, my girlfriends and I always requested "PYT" at lounges/night clubs in Manhattan--it was our little thing (well that and Britney)and always got us out on the floor which others thought was sooo random, but come on..how can anyone not want to get on the floor when you hear PYT or my personal fave, Billie Jean. I wasn't as familiar with the '70's Michael, but overtime went backwards and bought those CD's too. Ultimately he was just a brilliant musician, song writer, beat maker and performer. Justin, Chris Brown, all the boy bands--they're all derivatives of Michael really. I regret never seeing him in concert. And now, I am just really sad about it all, and I agree today is about his contribution to music (as a performer and writer), and his enormous effect on modern day pop music and culture.
 
Date: 6/25/2009 9:04:31 PM
Author: Kaleigh
Date: 6/25/2009 8:59:24 PM

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Date: 6/25/2009 8:49:34 PM

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Date: 6/25/2009 8:44:57 PM

Author: SparklyLibra

''Ben''......


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSqo17o2a1w


Wahhhhhhhh!
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Truly, the end of an era.....
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Linky??

I posted a link to ''Ben'' and ''Smooth Criminal'' music videos on page 4...
Thanks, will go find it.

Sorry I''m late back to the thread ladies.... I had to put my family to bed.... Well except for DH.....

Still over here paying my own personal tribute.... Just so sad for his family, ya know???
 
OMG! My entire body is numb this evening! I am so sad over the passing of Michael Jackson! RIP.
 
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