| | Not part of my "weekly weblog" (though all videos lost when my YouTube account was shutdown have since been re-uploaded/embedded in past posts), but just wanted to share this in light of Michael Jackson's sudden death. Enjoy -- the King of Pop's first performance of the moonwalk at Motown 25 in 1983 (for FB users, link to video here):
Nearly two years ago I posted on Pavarotti's passing. This one effects me just a bit more -- Thriller was the first cassette tape I owned; the kids on my block made a MJ music video for an MTV contest; my mom once walked in on me dancing (very badly) to Bad. Say what you will about his personal life (and there's a lot to be said) -- the man was a musical genius. I'd be hard pressed to find Wyclef Jean and Miley Cyrus agreeing about anything, but there you go.
Going to remember MJ for who he once was and what he meant to my childhood, and not for the bizarre anomaly that he later became. |
| | Posted 6/26/2009 1:10 PM - 9 Views
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