personally he was the greatest showman on earth but
can you remember or what is your Michael Jackson moment? i think every single one of us has one?
your first kiss to i wanna rock with you ..or did you get off too late billie Jean? haha!
or was he / she a bit of a monster thriller?
go on tell us ?
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my moment... was when he said on that TV interview that body contact and sharing your bed was the best or most beautiful thing you could do with a person and proceeded to tell 'us' that he shared his bed with Children.
that was a memorable moment.
Playing with my space Lego while listening to Thriller, long before things got wierd.
My most memorable Michael Jackson moment...but there is so many
3/ Appearing at the Brits and acting like he was "The Messiah"...we love you Jarvis Cocker!!
2/Dangling his kid off a balcony ledge..look at my new play thing!!
1/Telling TV interviewer that it was absolutely natural to share your bed with a child!!
I thought that i was the only one who thinks that Jacko is not the best thing on earth.
In my eyes he was not the greatest showman, that would for me be Freddy Mercury, as for first memory or anything about Whacko...... nope dont have one and i am an 80`s child.
Yes there have been some moments with Jacko. As some have already mentioned....the dangling of his child over a balcony, or the admission he had a child in his bed, even though to us that was weird and not acceptable, is what swingers do acceptable to everyone then?
I cannot remember him being ever found guilty of anything. Unless someone else knows different?
Many people on here would never tell family or friends they shag others, I wonder why? Maybe it could be something to do with the fact that a lot of people would think it strange, or even weird. Some peoples sexual practises on here could be deemed by some to not be acceptable to others.
Yes he was a strange guy and yes I thought it strange about his admission about kids in his bed but and here is the but.....he was never convicted of any crime.
He in my opinion was one of the top four people who changed music.
The first was Frank Sinatra, second was Elvis, the third was Hendrix and Jacko was the fourth. My opinion and that of a few people I know who have either dj'd or collect music in a big way. Still others no doubt will have others. Yes Freddie was a great showman and as I saw him at Wembley in 86 I can vouch for that but....Jacko at his height was THE showman.
So many songs from off the wall, or Bad or the classic Thriller. Still the biggest selling album of all time.
No one song means a great deal to me but it was the time that was important. His music was without doubt brilliant and Jacko's like Freddie's will be played in a hundred years time because their music is timeless. That is the only way you can measure people and their music. Timeless classics.
Personally for me, he was a talented singer who had an excellent song-writer working for him, he was an exceptional dancer, but severely f*cked up individual for a whole variety of reasons who went from me not really being a fan but respecting his achievements, to something of a laughing stock for many and a serious concern for some.
If you like dancing and catchy tunes, then he was great through the 70's and 80' and yes during that period, he produced a fair few of these tracks. But his idea of a show was fireworks, lights and dancing. I prefer those who have more charisma than a table to be honest and who choose "sleeping" partners who don't have to finish "Spot the Dog" before they can get to sleep.
As such Mr Mercury could walk on stage in his underkegs holding only a toothbrush and still have 100,000 people's rapt attention. Jacko made a great show, Freddy was a show in himself. That's the difference for me.
Too much baggage with Jacko I'm afraid and Mr Kent's defence of him is laughable I'm afraid. Some people may find Swinging terrible,however a very large percentage don't. I think you'll find those numbers would be significantly different when it comes to the number of people who feel that "sleeping" with young children who are not his own, is perfectly acceptable, especially given the accusations made against him, which may well be unproven, but they were never given the chance to be proven because he bought the silence that followed.
Hardly the act of someone innocent, desperate to clear their name, you could argue if you were being deliberatly provocative.
But I'm not so I wouldn't say that.
Of course Res your comments are fine but......whilst yes I agree he " brought " that kids silence, are you forgetting the second massive trial he had?
That trial went on for weeks and was world news, and after all that he was found not guilty. He brought nobody on that occasion and IF there had been a shred of evidence against him, I am sure some smart arse district attorney would have found it and made it stick.
So yes whilst I agree on your comment, he was and never has been found guilty of anything illegal. The second trial nobody found any evidence, and IF he had not brought that other kids silence, who knows he may also have been found not guilty. We will never know for sure but for me the second trial proved his innocence with everything made available to the district attorney, to try and get a conviction.
Or no doubt some would say he got off because who he was? Maybe that is true and then again maybe just maybe he was never guilty of anything at all?
I'm not going to get involved in the whole MJ debate but would question Kent's remark that he was, in his opinion, one of the 4 people who changed music the most.
In which way did he change music? I don't think music changed direction as a result of any of his output. His videos no doubt influenced the hoards of later ones trotted out with similar dance routines but did he have such a significant influence on later musicians?
A certain Lennon and McCartney DID change contemporary music, influencing an entire generation of musicians, well actually generations....think Oasis
You seem to have a soft spot for Michael Jackson, that you don't seem to have for others, which has shown you to be defensive of him.
Earthchild said in a post that she didn't particularly care about him, or his music, didn't care that he was gone, clearly, and bluntly pointing out that he doesn't affect her life, and your reply was "Am sure people will say the same about you."
And yet your comment of "A waste of space" with regards to Amy Whitehouse is no less a dismissive opinion than Earthy's was about Jackson.
Jackson may well be innocent, Jackson may well have paid someone off, Jackson may well have had the best attorney possible, the Prosecutors may have missed vital evidence, or failed to put a suitable case forward, in which the Defence took advantage.
You have mentioned that you would consider my comments worthy of reporting to admin, for that I can only apologise, if I am to get banned from this site, I would certainly rather it be for something worthwhile, as opposed to rising to any bait from someone out to push peoples buttons.
Oh, and for the record, we have not had any run-ins in the past, we have had nothing other than differences of opinion.
well this seems to be a hot topic,
All i really asked was could anyone place a MJ song or video to an event in their lives,
I think we all have places we remember and can recall the sound from the radio jukebox or whatever and associating them together.