Monday, June 29, 2009
Michael Jackson and Me
When I decluttered last year and threw out most old magazines, there was one I couldn't part with. It was Time's Mar. 19, 1984 issue and it had a drawing of Michael Jackson on the cover. Inside, it described his phenomenal success.
Michael Jackson was on everybody's radios and TVs then. His were the MTVs to watch because they were original and well choreographed. And everybody danced the Moonwalk.
Although he got all weird in his later years, that doesn't change the fact that he's a musical genius. My favorites are She's Out of My Life, Heal the World, Someone in the Dark and Black and White.
And I will always remember Thriller with fondness, for in the summer of 1984, we did a Michael Jackson, dressed up as zombies and danced to Thriller.
MJ was a part of my life and I'm sure of many others too.
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I was too young to get into his earlier work, but I wore out my copy of Dangerous. Remember the Time-- love the video to bits. He will be missed.
I also have Time Magazines with Princess Diana and Michael Jackson on the covers neatly stacked away in boxes.
I think it is time to buy VCDs/DVDs of Michael Jackson's albums because my collection includes cassette tapes which unfortunately have this squeaking sound when I tried listening to them.