I honestly could not imagine Michael Jackson at the age of 70 years: signs of the time would have been too merciless on his body, after everything that had undergone . In short, to explain to my children and / or grandchildren that this form of Madame Tussaud was an icon of music at the time of my adolescence would leave them perplexed.
But his death leaves me in disbelief, not because of the person (of which I did not know nor did I care much), and for the performer and that was a sign that he left the music world.
an era: there was a "pre-Michael" and now we have to get used to an era "post", as we had to do after the death of Freddie Mercury (as well as Elvis, James Brown, Barry White , John Lennon).
course, a big hand it to him on a Quincy Jones (mica Luciano Moggi) relegating the other 4 of the Jackson Five to the role of "brother or sister of Michael." The aura of
"King of Pop" had a huge blow in recent days following the death rumors of a broken body from drugs, without hair, full of holes of injections, skin pieces lost, have become the protagonist of a modern level It does not matter how great you were alive, the common goal is in a white bag in the autopsy room of a California coroner. Yet I will miss her voice heard in hundreds of songs, imitated by all his ballets, his style and class that transformed the shy child and harassed in a king from the stage, in the greatest of kings.
I do not miss all the accusations of pedophilia, his perpetual ambiguity that had led him to turn his villa princely in a morbid playground.
His villainy that had forced him to end his days submerged in debt and its total inability to manage its treasury of the king he was. Even
had lived the last years by spending $ 30 million a year more than agreed, fuck! I with $ 30 million one-off we will settle even my great-grandchildren and wait for the peaceful end on a deserted beach draining barrels of beer and smoking pounds of grass (even entertained by a couple of twentysomethings in search of glory).
But it is the destiny of the great: very skilled in giving emotions and make them unique in a profession that is easy only in appearance and crumble under the weight of glory, money and that they attract sharks. I'm sure he would do everything he has also done free, wealth was not his purpose.
Perhaps even if the place was an end, making music was what he did best, and until the end he kept his word.
The title of his tour that would start next month is typical: "This is it."
And in the light of what has happened almost sounds like a farewell to a world that loved him, and never felt exploited.
"This is what" my friends, goodbye.
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