News: Michael Jackson Died Today

It’s been widely reported that Michael Jackson died today, originally from TMZ.
As soon as the story of Michael arriving at the hospital in Los Angeles
as a result of a cardiac arrest, the gossip website updated the story
in a matter of minutes. It’s amazing how breaking news spread across twitter, wikipedia and online newspaper.

When I first heard of the news, I actually did not believe it… but I suppose it’s the truth.

I grew
up in the ghetto in Sacramento, and we were pretty poor. Our color
television was probably the most valuable thing we’d own. I don’t know
how it came into our possessing (probably a find at the Goodwill),
but we had this one-hour NBC documentary via VHS on The Jackson Five. At the
end of the documentary, it shifted focus on Michael Jackson.

It was brilliant, they showed his performance at the Apollo Theater, unveiling his “Moon Walk”.

By 1987, I bought one of my first album, Michael Jackson’s Bad
on bootleg cassette at the local flea market. Hey, did I mention I was
poor ? I played the crap out of that thing, I loved “Man in the
Mirror”.

I actually didn’t end up buying the best-selling album of all time, Thriller, until the mid-90s. I lost it/lend it to someone, but it’s okay because I recently re-purchased the album when the 25^th
anniversary edition came out in 2007. I’m happy to report that the new
version contain a DVD of the “Billie Jean” performance with that Moon
Walk!

Sadly, the king of pop is dead, long live the king.