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PrintableI am speechless..  "When Michael Jackson is just singing and dancing, you just think this is an astonishing talent. And he has had this astounding talent all his life, but we want him to be floored as well. We really don´t like the idea that he could have it all." | |
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zoetruluv said: i dont want to go 2 sleep
because i know when i wake up mj will still be gone.  I know. It will be a long time before I can get over this sadness too. Won't be the same. I would like to offer U some advice to try to feel better, but I don't know what that is myself, so I can only cry with U for now. And no, I'm not maniacal like I'm sure some people are right now. Just quite languid and depressed.... "You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup...Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." - Bruce Lee
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VinnyM27 said: TonyVanDam said: I wonder if Prince OR Madonna are going to give a press conference about this later.
Haha. I would honestly be shocked if Madonna doesn't make a statement. Prince might too. Madonna issued a statement, which seems proper and sufficient IMO. I don't see why either of them would hold an actual press conference. | |
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Arnotts said: Man I just feel so utterly empty. After crying my eyes out all morning I just feel like such a nothing. I wish so much I didn't give a damn about him and had never been a fan because this pain is too much. To make it worse none of my family understands how I can be this upset over a man I never even met. I don't understand either but I loved him. Probably more then most family members, which might sound crazy but its true
I understand how you feel, and you don't sound crazy. You sound like you loved a man and his amazing music that touched you.  | |
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TonyVanDam said: luv4u said: This event triggered something in me.
I realized that I had a premonition that MJ was going to die 2 weeks ago. After reading stuff on the org and what's been going on in his life up to now, I had a feeling he would pass on soon and with that I could feel the sadness.  In fairness, I was concern about the possibility that Michael was dying since the mid-90's. I say that because his health problem (counting the controversial skin-disorder) was getting worse each passing year. It didn't help with all those reports for the last 2 years about the family staging an intervention. http://www.foxnews.com/st...09,00.html http://www.askmen.com/cel...ntion.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20713415/ "Remember, one man's filler is another man's killer" -- Haystack | |
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dag said: I am speechless..
Another fan I've been thinking about tonight. Been gone for a minute, now I'm back with the jump off | |
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bboy87 said:  What a beautiful picture. I´ve never seen it. Thanks.... "When Michael Jackson is just singing and dancing, you just think this is an astonishing talent. And he has had this astounding talent all his life, but we want him to be floored as well. We really don´t like the idea that he could have it all." | |
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TV misses out as gossip website TMZ reports Michael Jackson's death first
Other news outlets were reluctant to cite the website as the source for confirmation of the pop star's demise. By Scott Collins and Greg Braxton June 26, 2009 With the death of pop star Michael Jackson, TMZ gave the most potent demonstration yet of its ability to stir the pot of entertainment news. The gossip site once again left TV networks and other traditional media outlets scrambling in its wake, even as they attempted to distance themselves from a source widely regarded as salacious, if not disreputable. Just after noon on Thursday, paramedics responded to a 911 call at Jackson's Holmby Hills mansion. Less than an hour later, TMZ -- the same outlet that broke Mel Gibson's anti-Semitic tirade during a 2006 DUI arrest but that has also feasted on such fare as "upskirt" photos of stars -- landed the scoop that the multiplatinum pop singer had gone into cardiac arrest. At 2:44 p.m., it beat rivals by informing the world of his death, which occurred at 2:26 p.m. On a day already consumed by the death of '70s TV star Farrah Fawcett, Jackson's death sent TMZ into overdrive. Yet the tabloid sensibilities of the site, which is owned and operated by divisions of Time Warner, and its accompanying syndicated TV show apparently made rivals queasy. Many outlets around the world instead credited the news to the Los Angeles Times, which bannered Jackson's death on its website at 2:51 p.m. By 4 p.m., a huge crowd had gathered outside UCLA Medical Center, and celebrities and fans alike were submitting so many messages mourning his death on Twitter that the service intermittently crashed. CNN was still relying on "reports" from other media and telling viewers it could not independently verify the death. Only when the coroner's office confirmed Jackson's death did CNN relay it as outright fact to viewers, at 4:25 p.m. The irony is that CNN is, like TMZ, owned by Time Warner. But Fox News and MSNBC also struggled with the sourcing issue. If the lack of widespread credit bothered Harvey Levin, the managing editor of TMZ, he wasn't admitting it. "That's typical," Levin said during a phone interview when asked about rivals' hesitation to credit the site. "No matter what they say, people know we broke the story. That's how competitors handle it. There's no issue about our credibility. "Today I made 100 phone calls, and everyone else made 100 calls," Levin said of his staff. "Everyone blanketed the city. . . . We were getting calls from everyone under the sun, established news operations, asking, 'Are you sure?' That's such an odd question. We would not have published it if it were not true." Asked about its Jackson coverage, CNN said: "Given the nature of this story we exercised caution." Nigel Pritchard, a CNN spokesman, declined to elaborate. On Twitter, the volume of Jackson-related messages -- up to 5,000 per minute at its peak -- was so high that some users reported log-in trouble. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone acknowledged the performance lag. "We saw an instant doubling of tweets per second the moment the story broke," Stone wrote in an e-mail. "This particular news about the passing of such a global icon is the biggest jump in tweets per second since the U.S. presidential election." "Let love be your perfect weapon..." ~~Andy Biersack | |
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JackieBlue said: dag said: I am speechless..
Another fan I've been thinking about tonight. Thanks. I don´t know what to do. I found out walking into work where my colleague told me. I am sitting closed in my office, trying to avoid people crying. "When Michael Jackson is just singing and dancing, you just think this is an astonishing talent. And he has had this astounding talent all his life, but we want him to be floored as well. We really don´t like the idea that he could have it all." | |
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From Deepak Chopra:
A Tribute to My Friend, Michael Jackson Michael Jackson will be remembered, most likely, as a shattered icon, a pop genius who wound up a mutant of fame. That's not who I will remember, however. His mixture of mystery, isolation, indulgence, overwhelming global fame, and personal loneliness was intimately known to me. For twenty years I observed every aspect, and as easy as it was to love Michael -- and to want to protect him -- his sudden death yesterday seemed almost fated. Two days previously he had called me in an upbeat, excited mood. The voice message said, "I've got some really good news to share with you." He was writing a song about the environment, and he wanted me to help informally with the lyrics, as we had done several times before. When I tried to return his call, however, the number was disconnected. (Terminally spooked by his treatment in the press, he changed his phone number often.) So I never got to talk to him, and the music demo he sent me lies on my bedside table as a poignant symbol of an unfinished life. When we first met, around 1988, I was struck by the combination of charisma and woundedness that surrounded Michael. He would be swarmed by crowds at an airport, perform an exhausting show for three hours, and then sit backstage afterward, as we did one night in Bucharest, drinking bottled water, glancing over some Sufi poetry as I walked into the room, and wanting to meditate. That person, whom I considered (at the risk of ridicule) very pure, still survived -- he was reading the poems of Rabindranath Tagore when we talked the last time, two weeks ago. Michael exemplified the paradox of many famous performers, being essentially shy, an introvert who would come to my house and spend most of the evening sitting by himself in a corner with his small children. I never saw less than a loving father when they were together (and wonder now, as anyone close to him would, what will happen to them in the aftermath). Michael's reluctance to grow up was another part of the paradox. My children adored him, and in return he responded in a childlike way. He declared often, as former child stars do, that he was robbed of his childhood. Considering the monstrously exaggerated value our society places on celebrity, which was showered on Michael without stint, the public was callous to his very real personal pain. It became another tawdry piece of the tabloid Jacko, pictured as a weird changeling and as something far more sinister. It's not my place to comment on the troubles Michael fell heir to from the past and then amplified by his misguided choices in life. He was surrounded by enablers, including a shameful plethora of M.D.s in Los Angeles and elsewhere who supplied him with prescription drugs. As many times as he would candidly confess that he had a problem, the conversation always ended with a deflection and denial. As I write this paragraph, the reports of drug abuse are spreading across the cable news channels. The instant I heard of his death this afternoon, I had a sinking feeling that prescription drugs would play a key part. The closest we ever became, perhaps, was when Michael needed a book to sell primarily as a concert souvenir. It would contain pictures for his fans but there would also be a text consisting of short fables. I sat with him for hours while he dreamily wove Aesop-like tales about animals, mixed with words about music and his love of all things musical. This project became "Dancing the Dream" after I pulled the text together for him, acting strictly as a friend. It was this time together that convinced me of the modus vivendi Michael had devised for himself: to counter the tidal wave of stress that accompanies mega-stardom, he built a private retreat in a fantasy world where pink clouds veiled inner anguish and Peter Pan was a hero, not a pathology. This compromise with reality gradually became unsustainable. He went to strange lengths to preserve it. Unbounded privilege became another toxic force in his undoing. What began as idiosyncrasy, shyness, and vulnerability was ravaged by obsessions over health, paranoia over security, and an isolation that grew more and more unhealthy. When Michael passed me the music for that last song, the one sitting by my bedside waiting for the right words, the procedure for getting the CD to me rivaled a CIA covert operation in its secrecy. My memory of Michael Jackson will be as complex and confused as anyone's. His closest friends will close ranks and try to do everything in their power to insure that the good lives after him. Will we be successful in rescuing him after so many years of media distortion? No one can say. I only wanted to put some details on the record in his behalf. My son Gotham traveled with Michael as a roadie on his "Dangerous" tour when he was thirteen. Will it matter that Michael behaved with discipline and impeccable manners around my son? (It sends a shiver to recall something he told Gotham: "I don't want to go out like Marlon Brando. I want to go out like Elvis." Both icons were obsessions of this icon.) His children's nanny and surrogate mother, Grace Rwamba, is like another daughter to me. I introduced her to Michael when she was eighteen, a beautiful, heartwarming girl from Rwanda who is now grown up. She kept an eye on him for me and would call me whenever he was down or running too close to the edge. How heartbreaking for Grace that no one's protective instincts and genuine love could avert this tragic day. An hour ago she was sobbing on the telephone from London. As a result, I couldn't help but write this brief remembrance in sadness. But when the shock subsides and a thousand public voices recount Michael's brilliant, joyous, embattled, enigmatic, bizarre trajectory, I hope the word "joyous" is the one that will rise from the ashes and shine as he once did. Been gone for a minute, now I'm back with the jump off | |
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This is what I posted in my blog about an hour ago:
R.I.P. Michael Jackson As a man who was born in the year of “Michaelmania”, it hurts my heart to say that Michael Joseph Jackson, a man who was born to entertain, is no longer among the living. The legendary artist, who went from child prodigy to Motown legend, from pop star to iconic enigma, not only influenced modern pop music throughout the 1980s and 1990s but he also was one of the most gifted entertainers the world of show business had ever seen. In a way I grew up with him. I remember the days Michael released the Bad, Dangerous, HIStory and Invincible albums and remember buying his more classic material like Off the Wall and Thriller, the latter album remains the biggest-selling album of all time, and arguably his landmark release. I also admire his Jackson 5 work and his work with the Jacksons and have admired his amazing talent so to hear that he died of cardiac arrest at 50 was heartbreaking. I felt like I lost a close family member with his passing but thankfully there’s the memories from his pioneering music videos to his just great music that spanned five decades and also memories from his Jackson 5 days where they appeared on a lot of television shows from Ed Sullivan to Soul Train. Michael was one of the rarest of any star, black or white, he moved audiences from the chitlin’ circuit of the 1960s through the international world stages of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s and rode a wave of popularity and acclaim that only befitted Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and the Beatles. To say he will leave a rich legacy is a true understatement. He is a true meaning of a superstar, a shining star, and tonight up in the sky, that star is shooting up the skies now. Rest in peace, Michael. Love you and thank you for the 20 years I was blessed with your prodigious talent. ----  Here's the link: http://midnightman84.word...l-jackson/[Edited 6/25/09 23:30pm] | |
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JackieBlue said: From Deepak Chopra:
A Tribute to My Friend, Michael Jackson Michael Jackson will be remembered, most likely, as a shattered icon, a pop genius who wound up a mutant of fame. That's not who I will remember, however. His mixture of mystery, isolation, indulgence, overwhelming global fame, and personal loneliness was intimately known to me. For twenty years I observed every aspect, and as easy as it was to love Michael -- and to want to protect him -- his sudden death yesterday seemed almost fated. Two days previously he had called me in an upbeat, excited mood. The voice message said, "I've got some really good news to share with you." He was writing a song about the environment, and he wanted me to help informally with the lyrics, as we had done several times before. When I tried to return his call, however, the number was disconnected. (Terminally spooked by his treatment in the press, he changed his phone number often.) So I never got to talk to him, and the music demo he sent me lies on my bedside table as a poignant symbol of an unfinished life. When we first met, around 1988, I was struck by the combination of charisma and woundedness that surrounded Michael. He would be swarmed by crowds at an airport, perform an exhausting show for three hours, and then sit backstage afterward, as we did one night in Bucharest, drinking bottled water, glancing over some Sufi poetry as I walked into the room, and wanting to meditate. That person, whom I considered (at the risk of ridicule) very pure, still survived -- he was reading the poems of Rabindranath Tagore when we talked the last time, two weeks ago. Michael exemplified the paradox of many famous performers, being essentially shy, an introvert who would come to my house and spend most of the evening sitting by himself in a corner with his small children. I never saw less than a loving father when they were together (and wonder now, as anyone close to him would, what will happen to them in the aftermath). Michael's reluctance to grow up was another part of the paradox. My children adored him, and in return he responded in a childlike way. He declared often, as former child stars do, that he was robbed of his childhood. Considering the monstrously exaggerated value our society places on celebrity, which was showered on Michael without stint, the public was callous to his very real personal pain. It became another tawdry piece of the tabloid Jacko, pictured as a weird changeling and as something far more sinister. It's not my place to comment on the troubles Michael fell heir to from the past and then amplified by his misguided choices in life. He was surrounded by enablers, including a shameful plethora of M.D.s in Los Angeles and elsewhere who supplied him with prescription drugs. As many times as he would candidly confess that he had a problem, the conversation always ended with a deflection and denial. As I write this paragraph, the reports of drug abuse are spreading across the cable news channels. The instant I heard of his death this afternoon, I had a sinking feeling that prescription drugs would play a key part. The closest we ever became, perhaps, was when Michael needed a book to sell primarily as a concert souvenir. It would contain pictures for his fans but there would also be a text consisting of short fables. I sat with him for hours while he dreamily wove Aesop-like tales about animals, mixed with words about music and his love of all things musical. This project became "Dancing the Dream" after I pulled the text together for him, acting strictly as a friend. It was this time together that convinced me of the modus vivendi Michael had devised for himself: to counter the tidal wave of stress that accompanies mega-stardom, he built a private retreat in a fantasy world where pink clouds veiled inner anguish and Peter Pan was a hero, not a pathology. This compromise with reality gradually became unsustainable. He went to strange lengths to preserve it. Unbounded privilege became another toxic force in his undoing. What began as idiosyncrasy, shyness, and vulnerability was ravaged by obsessions over health, paranoia over security, and an isolation that grew more and more unhealthy. When Michael passed me the music for that last song, the one sitting by my bedside waiting for the right words, the procedure for getting the CD to me rivaled a CIA covert operation in its secrecy. My memory of Michael Jackson will be as complex and confused as anyone's. His closest friends will close ranks and try to do everything in their power to insure that the good lives after him. Will we be successful in rescuing him after so many years of media distortion? No one can say. I only wanted to put some details on the record in his behalf. My son Gotham traveled with Michael as a roadie on his "Dangerous" tour when he was thirteen. Will it matter that Michael behaved with discipline and impeccable manners around my son? (It sends a shiver to recall something he told Gotham: "I don't want to go out like Marlon Brando. I want to go out like Elvis." Both icons were obsessions of this icon.) His children's nanny and surrogate mother, Grace Rwamba, is like another daughter to me. I introduced her to Michael when she was eighteen, a beautiful, heartwarming girl from Rwanda who is now grown up. She kept an eye on him for me and would call me whenever he was down or running too close to the edge. How heartbreaking for Grace that no one's protective instincts and genuine love could avert this tragic day. An hour ago she was sobbing on the telephone from London. As a result, I couldn't help but write this brief remembrance in sadness. But when the shock subsides and a thousand public voices recount Michael's brilliant, joyous, embattled, enigmatic, bizarre trajectory, I hope the word "joyous" is the one that will rise from the ashes and shine as he once did. wow. I didn't realize they were so close.  | |
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dag said: JackieBlue said: Another fan I've been thinking about tonight. Thanks. I don´t know what to do. I found out walking into work where my colleague told me. I am sitting closed in my office, trying to avoid people crying. I'm sorry you have to be at work at a time like this. I couldn't wait to get home just to digest it privately. I hope work will go quickly for you. Been gone for a minute, now I'm back with the jump off | |
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Harlepolis said: suga10 said: Bashir
Godness 
I feel like throwing up my guts right now... Me to, I won´t even play it. "When Michael Jackson is just singing and dancing, you just think this is an astonishing talent. And he has had this astounding talent all his life, but we want him to be floored as well. We really don´t like the idea that he could have it all." | |
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funkyfine said: I suppose, just like failing bloated and past-his-prime Elvis, his numerous sins will now be forgotten and his position in music history elevated well beyond it's real status.
Saying that, MJ was great in his day. my thoughts exactly and if i cant think of anything nice to say, i just wont say it i did love the 25th Motown special where he moonwalked though | |
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JackieBlue said: dag said: Thanks. I don´t know what to do. I found out walking into work where my colleague told me. I am sitting closed in my office, trying to avoid people crying. I'm sorry you have to be at work at a time like this. I couldn't wait to get home just to digest it privately. I hope work will go quickly for you. I just came to work. I have the whole day ahead of me. Damn it. "When Michael Jackson is just singing and dancing, you just think this is an astonishing talent. And he has had this astounding talent all his life, but we want him to be floored as well. We really don´t like the idea that he could have it all." | |
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noimageatall said: TV misses out as gossip website TMZ reports Michael Jackson's death first
Other news outlets were reluctant to cite the website as the source for confirmation of the pop star's demise. By Scott Collins and Greg Braxton June 26, 2009 With the death of pop star Michael Jackson, TMZ gave the most potent demonstration yet of its ability to stir the pot of entertainment news. The gossip site once again left TV networks and other traditional media outlets scrambling in its wake, even as they attempted to distance themselves from a source widely regarded as salacious, if not disreputable. Just after noon on Thursday, paramedics responded to a 911 call at Jackson's Holmby Hills mansion. Less than an hour later, TMZ -- the same outlet that broke Mel Gibson's anti-Semitic tirade during a 2006 DUI arrest but that has also feasted on such fare as "upskirt" photos of stars -- landed the scoop that the multiplatinum pop singer had gone into cardiac arrest. At 2:44 p.m., it beat rivals by informing the world of his death, which occurred at 2:26 p.m. On a day already consumed by the death of '70s TV star Farrah Fawcett, Jackson's death sent TMZ into overdrive. Yet the tabloid sensibilities of the site, which is owned and operated by divisions of Time Warner, and its accompanying syndicated TV show apparently made rivals queasy. Many outlets around the world instead credited the news to the Los Angeles Times, which bannered Jackson's death on its website at 2:51 p.m. By 4 p.m., a huge crowd had gathered outside UCLA Medical Center, and celebrities and fans alike were submitting so many messages mourning his death on Twitter that the service intermittently crashed. CNN was still relying on "reports" from other media and telling viewers it could not independently verify the death. Only when the coroner's office confirmed Jackson's death did CNN relay it as outright fact to viewers, at 4:25 p.m. The irony is that CNN is, like TMZ, owned by Time Warner. But Fox News and MSNBC also struggled with the sourcing issue. If the lack of widespread credit bothered Harvey Levin, the managing editor of TMZ, he wasn't admitting it. "That's typical," Levin said during a phone interview when asked about rivals' hesitation to credit the site. "No matter what they say, people know we broke the story. That's how competitors handle it. There's no issue about our credibility. "Today I made 100 phone calls, and everyone else made 100 calls," Levin said of his staff. "Everyone blanketed the city. . . . We were getting calls from everyone under the sun, established news operations, asking, 'Are you sure?' That's such an odd question. We would not have published it if it were not true." Asked about its Jackson coverage, CNN said: "Given the nature of this story we exercised caution." Nigel Pritchard, a CNN spokesman, declined to elaborate. On Twitter, the volume of Jackson-related messages -- up to 5,000 per minute at its peak -- was so high that some users reported log-in trouble. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone acknowledged the performance lag. "We saw an instant doubling of tweets per second the moment the story broke," Stone wrote in an e-mail. "This particular news about the passing of such a global icon is the biggest jump in tweets per second since the U.S. presidential election." Like them or hate them TMZ knows its stuff, they really are very Guerrilla like in there reporting. They have people everywhere. The Most Important Thing In Life Is Sincerity....Once You Can Fake That, You Can Fake Anything. |
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japanrocks said: funkyfine said: I suppose, just like failing bloated and past-his-prime Elvis, his numerous sins will now be forgotten and his position in music history elevated well beyond it's real status.
Saying that, MJ was great in his day. my thoughts exactly and if i cant think of anything nice to say, i just wont say it i did love the 25th Motown special where he moonwalked though nevermind...nothing  [Edited 6/25/09 23:33pm] "Let love be your perfect weapon..." ~~Andy Biersack | |
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To all the fans here on the org...I too am feeling the sadness  :rip: MJ. I am devastated by the news. He was/is a big part of my life and I did not know the news would hit me as hard as it did
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"We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world." |
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JackieBlue said: From Deepak Chopra:
A Tribute to My Friend, Michael Jackson That was a nice reading... | |
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Y'all remember this blast from the past? Written by the great Leon Ware and the late "T-Boy" Ross. Missing you already, Mike. | |
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Just heard the sad news this morning. RIP Michael. | |
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DonRants said: Arnotts said: Man I just feel so utterly empty. After crying my eyes out all morning I just feel like such a nothing. I wish so much I didn't give a damn about him and had never been a fan because this pain is too much. To make it worse none of my family understands how I can be this upset over a man I never even met. I don't understand either but I loved him. Probably more then most family members, which might sound crazy but its true
I know how you feel. My heart goes out to you. I just came back from Apollo in Harlem. It was so surreal. I only saw one person crying.. a woman who was clearly a fan. I think we were all crying inside. Thanks so much. I saw that on tv and I was aching to be there with people like you. I'm hoping theres going to be a massive event planned to celebrate his life that all the fans can go to. | |
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johnart said: VinnyM27 said: Haha. I would honestly be shocked if Madonna doesn't make a statement. Prince might too. Madonna issued a statement, which seems proper and sufficient IMO. I don't see why either of them would hold an actual press conference. I agree. And actually I wouldn't be surprised if Prince never issues a formal statement per se, but instead released a tribute song or dedicated a number to Michael in an upcoming performance or something. Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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dag said: I am speechless..
Dag
I know how much u loved him and always only had nice things to say. I am absolutely devestated myself. I haven't been able to eat or sleep and have been crying all day. I can't even listen to the radio or watch tv. It will be a while before I can listen to Michael's music or watch his video's again. This is truly a nightmare. I just cannot believe Michael Jackson is no more. "And When The Groove Is Dead And Gone, You Know That Love Survives, So We Can Rock Forever" RIP MJ 
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Jackson's mourning fans gather
Reed Saxon / Associated Press Fans hold up a sea of single gloved hands in an impromptu celebration of the life of Michael Jackson, outside UCLA Medical Center after he was pronounced dead there. 
Weeping, singing, even dancing, they pay their respects at his homes and at the hospital. One group lights candles at a surrogate star on the Walk of Fame. By Carla Hall and Nicole Santa Cruz June 26, 2009 Fans and paparazzi converged on Michael Jackson's family homes and UCLA Medical Center on Thursday, blocking streets and blasting the singer's music as they waited for news or a glimpse of the superstar's famous family. In Hollywood, about 75 fans gathered at what they believed was Jackson's star on the Walk of Fame, only to discover it belonged to the Los Angeles radio personality of the same name. The singer's star was covered by scaffolding for the premiere of "Bruno." So his fans stayed put, covering the surrogate star with flowers and candles and singing the hit by Jackson and Lionel Richie, "We Are the World." At the Jackson family residence in Encino, neighbor Helene Arthur had to dodge reporters and fans as she returned to her home. She was unaware of Jackson's death but accustomed to sightseers -- she has lived next door to the famous family since 1965, she said, and while her children were growing up, they often invited tourists inside to get a better view. At news of Jackson's death, Arthur burst into tears. "He used to play over here," she said. With police guarding the Jackson home, fans and celebrity visitors gathered, including rap singer and reality television star Flavor Flav, sporting his trademark clock necklace. "Music has lost a king, music has lost an icon, music has lost a friend," Flavor Flav said. Florence LaRue, one of the lead singers of the Fifth Dimension, stopped by to place pink azaleas among other flowers in front of the house. The Grammy-winning singer was dressed in black, her face wet with tears. LaRue said she had been awaiting Jackson's European tour and comeback "That's why it came as such a shock," she said of Jackson's death. "We're in such a doom and gloom time. The world needed to be lifted up. He could do it." At the gates of Neverland, Jackson's former estate outside Los Olivos, a handful of fans gathered in the late afternoon. Meanwhile, at Jackson's most recent home, a rented French Chateau-style mansion in Holmby Hills, news helicopters hovered. Vans full of tourists stopped to snap photos of police guarding the mansion gates. "He's one of the biggest stars in the world," said Swedish tourist Angelina Winkvist, 28. Earlier, a Starline Tours group had arrived just in time to see Jackson taken to the hospital by paramedics. Hundreds of fans flocked to UCLA Medical Center's emergency room entrance soon after reports of the superstar's death. A few saw his sister, Latoya Jackson, nearly disguised by oversized sunglasses and a cowboy hat, racing inside. She was joined soon after by her mother and the rest of Jackson's siblings. Police ushered sobbing girls out of the emergency room driveway as members of the UCLA fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon across the street lifted speakers into their windows to blast the Jackson hit, "Human Nature." A few hundred people gathered for a vigil outside the hospital at dusk, singing, holding signs, even dancing. "I came because no one around me felt my pain," said Zai Bryant, a customer service representative who lives in Inglewood. "I said, 'You know what, those people at UCLA, they feel my pain. I need to be among fans who know what I'm going through.' " "Let love be your perfect weapon..." ~~Andy Biersack | |
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dag said: I am speechless.. You are the very first person I thought of when I heard the news of Michael's passing because you have been one of the biggest defenders of Michael Jackson and have taken on many people with different opinions but you stood your ground and didn't back down. I remember you and I having a very long and serious discussion one time and we were both extremely courteous and respectful of each other while both trying to get our points across. I have a lot of respect for you and send you much love during this tragic time. . . . [Edited 6/25/09 23:42pm] Andy is a four letter word. | |
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Copycat said: Y'all remember this blast from the past? Written by the great Leon Ware and the late "T-Boy" Ross. Missing you already, Mike. I don't think I'll be able to listen to this song again along with a few others. it is one of my favorite MJ songs. It made me a little misty anyway and now in a world without MJ I think it would just have me bawling outright. Been gone for a minute, now I'm back with the jump off | |
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I can remember when i was a little girl in 1983 when mike was on the American Music Awards and i had to go to bed early cause i had to go to school. i was supposed to be sleep at the time i would just stay up in my room and just listen to the show and hear he had won and i would be so happy i would cry.
Now 26 years later im crying again in my bed room watching videos of mike on mtv and also on here. I"m just too shock that this man is gone. He was all about peace in the world and I just wish the whole word would just put their guns away and not kill in honor of Michael. Heal the World make this a better place 4 u and 4 me.... aww my heart is aching 2 day
God bless michael joseph jackson and farrah fawcett on june 25th... Thank u... We are N.E.W.S. Of the world | |
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