Timmy84 said:

All i remember about James is those damn shiny silver boots pointing East and West.. I'm sooooo glad they didn't put Mike on display

banks said:

That's the greatest thing the Jacksons did. I'm so GLAD they did that!

Timmy84 said:

My first concert ever was the Jackson 5's first tour in 1971, then 73, then in Las Vegas, then the Destiny tour in 78 & 79, then the Triumph Tour in 1981, which in my opinion, is where The Jacksons crystallized as the performing legends the are, then Victory, Bad, right up until The History Tour in Hawaii. MJ & Co. flew me out for that one. For me, all the concerts were a continuation of the tour from 1971. If I had to break it off, I would say that The Triumph Tour was the blueprint for all of Michael's tours to follow. I had planned on heading to London to live for a month to see how many of the "This Is It" concerts I could catch. I knew some of his friends over there, and I thought my concert ratio might be pretty high.

I declared a personal moratorium on CNN's continuing coverage of Michael Jackson's burial. The reporters outside the gates and the helicopter overhead were excessive and way over the top.

Wow, I just saw a pic of Quincy Jones there. I have to say i'm surprised.

Fuck Diana Ross.

mookie said:

The same Quincy who said in an interview less than one week after MJ's passing that he, and I quote, "obviously, didn't want to be Black?" What a friend.

Um...Anyone else find it scary to have a out door night time funeral on the Mausoleum grounds ?


I mean I used to play in the cemetery as a kid ,but something about those wrought iron gates and the full moon was very spooky. I'd be flying out of there after the service !no lurking around having cordial conversation

Copycat said:

Exactly.

Pics from the service

i'm disappointed in diana for not showing up but whatever.i wanna thank the jackson for handling all this with class and being kind enough to share this experience with fans around the world.

i'm still sad but i will always be

Poor Blanket

aww katherine i can see the pain in her face, it breaks my heart

prince and blanket are so cute, paris is so pretty.bless the family

This picture breaks my heart.

Timmy84 said:

The memorial was very well done, I thought. I didn't know what to expect but I was glad that it was so well handled. I thought Usher, although he was upset, it didn't sit right with me when he walked over and touched Michael's casket, while he was singing. I understood the sentiment but,..u had Mr. Gordy, Smokey, Stevie, even Michael's own brother Jermaine all speaking and singing about Michael. None of them got up on the casket like Usher did. In THAT setting at The Staples Center, with all of the fans there and everyone else, Usher doing that just didn't come off right, to me. Michael..., it was different when Michael kissed James at James's funeral. One, it was an open casket and Michael wasn't singing to James. So it was so much MORE natural for Michael to lean down and kiss James. To me, that's how it seemed. Now when Usher went over to Katherine and knelt down to her, I thought that was moving. It was obvious the cat was very moved.
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I'm glad that Lisa Marie attended the funeral. I had wished that she had attended the memorial. As far as Diana,...nah man. Besides the fact that she didn't show to NEITHER, she put it out BOTH times that she was going. The news media had reported earlier in the afternoon out here in L.A. that Diana was INDEED going to the funeral. Then nope, just like at the memorial, she pulled a no show. I'm like, if you're NOT going to show, then WHY say that you're going to show? Her not attending the memorial, I thought was wrong. She was slated to speak. Smokey ended up speaking in her place at the last minute and next to Marlon, Smokey's speech was one of the most moving. But then she puts it out that she will attend the funeral and again she doesn't show? Once, o.k. maybe something happened to her at the last minute. But TWICE?.... For her to NOT attend either one, and as heavily linked she and Michael had been for so much of Micahel's life and career....Michael naming her in his will?....I feel for Michael's kids...Paris seems the strongest out of the three. Prince always has that glazed, far away look in his eyes like this hurts him and he doesn't want to be there and that he wishes that this wasn't happening for anything in the world. And poor Prince Michael II,..he's still just a baby really. For the first time, I saw Joe breakdown at the funeral. I could see in interviews with Joe dealing with the fact that Michael's death, he felt was a homicide. I could see then that Joe was hurt. It started to show more then.
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The picture of Katherine





It was good to see Tatiana there...she's aged well as far as Diana,There must be issues we as outsiders have no idea about if anything she knows how Michael felt about her in life to put her in his will,This speaks volumes to all those positioning themselves as true "friends" only Diana can at some point comment in the future. I just viewed her with her kids minus Rhonda at a recent birthday party for her son Evan ( Michael Jackson Theme) so life is going on for her.



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WHY was lisa raye wearing white?

more footage

mimi07 said:

She wears only white always..... selfish maybe, but that's her own rule of late

utopia7 said:

she needs to get slapped twice for that

mimi07 said:

The young lady in the floral brunch dress

does anyone have pictures of Lisa Marie there?

Michael

EmeraldSkies said:

So sad, this is the real deal here, this is real personal pain.

R.I.P = MJ

poor katherine.

the kids are so cute though

this is the MOST PAINFUL thing. Out of my entire life Michael's death was the worst day of my life.

cdcgold said:

arent they adorable/? and i thought Paris supposedly cut her hair- it didnt look cut to me-

see how stuff-lies- get spread around