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Location: Bluffton, SC | Yes, he was wacko but love him or hate him, a very talented entertainer. RIP, Michael.
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ...I wonder who will buy/control his library of Beatles music.... |
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Location: ms | Lots of talent. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Strange dude with...
Originally posted by gulfcoast:
Lots of talent. |
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| What price fame. No matter how strange he became, he was a brilliantly talented individual who had an enormous impact on pop culture and music. So sad. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Brilliant and all too human. |
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Location: Nashville TN. | Originally posted by Tim in Yucaipa:
...I wonder who will buy/control his library of Beatles music.... He leveraged it so Sony Music will control it. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Like him or not, he was a huge personality and left a legacy of some great songs, music and video...you will remember where you were and what you were doing when you got the news...
RIP Michael... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | An incredible and innovative dancer as well as a talented singer. |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by MusicMishka:
you will remember where you were and what you were doing when you got the news... Making a big leap there, Mike... You're assuming I knew where I was and what I was doing... |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | True story. He and Sony were sued for copyright infringement by some lady claiming that he ripped off one of her songs. Trial was held in our court. He appeared and took the stand. To the question of how he creates his songs, he testified that they are in his head and he just starts humming a tune, then puts words to the melody on the fly. Asked to demonstrate this, he goes into at least a one minute demo where he is singing something original that nobody has ever heard before. Later that day, the media lets it out that he did this. The next day, there were so many callers asking to buy a cassette tape of the testimony, including what was essentially a never before heard, uncut, unscripted original song by MJ, that the trunk lines coming into the federal telephone lines in downtown Denver closed down. We had something like 10,000 requests before we finally obtained an order from the court regulating the requests. It was insane. |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | That says it all Prof....insane. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | I could n`t believe it ... switched on the news .. Well put Mishka .. true that..
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | quote:
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Making a big leap there, Mike... You're assuming I knew where I was and what I was doing...
OK, so I left out the word "probably"...of course I forgot, given the average age of most of this club, that is a much truer statement.... :D |
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Location: Upper Left USA | He was gifted, pivotal to music history, opened doors as far as color and music genre are concerned and had a real love of people.
He also had way too much wealth and not enough real people in his life to lovingly kick his a$$ when it needed kicking.
I am so glad I have you all to keep me humble! |
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Location: SoCal | He was a pedophile.....
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Location: CA | I'll always remember where I was when JFK was shot and Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.
Not to take anything away from MJ as a person or his importance to pop culture and music, but I kinda doubt I'm going to remember his demise past next month. I was gonna say next week, but the investigation/funeral/eulogies will be all over the media for at least that long. Seems like everyone's all but forgotten Ed and Farrah already. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Oddball & moody,
I'm right with ya!
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Location: big island | they say these things happen in 3's. we've got 3 now. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | So sad to see Farah go. |
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Location: SoCal | Ed taught me how to have a drink and be a good friend. Farrah taught me how to be horny. Jackson taught me how not to live my life.
He was a pervert. Sorry he didn't do prison time.
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
Farrah taught me how to be horny. You didn't know how by '74? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Can't wait for the Alien Autopsy photos. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | He was a troubled person with mental problems, and probably abused young boys but he was very popular. I think the stress finally got to him |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | I never really cared for the man or much of his music; he definatly had some issues and was just too strange...However, I did like "We Are The World" co-written w/Lionel Richie...no denying he was a huge celebrity and for what its worth, he was a classic case of an abused kid who may very well have grown up to become an abuser himself...he had everything and yet he had nothing...so sad... |
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Location: London, UK | Overheard two schoolgirls chatting this morning. One says, "Was it cardiac arrest or didn't his heart catch fire or something?"
Because the paramedics were from the LA Fire Department.
The legend lives on! |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | Farah and Ed died of cardiac arrest too. Must be something in the water. I heard he choked on a Hardy's ham sandwich and is actually still alive and living on an island with Elvis and JFK. |
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Location: Scotland | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
He was a pedophile.....
Paul, given your line of work you should know better than to make a statement like that
He was an alleged paedophile. Not only that, he was an alleged paedophile who used his wealth and influence to buy his way out of the judicial process. |
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Location: Cork, Ireland | Can I be the first to say I didn't/don't care either way? |
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Location: Scotland | About his death, or the fact that he may or may not have abused children? |
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Location: Vernon CT | Originally posted by sycamore:
Can I be the first to say I didn't/don't care either way? +1! |
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Location: Vermont USA | May his music live on. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | What he did with his music, Thriller and the others of that time period, and his work with Lionel Ritchie and Quincy Jones was truely outstanding and took it all to a new place. It wasn't my favorite but I can respect it.
Then there's all the rest of the story, which in my mind eclipses the good.
Kinda like OJ............... |
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Location: Upper Left USA | "Can't wait for the Alien Autopsy photos."
I was so close to saying that myself - but I used my filter. Thanks Dave!
Was MJ an Organ Donor?
Let's watch Ebay...
At least we still have Latoya! |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Don't get me wrong, I don't like to see anybody dead and I feel bad for those he leaves behind. Like poor Macauly. Nobody to play swap-the-underoos anymore. Very sad. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Here's a blurb from the nypost. It looks like mccartney gets the beatles catalog!
It's unclear how much will be left in his estate. Jackson had planned a series of comeback concerts, slated to begin in London next month, to replenish his cash flow, and the London Mirror reported that he left the Beatles catalog to McCartney to make amends. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Macaulay has Mila Kunis now. |
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Location: Location Location Location | No worries. We still have Weird Al. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Ah, phase II... the dividing of the estate.
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Location: Carle Place, NY | Originally posted by an4340:
Here's a blurb from the nypost. It looks like mccartney gets the beatles catalog!
It's unclear how much will be left in his estate. Jackson had planned a series of comeback concerts, slated to begin in London next month, to replenish his cash flow, and the London Mirror reported that he left the Beatles catalog to McCartney to make amends. The NY Post citing the London Mirror :rolleyes: . None of that is true. MJ did have some good lawyers watching out for him. His lavish lifestyle was costly and he was in huge debt. The scheduled London concerts (50 sold out arena shows) would have helped his financial situation. He bought the Beatles catalog of songs for $50 mil and sold half of it years later for $150 mil. The remaining half was placed into a trust to protect it from creditors. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I don't remember where I was when I heard the news, but odds are that Wabbit and I were sitting at our computers on the OFC. |
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| I hear Michael Jackson won't be cremated. Since he's mostly plastic he'll be melted and turned into Legos so little kids can play with him for a change (rim shot). |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Oh, that's good................
I mean BAD.................. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Here they come ...
Q: What did the man on the beach say to Michael Jackson?
A: Get out of my sun! |
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Location: Scotland | OK, since you guys started it......Apparently cause of death was a heart attack brought on by him tripping over Blanket's baby stroller. Coroner blamed it on the Buggy.
McDonalds are to introducte a tribute McJacko burger. 50 year old meat between 10 year old buns. |
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| MJ - only in America can someone be born a poor black kid, and die a rich white woman.
In accordance with Michael Jackson’s will, little boys’ pants shall be flown at half-mast today.
(and quite a few others that are far too rude to post here) |
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Location: PDX | "The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itself it only live and die,
But if that flower with base infection meet,
The basest weed outbraves his dignity:
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds."
W.S. Sonnet 94
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Location: Phoenix AZ | What does MJ have in common with a grocery bag?
Both are white, made of plastic and dangerous around children. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by willard:
Farah and Ed died of cardiac arrest too. Must be something in the water. No, clinically everyone dies of cardiac arrest. Doesn't matter if it's cancer, hit by a bus, or gun shot to the hear ... the very last action is that your heart stops. Even jesus died on the cross of cardiac arrest. |
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Location: SoCal | Ok, this thread is finally showing the level of respect that the pedophile deserved...... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | The whole alleged pedophile thing is proof positive that rich white people can buy they way out of pretty much anything. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Both Jackson and Ed McMahon were Millions of Dollars in debt...
How can these people earn hundreds of millions of dollars, and then die in Debt?
For perspective: at $27,000 a year, I would have to work 37 years to earn a Million bucks. Before taxes! |
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Location: SoCal | As far as the pediphile, it just goes to show that paying off families and attorneys costs a lot of money..... |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Old Man Arthur:
How can these people earn hundreds of million dollars, and then die in Debt? The mansion in Bel Air where MJ had his attack was costing him $100k per month. That's how. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | A little respect folks..
Unless YOU were there, YOU know NOTHING but what the MEDIA is PAID to tell you. Period. Subject closed. |
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RIP - Michael Jackson