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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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