Posted on June 26, 2009 - by Mark Zonda

If Coke is a mystery, Michael Jackson… History

“They have taken our cola and cheated us!

I was ready to introduce yet another indie band froman obscure room wherever in the World. Then I heard it. MJ has died. What Michael Jackson meant to me and a couple of generations? A LOT! Forget the freaky looser hanging around nowadays from a gossip magazine to another like a bad copy of his own Italian zombie twin on Thriller  video-clip. After his great jump to the top with The Jackson 5, his way for being crowned “The King of Pop” was nice and easy as ABC. “Off The Wall” yet showed it’s unlimited potential with the poweful dancefloor evergreen “Don’t stop till you get enough” and “Rock with you”, also if I was always secretly in love with the funky and most original “Off The Wall the song”. You already know for sure that I’m a big Paul McCartney fan.

It was inevitable not liking “Girlfriend” and the spellbounding “The Girl is Mine”, on the multimilliontopseller “THRILLER”. “Thri-lleeer!!!” It was one of my first copy taped (I had a best of “Simon & Gartfunkel” on the other side) and since I had only 5 of them I used to listen to that album over and over again quite everywhere. I even remember me being so unpopular on a school-trip for having replaced “Guns’n'Roses” with that album on someone’s boom-box. Then it was legend.

Even a video realase from a new Michale Jackson song made everyone felt how magic was supposed to taste. I was only 14, but I can clearly recall me coming back from school by foots, eating on my kitchen, waiting for the episode of “Different Strokes” while I was finishing my dish, listening the VJ announcing the special, and being “Thrilled” by the full lenght first introduction to that other ace hits collection called “BAD”. A song, a single, not a b-side with the exception of the one done with Not Sto Little Stevie Wonder and a song I totally made up with friends to show in front of everyone that a guy called Matteo – who sweared that this made-up song was the best of the album – wasn’t a real fan at all.

“Dangerous” had also its great ones too. I remember me and my friends collecting junkfood from supermarkets to meet in someone’s house and wait for his new videos to come as if he was supposed to be Santa!

Michale Jackson, Michake Jordan, Michael J. Fox… MJ was the sign of the 80’s. One of the dreams of “Cornelius” was to produce an album that would have made his hero fly high on top once again. I suppose someone must warn him now that he can now give up on that chance. A shame. Michale was the only person David Bowie was jelous of in term of fashion and fashinations. With Gheddafi too buisy on buying shares of Italian Football teams, let me tell you that I can’t see other candidates at all.

The King is dead. Long live Pop.

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