Less than a month from his comeback, the King of Pop shockingly died of cardiac arrest on Thursday 25 June 2009 (Friday morning, Australian time). When I woke up to the "breaking news" on the TV, I thought it must have been another rumour cooked up by the tabloids. However, that sad news was confirmed before 8am AEST. His albums are all sold out by the time I got off work and were looking for them in a few stores.
I shed some tears from reading the news, articles and those tributes shown on TV. The memories of us performing his song "Heal the World" in a dinner after a competition, doing the Moonwalk (or attempting it back then), watching some of his music videos on a bus and singing some of his hits out of tune seems not too long ago! It's just that I was so looking forward to his comeback performance, new songs and the rumoured new dance move.
Invinsible was MJ's latest and least popular album that came out in 2001 with roughly about 10mil prior to his passing. I bought it when it first came out in 2001. By selling only 10mil copies, it's by far better than most artists' level but poor comparing to his standard.
The more popular he became, the more the public demand from him and the more privacy he lost. Michael Jackson is for sure very talented but also tormented in more ways than one.
I wish all the controversies died with Jacko but his legacy as the one and only King of Pop lives on forever.
1 comment:
Very much agreed, bro..
He's Home.
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