It's not 03/02/59 and its not 08/12/80 either. There is nothing to suggest that MIchael Jackson would ever have made any more worthy additions to his catalogue.

However we have to acknowledge that popular music has lost one of its greatest ever artists. In terms of combining dance music and rock, taking what was originally black music to a white audience and bringing pop music into the video age, MJ was a key figure.

Was he a balanced, well-rounded adult? Well no of course not. But the attention of all the world's gossip media is hard enough to cope with at the best of times i.e. for someone who has been well-grounded by a 'normal' upbringing. This was most certainly not the case for MJ who was a bone fide pop star long before his 12th birthday.

R.I.P. Michael
"I'll give you all that I've got"
(Pretty Young Thing, Thriller)

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