Okay folks, I am off back to Indiana for a long-needed vacation.
I’ll be spending time with the family, including a big redneck 4th of July Extravaganza with promises of singed fingers and hoses available on standby to put out grass fires.
I’ll also get a chance to visit with some friends I have not seen in a while and play a lot of golf.
Just get me to the airport put me on a plane
Hurry hurry hurry before I go insane
Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, is dead.
Woah.
Michael Jackson was our generation’s Elvis or John Lennon. I was born in ‘76 and always knew of him as a solo artist who came from Gary, Indiana. When I was a kid, I had the cassette tapes of Thriller, Bad, and Dangerous and wore them out.
The infant music network, MTV, was not really playing music videos from African-American artists, until the astronomical success of Thriller. The industry stood up and took notice.
We were all fans.
When I was a kid, my sister and I, along with our neighbor friends, would make music videos on their dad’s new video camera, including lip-syncing to Michael Jackson. I do remember at one point I was wearing my pleather lacket and had wild hair sprayed with green Halloween hairspray.
Did Michael Jackson have problems? Yes. His personal life was a mess, granted, but he was a musical genius that I don’t think we will ever see again. He changed the music industry for the better, his music will live on.
Rest in Peace Michael.