The King of Pop and The 70s’ Biggest Sex Symbol
June 25th, 2009 • • Anna Daugherty
Bad week for showbiz, eh? First Ed McMahon passed away at 86, and today we get the tragic news that Farrah Fawcet passed away after a long battle with cancer. She was best known as the California blond from the show “Charlie’s Angels,” and long-time love of Ryan O’Neil.
But the big shocker was the death of pop superstar Michael Jackson. He was, at one time, the biggest star in the world, with hit after hit such with both his childhood band The Jackson Five, and as a solo artist. After a series of bizarre scandals and an even more bizarre existance, his life was cut short at 50.
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Donny Winter
June 25th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Yeah I can’t believe this happened when I watched the news today. I nearly cried. I know there have been so many legal things against Jackson in recent years, but that doesn’t change the fact that he was iconic.
Thank you for posting this news, Anna.
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pierpont
June 26th, 2009 at 6:17 am
I think back through all the years of Michael’s career and it’s impact on my life. In my pre-teens it was the Jackson Five out of Mo-Town and I loved them. Then it was the seventies and Micheal tried venturing out on his own for the first time as a solo artist. He was coming into his own and little did I realize what an Icon he would become because I was testing the waters of rock-and-roll and he slipped off my radar for awhile. Then came the eighties and my twenties when my ritual workout was Thriller and Bad.
My life was good because his music was great.
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Ben Robinson
June 26th, 2009 at 10:14 am
I think thriller did him in, they were saying on the radio today that he was unable to duplicate the success of that album. It’s interesting that he struggled with his independence and stardom in the face of a sometimes overbearing father and manager, and i think he never broke free of that. I got really hung up on how strange he became over the last few decades, but when you look back on his life, he was an incredible person and entertainer. I was also really taken by the sadness of Jermaine as he gave a brief talk about the family’s reaction to his passing; I was under the impression that there was alot of hatred in that family. I think that lifting the weight of touring again after his trial was probably too much.. almost makes me wonder what his career would have been like if he wasn’t crushed by that inner struggle, I think it really ended his career early (about 15 years ago?). I’ll always remember him as the frontman for the J5, RIP MJ.