Madlodies♫

//Saturday, June 27, 2009 3:43 AM

Michael Jackson..a legend forever

Michael Jackson, one of the most widely beloved entertainers and profoundly influential artists of all-time, leaves an indelible imprint in the history of music and in the lives of many people. Coming 29th August will be his 51st birthday. Well I really cannot believe it when I got this news. My heart is saddened because we have lost one of the greatest entertainers of all time. The first music video that changed MTV forever is none other but “Thriller.” MJ changed the game. He revolutionized music, dancing, style, performance, pop culture for 4 decades and today his "Thriller" still remained as the biggest selling album of ALL time . Berry Gordy said "When he was not on stage, he was loving, respectful and shy. When he WAS on stage, he was so in charge you would not believe he was the same person!" Although MJ's life was full of challenges, accusations and pain, yet he was a man full of love and warmth for people especially children. Take away all the tabloids, the controversies and the critics, what you left is simply an amazingly gifted man who always longed and wanted to live a normal life since he started as a lonely child singer of an abusive parent at aged 5... As I watched and listen to the music he made so beautifully, the message of the lyrics he penned, the way he sings, the reflections and poems he wrote, the heart to heart interviews, his dance of impossibly perfect motion and his children, family he loved so much, I really do not think that he was a freak nor was a bizzare man like what the media has always try to portray him as, he was just different..so incredibly different, special and magical. I am truely fascinated and inspired by Michael Jackson. His great contribution to humanity, his courage and audacity to do what was never done, his life that was lived will forever & ever be remembered. I pray his soul to keep. Rest in peace MJ, you are gone but never forgotten. Thank you for being an inspiration to me and to the millions… I have faith & hope that you are doing the “moon walk” on the streets of gold in heaven right now! Keep on dancing!

(Beatles) Sir Paul McCartney remembered "the massively talented boy man with a gentle soul" as he paid tribute to his occasional musical partner Michael Jackson.

"I can't stop crying over the sad news. I have always admired Michael Jackson. The world has lost one of the greats, but his music will live on forever. My heart goes out to his three children and other members of his family. God bless." — Madonna, pop star.

"I knew Michael as a child and watched him grow over the years. Of all the thousands of entertainers I have worked with, Michael was THE most outstanding. Many have tried and will try to copy him, but his talent will never be matched." — Dick Clark, host of the old "American Bandstand."

"He shredded pop music as we know it, creating audacious art without precedent or succession. But the misinformed public and the hungry media couldn't keep from feasting on Michael Jackson's life. Perhaps death will afford him the dignity so long denied while alive"

"Michael Jackson must be remembered for the music he wrote. For his impossibly perfect motion; his thwarted, abject love; and the face of trauma he presented as an artistic gesture to exquisite pain, pain we all beheld, and turned away from – as he expected – in disgust and terror."

"Will the popular press and the public continue to feast on his controversial life, or will they elegiacally “forget the Past,” and let him have even a measure of dignity – dignity that the many refused him, because of his profound otherness and profound beauty that became greater each time he asserted – through surgery, fashion and performance...."